📖 B — The English dictionary · page 59

buttress — Everyday, meaning 1: A buttress is a thick wall or support of stone or brick built against a wall to hold it up and stop it falling outwards.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A flying buttress is an arch that reaches from a separate pillar to support a tall wall, as in Gothic cathedrals.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To buttress something is to support or strengthen it, often an argument or idea.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A buttress root is a wide, flat root that holds up a tall rainforest tree.↗ Example: The old church wall is held up by stone buttresses.↗ · Flying buttresses support the walls of Notre-Dame in Paris.↗ · Rainforest trees have huge buttress roots.↗ · Buttresses let builders make tall walls with big windows.↗ · She buttressed her argument with lots of facts.↗ · The castle wall had a buttress at each corner.↗ · We crawled between the buttress roots of a giant fig tree.↗ · Shout against her round about, she hath submitted herself; her buttresses are fallen, her walls are thrown down; for it is the vengeance of the LORD, take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do unto her.↗ (Prophets JER.50.15, JPS 1917)↗

butty — Everyday, meaning 1: (UK informal, especially northern England) A butty is a sandwich, often with a hot filling: «a chip butty», «a bacon butty».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (UK dialect, Wales) A butty can mean a friend or workmate.↗ Example: Grandad made me a bacon butty for breakfast.↗ · A chip butty is chips in a buttered roll.↗ · Do you want a jam butty for your lunch?↗ · We had butties on the beach in Blackpool.↗ · He's my old butty from the mine.↗ · Pass us a butty, I'm starving.↗

buy — Everyday, meaning 1: To buy is to get something by paying money for it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A buy is something bought: this coat was a good buy (it was worth the money).↗ Example: Ben bought 6 cards on Monday and 5 cards on Tuesday.↗ How many cards did Ben buy in total?↗ · Mia buys 8 packs of cards.↗ A pack holds 3 cards.↗ · Sam has 20 pence and buys a pen for 7 pence.↗ How much money is left?↗ · We buy bread at the bakery.↗ · I saved my pocket money to buy a new ball.↗ · Mum bought a bag of apples for 3 dollars.↗ · Can I buy a ticket here?↗ · It is cheaper to buy a big pack.↗ · “But why did you buy me?↗ · And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn from Egypt.↗ (Torah GEN.42.3, JPS 1917)↗ · And our father said: Go again, buy us a little food.↗ (Torah GEN.44.25, JPS 1917)↗ · And other money have we brought down in our hand to buy food.↗ (Torah GEN.43.22, JPS 1917)↗ · Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.↗ (Writings PRO.23.23, JPS 1917)↗ · So the near kinsman said unto Boaz: 'Buy it for thyself.'↗ And he drew off his shoe.↗ (Writings RUT.4.8, JPS 1917)↗ · Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, seeing he hath no understanding?↗ (Writings PRO.17.16, JPS 1917)↗

buyer — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who buys something: the buyer of the house.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A person whose job is choosing and buying goods for a shop or company: a fashion buyer.↗ Example: The buyer paid 20 pounds for the bike.↗ · The seller wants 50 dollars but the buyer offers 40.↗ · The house has found a buyer.↗ · A wise buyer compares prices before choosing.↗ · Mum is a buyer for a big toy shop.↗ · If the buyer gives 10 dollars for a 7-dollar book, the change is 3 dollars.↗ · Presently a buyer came along and asked if the Sow produced good litters.↗ · 'It is bad, it is bad', saith the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.↗ (Writings PRO.20.14, JPS 1917)↗ · The time is come, the day draweth near; let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.↗ (Prophets EZK.7.12, JPS 1917)↗ · whose buyers slay them, and hold themselves not guilty; and they that sell them say: Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich; and their own shepherds pity them not.↗ (Prophets ZEC.11.5, JPS 1917)↗

