📖 B — The English dictionary · page 7

bank — Everyday, meaning 1: A bank is a place that keeps money safe and lends it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A piggy bank (money box) is a small box for saving coins.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The bank of a river is the land along its side.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A bank is a store of things kept to use later, like a food bank or a blood bank.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To bank on something is to count on it.↗ Example: She has 40 dollars in the bank.↗ · He puts 5 dollars in his piggy bank each week.↗ · The bank pays 2 dollars of interest.↗ · They sat on the river bank.↗ · Dad opened a bank account for me.↗ · We gave cans to the food bank.↗ · The river burst its banks after the storm.↗ · You can bank on Grandma to bake on Sundays.↗ · A bank of clouds covered the sun.↗ · She saved coins in her money box.↗ · There on the bank she wept and wailed.↗ · His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as banks of sweet herbs; his lips are as lilies, dropping with flowing myrrh.↗ (Writings SNG.5.13, JPS 1917)↗ · He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of the Jordan.↗ (Prophets 2KI.2.13, JPS 1917)↗ · And I heard the voice of a man between the banks of Ulai, who called, and said: 'Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.'↗ (Writings DAN.8.16, JPS 1917)↗

banker — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who runs or works at a high level in a bank, deciding about loans and money.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (games) The player in charge of the bank in a game like Monopoly, who hands out and takes in money.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (UK, informal) Something certain to happen or win: «That team is a banker for the title.».↗ Example: The banker agreed to lend the family money for a house.↗ · I'll be the banker in Monopoly.↗ · Her mum is a banker in the city.↗ · The banker counted out the notes.↗ · Bankers had to explain why the bank lost so much money.↗ · The banker gave each player 1,500 pounds to start.↗ · A rich banker's family, who were driving in a coach and four, were blown out of it, and could not even find room behind it with their footmen.↗

banknote — Everyday, meaning 1: A piece of paper or plastic money printed by a country's bank, such as a £10 note or a $20 bill.↗ Example: She paid with a ten-pound banknote.↗ · Australian banknotes are made of plastic.↗ · The banknote has a hologram so it can't be copied easily.↗ · How many £5 banknotes make £50?↗ Ten.↗ · Canadian banknotes come in different colours.↗ · Grandad keeps an old banknote from Ireland before the euro.↗

bankrupt — Everyday, meaning 1: (money, law) A person or company that is bankrupt cannot pay their debts, and a court takes control of what they own to pay the people they owe.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To bankrupt someone is to make them bankrupt.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) Bankrupt of something means having none of it left: bankrupt of ideas.↗ Example: The shop went bankrupt and closed.↗ · His spending nearly bankrupted the family.↗ · In Monopoly, you lose when you go bankrupt.↗ · The company was declared bankrupt by the court.↗ · The war left the country bankrupt.↗ · The writer felt bankrupt of ideas.↗

banned — Everyday, meaning 1: Banned is the past form of «ban»: it was officially not allowed.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A banned thing is something that the rules forbid.↗ Example: Running is banned near the pool.↗ · He was banned from the team for cheating.↗ · Sharp objects are banned on planes.↗ · The old toy was banned because it had lead paint.↗ · Swimming is banned when the red flag is up.↗ · Our school banned chewing gum.↗ · That word is banned in our house.↗

banner — Everyday, meaning 1: A long piece of cloth or paper with words or pictures on it, carried or hung up.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A wide advert or heading across a web page.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A flag (old use).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (in "under the banner of") Under the name or idea of a group.↗ Example: We painted a "Welcome Back" banner for the class.↗ · The protesters carried banners.↗ · A banner hung over the school gate.↗ · Ignore the flashing banner ads on websites.↗ · The newspaper had a huge banner headline.↗ · They marched under the banner of peace.↗ · Soldiers like the knave of clubs, and citizens with waving banners.↗ · He hath brought me to the banqueting-house, and his banner over me is love.↗ (Writings SNG.2.4, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.↗ (Writings SNG.6.4, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou hast given a banner to them that fear Thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth.↗ (Writings PSA.60.6, JPS 1917)↗

