📖 B — The English dictionary · page 4

bagpiper — Everyday, meaning 1: A bagpiper is a person who plays the bagpipes, an instrument with a bag and pipes.↗ Example: The bagpiper asked, «Are they all there?»↗ · Towards nine at night the bagpiper reappeared on the market place.↗

baguet — Everyday, meaning 1: Another spelling of «baguette»: a long, thin loaf of French bread.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Another spelling of «baguette» for a small gem cut in a long rectangle shape.↗ Example: We bought a baguet for the picnic.↗ · The ring had two small baguet diamonds.↗ · Slice the baguet into thin pieces.↗ · A warm baguet smells lovely.↗ · The bakery sells baguets every morning.↗ · She tore off a piece of baguet.↗

baguette — Everyday, meaning 1: A long, thin loaf of white bread with a crisp crust, first made in France.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A sandwich made with this bread.↗ Example: We bought a fresh baguette from the bakery.↗ · I had a cheese baguette for lunch.↗ · The French eat baguettes every day.↗ · Cut the baguette into 4 equal pieces.↗ · The baguette was still warm.↗ · She dipped the baguette in her soup.↗

bai — Everyday, meaning 1: (Mandarin, pinyin) "bái" (白) means "white"; "bǎi" (百) means "hundred".↗ It sounds like English "by" or "bye".↗ It is not an English word.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (a name) Bai is a Chinese family name.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The Bai are an ethnic group of people in Yunnan, China.↗ Example: "Bái" means white in Mandarin.↗ · "Yī bǎi" means one hundred in Chinese.↗ · My friend's surname is Bai.↗ · In Chinese, "bai" can mean different things depending on the tone.↗ · Li Bai was a famous Chinese poet.↗ · To an English ear, "bai" sounds just like "bye".↗

bail — Everyday, meaning 1: noun (law).↗ e.g. Money paid to a court so a person accused of a crime can stay out of prison until the trial; «on bail» means released this way.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: verb.↗ e.g. To scoop water out of a boat with a bucket (UK also spelled «bale»).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: noun (cricket).↗ e.g. One of the two small wooden pieces resting on top of the stumps.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «bail out»: to help someone out of trouble, often with money; or to jump out of a plane by parachute.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (slang) To leave suddenly, or to not turn up: «I'm gonna bail», «He bailed on us».↗ Everyday, meaning 6: To go bail for someone means to promise that they will behave well, or to vouch for them.↗ Example: He was released on bail.↗ · We bailed water out of the leaking boat.↗ · The ball knocked off a bail — out!↗ · The bank was bailed out by the government.↗ · The pilot bailed out before the crash.↗ · It's late, I'm gonna bail.↗ (slang)↗ · She bailed on the party at the last minute.↗ (slang)↗ · Grab the bucket and help me bail!↗ · I'll go bail you won't play such a trick on us again.↗

bailiff — Everyday, meaning 1: (law, UK) An official who has the legal power to take goods from someone's home, or make them leave it, when they have not paid money they owe.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (law, US) An officer who keeps order in a courtroom.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (history) In old times, a man who managed a lord's land and farm workers.↗ Example: The bailiffs came to take the car because the bills were not paid.↗ · The bailiff in the courtroom asked everyone to stand.↗ · In the castle, the bailiff checked that the peasants worked.↗ · Families in debt can get advice so the bailiffs don't come.↗ · The bailiff knocked on the door with a letter from the court.↗ · In the story, the cruel bailiff took the farmer's cow.↗ · “I have hold of it now,” cried the bailiff.↗

bailiwick — Everyday, meaning 1: A person's area of skill, interest or responsibility: «Maths is her bailiwick».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (UK, law) The area ruled by a bailiff; today Jersey and Guernsey in the Channel Islands are each called a Bailiwick.↗ Example: Fixing computers is Dad's bailiwick.↗ · Jersey is a Bailiwick, not part of the UK.↗ · Sorry, that's outside my bailiwick.↗ · The garden is Grandma's bailiwick.↗ · Guernsey and its islands form a Bailiwick.↗ · Planning the trip is my bailiwick this year.↗

