Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B

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Bacteria (n. pl.) See Bacterium.

Bacterial (a.) (Biol.) 細菌的；細菌引起的 Of, pertaining to, or caused by bacteria.

Bacterial (a.) Relating to or caused by bacteria; "bacterial infection".

Bactericidal (a.) 殺菌的 Destructive of bacteria.

Bactericidal (a.) Preventing infection by inhibiting the growth or action of microorganisms [syn: bactericidal, disinfectant, germicidal].

Bactericide (n.) (Biol.) 殺菌劑 Same as Germicide.

Bactericide (n.) 殺菌劑 Any chemical agent that destroys bacteria [syn: bactericide, bacteriacide].

Bactericide (n.) Any drug that destroys bacteria or inhibits their growth [syn: antibacterial, antibacterial drug, bactericide].

Bacteriological (a.) 細菌學的；細菌學上的 Of or pertaining to bacteriology; as, bacteriological studies.

Bacteriological (a.) Of or relating to bacteriology [syn: bacteriological, bacteriologic].

Bacteriologist (n.) 細菌學者 One skilled in bacteriology.

Bacteriologist (n.) A biologist who studies bacteria.

Bacteriology (n.) (Biol.) 細菌學 The branch of microbiology relating to bacteria.

Bacteriology (n.) The branch of medical science that studies bacteria in relation to disease.

Bacterioscopic (a.) (Biol.) Relating to bacterioscopy; as, a bacterioscopic examination.

Bacterioscopist (n.) One skilled in bacterioscopic examinations.

Bacterioscopy (n.) (Biol.) The application of a knowledge of bacteria for their detection and identification, as in the examination of polluted water.

Bacterioscopy (n.) (Biol.) Microscopic examination or investigation of bacteria. -- Bac*te`ri*o*scop"ic, a. -- *scop"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Bac*te`ri*os"co*pist, n.

Bacteria (n. pl. ) of Bacterium

Bacterium (n.) (Biol.) 細菌 A microscopic single-celled organism having no distinguishable nucleus, belonging to the kingdom Monera. Bacteria have varying shapes, usually taking the form of a jointed rodlike filament, or a small sphere, but also in certain cases having a branched form. Bacteria are destitute of chlorophyll, but in those members of the phylum Cyanophyta (the blue-green algae) other light-absorbing pigments are present. They are the smallest of microscopic organisms which have their own metabolic processes carried on within cell membranes, viruses being smaller but not capable of living freely. The bacteria are very widely diffused in nature, and multiply with marvelous rapidity, both by fission and by spores. Bacteria may require oxygen for their energy-producing metabolism, and these are called aerobes; or may multiply in the absence of oxygen, these forms being anaerobes. Certain species are active agents in fermentation, while others appear to be the cause of certain infectious diseases. The branch of science with studies bacteria is bacteriology, being a division of microbiology. See Bacillus.

Bacterium (n.) (Microbiology) Single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered to be plants [syn: bacteria, bacterium].

Bacteroid (a.) (Biol.) Alt. of Bacteroidal

Bacteroidal (a.) Resembling bacteria; as, bacteroid particles.

Bacteroid (a.) 細菌狀的 Resembling bacteria [syn: bacteroidal, bacteroid, bacterioidal, bacterioid].

Bacteroid (n.) 【植】類細菌；類細菌結構 A rodlike bacterium (especially any of the rod-shaped or branched bacteria in the root nodules of nitrogen-fixing plants).

Bactrian (a.) Of or pertaining to Bactria in Asia.

Bactrian (n.) A native of Bactria.

Bacule (n.) See Bascule.

Baculine (a.) Of or pertaining to the rod or punishment with the rod.

Baculite (n.) A cephalopod of the extinct genus Baculites, found fossil in the Cretaceous rocks. It is like an uncoiled ammonite.

Baculometry (n.) Measurement of distance or altitude by a staff or staffs.

Bad (imp.) Bade.

Bad (a.) Wanting good qualities, whether physical or moral; injurious, hurtful, inconvenient, offensive, painful, unfavorable, or defective, either physically or morally; evil; vicious; wicked; -- the opposite of good; as, a bad man; bad conduct; bad habits; bad soil; bad health; bad crop; bad news.

Badder () compar. of Bad, a.

Badderlocks (n.) A large black seaweed (Alaria esculenta) sometimes eaten in Europe; -- also called murlins, honeyware, and henware.

Baddish (a.) Somewhat bad; inferior.

Bade () A form of the pat tense of Bid.

Badge (n.) A distinctive mark, token, sign, or cognizance, worn on the person; as, the badge of a society; the badge of a policeman.

Badge (n.) Something characteristic; a mark; a token.

Badge (n.) A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one.

Badge (v. t.) To mark or distinguish with a badge.

Badge (n.) [ C ] (B2) 徽章；獎章；證章；紀念章 A small piece of metal, plastic, cloth, etc., with words or a picture on it, that you carry with you or that is fastened or sewn to your clothing, often to show your support for a political organization or belief, or to show who you are, your rank, or that you are a member of a group, etc.

// Everyone at the conference wore a badge with their name on.

