B
- ba abbreviation (BA = Bachelor of Arts; British Airways); symbol (Ba = barium); Mandarin pinyin «bā» = eight, «ba» = suggestion particle; sheep sound «baa» — a fragment
«Bā» means «eight» in Mandarin; «ba» with no tone goes at the end of a sentence to make a suggestion: «wǒmen zǒu ba» means «let's go». - babe noun (a babe, babes)
A babe is a baby: «a babe in arms», the baby Jesus «the babe in the manger». - babel noun (babel — noise); proper noun (Babel — the Tower of Babel)
1) (Bible) The Tower of Babel is a story in Genesis where people tried to build a tower up to heaven; God mixed up their language so they… - babylonian adjective
Having to do with Babylon, an ancient land and city in what is now Iraq, or its people and language. - back noun (the back, backs); adverb; adjective; verb (back, backs, backed, backing)
The back is the part that is last or farthest from the front: the back of the line. - backbite verb
to speak badly of someone when they are not there - backsliding noun (backsliding – uncountable); verb form (of «backslide»: backslide, backslides, backslid, backsliding)
Going back to bad old habits after you had been doing better. - backward adverb, adjective (backward; adverb also backwards)
Backward means toward the back, or in the direction behind you. - bad adjective (bad, worse, worst); adverb (bad — informal); noun (the bad)
1) Not good; of low quality: "bad weather". 2) Wrong or naughty: "bad behaviour". 3) Harmful: "Smoking is bad for you." 4) Serious or… - bade verb (past of «bid»; bid, bade, bidden)
Bade means told or ordered someone to do something. - badger noun (a badger, badgers); verb (badger, badgers, badgered, badgering)
1) A badger is a wild animal with grey fur, short legs and a black and white striped face that lives in tunnels underground and comes out… - badness noun
The state of being bad; poor quality or evil. - bag noun (bag, bags); verb (bag, bags, bagged, bagging — to put in a bag; to grab; to criticise)
A bag is a soft container you carry things in, made of paper, plastic, cloth or leather. - baggage noun (baggage — uncountable)
The bags and suitcases you take when you travel. - bagpipe noun (a bagpipe, bagpipes — usually «the bagpipes»)
1) The bagpipes are a musical instrument with a bag that the player fills with air and squeezes, and pipes that make a loud, buzzing sound. - bake verb (bake, bakes, baked, baking); noun (a bake)
To bake is to cook food in an oven with dry heat, like bread, cakes or cookies. - baked verb (bake: baked — past form); adjective (baked)
Baked is the past form of bake: «She baked a cake». - baker noun (baker, bakers); noun bakery
1) A baker is a person who makes bread, cakes and pies to sell. 2) A baker can be anyone who likes to bake at home. - balance noun (balance, balances); verb (balance, balances, balanced, balancing)
Balance is being steady so you do not fall: «keep your balance». - balancing verb form of balance (balance, balances, balanced, balancing); adjective (balancing)
Balancing means keeping something steady so it does not fall, like balancing on one foot. - bald adjective (bald, balder, baldest); verb (bald, balds, balded, balding — rare, mostly "balding")
Bald means having little or no hair on the head: "my grandad is bald". - baldhead noun
A person who has no hair on the top of the head. - baldness noun (baldness, uncountable); adjective bald
1) Having little or no hair on the head. 2) The state of a surface being bare, without its usual covering (the baldness of a worn tyre). - baleful adjective
1) Baleful means full of threat or harm: a baleful look shows anger or a wish to hurt. This is an old or literary word. - ball noun (ball, balls)
A ball is a round thing used in games, for throwing, kicking, hitting or bouncing. - ballad noun (ballads)
1) A ballad is a song or poem that tells a story, often in short verses. - balm noun (a balm, balms; balm — uncountable); lip balm
A balm is a thick, oily cream or ointment that soothes, heals or protects the skin. - balsam noun (balsam, balsams; balsam is often uncountable)
A sweet-smelling sticky oil or resin that comes from certain trees and is used in creams and medicines. - ban verb (ban, bans, banned, banning); noun (a ban, bans)
1) To ban something is to officially say that it is not allowed. 2) A ban is a rule that stops something from being done. - band noun (band, bands); verb (band together — to join together)
A band is a group of musicians who play together: a rock band, a school band. - banish verb (banish, banishes, banished, banishing)
To send someone away from a country or place as a punishment and forbid them to come back. - banishment noun (banishment — uncountable; a banishment)
Banishment is being sent away from your country or home as a punishment and not allowed to come back. - bank noun (bank, banks); verb (bank, banks, banked, banking)
A bank is a place that keeps money safe and lends it. - banner noun (a banner, banners)
