English words: B

1119 words under B; 1101–1119 on this page.

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• buttonhole noun (buttonholes); verb…
  A buttonhole is a small slit in a coat or shirt through which a button is pushed.
• buttress noun (a buttress, buttresses); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  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.
• butty noun (a butty, butties)
  A butty is a sandwich, often with a hot filling: «a chip butty», «a bacon butty».
• buy verb (buy, buys, bought, buying); noun (a good buy)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To buy is to get something by paying money for it.
• buyer noun (a buyer, buyers)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A person who buys something: the buyer of the house.
• buzz verb (buzz, buzzes, buzzed, buzzing); noun (a buzz, buzzes)
  To buzz is to make a long low humming sound like a bee or a fly.
• buzzard noun (buzzards)
  A buzzard is a large bird of prey with broad wings that circles high in the sky and hunts small animals.
• buzzing verb form (buzz, buzzes, buzzed, buzzing); adjective…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Buzzing is making a low humming sound like a bee or fly.
• by preposition; adverb (go by, put by, stop by)everyday · Jewish tradition
  By shows who does something: a book by Roald Dahl.
• bye interjection (bye, bye-bye); noun (a bye, byes)
  Bye is a short, friendly way to say goodbye.
• bygone adjective (bygone); noun (bygones, plural)
  From a time long ago; past: a bygone age, bygone days.
• bypass noun (a bypass, bypasses); verb…
  A road that goes around a town instead of through it.
• bypath nounJewish tradition
  A side path, away from the main road.
• byre noun (byres)
  Old use: a cowshed, a farm building where cows are kept.
• bystander noun (a bystander, bystanders)
  A bystander is a person who is near when something happens, especially an accident, a fight or bullying, but is not part of it.
• byte noun (a byte, bytes)
  A unit of computer memory or data made of 8 bits (8 ones and zeros); one byte can store one letter like «A».
• byway noun (byways)Jewish tradition
  A byway is a small side road or lane, quieter than a main road.
• byword nounJewish tradition
  A saying or name that people use as a short example of something, often an example of something bad.
• byzantine adjective (Byzantine, byzantine); noun…
  Byzantine describes the Byzantine Empire, the eastern part of the Roman Empire, which lasted for about a thousand years after Rome fell…

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