Found 114 articles starting with B:
bachelor noun |
Back to Our Robin Cook Examples So why are the examples at the beginning of this chapter incorrect?Here are the examples from the best-selling Toxin: 1. Kelly regarded Tracy in an attempt to interpret her comment. Kelly couldn’t qui... |
Backup and Back up? What’s the Difference? We all use the word Backup. Or is it Back Up? ... |
Bad ordinarily acts as an adjective, badly as an adverb |
A small sign with a picture, name, or message on it that you pin to your clothes.A mammal with a gray body and a black and white head that lives in a burrow and comes out at night to eat.To keep asking someon... |
A usually flexible container for carrying things.Travelers’ suitcases, bags, and trunks.... |
A round, chewy roll with a hole in the middle.A cake fried in fat.... |
Hanging in loose folds, as in baggy shorts.A musical instrument.... |
Bait vs. Bate: Do You Know the Difference? You know the expression, “…with bated/baited breath…” What do you think? Is it spelled "bai... |
A white powder used in baking to make dough or batter rise.A white powder used to make dough rise or to make an upset stomach.... |
balance noun and verb |
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A round object used in games.Somehting made into a round shape, as in a ball of wool.A formal party where people dance.In baseball, a pitch that a batter doesn’t swing at and that doesn’t cross home plate between... |
balloon noun and verb |
Barmy and balmy sound exactly alike, and with the exception of one word (r in barmy and l in balmy) their spellings are very much similar too. The meanings of both the words however... |
banal - adjective |
barbecue noun and verb |
People love "barbecue time", as they usually associate it with a free day spent with friends, chatting and feeling good outdoors. But taking a closer look at its name, this word started to create confusion within the last years.You might have... |
Wearing no clothes or not covered.Empty.To uncover or reveal something.Plain and simple.To support or carry something.When a tree or plant bears fruit, flowers, or leaves, it ... |
bargain noun and verb |
The lowest part of something or the part that it stands on, as in the base of a lamp.To use something as the starting point for something else.The place from which a business, an army, etc., is controlled, as in a base of o... |
Even though they are correctly pronounced differently, the fact that “base” and “bass” have quite similar spellings often determines some English users to pronounce them almost identically and, consequently, to confound them and use them one instead ... |
basic adjective and noun (basics)Example: Sugar is the basic ingredient. adjective... |
basically adverb |
A container, often with handles, amde of cane, wire, etc.A game played by two teams of five players each that try to score points by throwing a ball through a high net at the end of a court.The large, round b... |
The act of washing something in water.The water used in bathing, as in a warm bath.A bathroom.To take a bath.To give someone a bath, as in to bathe a baby.To go swimming.... |
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A piece of clothing that people wear to go swimming; a swimsuit.A long, loose piece of clothing that people wear after bathing or while relaxing.... |
A room that contains a sink and a toilet and often a bathtub or a shower.A bathroom, especially in a public building.... |
To injure someone by hitting him or her over and over.A mixture consisting mainly of milk, eggs, and flour used to make cakes or other baked goods or used to coat food that you fry.The player whose turn it is to bat in base... |
To exist.To happen.To take up space.To come or go.To stay or continue.Be can connect the subject of a sentence to a noun, adjective, or pronoun.Be can support the main verb in a s... |
A strip of sand or pebbles where land meets water.A tree with smooth, gray bark and small nuts that are eaten as food.... |
They may be pronounced just the same, but “bear” and “bare” can definitely not be confused in an expression. They represent completely different things and should never be misspelled.Both words have double functions, both working as verbs and... |
beautiful adjective |
because subordinating conjunction |
See as, because, since, for |
become verb |
before preposition, subordinating conjunction, and adverb |
beggar noun and verb |
beginning noun, adjective, and verb (present participle of the verb begin)Example: In the ... |
Behavior/Behaviour is one of many words that are spelled differently in American English and UK English. It is part of a pattern that extends across the majority of words with the same ending, such as color/colour, harbor/harbour... |
being noun and verb (present participle of the verb to be |
belie - verb |
belief noun |
believable adjective |
believe verb |
How often do you find yourself wondering whether you should spell "below" or "bellow" while writing something? If you have seen this word spelled in both forms, chances are you got confused and you are not sure anymore about which one is correct.... |
bemoan - verb |
beneficial adjective |
benefit noun and verb |
benefited verb (past tense and past participle of the verb benefit)Also spelled benefitted.Example: The slush fun... |
The basic rule when building the past-tense form of a regular verb is to add "-ed". A special rule, anyway, is used when we're talking about a monosyllabic verb that ends in this pattern: consonant-vowel-consonant. In this specific case, doubling the... |
People feel that the English language is tricky and confusing, but it doesn't necessarily need to be. There are many words in the English dictionary that have the same pronunciation but different spellings. We refer to them as homophones. They’re t... |