banning — Everyday, meaning 1: Officially saying that something is not allowed.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun) The act of forbidding something.↗ Example: The school is banning phones in lessons.↗ · Many towns are banning plastic bags.↗ · They talked about banning junk food adverts.↗ · Banning fireworks could keep pets calm.↗ · The banning of the book upset the author.↗ · The club is banning him from the next match.↗

bannock — Everyday, meaning 1: A bannock is a round, flat cake of oatmeal or barley bread, baked on a griddle or in an oven, eaten mainly in Scotland.↗ Example: She baked a warm bannock for her son.↗ · I like a bannock with cheese.↗ · The bannock was round and golden.↗

banns — Everyday, meaning 1: Banns are the public announcements read out in church, on three Sundays before a wedding, to say that two people plan to marry, so that anyone who knows a reason they should not marry can speak up.↗ Example: The vicar read the banns on Sunday.↗ · Her banns were read in the church and in the town.↗ · If anyone knows a reason against this marriage, let them speak at the banns.↗

banquet — Everyday, meaning 1: A large formal meal for many people, usually to celebrate something, with speeches.↗ Example: The king held a banquet for his knights.↗ · We went to the sports banquet for the awards.↗ · The banquet had five courses.↗ · The wedding banquet lasted all evening.↗ · In the story, a great banquet was ready but the guests made excuses.↗ · The banquet hall was full of long tables.↗ · Will the bands of fishermen make a banquet of him?↗ (Writings JOB.40.30, JPS 1917)↗ · So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen.↗ (Writings EST.7.1, JPS 1917)↗ · He hath brought me to the banqueting-house, and his banner over me is love.↗ (Writings SNG.2.4, JPS 1917)↗

banter — Everyday, meaning 1: Friendly, playful teasing and joking talk between people: the friends' banter.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To talk in this friendly, joking way.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (UK slang, "bants" or "just banter") Jokes that are meant to be funny, though sometimes they hurt.↗ Example: There was friendly banter between the two teams before the match.↗ · Dad and Grandad banter about football every Sunday.↗ · The shopkeeper bantered with the customers.↗ · (UK slang) "Don't get upset, it's just bants."↗ · If it hurts someone's feelings, it isn't banter anymore.↗ · The class enjoyed the teacher's banter.↗ · (Ireland) The craic and banter at the party were great.↗ · Several others bantered the old man, but he appeared to be in a good humor.↗

banyan — Everyday, meaning 1: A tropical fig tree from India whose branches drop roots down to the ground, which grow into new trunks so one tree can look like a whole forest.↗ Example: The banyan tree spread across the whole village square.↗ · Banyan roots hang down from the branches.↗ · One banyan can cover a huge area.↗ · The banyan is India's national tree.↗ · Children played under the shady banyan.↗ · A banyan starts life growing on another tree.↗ · So they went to a banyan tree, and stripped the bark to make strings for their slings, and next they repaired to the river bank to find stones.↗

baobab — Everyday, meaning 1: A baobab is a huge tree of Africa, Madagascar and Australia with a very fat trunk and short branches that look like roots.↗ Example: The baobab looked like it was planted upside down.↗ · Baobab trunks store water.↗ · Elephants peel bark from baobab trees.↗ · The Little Prince pulled up baobab sprouts.↗ · Baobab fruit is full of vitamin C.↗ · Some hollow baobabs have been used as shelters.↗

baptise — Everyday, meaning 1: (church) To baptise someone is to give them the Christian ceremony of baptism, pouring water on them or putting them in water as a sign of joining Christ and the Church.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To baptise can also mean to give a name at baptism (christen).↗ Example: The priest will baptise my baby sister on Sunday.↗ · John baptised Jesus in the river Jordan.↗ · The pastor baptises new believers in the lake.↗ · They baptised her Grace, after her grandmother.↗ · "I baptise you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit."↗ · Some churches do not baptise babies.↗

baptised — Everyday, meaning 1: (church) Baptised means given the Christian ceremony of baptism, washed with water as a sign of joining Christ and the Church.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: As an adjective, a baptised person is one who has had baptism.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: "Baptised in" or "baptised by" can also mean having a first hard experience of something.↗ Example: I was baptised in the same church as my mum.↗ · Jesus was baptised by John in the river Jordan.↗ · My cousin was baptised in the sea at the beach.↗ · Baptised Christians can become godparents.↗ · She was baptised a Catholic.↗ · The new players were baptised by a muddy, freezing game.↗