bairn — Everyday, meaning 1: (Scotland, northern England) A bairn is a child or a baby.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (Scotland) «Your bairns» means your children, your own family's kids.↗ Example: The wee bairn is sleeping, so keep your voice down.↗ · She's got three bairns and a dog.↗ · Come here, bairn, and let me tie your lace.↗ · Gran says all her bairns are grown up now.↗ · The bairns are playing out in the garden.↗ · «Haud yer wheesht, the bairn's sleeping,» said Granny.↗ · And he began to sing, dancing round Tom, like a bairn with his yellow hair, but looking older than ever with his grinning wrinkled bit of a face:↗

bait — Everyday, meaning 1: Food put on a hook or in a trap to catch fish or animals.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Something used to tempt a person into a trap or trick.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To put bait on a hook or in a trap.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To tease or annoy someone on purpose to make them angry.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (slang) Obvious, too easy to notice; or clickbait meant to fool you online.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: Bait can also mean a snack or a light meal, especially one eaten at work or on a journey (old-fashioned).↗ Example: We used worms as bait to catch fish.↗ · Dad baited the mousetrap with cheese.↗ · The free phone offer was just bait to get your details.↗ · Don't take the bait when he teases you.↗ · That headline is pure clickbait.↗ · The bully kept baiting him to start a fight.↗ · The fish nibbled the bait and swam away.↗

bake — Everyday, meaning 1: To bake is to cook food in an oven with dry heat, like bread, cakes or cookies.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To bake is to make something hard by heat, like clay or bricks.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To bake can mean to be very hot: «We're baking in the sun».↗ Example: Mom bakes 24 cookies.↗ · She bakes 3 trays with 12 muffins each.↗ · It takes 20 minutes to bake a cake.↗ · How many pies can he bake with 9 apples?↗ · Let's bake bread this weekend.↗ · Bake the cake at 180 degrees for 30 minutes.↗ · Our class had a bake sale.↗ · The bricks are baked in a kiln.↗ · We were baking on the hot beach.↗ · Ask an adult before you use the oven to bake.↗ · And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth parts of an ephah shall be in one cake.↗ (Torah LEV.24.5, JPS 1917)↗ · Bake that which ye will bake, and seethe that which ye will seethe; and all that remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.'↗ (Torah EXO.16.23, JPS 1917)↗ · And he urged them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.↗ (Torah GEN.19.3, JPS 1917)↗ · And she took dough, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes.↗ (Prophets 2SA.13.8, JPS 1917)↗ · And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it in their sight with dung that cometh out of man.'↗ (Prophets EZK.4.12, JPS 1917)↗ · And the woman had a fatted calf in the house; and she made haste, and killed it; and she took flour, and kneaded it, and did bake unleavened bread thereof; (Prophets 1SA.28.24, JPS 1917)↗

baked — Everyday, meaning 1: Baked is the past form of bake: «She baked a cake».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Baked (adjective) means cooked in an oven, as in «baked potato» or «baked beans».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Baked can mean dried hard by heat: «baked mud».↗ Example: She baked 36 cupcakes.↗ · He baked 4 pies and sold 3.↗ · They baked 2 batches of 15 cookies.↗ · How many cookies were baked in all?↗ · I had a baked potato for dinner.↗ · The bakery sells freshly baked bread.↗ · Baked beans on toast is a British breakfast.↗ · The ground was baked hard by the sun.↗ · Grandma baked a birthday cake for me.↗ · That plan sounds half-baked.↗ · Once upon a time there was a woman, and she baked five pies.↗ · It shall not be baked with leaven.↗ (Torah LEV.6.17, JPS 1917)↗ · And if thy offering be a meal-offering baked on a griddle, it shall be of fine flour unleavened, mingled with oil.↗ (Torah LEV.2.5, JPS 1917)↗ · And when thou bringest a meal-offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers spread with oil.↗ (Torah LEV.2.4, JPS 1917)↗ · And he looked, and, behold, there was at his head a cake baked on the hot stones, and a cruse of water.↗ (Prophets 1KI.19.6, JPS 1917)↗ · And Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, had the set office over the things that were baked on griddles.↗ (Writings 1CH.9.31, JPS 1917)↗ · for the showbread also, and for the fine flour for a meal-offering, whether of unleavened wafers, or of that which is baked on the griddle, or of that which is soaked, and for all manner of measure and size; (Writings 1CH.23.29, JPS 1917)↗

