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 (/b/).

See also

• For more variations, see Appendix:Variations of "b". , , , , ,

Etymology 2

from abbreviation of The eleventh item from the sequence {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F}

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 symbol for boron.
3. Hexadecimal symbol for 11.
4. IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for either glutamine or glutamic acid

Etymology 1

letter , from 7th century replacement by Latin of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter .

Letter

1. The letter , the second letter of the English alphabet.

Usage notes

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

Etymology 2

abbreviation of abbreviation of abbreviation of

B

1. the number of balls faced by a batsman
2. 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)

3. The grade of pencil that makes darker marks than grade HB but lighter marks than grade 2B; a pencil with soft lead.

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
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 it's B characters for the spinoff.

4. The seventh note in the C major scale.

Etymology

From French Sign Language sign for the letter B.

Letter

1. The letter B

Letter

1. B
2. B flat

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Letter

1. The second letter of the Esperanto alphabet.

Noun

B

1. The second letter of the Italian, and of the Latin alphabets