B

adj

1. Abbreviation of born.

character

Etymology: From the Old English letter B, from 7th century replacement by Latin B of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛒ (b, beorc).

1. The second letter of the English alphabet, called bee and written in the Latin script.

   “Boxer could not get beyond the letter D. He would trace out A, B, C, D, in the dust with his great hoof […]”

name

Etymology: Possibly a contraction of BCPL (“Basic Combined Programming Language”), the name of a programming language from which B was derived. Dennis Ritchie (a coworker of B’s designer, Ken Thompson) 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 Bonnie (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”.

1. A programming language from which C is derived.

noun

Etymology: From the use of the letter ‘B’ as an arbitrary label among other letter labels. * (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

1. A personality type describing people who are 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.
3. 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 its B characters for the spinoff.”

   “The baddest of the Bs, then, are a rare, precious mix of jerry-built production values and jazzed-up creative juices. But that’s not to say that even with a budget, a B movie can’t still bounce way off the wall, […]”

4. The alternate or secondary part, such as the back side of a phonograph record. Contrasted with ‘A’, which is the primary part.
5. The seventh note in the C major scale.

num

Etymology: From the Old English letter B, from 7th century replacement by Latin B of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛒ (b, beorc).

1. The second numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called bee and written in the Latin script.

symbol

Etymology: From abbreviations of various terms beginning with or containing the letter ‘B’. * (billion): abbreviation of billion * (cricket): abbreviation of balls * (bitch): abbreviation of bitch

1. byte

verb

Etymology: Abbreviations.

1. Abbreviation of be.

   “ima prolly b at home tn”

   “i am looking for any safari i am trying to fill my dex and it would b rly nice :D especially fire,ice, flying, since i don't a lot of those but everyone is welcome to add me :DD”