baker — Everyday, meaning 1: A baker is a person who makes bread, cakes and pies to sell.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A baker can be anyone who likes to bake at home.↗ Example: A baker made 120 cakes.↗ · The baker sold 95 pastries.↗ · How many cakes did the baker have left?↗ · The baker made 8 trays of cookies with 12 on each.↗ · The baker gets up at 4 in the morning.↗ · We bought fresh rolls at the baker's.↗ · My mum is a good baker.↗ · A baker's dozen is 13.↗ · But I have eaten it!” exclaimed the baker in dismay.↗ · But he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.↗ (Torah GEN.40.22, JPS 1917)↗ · And Pharaoh was wroth against his two officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.↗ (Torah GEN.40.2, JPS 1917)↗ · And it came to pass after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord the king of Egypt.↗ (Torah GEN.40.1, JPS 1917)↗ · And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.↗ (Prophets 1SA.8.13, JPS 1917)↗ · They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth to stir from the kneading of the dough until it be leavened.↗ (Prophets HOS.7.4, JPS 1917)↗ · For they have made ready their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait; their baker sleepeth all the night, in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.↗ (Prophets HOS.7.6, JPS 1917)↗

bakery — Everyday, meaning 1: A bakery is a shop where bread, cakes, buns and pies are baked and sold.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A bakery can also be the place or factory where bread is baked.↗ Example: The bakery bakes 120 loaves each day.↗ · A bun at the bakery costs 1 dollar.↗ · The bakery sold 45 of its 60 cakes.↗ · How many loaves in a week?↗ · The bakery smells of fresh bread.↗ · We ordered a birthday cake from the bakery.↗ · The baker starts work in the bakery at 4 in the morning.↗ · The bakery sells muffins in boxes of 6.↗

baking — Everyday, meaning 1: Baking is cooking in an oven.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Baking is the bread and cakes that are baked.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Baking hot means very hot.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A baking-oven is an oven built for baking bread.↗ Example: She spent 2 hours baking.↗ · Baking a loaf takes 45 minutes.↗ · He is baking 3 trays of bread.↗ · The recipe needs 2 spoons of baking soda.↗ · I love baking with my grandpa.↗ · It was baking hot at the beach.↗ · Line the baking tray with paper.↗ · Baking powder makes cakes rise.↗ · The smell of baking filled the house.↗ · Baking soda and vinegar fizz together.↗ · The baking-oven sticks out of the wall like a great knob.↗

balance — Everyday, meaning 1: Balance is being steady so you do not fall: «keep your balance».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A balance is a scale with two pans; when it balances, both sides weigh the same.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The balance of a bank account is how much money is in it.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A balance is the right mix: «a balanced diet» has some of each kind of food.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To balance something is to hold it steady, or make two sides equal.↗ Example: The scale balances with 3 apples on one side and 1 melon on the other.↗ · Her bank balance is 120 dollars.↗ · After spending 30 dollars, what is the balance?↗ · Two boxes balance one bag.↗ · She lost her balance and fell off the beam.↗ · A balanced diet includes fruit and vegetables.↗ · Can you balance a book on your head?↗ · The forces are balanced, so the box does not move.↗ · The man then pulled his nose gently, which caused him to lose his balance.↗ · Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.↗ (Torah LEV.19.36, JPS 1917)↗ · The three fundamental letters א״מ״ש have as their basis the balance.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · The three fundamental letters א"מ"ש have as their basis the balance.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · TEKEL, Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.↗ (Writings DAN.5.27, JPS 1917)↗ · As for the trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand.↗ (Prophets HOS.12.8, JPS 1917)↗ · Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.↗ (Prophets EZK.45.10, JPS 1917)↗