A long piece of cloth or paper with words or pictures on it, carried or hung up. - banquet noun (banquet, banquets); verb (banquet, rare)
1) A large formal meal for many people, usually to celebrate something, with speeches. - bar noun (bar, bars); verb (bar, bars, barred, barring); preposition (bar — except)
A bar is a long, solid piece of something, like a bar of soap or chocolate. - barb noun (a barb, barbs); verb (barb, barbs, barbed — mostly as «barbed»)
A barb is a sharp point that sticks out backwards from the tip of a fish hook, arrow or wire, so it is hard to pull out. - barbed adjective (barbed)
Barbed means having barbs — small sharp hooks or points pointing backwards, which make something hard to pull out, like a fish hook. - bare adjective (bare, barer, barest); verb (bare, bares, bared, baring)
Bare means not covered by clothes, like bare feet or bare arms. - barefoot adjective (barefoot); adverb (barefoot); also barefooted
1) Barefoot means not wearing any shoes or socks on your feet. - bareness noun
The state of being bare, with nothing on it or in it, such as land without plants or covering. - bark noun (a bark, barks; bark, uncountable); verb (bark, barks, barked, barking)
1) A bark is the short loud sound a dog makes. 2) To bark is to make this sound. 3) Bark is the hard outer covering of a tree trunk and… - barley noun (barley, uncountable)
1) A cereal plant like wheat, whose grain is used for food, for animal feed and for making beer and malt. - barn noun (barn, barns)
A barn is a big farm building for animals, hay, crops or tools. - barren adjective (barren, more barren, most barren)
Of land: too poor to grow plants or crops; bare and empty: a barren desert. - barrenness noun
Barrenness is the state of being bare and empty, with no crops growing, or of being unable to have children. - barricade noun
A wall or circle of wagons, carts and goods set up to block a way or to protect a camp. - barrier noun (a barrier, barriers)
A barrier is a fence, gate, wall or bar that stops people or things from going somewhere. - base noun (a base, bases); verb (base, bases, based, basing); adjective (base, rare: base metals)
The base of something is its bottom part or the part it stands on. - basement noun (a basement, basements)
1) A basement is a room or floor of a building that is partly or fully under the ground. - basilisk noun (basilisks)
In old fairy tales, a basilisk is a monstrous serpent or lizard whose look could kill. - basin noun (a basin, basins)
A round bowl for holding liquid or food, especially for mixing or washing. - basis noun (a basis, bases — said BAY-seez)
The main idea, fact or thing that something is built on or starts from. - basket noun (basket, baskets)
A basket is a container made of woven strips, used to carry things like fruit or bread. - bat noun (a bat, bats); verb (bat, bats, batted, batting)
A bat is a small flying animal with wings of skin that comes out at night. - bath noun (a bath, baths); verb (bath, baths, bathed, bathing — UK: to wash in a bath)
A long container you fill with water and sit in to wash your body (UK; US says bathtub or tub). - bathe verb (bathe, bathes, bathed, bathing); noun (a bathe — UK, old-fashioned)
To bathe means to wash yourself or someone else in a bath (more US; in the UK people more often say «have a bath»). - bats noun plural (bats, of bat); verb form (bats, of bat); adjective (bats — informal, «crazy»)
Bats is the plural of bat: more than one flying animal, or more than one stick for hitting a ball. - batter noun (batter, uncountable; a batter, batters); verb (batter, batters, battered, battering)
Batter is a runny mixture of flour, eggs and milk used to make pancakes, cakes or to coat fried food. - battle noun (a battle, battles); verb (battle, battles, battled, battling)
A battle is a fight between armies, ships or planes in a war. - bay noun (a bay, bays); adjective (bay — reddish-brown, of a horse); verb (bay, bays, bayed, baying — of dogs or wolves)
A bay is part of the sea or a lake that curves into the land. - bb abbreviation (BB, bb)
A BB is a small round metal pellet fired from an air gun called a BB gun. - bdellium noun
A sweet-smelling gum from a tree, or a pale gem or pearl, that people valued. - be verb (be; am, is, are; was, were; been; being; short forms I'm, he's, they're, isn't, aren't, wasn't, weren't)
To be means to exist, to be there: There is a cat in the garden. - beacon noun (a beacon, beacons)
A beacon is a light or fire on a hill, tower or coast that warns people or guides them, like a lighthouse light. - bead noun (bead, beads); verb (bead — to put beads on, rare)
A bead is a small ball or shape with a hole through it, put on a string to make a necklace or bracelet. - beak noun (a beak, beaks)
The hard pointed mouth of a bird, which it uses to eat, pick things up and build nests. - beam noun (beam, beams); verb (beam, beams, beamed, beaming)
