B
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[edit] Etymology 1
From Ancient Greek letter Β (B), “‘Beta’”).
[edit] Letter
B (upper case, lower case b)
- The second letter of the classical Latin alphabet and most variations thereof, including the English alphabet.
[edit] Usage notes
The letter B (usually its lower case form b) is used in several romanization systems of non-Latin scripts to represent the bilabial plosive or stop, usually voiced (IPA: /b/).
[edit] See also
- (select forms with diacritics) Ḃ Ḅ Ḇ Ƀ Ɓ Ƃ
- (other scripts) Β (B, “‘Beta’”), Б (B, “‘Be’”), В (V, “‘Ve’”), ב (b, “‘beth’”), ㅂ (b, “‘bieup’”), ㄅ (b, “‘bāo’”)
- For more variations, see Appendix:Variations of "b".
- Appendix:Roman script
[edit] Etymology 2
- (blood type): from antigen B
- (symbol for boron): abbreviation of boron
- (hexadecimal 11): The eleventh item from the sequence {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F}
[edit] Symbol
B
- 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.
- (chemistry) The symbol for boron.
- (computing) Hexadecimal symbol for 11.
- (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for either glutamine or glutamic acid
[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
- (phoneme) IPA: /b/, SAMPA: /b/
- (letter name) IPA: /biː/, SAMPA: /bi:/
- Audio (UK)help, file
- Rhymes: -iː
[edit] Etymology 1
Old English letter B, from 7th century replacement by Latin B of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛒ (B), “‘beorc’”).
[edit] Letter
B (upper case, lower case b, plural Bs)
[edit] Usage notes
In Modern English, the letter B is sometimes silent, e.g. in climb, and debt.
Apostrophes are sometimes used to form plurals of single upper case letters, especially at the start of a sentence:
- A’s are difficult to achieve in this class.
Usually, though, the apostrophe is avoided when there is no risk of confusion:
- She gets straight As in school.
[edit] See also
[edit] Etymology 2
- (cricket, balls): abbreviation of balls
- (billion): abbreviation of billion
- (black): abbreviation of black
[edit] Abbreviation
B
- (cricket) the number of balls faced by a batsman
- 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)
- (British) The grade of pencil that makes darker marks than grade HB but lighter marks than grade 2B; a pencil with soft lead.
[edit] Etymology 3
- (personality type): from contrast with the letter ‘A’ and its corresponding personality type
- (academic grade): from the position of the letter ‘B’ in the English alphabet
[edit] Noun
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B (plural Bs)
- A personality type of someone who is relaxed and easygoing and able to engage in leisure activities without worrying about work.
- An academic grade, better than a C and worse than an A
- Signifies a second-tier or second class of a given commodity, group, or category, as in B-movie, B-list, etc.
- The television studio revived some of it's B characters for the spinoff.
- (music) The seventh note in the C major scale.
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[edit] Usage notes
Apostrophes are sometimes used to form plurals of single upper case letters, especially at the start of a sentence:
- A’s are difficult to achieve in this class.
Usually, though, the apostrophe is avoided when there is no risk of confusion:
- She gets straight As in school.
[edit] Czech
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /be:/
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B
[edit] Dutch
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /beː/
[edit] Letter
B (capital, lowercase b)
- The second letter of the Dutch alphabet.
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[edit] Finnish
[edit] Noun
B
[edit] Italian
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Noun
B m. and f. inv.
- The second letter of the Italian, and of the Latin alphabets
[edit] Romanian
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Letter
B (upper case, lower case b)
- The letter Be, the fourth letter of the Romanian alphabet.
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[edit] Slovene
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Letter
B (capital, lowercase b)
- The second letter of the Slovene alphabet. Preceded by A and followed by C.