baptism — Everyday, meaning 1: (church) Baptism is a Christian ceremony in which a person is washed with water or put under water as a sign that they belong to Christ and the Church and that their sins are washed away.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A baptism is the service or event where this happens, often for a baby, with family and godparents.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: "Baptism of fire" means a very hard first experience of something new.↗ Example: My baby cousin's baptism is in the old stone church.↗ · At the baptism the priest poured water over the baby's head.↗ · Jesus' baptism in the river Jordan is a famous Bible story.↗ · Some churches have a pool for baptism by full immersion.↗ · After the baptism we had cake and sandwiches at Nan's house.↗ · Her first day as a waitress was a real baptism of fire.↗ · Godparents promise at a baptism to help the child grow in faith.↗ · "Mother," she murmured, "thy child may not receive Christian baptism, nor be admitted into the congregation of Christian people.↗

baptist — Everyday, meaning 1: (church) A Baptist is a member of a Protestant Christian church that baptises only people old enough to say they believe, usually by putting them fully under water.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (Bible) John the Baptist was the prophet who baptised people in the river Jordan, including Jesus, and told them to get ready for God's kingdom.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Baptist (adjective) describes these churches, as in "a Baptist chapel".↗ Example: Our neighbours go to the Baptist church on the corner.↗ · John the Baptist lived in the desert and ate locusts.↗ · Baptists are baptised when they decide to follow Jesus.↗ · Martin Luther King Jr was a Baptist minister.↗ · The Baptist chapel has a pool under the floor for baptisms.↗ · John the Baptist said, "Someone greater than me is coming."↗ · It was not nearly so big as its mother; only about the size of a Baptist chapel.↗

baptists — Everyday, meaning 1: (church) Baptists are members of Protestant Christian churches that baptise only believers old enough to choose, usually by full immersion in water, and in which each local church largely runs itself.↗ Example: Baptists believe people should choose to be baptised.↗ · Many Baptists live in the southern United States.↗ · The Baptists held a picnic after the baptism in the river.↗ · Baptists and Methodists sang together at the town service.↗ · Martin Luther King Jr's father was also a Baptist minister.↗ · Baptists usually baptise by putting people right under the water.↗

baptized — Everyday, meaning 1: To baptize someone is to sprinkle or dip them in water as a sign that they become a member of the Christian church, often given a name at the same time.↗ (Baptised is the British spelling.).↗ Example: The baby was baptized in the church last Sunday.↗ · The priest baptized the girl with water from the font.↗ · The new Christians were baptized in the river.↗

bar — Everyday, meaning 1: A bar is a long, solid piece of something, like a bar of soap or chocolate.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A bar is a long rod of metal or wood, like the bars of a cage.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A bar graph uses bars to show numbers.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A bar is a place or counter where drinks or food are served.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: In music, a bar is a short part with a set number of beats.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: To bar is to block or forbid.↗ Example: A candy bar costs 1 dollar.↗ · She broke the bar into 4 equal pieces.↗ · The bar graph shows 12 votes for red.↗ · He ate 2 granola bars.↗ · The kids hung from the monkey bars.↗ · The lion paced behind the bars of its cage.↗ · Each bar of music has 4 beats.↗ · A bar of soap sat by the sink.↗ · The tallest bar on the chart shows Friday.↗ · The road was barred by a fallen tree.↗ · “Quick Tink,” he whispered, “close the window; bar it!↗ · Iron and brass shall be thy bars; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.↗ (Torah DEU.33.25, JPS 1917)↗ · And he made bars of acacia-wood: five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle, (Torah EXO.36.31, JPS 1917)↗ · And thou shalt make bars of acacia-wood: five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle, (Torah EXO.26.26, JPS 1917)↗ · And prescribed for it My decree, and set bars and doors, (Writings JOB.38.10, JPS 1917)↗ · His bones are as pipes of brass; his gristles are like bars of iron.↗ (Writings JOB.40.18, JPS 1917)↗ · For He hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.↗ (Writings PSA.107.16, JPS 1917)↗