📖 B — The English dictionary · page 40

bosom — Everyday, meaning 1: The bosom is the front of a person's chest, the place where you hold someone close.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The bosom is the heart or inner feelings: a bosom friend is one you love and trust.↗ Example: Let me take it to my bosom.↗ · Her head sank on her bosom.↗ · Joy filled the bosom of the Dryad.↗ · She is my bosom friend.↗ · Draw it out of Thy bosom and consume them.↗ (Writings PSA.74.11, JPS 1917)↗ · Wherewith the reaper filleth not his hand, nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.↗ (Writings PSA.129.7, JPS 1917)↗ · Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?↗ (Writings PRO.6.27, JPS 1917)↗

boss — Everyday, meaning 1: A boss is the person in charge at work who tells others what to do.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To boss someone around is to keep telling them what to do in an unkind way.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In video games a boss is a very strong enemy at the end of a level.↗ Example: My mum's boss gave her a day off.↗ · Who's the boss here?↗ · Stop bossing me around!↗ · The boss of the shop opened the doors.↗ · He wants to be his own boss one day.↗ · I beat the final boss in the game.↗ · My sister is so bossy.↗ · He runneth upon him with a stiff neck, with the thick bosses of his bucklers.↗ (Writings JOB.15.26, JPS 1917)↗

bossy — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal) Bossy means always telling other people what to do, in a way that is annoying.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal, children) "Bossy boots" is a teasing name for a bossy person.↗ Example: My big sister is so bossy!↗ · Stop being bossy and let someone else choose.↗ · In group work, Sam can be a bit bossy.↗ · Don't be such a bossy boots.↗ · The bossy cat chased the dog off the sofa.↗ · A good leader listens; a bossy person just gives orders.↗

bostonian — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who comes from or lives in Boston, a big city in Massachusetts, USA.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective) Having to do with Boston or its people, such as the Boston accent.↗ Example: My pen pal is a Bostonian.↗ · Bostonians love their baseball team, the Red Sox.↗ · The Bostonian accent is easy to recognise.↗ · Angry Bostonians threw tea into the harbour.↗ · She is a proud Bostonian.↗

bot — Everyday, meaning 1: A bot is a computer program that does tasks by itself, often pretending to be a person, such as answering messages or playing in games.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A bot is sometimes short for robot.↗ Example: The website has a bot that answers questions.↗ · I played against a bot in the game.↗ · Some accounts online are bots, not real people.↗ · The chatbot helped me find my parcel.↗ · Bots can send lots of spam messages.↗ · Our class built a little robot bot that follows a line.↗ · Be careful: a friendly message online might come from a bot.↗

botanic — Everyday, meaning 1: To do with plants and the study of plants (botany).↗ Example: We visited the botanic gardens on our school trip.↗ · The botanic garden has plants from every continent.↗ · She drew botanic pictures of leaves.↗ · A botanist works at the botanic garden.↗ · The botanic greenhouse was hot and steamy.↗ · Botanic gardens help save rare plants.↗

botanical — Everyday, meaning 1: Botanical means to do with plants or with botany, the science of plants.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Botanical means made from plants, as in botanical oils or medicines.↗ Example: We visited the botanical garden and saw a giant water lily.↗ · The botanical name for the sunflower is Helianthus annuus.↗ · She made a botanical drawing of a dandelion.↗ · The botanical gardens in Sydney are next to the harbour.↗ · Scientists collect botanical samples from the rainforest.↗ · This shampoo is made with botanical oils.↗ · Kew Gardens is a famous botanical garden.↗ · I will tell you what to do, and the botanical professor, who lives close by here, will be so surprised.↗

botanist — Everyday, meaning 1: A botanist is a scientist who studies plants: how they grow, where they live and how they are related.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Botany is the science that botanists do.↗ Example: A botanist studies plants and flowers.↗ · The botanist found a new kind of orchid.↗ · We were botanists for the day and collected leaves.↗ · Botanists work in gardens, labs and rainforests.↗ · The botanist explained how seeds spread.↗ · Joseph Banks was a botanist on a long sea voyage.↗ · What the botanist tells us after a number of imperfect lectures, the flower proclaimed in a minute.↗

