📖 B — The English dictionary · page 52

brutality — Everyday, meaning 1: Cruel, violent treatment of people or animals; very harsh behaviour.↗ Example: When men turn to brutes, their brutality grows.↗ · The king's brutality made the people afraid.↗ · We were shocked by the brutality of the storm.↗

brutally — Everyday, meaning 1: In a cruel, savage way, with great violence.↗ Example: The robbers attacked us brutally.↗ · The wicked lord treated his servants brutally.↗ · He spoke brutally, with no kindness at all.↗

brute — Everyday, meaning 1: A cruel, violent or rough person.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old) A big, strong animal, especially a wild one.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (adjective) Using only strength, not thinking: brute force, brute strength.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (informal) Something big and hard to manage: «this box is a brute to carry».↗ Example: The brute pushed everyone out of his way.↗ · He opened the door by brute force.↗ · The bear was a huge brute.↗ · Don't be such a brute to your brother!↗ · Trying every combination of the lock is a brute-force method.↗ · This suitcase is a brute to lift.↗ · "What is that brute of a cowherd doing?↗

brutish — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Stupid and rough, like an animal that cannot think.↗ Example: A brutish man knoweth not, neither doth a fool understand this.↗ (Writings PSA.92.7, JPS 1917)↗ · Whoso loveth knowledge loveth correction; but he that is brutish hateth reproof.↗ (Writings PRO.12.1, JPS 1917)↗ · But I was brutish, and ignorant; I was as a beast before Thee.↗ (Writings PSA.73.22, JPS 1917)↗

bryony — Everyday, meaning 1: Bryony is a climbing plant found in hedges in Britain and Europe; there are two kinds, white bryony and black bryony, both with shiny red berries in autumn.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Bryony is also a girl's name (a name).↗ Example: Bryony climbed all over the hedge by the lane.↗ · The bright red berries of bryony are poisonous.↗ · Never eat hedge berries like bryony.↗ · White bryony holds on with curly tendrils.↗ · In autumn the bryony berries hung like red beads.↗ · Bryony is the name of the girl who sits next to me.↗ · The teacher pointed out bryony on our nature walk and warned us not to touch it.↗

bubble — Everyday, meaning 1: A bubble is a thin round ball of liquid with air or gas inside, like a soap bubble.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A bubble is also a ball of air or gas inside a liquid, like the bubbles in fizzy drinks or boiling water.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To bubble means to make bubbles, like soup bubbling in a pan.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To bubble with a feeling means to be full of it.↗ Example: The children blew bubbles in the garden.↗ · Bubbles rose to the top of the fizzy drink.↗ · The soup is bubbling; turn the heat down.↗ · Write what the character says in the speech bubble.↗ · I had a bubble bath with lots of foam.↗ · Bubbles in boiling water are full of steam.↗ · She was bubbling with excitement.↗ · The bubble floated up and popped.↗ · The children stoop towards him, and the bubble bursts.↗

bubbly — Everyday, meaning 1: Full of bubbles: bubbly water, bubbly bath.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Lively, cheerful and full of energy: a bubbly personality.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun, informal) Champagne or another sparkling wine.↗ Example: My sister has a bubbly personality.↗ · The bath was warm and bubbly.↗ · The lemonade was nice and bubbly.↗ · They opened a bottle of bubbly to celebrate.↗ · Our new teacher is really bubbly.↗ · Boil the jam until it's bubbly.↗ · The witch was sitting by a fire of sticks, stirring something bubbly in a shiny copper cauldron.↗

buck — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal, USA, Canada, Australia, NZ) A dollar.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A male deer, rabbit or hare.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) Of a horse: to jump with its back arched and kick its back legs.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: pass the buck: to make someone else responsible.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: buck up (informal): cheer up or hurry up.↗ Example: The ice cream cost three bucks.↗ · Can you lend me ten bucks?↗ · A buck has antlers; a doe does not.↗ · The horse bucked and threw the rider.↗ · Buck up, it's not that bad!↗ · Don't pass the buck: it was your job.↗ · He made a few bucks washing cars.↗ · A doe now, or even a young buck?↗