Idiom:

Be a badge of sth 是…的象徵；是…的標誌 To be something that shows that you have achieved a particular thing.

// For Tony, owning a big car was a badge of success.

Badgeless (a.) Having no badge.

Badger (n.) An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another. [Now dialectic, Eng.]

Badger (n.) 【動】獾 [C]；獾皮；獾毛 [U]；【動】【澳】毛鼻袋熊；袋狸 [C]；獾：着食肉目貂科動物的通稱。體形粗笨，扁頭，臉上有斑紋，毛多灰色。腿短，走路蹣跚，但前肢強勁有力，適於掘洞。通常於夜間活動，以昆蟲、鼠類、果實、鳥蛋等為食。有豬獾、狗獾、美洲獾等種類。A carnivorous quadruped of the genus Meles or of an allied genus. It is a burrowing animal, with short, thick legs, and long claws on the fore feet. One species (M. vulgaris), called also brock, inhabits the north of Europe and Asia; another species (Taxidea Americana / Labradorica) inhabits the northern parts of North America. See Teledu.

Badger (n.) A brush made of badgers' hair, used by artists.

Badger dog. (Zool.) See Dachshund.

Badgered (imp. & p. p.) of Badger

Badgering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Badger

Badger (v. t.) 困擾；糾纏 [（+into/ with）] [O2] To tease or annoy, as a badger when baited; to worry or irritate persistently.

Badger (v. t.) To beat down; to cheapen; to barter; to bargain.

Badger (n.) A native or resident of Wisconsin [syn: Wisconsinite, Badger].

Badger (n.) Sturdy carnivorous burrowing mammal with strong claws; widely distributed in the northern hemisphere.

Badger (v.) Annoy persistently; "The children teased the boy because of his stammer" [syn: tease, badger, pester, bug, beleaguer].

Badger (v.) Persuade through constant efforts.

Badgerer (n.) One who badgers.

Badgerer (n.) A kind of dog used in badger baiting.

Badgering (n.) The act of one who badgers.

Badgering (n.) The practice of buying wheat and other kinds of food in one place and selling them in another for a profit.

Badger-legged (a.) Having legs of unequal length, as the badger was thought to have.

Badiaga (n.) A fresh-water sponge (Spongilla), common in the north of Europe, the powder of which is used to take away the livid marks of bruises.

Badian (n.) An evergreen Chinese shrub of the Magnolia family (Illicium anisatum), and its aromatic seeds; Chinese anise; star anise.

Badigeon (n.) A cement or paste (as of plaster and freestone, or of sawdust and glue or lime) used by sculptors, builders, and workers in wood or stone, to fill holes, cover defects, or finish a surface.

Badinage (n.) 【法】玩笑 Playful raillery; banter. "He . . . indulged himself only in an elegant badinage." -- Warburton.

Badinage (n.) [Mass noun] Humorous or witty conversation.

‘He developed a nice line in badinage with the Labour leader.’

Badinage (n.) Frivolous banter.

Badinage (n.) Light, playful banter or raillery.

Badinage (v.) (Used with object), (bad·i·naged, bad·i·nag·ing.) (v. t.) 揶揄 To banter with or tease (someone) playfully.

Bad lands () Barren regions, especially in the western United States, where horizontal strata (Tertiary deposits) have been often eroded into fantastic forms, and much intersected by cans, and where lack of wood, water, and forage increases the difficulty of traversing the country, whence the name, first given by the Canadian French, Mauvaises Terres (bad lands).

Badly (adv.) In a bad manner; poorly; not well; unskillfully; imperfectly; unfortunately; grievously; so as to cause harm; disagreeably; seriously.

Badminton (n.) A game, similar to lawn tennis, played with shuttlecocks.

Badminton (n.) A preparation of claret, spiced and sweetened.

Badness (n.) The state of being bad.

Baenomere (n.) One of the somites (arthromeres) that make up the thorax of Arthropods.

Baenopod (n.) One of the thoracic legs of Arthropods.

Baenosome (n.) The thorax of Arthropods.

Baff (n.) A blow; a stroke.

Baffled (imp. & p. p.) of Baffle.

Baffling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Baffle.

Baffle (v. t.) To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.

Baffle (v. t.) To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.

Baffle (v. t.) To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart.

Baffle (v. i.) To practice deceit.

Baffle (v. i.) To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds.

Baffle (n.) 困惑 A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture.

Baffle (v.) [ T ] 使困惑，使迷惑 To cause someone to be completely unable to understand or explain something.

// She was completely baffled by his strange behaviour.

Bafflement (n.) 阻礙；困惑 The process or act of baffling, or of being baffled; frustration; check.

Baffler (n.) One who, or that which, baffles.

Baffling (a.) Frustrating; discomfiting; disconcerting; as, baffling currents, winds, tasks.

Baft (n.) Same as Bafta.

Bafta (n.) A coarse stuff, usually of cotton, originally made in India. Also, an imitation of this fabric made for export.

Compare: Receptacle

Receptacle (n.) That which serves, or is used, for receiving and containing something, as for examople, a basket, a vase, a bag, a reservoir; a repository.

O sacred receptacle of my joys! -- Shak.