buzz — Everyday, meaning 1: To buzz is to make a long low humming sound like a bee or a fly.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A buzz is that sound, or the sound of a doorbell, alarm or phone vibrating.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To buzz is to press a buzzer, for example to let someone into a building.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A buzz is an excited, busy feeling: «There was a buzz in the classroom.».↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (informal) To give someone a buzz is to phone them.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: To buzz around is to move about quickly and busily.↗ Example: The bees buzzed around the flowers.↗ · A fly was buzzing at the window.↗ · My phone buzzed in my pocket.↗ · Buzz me in when I ring the bell.↗ · There was a buzz of excitement before the trip.↗ · The school was buzzing with news of the snow day.↗ · I'll give you a buzz later.↗ · Press the buzzer if you know the answer!↗

buzzard — Everyday, meaning 1: A buzzard is a large bird of prey with broad wings that circles high in the sky and hunts small animals.↗ Example: A buzzard circled over the field.↗ · The buzzard let out a loud cry.↗ · We saw a buzzard sitting on a fence post.↗

buzzing — Everyday, meaning 1: Buzzing is making a low humming sound like a bee or fly.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Buzzing means full of activity, noise and excitement.↗ e.g. The hall was buzzing.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In British and Irish slang, buzzing means very happy and excited.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Buzzing someone in means pressing a button to open a door for them.↗ Example: Bees were buzzing around the flowers.↗ · I heard a fly buzzing at the window.↗ · The playground was buzzing with excitement.↗ · My phone is buzzing in my pocket.↗ · We made the buzzer in our circuit start buzzing.↗ · She was buzzing after winning the race.↗ · Press the button and they will buzz you in.↗ · Hark, what a buzzing and humming there is!"↗ · Ah, land of the buzzing of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia; (Prophets ISA.18.1, JPS 1917)↗

by — Everyday, meaning 1: By shows who does something: a book by Roald Dahl.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: By shows how something is done: by bus, by hand.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: By means next to: sit by the window.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: By means not later than: be home by six.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: In maths, by names the number you multiply or divide by, or how much something changes: grew by 3; a room 4 by 5 metres.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: As an adverb, by means past: the cars went by.↗ Everyday, meaning 7: (casual) «Stop by», «drop by», «pop by» mean visit for a short time; «by the way» or «btw» adds a new point.↗ Everyday, meaning 8: (formal) The exam voice uses «by» in stiff phrases: «by means of», «by virtue of», «increased by a factor of», «by the conclusion of».↗ Everyday, meaning 9: By design means on purpose, planned in advance.↗ Example: When there are several equal groups, we multiply the number of groups by the size of one group.↗ · Divide 20 by 4.↗ · The cake was cut by Dad into 8 pieces.↗ · We go to school by bus.↗ · The plant grew by 3 centimetres this week.↗ · Please hand in your homework by Friday.↗ · She sat by the fire to get warm.↗ · I learned the poem by heart.↗ · The children came in one by one.↗ · btw nan's stopping by at 5, set another plate↗ · Sorry, I took your pen by mistake.↗ · The quantity is subsequently increased by a factor of 3; determine the resulting value.↗ · "No, sir, by design," returned Aladdin.↗ · And they did eat there by the heap.↗ (Torah GEN.31.46, JPS 1917)↗ · And Abraham set seven ewe-lambs of the flock by themselves.↗ (Torah GEN.21.28, JPS 1917)↗ · And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi.↗ (Torah NUM.3.20, JPS 1917)↗ · They are wholly consumed by terrors.↗ (Writings PSA.73.19, JPS 1917)↗ · Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by.↗ (Prophets 1SA.16.9, JPS 1917)↗ · Who can number the clouds by wisdom?↗ (Writings JOB.38.37, JPS 1917)↗

bye — Everyday, meaning 1: Bye is a short, friendly way to say goodbye.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In sport, a bye is when a team or player goes on to the next round without playing because there is no opponent.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In cricket, a bye is a run scored when the ball passes the batter without being hit.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: By and bye is an old phrase meaning after a while or soon.↗ Example: Bye, see you tomorrow!↗ · Say bye-bye to Grandma.↗ · Bye for now!↗ · She waved and said bye.↗ · Our team got a bye into the next round.↗ · The batters ran two byes.↗ · Bye, Mum, I'm going to school!↗ · By and bye he called again.↗

