B

Etymology 1
From the letter, from the  letter , derived from the  letter , from the  hieroglyph.

Letter

 * 1) The second letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Usage notes
The letter (usually its lower case form ) is used in several romanization systems of non-Latin scripts to represent the bilabial plosive or stop, usually voiced.

Symbol

 * 1) A blood type that has a specific antigen that aggravates the immune response in people with type A antigen in their blood. They can receive blood from type B or type O, but cannot receive blood from AB or A.
 * 2)  The chemical element boron.
 * 3) Eleven, especially used in the base more than ten, such as duodecimal, hexadecimal, vigesimal and so on.
 * 4)   aspartic acid or asparagine.
 * 5)  A magnetic flux density.
 * 6)  A wildcard for a labial consonant
 * 1)  A wildcard for a labial consonant

Etymology 1
letter, from 7th century replacement by 🇨🇬 of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter.

Usage notes
In Modern English, the letter is sometimes silent, e.g. in, and.

Etymology 2

 * abbreviation of
 * abbreviation of
 * abbreviation of

Noun

 * 1) The quantity one billion (1,000,000,000), usually used to signify a sum of money
 * $2.8 B — “two point eight billion dollars” (i.e., $2,800,000,000)
 * 1)  The grade of pencil that makes darker marks than grade HB but lighter marks than grade 2B; a pencil with soft lead.
 * 2)  Bishop
 * 3)  The number of balls faced by a batsman.
 * 4)  Bass.
 * 5)  Bitch.

Suffix

 * 1)  a suffix -(V)ble (, .)

Derived terms

 * Bl or

Etymology 3

 * from contrast with the letter ‘A’ and its corresponding personality type
 * from the position of the letter ‘B’ in the English alphabet

Noun

 * 1) A personality type of someone who is relaxed and easygoing and able to engage in leisure activities without worrying about work.
 * 2)  An academic grade, better than a C and worse than an A
 * The television studio revived some of its B characters for the spinoff.
 * 1) The alternate or secondary part, as the back side of a phonograph record. Contrasted with A, which is the primary part.
 * 2)   The seventh note in the C major scale.
 * 3)  A B cell.
 * 1)   The seventh note in the C major scale.
 * 2)  A B cell.

Symbol

 * 1)  byte

Derived terms

 * Bps, B/s
 * kB, MB, GB, TB, PB, EB

Etymology 4
Possibly a contraction of, the name of a programming language from which B was derived. (a coworker of B’s designer, ) speculated that B might be based on Bon (the name of an earlier, but unrelated, programming language that Thompson designed for use on Multics), itself either from (the name of Thompson’s wife) or “(according to an encyclopedia quotation in its manual), after a religion whose rituals involve the murmuring of magic formulas”.

Proper noun

 * 1)   A programming language from which C is derived.

Letter

 * 1) The second letter in the Afar alphabet.

Noun

 * 1) B

Etymology

 * is from West Germanic stem-initial, in Ripuarian and northernmost Moselle Franconian also from geminated *bb.

Usage notes

 * In the German-based spelling, b is doubled after short vowels except in certain function words and when the letter is followed by another consonant within the word stem. In the syllable coda, the choice between b and p may be based on internal analogy, but more often follows the German cognate.
 * In the Dutch-based spelling, b is doubled after short vowels if the syllable were otherwise open. In the syllable coda, internal analogy prevails.

Etymology 2
Short for, from.

Noun

 * 1)  baby

Etymology 3

 * Cantonese boi1
 * Spelling pronunciation in Hong Kong, derived from.

Usage notes

 * 《汉语拼音方案》 defines a standard pronunciation for each letter. However, these pronunciations are rarely used in education; another pronunciation is commonly used instead.
 * The pronunciation above are only used while referring to letters in Pinyin. They are not used in other context (such as English).

Letter

 * 1)  the 2nd letter in the Czech alphabet

Noun

 * 1)   flat

Pronunciation

 * Homophone :
 * Homophone :
 * Homophone :
 * Homophone :

Usage notes

 * Used only in loanwords.

Noun

 * 1)  B-flat

Etymology
Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Letter




Etymology
From, from , from , from the , from Proto-Canaanite , from Proto-Sinaitic , from , representing the plan of a house.

Noun

 * 1) the letter, the second letter of the Norwegian alphabet
 * 2) the second highest grade in a school or university using the A-F scale
 * 3)  the tone h lowered by half a step
 * 4)  a B-flat
 * 5)  symbol for
 * 6)  symbol for
 * 1) the second highest grade in a school or university using the A-F scale
 * 2)  the tone h lowered by half a step
 * 3)  a B-flat
 * 4)  symbol for
 * 5)  symbol for
 * 1)  the tone h lowered by half a step
 * 2)  a B-flat
 * 3)  symbol for
 * 4)  symbol for
 * 1)  a B-flat
 * 2)  symbol for
 * 3)  symbol for
 * 1)  symbol for
 * 2)  symbol for
 * 1)  symbol for

Pronunciation

 * , or if devoiced

Proper noun

 * 1)  the capital city of Romania.

Letter

 * 1)  It is preceded by  and followed by . Its traditional name is .

Etymology
From, from  alphabet , from the  letter , from the  letter , derived from the  letter , from the  hieroglyph. Pronunciation as is initial Slovene (phoneme plus a fill vowel) and the second pronunciation is probably taken from.

Symbol

 * 1)  Phonetic transcription of sound [].

Inflection

 * Overall more common


 * More common when with a definite adjective

Usage notes
The second letter of the Somali alphabet, which follows the Arabic abjad order. It is preceded by ' and followed by T.

Etymology
Likely from B movies in.

Letter

 * 1) the second letter of the Swedish alphabet

Symbol

 * 1)  general and miscellaneous
 * 2)  Area reserved for.
 * 1)  Area reserved for.

Adjective

 * 1) indication of being of lesser rank, less successful
 * 2)   low-quality, shoddy, bad
 * 1)   low-quality, shoddy, bad

Noun

 * 1) an academic grade, better than a C and worse than an A
 * °N, °W

Etymology
. Each pronunciation has a different source:
 * Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced by.
 * Abecedario pronunciation is from.
 * Abakada alphabet pronunciation is influenced by Baybayin character.

Letter

 * 1)  It is preceded by  and followed by .

Mutation

 * B at the beginning of words mutates to in a, to  in a  and is unchanged by , for example with the word :