Receptacle (n.) (Bot.) (a.) The apex of the flower stalk, from which the organs of the flower grow, or into which they are inserted. See Illust. of Flower, and Ovary.

Receptacle (n.) (Bot.) (b) The dilated apex of a pedicel which serves as a common support to a head of flowers.

Receptacle (n.) (Bot.) An intercellular cavity containing oil or resin or other matters.

Receptacle (n.) (Bot.) A special branch which bears the fructification in many cryptogamous plants.

Udder (n.) (Anat.) The glandular organ in which milk is secreted and stored; -- popularly called the bag in cows and other quadrupeds. See Mamma.

A lioness, with udders all drawn dry. -- Shak.

Udder (n.) One of the breasts of a woman. [R.]

Yon Juno of majestic size, With cowlike udders, and with oxlike eyes. -- Pope.

Bag (n.) A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money.

Bag (n.) A sac, or dependent gland, in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance; as, the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents; the bag of a cow.

Bag (n.) A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament. [Obs.]

Bag (n.) The quantity of game bagged.

Bag (n.) (Com.) A certain quantity of a commodity, such as it is customary to carry to market in a sack; as, a bag of pepper or hops; a bag of coffee.

Bag and baggage, All that belongs to one.

To give one the bag, To disappoint him. [Obs.] -- Bunyan.

Bagged (imp. & p. p.) of Bag.

Bagging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bag.

Bag (v. t.) To put into a bag; as, to bag hops.

Bag (v. t.) To seize, capture, or entrap; as, to bag an army; to bag game.

Bag (v. t.) To furnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag.

A bee bagged with his honeyed venom. -- Dryden.

Bag (v. i.) To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags from containing morbid matter.

Bag (v. i.) To swell with arrogance. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.

Bag (v. i.) To become pregnant. [Obs.] -- Warner. (Alb. Eng.).

Bag (n.) A flexible container with a single opening; "he stuffed his laundry into a large bag"

Bag (n.) The quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually by one person); "his bag included two deer".

Bag (n.) A place that the runner must touch before scoring; "he scrambled to get back to the bag" [syn: base, bag].

Bag (n.) A container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women); "she reached into her bag and found a comb" [syn: bag, handbag, pocketbook, purse].

Bag (n.) The quantity that a bag will hold; "he ate a large bag of popcorn" [syn: bag, bagful].

Bag (n.) A portable rectangular container for carrying clothes; "he carried his small bag onto the plane with him" [syn: bag, traveling bag, travelling bag, grip, suitcase].

Bag (n.) An ugly or ill-tempered woman; "he was romancing the old bag for her money" [syn: bag, old bag].

Bag (n.) Mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats) [syn: udder, bag].

Bag (n.) An activity that you like or at which you are superior; "chemistry is not my cup of tea"; "his bag now is learning to play golf"; "marriage was scarcely his dish" [syn: cup of tea, bag, dish].

Bag (v.) Capture or kill, as in hunting; "bag a few pheasants".

Bag (v.) Hang loosely, like an empty bag.

Bag (v.) Bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge [syn: bulge, bag].

Bag (v.) Take unlawfully [syn: pocket, bag].

Bag (v.) Put into a bag; "The supermarket clerk bagged the groceries".

Bag (n.) [ C ] (Container) (A1) 袋子 A soft container made out of paper or thin plastic, or a stronger container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle, in which you carry personal things or clothes or other things that you need for travelling.

// A paper/ plastic bag.

// A shopping bag (= a bag in which shopping is carried).

// A bag of apples/ nuts.

// Don't eat that whole bag of (= the amount the bag contains) sweets at once.

// I hadn't even packed my bags (= put the things I need in suitcases/ bags).

Bags under your eyes 眼袋 Dark, loose, or swollen skin under your eyes because of tiredness or old age.

Bag (n.) [ C ] (Woman) (Slang) （侮辱性語言）（尤指年紀大的）醜婦 A rude and insulting name for a woman, especially an older one.

// Silly old bag!

Bag (n.) [ C ] (Trousers)

Bags (UK old-fashioned) 寬鬆的褲子 Trousers with a wide and loose style.

// Oxford bags.

Idiom:

Bags of sth (Mainly UK informal) 很多，大量 A lot of something.

// Come and stay with us - we've got bags of room.

// Don't panic, there's bags of time yet.

Idiom:

Be sb's bag (Old-fashioned slang) 感興趣的東西 If something is your bag, you are interested in it and do it for pleasure.

// Tennis isn't really my bag, I'm afraid.

Be in the bag (Informal) 囊中之物，十拿九穩 If something is in the bag, you are certain to get it or to achieve it.

// Once we'd scored the third goal, the game was pretty much in the bag.

Bag (v.) (-gg-) Bag (v.) (Put in container) [ T ] 把…裝進袋子裡 To put something in a bag.

// Shall I bag (up) those tomatoes for you?

Bag (v.) (Get) [ T ] (UK informal) 佔據；搶佔 To get something before other people have a chance to take it.

// [ + two objects ] Bag us some decent seats/ Bag some decent seats for us if you get there first, won't you?