bucket — Everyday, meaning 1: A bucket is an open round container with a handle for carrying water, sand or other things.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A bucket of something is as much as a bucket holds.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Buckets» in speech means a lot: «it rained buckets».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A bucket list is a list of things a person wants to do one day.↗ Example: A bucket holds 8 litres.↗ · How many buckets fill a 40 litre tank?↗ · She picked 3 buckets of berries.↗ · Each bucket has 25 shells.↗ · We built a sandcastle with a bucket and spade.↗ · He carried a bucket of water to the horses.↗ · It was raining buckets all day.↗ · The roof leaked, so we put a bucket under the drip.↗ · A large bucket was set before the puma directly.↗ · Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance; behold the isles are as a mote in weight.↗ (Prophets ISA.40.15, JPS 1917)↗

bucketful — Everyday, meaning 1: The amount that one bucket can hold: «a bucketful of water».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) A large amount: «bucketfuls of rain».↗ Example: We carried a bucketful of sand to make the castle.↗ · It took six bucketfuls to fill the paddling pool.↗ · The bucket holds 8 litres, so 4 bucketfuls are 32 litres.↗ · She poured a bucketful of water over the campfire.↗ · They earned money by the bucketful.↗ · The farmer gave the pigs a bucketful of scraps.↗ · The Prince gave him a second bucketful.↗

buckle — Everyday, meaning 1: A buckle is a metal or plastic clip on a belt, strap or shoe that fastens two ends together.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To buckle is to fasten with a buckle: «Buckle your seat belt.».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: If something buckles, it bends, crumples or collapses under weight or heat.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: If your knees buckle, they suddenly bend because you are weak or scared.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (informal) To buckle down is to start working hard; to buckle under is to give in.↗ Example: Buckle up — we're leaving!↗ · My shoes have shiny silver buckles.↗ · He buckled his belt.↗ · The bridge buckled under the weight of the trucks.↗ · The heat made the train tracks buckle.↗ · Her knees buckled when she saw the spider.↗ · It's time to buckle down and study for the test.↗ · The pirate wore a hat and boots with buckles.↗ · "Ha! ha! ha! you make me laugh so that I can scarcely buckle the saddle-straps.↗

buckler — Everyday, meaning 1: A small round shield held in the hand, used in old times (old use).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb, rare) to protect with a shield.↗ Example: In a moment the heavens rang to the clash of swords on bucklers.↗ · He swung his buckler forward to guard himself.↗ · The knight raised his buckler against the blow.↗ · Make ready buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.↗ (Prophets JER.46.3, JPS 1917)↗ · Take hold of shield and buckler, and rise up to my help.↗ (Writings PSA.35.2, JPS 1917)↗ · He runneth upon him with a stiff neck, with the thick bosses of his bucklers.↗ (Writings JOB.15.26, JPS 1917)↗

buckskin — Everyday, meaning 1: Soft, pale leather made from the skin of a deer; also a cloth or thing made of it.↗ Example: Her loose buckskin dress was made for freedom.↗ · He pulled on his buckskin leggings.↗ · The bags were made of buckskin.↗

buckskins — Everyday, meaning 1: Clothes made of buckskin, such as leggings, jackets or trousers.↗ Example: A man in buckskins sat on the hillock.↗ · There stood Iktomi in brown buckskins.↗ · The scout wore fringed buckskins.↗

buckwheat — Everyday, meaning 1: A plant grown for its small, triangle-shaped seeds, which are cooked like grain or ground into flour.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The seeds or flour of this plant, used for porridge, pancakes and noodles.↗ Example: Buckwheat is not related to wheat.↗ · Grandma cooks buckwheat porridge for breakfast.↗ · Soba noodles are made from buckwheat flour.↗ · Buckwheat pancakes are popular in Brittany.↗ · My friend eats buckwheat because it has no gluten.↗ · Bees love buckwheat flowers.↗ · Ukrainian families often eat buckwheat with mushrooms.↗ · Then they gave him the dog, and a buckwheat hearth-cake as provision by the way.↗

bud — Everyday, meaning 1: A bud is a small swelling on a plant that will open into a leaf or a flower.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To bud means to grow buds: the trees are budding.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Bud» (informal, mostly American) is a friendly word for a friend or a boy.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A budding artist is one who is just starting and may become good.↗ Example: The rose has three buds.↗ · In spring, buds appear on the trees.↗ · The bud opened into a flower.↗ · My taste buds love sour sweets.↗ · Thanks, bud!↗ · She is a budding scientist.↗ · Nip bad habits in the bud.↗ · Put in your earbuds to listen to music.↗ · It is a simple daisy, just bursting out of the bud.↗ · And it shall come to pass, that the man whom I shall choose, his rod shall bud; and I will make to cease from Me the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you.'↗ (Torah NUM.17.5, JPS 1917)↗ · Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a plant.↗ (Writings JOB.14.9, JPS 1917)↗ · Behold the day; behold, it cometh; the turn is come forth; the rod hath blossomed, arrogancy hath budded.↗ (Prophets EZK.7.10, JPS 1917)↗ · To satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?↗ (Writings JOB.38.27, JPS 1917)↗