bygone — Everyday, meaning 1: (adjective) From a time long ago; past: a bygone age, bygone days.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun, plural) Things from the past.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In «let bygones be bygones»: to forget old arguments and be friends again.↗ Example: The museum shows life in a bygone age.↗ · Steam trains remind Grandad of bygone days.↗ · Let's let bygones be bygones and be friends.↗ · The village still has the charm of a bygone era.↗ · They talked about bygones all evening.↗ · They held each other by the hand exactly as the great-grandfather and the great-grandmother had done outside, and, like them, they talked about bygone days and of their golden wedding.↗

bypass — Everyday, meaning 1: A road that goes around a town instead of through it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (medicine) An operation that makes a new path for blood to flow around a blocked part of the heart's blood vessels.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) To go around something or someone to avoid it.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (verb) To ignore a rule or system or avoid using it.↗ Example: We took the bypass to avoid the town traffic.↗ · Grandad had a heart bypass operation.↗ · The new road will bypass the village.↗ · You cannot bypass the queue just because you're in a hurry.↗ · Hackers tried to bypass the password.↗ · The river bypassed the old mill.↗

bypath — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A side path, away from the main road.↗ Example: For My people hath forgotten Me, they offer unto vanity; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in bypaths, in a way not cast up; (Prophets JER.18.15, JPS 1917)↗

byre — Everyday, meaning 1: Old use: a cowshed, a farm building where cows are kept.↗ Example: The cows were milked in the byre.↗ · Clean out the byre before the storm.↗ · The king's son slept in the byre.↗

bystander — Everyday, meaning 1: A bystander is a person who is near when something happens, especially an accident, a fight or bullying, but is not part of it.↗ Example: A bystander called the ambulance.↗ · Don't just be a bystander when someone is being bullied — tell a teacher.↗ · Several bystanders saw the accident.↗ · An innocent bystander was hurt by the falling sign.↗ · A bystander who helps is called an upstander.↗ · The bystanders cheered when the cat was rescued.↗ · Having broken her wings by the blow, she fell to the ground, and was caught by one of the bystanders.↗

byte — Everyday, meaning 1: A unit of computer memory or data made of 8 bits (8 ones and zeros); one byte can store one letter like «A».↗ Example: One byte is made of eight bits.↗ · A single letter takes up about one byte.↗ · This photo is about 3 megabytes.↗ · My tablet has 64 gigabytes of storage.↗ · A kilobyte is about a thousand bytes.↗ · The game needs a lot of bytes of memory.↗ · We counted the bytes in our secret binary message.↗

byway — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A byway is a small side road or lane, quieter than a main road.↗ Example: In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways ceased, and the travellers walked through byways.↗ (Prophets JDG.5.6, JPS 1917)↗ · We took the byway through the woods.↗ · The witch lived down a dusty byway.↗ · Highways and byways were full of people that day.↗

byword — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A saying or name that people use as a short example of something, often an example of something bad.↗ Example: And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples whither the LORD shall lead thee away.↗ (Torah DEU.28.37, JPS 1917)↗ · I made sackcloth also my garment, and I became a byword unto them.↗ (Writings PSA.69.12, JPS 1917)↗ · And now I am become their song, yea, I am a byword unto them.↗ (Writings JOB.30.9, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou makest us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.↗ (Writings PSA.44.15, JPS 1917)↗

byzantine — Everyday, meaning 1: (history) Byzantine describes the Byzantine Empire, the eastern part of the Roman Empire, which lasted for about a thousand years after Rome fell, with its capital at Constantinople (now Istanbul).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (history, art, church) Byzantine art and churches have gold mosaics, domes and holy pictures called icons.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (formal) byzantine (small b) means far too complicated and hard to understand: byzantine rules.↗ Example: The Byzantine Empire's capital was Constantinople.↗ · Hagia Sophia is a famous Byzantine church with a huge dome.↗ · Byzantine mosaics shine with tiny pieces of gold glass.↗ · Orthodox Christians still pray with icons in the Byzantine style.↗ · (formal) The club's rules were so byzantine that nobody understood them.↗ · The Byzantines spoke Greek but called themselves Romans.↗