A beam is a long, strong piece of wood or metal that holds up a roof or floor in a building. - bean noun (bean, beans); verb (bean — informal, to hit on the head)
A bean is a seed you can eat, which grows in a pod. - bear noun (bear, bears); verb (bear, bears, bore, borne, bearing)
A bear is a big, strong animal with thick fur, like a brown bear, polar bear or black bear. - beard noun (a beard, beards); verb (beard someone — old, to face boldly, rare)
A beard is the hair that grows on the chin and cheeks of a man. - bearded adjective (bearded)
Bearded means having a beard, hair growing on the chin and cheeks. - bearer noun (bearers)
1) A bearer is a person who carries something, such as a load, a flag, a coffin or a sick person on a stretcher. - bearing noun (a bearing, bearings); verb, -ing form of bear (bear, bears, bore, borne, bearing)
A direction measured in degrees clockwise from north, written with three figures: a bearing of 090 degrees is east. - beast noun (a beast, beasts); (slang) adjective-like use
A beast is a large, wild or frightening animal. - beat verb (beat, beats, beat, beaten, beating); noun (a beat, beats); adjective (beat — informal, very tired)
1) To beat is to win against someone. 2) To beat is to hit again and again. 3) To beat food is to mix it fast, like eggs. 4) A beat is a… - beaten verb (past participle of beat: beaten); adjective (beaten)
Beaten is the form of "beat" after have or be: lost to someone in a game ("We were beaten 3–0"). - beating noun (beatings)
A beating is a hitting with a stick or hands as a punishment. - beauteous adjective
1) (old use, poetic) Beauteous means very beautiful. - beautiful adjective (beautiful, more beautiful, most beautiful)
1) Beautiful means very pleasant to look at, hear or experience. 2) Beautiful can mean very good or kind, as in a beautiful thing to do. - beautify verb (beautify, beautifies, beautified, beautifying)
1) To beautify something is to make it more beautiful. - beauty noun (beauty, uncountable; a beauty, beauties)
The quality of being very pleasing to look at, hear or think about. - because conjunction (because; because of); casual short forms (cos, coz, 'cause, bc)
Because gives the reason for something: I am wet because it rained. - become verb (become, becomes, became, becoming; past participle become)
1) To become is to start to be something. A seed becomes a plant. 2) To become is to change into something new over time, like a… - bed noun (bed, beds); verb (bed down — to sleep somewhere)
1) A bed is furniture you sleep on. 2) A garden bed (flower bed) is a patch of ground for plants. 3) The bed of a river or sea is the… - bedchamber noun (a bedchamber, bedchambers — old)
1) (old, formal) A bedroom, especially in a palace or a grand house. - bedstead noun (bedsteads)
The frame of a bed, the part that holds up the mattress. - bee noun (a bee, bees)
1) A bee is a flying insect with a hairy body, often yellow and black striped, that collects nectar and pollen from flowers; some bees… - beef noun (beef, uncountable; a beef, beefs — complaint); verb (beef up, beefs, beefed)
1) The meat from a cow, bull or ox. 2) (slang) A complaint or a quarrel with someone (What's your beef? He has beef with me). 3)… - beer noun (beer, beers; a beer)
An alcoholic drink for adults, made from grain (usually barley) and hops, fizzy and often golden or brown; it is not for children. - befall verb (befall, befalls, befell, befallen) (old use)
To happen to someone, often something bad: «If you do ill, ill will befall you.» - before preposition (before lunch); adverb (I have seen it before); conjunction (before you go)
Before means earlier than something else: before lunch. - beforehand adverb (beforehand)
1) Beforehand means earlier, before something else happens, often to get ready. - beg verb (beg, begs, begged, begging)
To ask someone very strongly, again and again, for something you want a lot. - beget verb (beget, begets, begot or begat, begotten, begetting) (old use)
To become the father of a child; in old tales, to produce children or new things. - begging verb, -ing form of beg (beg, begs, begged, begging); noun (begging); adjective (begging)
Asking someone very strongly or desperately for something: begging for one more story. - begin verb (begin, begins, began, begun, beginning)
1) To begin is to start doing something. 2) To begin is to start happening or existing: «The film begins at 7». 3) To begin with means… - beginning noun (beginning, beginnings); verb (begin, begins, began, begun, beginning)
1) The beginning is the first part or the start of something. 2) Beginning is also the -ing form of begin: «It is beginning to rain». - begotten verb
Past form of beget: fathered, having become someone's child by birth. - beguile verb (beguile, beguiles, beguiled, beguiling)
To charm or trick someone, often with pleasant words.
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