beset - verb |
Beside Beside is a preposition of place. It means ‘next to’. The word has originated from the old English adverb ‘be sidan’ ... |
As prepositions, these two are commonly interchanged, but their meanings do differ, according to traditionalists.Besides means “other than” or “in addition to” while ... |
between preposition |
Biannual and biennial are treated as if they are interchangeable or they mean the same. Some people who know the difference but still get confuse about wh... |
bicycle noun |
To offer a certain amount of money for something, as at an auction.To order someone to do something.To say, as in to bid someone hello.An attempt to do or win something.To wait for the r... |
bight noun (a loop in a rope, or a curve in a coastline)Not bite |
bilateral - adjective |
Bind – to bind is to fasten objects together tightly. For example, glue is a binding material that binds paper with another surface, water binds the flour, a common... |
Gerund – or present participle – forms of verbs can easily become confusing while adding the suffix “-ing”. Some word structures require to drop the last vowel before adding the suffix, whereas others don’t. This dilemma also occurs for the verb “... |
biscuit noun |
bite verb and noun |
blaspheme - verb |
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Only Blockquote Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and sc... |
board noun and verb |
Homophones (literally "same sound") are usually defined as words that share the same pronunciation, regardless of how they are spelled. The words board, bored sound the same ... |
boorish - adjective |
bored adjective and verb (past tense and past participle of the verb bore)Example: She is ... |
In English, prepositions such as "at" and "in" are used to convey different types of information about time and place. When referring to a person's birthplace, "born at" and "born in" are two common expressions used to convey information about the sp... |
An African-born ... |
borrow verb |
Both Bosporus and Bosphorus are acceptable spellings for the narrow, natural strait and internationally significant waterway located in northwestern Turkey.... |
bottle noun, verb, and phrasal verb (bottle up)Example: Give the baby her bottle. ... |
bottom noun, verb, and adjective |
bough noun |
bought verb (past tense and past participle of the verb buy)Grammar.com’s section on Problem Words discusses bought and brought. ... |
boundariesnoun (plural of the noun boundary)Example: The land seemed to have no boundaries.... |
boundary noun |
Punctuation is the basic element of English grammar and without it a sentence is not only incomplete but als... |
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brake noun and verb |
English language is filled with difficult and puzzling type of words. One of the type of words is homophones that are pronounced the same way but mean and spell differently. The words we are discussing today are one of the common pairs of homophones;... |
A device to slow down or stop a vehicle.To slow down or stop by using a brake.To damage something so that it's in pieces or no longer works.A rest from working or studying.To stop, as in... |
breadthnoun |
breathnoun |
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The air that you take into your lungs and breathe out again.If you are out of breath, you have difficulty breathing.When you say something under your breath, you say it very quietly.To take air in ... |
Breathe (pronounced with a long “e”) is a verb, and breath (short “e”) is a noun |
breatheverb |
brilliantadjective |
Note: You’ll find an in-depth discussion in the Common Grammatical Mistakes section of Grammar.com. Click here for the beginning of that discussion.... |
British Approach to Group Nouns As an interesting aside, the British always use plural verbs with collective nouns. On May 15, 2001, I was watching a BBC-produced documentary about a blues musician who made a comeback. Describing the musician’s band, the narrator said: ... |
She sat on the c... |
broccolinoun |
If you look up “brooch” and “broach” on google translate, you’ll most probably get the same result, as if they would mean the same. It’s not the first error of this kind that appears this way, and this is a good reason why you should first check your... |
broughtverb (past tense and past participle of the verb bring)Note: For a discussion of the differences between bring... |
Brought is the past tense and past participle of bring, and bought is the past tense an... |
In this section, we have provided short discussions of 406 words. In each, we define the word and then provide an example of its use by top writers in literature or the media.This list will especially help young people studying for college-en... |
buildingnoun and verb (present participle of the verb build)Example: The building... |
bulletin noun |
bureaunoun (capitalize when naming a specific agency, as in "Federal Bureau of Investigation")Example: The police officer was investigated by the ... |
burialnoun |
buriedverb (past tense and past participle of the verb bury)Example: The general was ... |
buryverb |
Bus vs. Buss"Bus" is one of the first English words people learn, in the "means of transport" chapter, from the... |
bushesnoun (plural of the noun bush), verb (present tense, third-person singular of the verb bush), and ... |
businessnoun |
Don’t hesitate to start a sentence with But. It’s a coordinating conjunction, and great writers have been starting sentences with conjunctions for hun... |
bytenoun |
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