botany — Everyday, meaning 1: The scientific study of plants: how they grow, what they are made of, how they are named and where they live.↗ Example: Botany is the study of plants.↗ · We learned about roots and leaves in our botany lesson.↗ · A botanist collected seeds from the rainforest.↗ · Botany Bay in Sydney was named for its many new plants.↗ · The botanic garden has a giant water lily.↗ · My aunt is a botanist who studies mosses.↗ · And now the professor of botany presented himself, one who could explain his knowledge in black and white.↗

both — Everyday, meaning 1: Both means the two of them together, not just one: both hands.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «Both … and» joins two things that are true together: both tall and strong.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (casual) «Both of yous» or «yous both» (Ireland, Australia, parts of UK) means «you two».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (rough) «Both of you, out!» or «You're both as bad as each other» tells off two people together.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (formal) The exam voice says «each of the two», «the pair», «jointly», «the two aforementioned».↗ Example: «How many more … than» and «how many fewer … than» both ask for the difference: subtract.↗ · Ana has 6 shells and Ben has 4.↗ How many shells do they have both together?↗ · Both boys have 5 cards each.↗ · Hold the cup with both hands.↗ · Both my parents work in a hospital.↗ · She is both clever and kind.↗ · Look both ways before you cross.↗ · Both of the puppies are asleep.↗ · Right, both of yous, in the car now!↗ · You're both as bad as each other, stop fighting over 2 crisps.↗ · Determine the number of shells held jointly by the two pupils, given that Ana holds 6 and Ben holds 4.↗ · They both bent over the corpse.↗ · Thus he did to both of them in the two corners.↗ (Torah EXO.36.29, JPS 1917)↗ · Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.↗ (Torah GEN.19.36, JPS 1917)↗ · Wherefore that place was called Beer-sheba; because there they swore both of them.↗ (Torah GEN.21.31, JPS 1917)↗ · Both low and high, rich and poor together.↗ (Writings PSA.49.3, JPS 1917)↗ · Both young men and maidens, old men and children; (Writings PSA.148.12, JPS 1917)↗ · Who smote the first-born of Egypt, both of man and beast.↗ (Writings PSA.135.8, JPS 1917)↗

bother — Everyday, meaning 1: To bother someone is to annoy them or interrupt them: «Don't bother me while I'm reading.».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: If something bothers you, it worries or upsets you.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To bother (to do something) is to make the effort: «He didn't bother to wash his hands.».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Bother is trouble or effort: «It's no bother.».↗ Everyday, meaning 5: «Bother!» is a mild old-fashioned word said when something goes wrong.↗ Example: Sorry to bother you, but where is the library?↗ · Please don't bother the dog while it's eating.↗ · What's bothering you?↗ You look sad.↗ · The noise didn't bother me.↗ · He didn't even bother to say thank you.↗ · «Thanks for helping!»↗ «It's no bother.»↗ · I can't be bothered to tidy my room.↗ · Oh, bother!↗ I forgot my lunchbox.↗ · "Do not bother me," said the potter.↗

bothersome — Everyday, meaning 1: Bothersome means annoying, causing trouble or worry, so that you feel put out.↗ Example: That bothersome fly kept landing on my nose.↗ · Don't be bothersome; let me finish.↗ · The cricket was bothersome, chirping all night.↗

bottle — Everyday, meaning 1: A bottle is a container with a narrow neck for holding drinks or other liquids.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A bottle can mean the drink in it: «He drank a bottle of juice».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To bottle something is to put it into bottles.↗ Example: A shop has 25 bottles of soda.↗ · Each bottle holds 2 liters of water.↗ · He drank 3 bottles of juice.↗ · How many bottles are needed for 12 liters?↗ · Bring a water bottle on the school trip.↗ · We recycle glass bottles.↗ · The baby drinks milk from a bottle.↗ · A message in a bottle washed up on the beach.↗ · And the water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.↗ (Torah GEN.21.15, JPS 1917)↗ · And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.↗ (Torah GEN.21.19, JPS 1917)↗ · Or who can pour out the bottles of heaven, (Writings JOB.38.37, JPS 1917)↗ · Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee, (Prophets JER.19.10, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou has counted my wanderings; put Thou my tears into Thy bottle; are they not in Thy book?↗ (Writings PSA.56.9, JPS 1917)↗