buddha — Everyday, meaning 1: The Buddha was a teacher who lived in ancient India and started the religion of Buddhism.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A buddha is a person who, in Buddhism, has become fully awake or enlightened.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A Buddha is a statue or picture of the Buddha.↗ Example: The Buddha taught people to be kind to all living things.↗ · We saw a huge golden Buddha in the temple.↗ · Buddhists follow the teachings of the Buddha.↗ · There is a small stone Buddha in Aunt May's garden.↗ · The Buddha sat under a tree to think.↗ · Our RE lesson was about the life of the Buddha.↗ · May Buddha help me or I am lost.↗

buddhism — Everyday, meaning 1: (religion) Buddhism is a religion and way of life that follows the teaching of the Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama), who taught how to end suffering through wisdom, kindness and meditation.↗ Example: Buddhism began in India long ago.↗ · In Buddhism, meditation helps calm the mind.↗ · Lin's family follows Buddhism and visits the temple.↗ · Buddhism teaches kindness to all living things.↗ · We learned the Eightfold Path in our lesson on Buddhism.↗ · Many Buddhists do not eat meat.↗ · It is probable that they were brought over on the first introduction of Buddhism into Ceylon, c. 241 B.C.↗

buddhist — Everyday, meaning 1: A Buddhist is a person who follows Buddhism, the religion based on the teachings of the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Buddhist means to do with Buddhism: a Buddhist temple, Buddhist monks.↗ Example: My friend's family are Buddhists.↗ · We visited a Buddhist temple with a big golden statue.↗ · Buddhist monks shave their heads and wear robes.↗ · Buddhists try to be kind to all living things.↗ · Many Buddhists meditate every day.↗ · Buddhists celebrate Wesak, the Buddha's birthday.↗ · The Buddhist teacher told us a story about patience.↗ · Listening attentively, he heard her reading the Buddhist scriptures with great devotion.↗

budding — Everyday, meaning 1: Just starting to grow or develop; beginning to show promise.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Of a plant, beginning to form buds or new leaves.↗ Example: The first green leaves were budding.↗ · The snail lay under the rose-tree, which was budding again.↗ · She is a budding artist.↗ · and in the vine were three branches; and as it was budding, its blossoms shot forth, and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes, (Torah GEN.40.10, JPS 1917)↗

buddleia — Everyday, meaning 1: A bush with long, cone-shaped clusters of purple, white or pink flowers that attract many butterflies; also called the butterfly bush.↗ Example: Butterflies crowded on the buddleia.↗ · A buddleia was growing out of the old wall.↗ · We planted a buddleia to attract butterflies.↗ · The buddleia flowers smell of honey.↗ · Buddleia can spread fast and push out wild plants.↗

buddy — Everyday, meaning 1: A buddy (informal) is a friend or partner.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A buddy is a partner you are paired with to help and look after each other, as in a buddy system at school or when swimming.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To buddy up is to pair up with someone as partners.↗ Example: Max is my best buddy.↗ · On the school trip, stay with your buddy.↗ · My reading buddy is in Year Six.↗ · If you're lonely, sit on the buddy bench.↗ · We buddied up for the science experiment.↗ · Divers always swim with a buddy.↗ · Hey, buddy, can you help me?↗ · Count your buddies before you leave the pool.↗

budge — Everyday, meaning 1: To budge is to move a little, or to make something heavy or stuck move a little.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To change your mind or opinion, or to make someone change theirs: «She won't budge».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) «Budge up» or «budge over» means move along to make space for someone.↗ Example: The window is stuck and won't budge.↗ · We pushed the car, but it didn't budge.↗ · Mum would not budge: no sweets before dinner.↗ · Budge up so Mia can sit on the bench.↗ · The donkey refused to budge an inch.↗ · Nothing could budge him from his opinion.↗