bottlenose — Everyday, meaning 1: The bottlenose dolphin, a common grey dolphin with a short, bottle-shaped snout, often seen near coasts and in shows.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A bottlenose whale, a kind of deep-diving whale.↗ Example: A pod of bottlenose dolphins swam beside our boat.↗ · Bottlenose dolphins use clicks to find fish.↗ · Each bottlenose has its own signature whistle, like a name.↗ · Bottlenoses breathe air through a blowhole.↗ · We saw bottlenose dolphins in Cardigan Bay.↗ · The bottlenose leapt high out of the water.↗

bottom — Everyday, meaning 1: The bottom is the lowest part of something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The bottom is the ground under water, like the bottom of the sea.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Your bottom is the part of your body you sit on.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: The bottom of a list or a class is the last place.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: The bottom of something can also be the real cause or source hidden behind it.↗ Example: The bottom shelf holds 15 books.↗ · He climbs from the bottom to the top of 40 steps.↗ · The bottom row has 9 cans.↗ · The fish swims at the bottom of the tank.↗ · Write your name at the bottom of the page.↗ · We cleaned the house from top to bottom.↗ · The detective got to the bottom of the mystery.↗ · The baby fell on her bottom.↗ · A stone sank to the bottom of the pond.↗ · Our team was at the bottom of the table.↗ · There must be a Princess at the bottom of this.’↗ · Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel at the bottom hard by the living creatures, at the four faces thereof.↗ (Prophets EZK.1.15, JPS 1917)↗ · And when the living creatures went, the wheels went hard by them; and when the living creatures were lifted up from the bottom, the wheels were lifted up.↗ (Prophets EZK.1.19, JPS 1917)↗ · I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars closed upon me for ever; yet hast Thou brought up my life from the pit, O LORD my God.↗ (Prophets JON.2.7, JPS 1917)↗

bottomless — Everyday, meaning 1: Bottomless means so deep or so large that it has no end or floor you can reach.↗ Example: The well seemed bottomless.↗ · His stomach seemed a bottomless pit.↗ · Into the bottomless pit with you!↗ · Her hunger for gold was bottomless.↗

boudoir — Everyday, meaning 1: (old-fashioned) A lady's small private sitting room or dressing room.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (literary) A pretty, private bedroom.↗ Example: The duchess received her friends in her boudoir.↗ · The boudoir had pink curtains and a little writing desk.↗ · In the old house we saw the lady's boudoir with its mirror and chair.↗ · The maid brought tea up to her mistress's boudoir.↗ · The story says the queen sat sulking in her boudoir.↗ · Today most people would just say «bedroom» or «sitting room».↗ · Hereupon he wandered into a boudoir formed entirely of mirrors, like the one in Castle Rosenburg; but here the glasses magnified to an astonishing degree.↗

bough — Everyday, meaning 1: A bough is a large, main branch of a tree.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It is a slightly old-fashioned or poetic word; in everyday talk people usually say «branch».↗ Example: The children sat in the shade under the boughs of the oak.↗ · When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall.↗ · Snow weighed down the boughs of the pine trees.↗ · «Deck the halls with boughs of holly» is a Christmas carol.↗ · A heavy bough fell in the storm and blocked the lane.↗ · Birds built a nest on the highest bough.↗ · Rotten twigs and dry boughs are they all.”↗ · When thou beatest thine olive-tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again; it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.↗ (Torah DEU.24.20, JPS 1917)↗ · And ye shall take you on the first day the fruit of goodly trees, branches of palm-trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook, and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.↗ (Torah LEV.23.40, JPS 1917)↗ · Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a plant.↗ (Writings JOB.14.9, JPS 1917)↗ · The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, and the mighty cedars with the boughs thereof.↗ (Writings PSA.80.11, JPS 1917)↗ · The LORD is God, and hath given us light; order the festival procession with boughs, even unto the horns of the altar.↗ (Writings PSA.118.27, JPS 1917)↗

boulder — Everyday, meaning 1: A boulder is a very large, rounded rock, too big to pick up.↗ Example: A huge boulder blocked the path.↗ · The glacier carried boulders down the valley.↗ · We climbed on the boulders at the beach.↗ · The sign warned of falling boulders.↗ · It took ten people to push the boulder.↗ · Over a long time, water wore the boulder smooth.↗ · One feels quite a novice beside these venerable million-year-old boulders.↗