Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B

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Bacteria (n. pl.) See Bacterium.

Bacterium (n.; pl. Bacteria) (Biol.) 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.

Bacteria (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].

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.

Compare: Bacterioscopy

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.

Bacterioscopist (n.) (Biol.) 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.

Bactrian camel, The two-humped camel.

Bacule (n.) [F.] (Fort.) See Bascule.

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

Baculite (n.) (Paleon.) 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. of Bid.) Bade. [Obs.] -- Dryden.

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.

Note: Sometimes used substantively.

The strong antipathy of good to bad. -- Pope.

Syn: Pernicious; deleterious; noxious; baneful; injurious; hurtful; evil; vile; wretched; corrupt; wicked; vicious;

imperfect.

Compare: Bid

Bid (v. t.) [imp. Bade, Bid, (Obs.) Bad; p. p. Bidden, Bid; p. pr. & vb. n. Bidding.] To make an offer of; to propose. Specifically : To offer to pay ( a certain price, as for a thing put up at auction), or to take (a certain price, as for work to be done under a contract).

Bid (v. t.) To offer in words; to declare, as a wish, a greeting, a threat, or defiance, etc.; as, to bid one welcome; to bid good morning, farewell, etc.

Neither bid him God speed. -- 2. John 10.

He bids defiance to the gaping crowd. -- Granrille.

Bid (v. t.) To proclaim; to declare publicly; to make known. [Mostly obs.] "Our banns thrice bid !" -- Gay.

Bid (v. t.) To order; to direct; to enjoin; to command.

That Power who bids the ocean ebb and flow. -- Pope

Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee. -- Matt. xiv. 28

I was bid to pick up shells. -- D. Jerrold.

Bid (v. t.) To invite; to call in; to request to come.

As many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage. -- Matt. xxii. 9

To bid beads, To pray with beads, as the Roman Catholics; to distinguish each bead by a prayer. [Obs.]

To bid defiance to, To defy openly; to brave.

To bid fair, To offer a good prospect; to make fair promise; to seem likely.

Syn: To offer; proffer; tender; propose; order; command; direct; charge; enjoin.

Bad (adv.) With great intensity (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for `badly'); "the injury hurt badly"; "the buildings were badly shaken"; "it hurts bad"; "we need water bad" [syn: badly, bad].

Bad (adv.) Very much; strongly; "I wanted it badly enough to work hard for it"; "the cables had sagged badly"; "they were badly in need of help"; "he wants a bicycle so bad he can taste it" [syn: badly, bad].

Bad (a.) Having undesirable or negative qualities; "a bad report card"; "his sloppy appearance made a bad impression"; "a bad little boy"; "clothes in bad shape"; "a bad cut"; "bad luck"; "the news was very bad"; "the reviews were bad"; "the pay is bad"; "it was a bad light for reading"; "the movie was a bad choice" [ant: good].

Bad (a.) Very intense; "a bad headache"; "in a big rage"; "had a big (or bad) shock"; "a bad earthquake"; "a bad storm" [syn: bad, big].

Bad (a.) Feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad'); "my throat feels bad"; "she felt bad all over"; "he was feeling tough after a restless night" [syn: bad, tough].

Bad (a.) (Of foodstuffs) Not in an edible or usable condition; "bad meat"; "a refrigerator full of spoilt food" [syn: bad, spoiled, spoilt].

Bad (a.) Feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone; "felt regretful over his vanished youth"; "regretful over mistakes she had made"; "he felt bad about breaking the vase" [syn: regretful, sorry, bad] [ant: unregretful, unregretting].

Bad (a.) Not capable of being collected; "a bad (or uncollectible) debt" [syn: bad, uncollectible].

Bad (a.) Below average in quality or performance; "a bad chess player"; "a bad recital."

Bad (a.) Nonstandard; "so-called bad grammar."

Bad (a.) Not financially safe or secure; "a bad investment"; "high risk investments"; "anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky"; "speculative business enterprises" [syn: bad, risky, high-risk, speculative].

Bad (a.) Physically unsound or diseased; "has a bad back"; "a bad heart"; "bad teeth"; "an unsound limb"; "unsound teeth" [syn: bad, unfit, unsound].

Bad (a.) Capable of harming; "bad air"; "smoking is bad for you."

Bad (a.) Characterized by wickedness or immorality; "led a very bad life."

Bad (a.) Reproduced fraudulently; "like a bad penny..."; "a forged twenty dollar bill" [syn: bad, forged].

Bad (a.) Not working properly; "a bad telephone connection"; "a defective appliance" [syn: bad, defective].

Bad (n.) That which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency; "take the bad with the good" [syn: bad, badness] [ant: good, goodness].

BAD, () Broken As Designed (slang).

BAD, (a.) [IBM: acronym, ?Broken As Designed?] Said of a program that is bogus because of bad design and misfeatures rather than because of bugginess. See working as designed.

BAD, () Broken As Designed, a play on "{working as designed", from IBM. Failing because of bad design and misfeatures rather than because of bugs. [{Jargon File] (2002-04-14)

Badder () compar. of Bad, a. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.

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

Baddish (a.) Somewhat bad; inferior. -- Jeffrey.

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

Bade (n.) A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.

Badge (n.) A distinctive mark, token, sign, or cognizance, worn on the person; as, the badge of a society; the badge of a policeman. "Tax gatherers, recognized by their official badges." -- Prescott.

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

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. -- Shak.

Badge (n.) (Naut.) 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.) An emblem (a small piece of plastic or cloth or metal) that signifies your status (rank or membership or affiliation etc.); "they checked everyone's badge before letting them in."

Badge (n.) Any feature that is regarded as a sign of status (a particular power or quality or rank); "wearing a tie was regarded as a badge of respectability."

Badge (v.) Put a badge on; "The workers here must be badged."

Badge. () A mark or sign worn by some persons, or placed upon certain things for the purpose of designation. Some public officers, as watchmen, policemen, and the like, are required to wear badges that they may be readily known. It is used figuratively when we say, possession of personal property by the seller, is. a badge of fraud.

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

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. -- Bp. Hall.

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.

Badger, () This word is found in Ex. 25:5; 26:14; 35:7, 23; 36:19; 39:34; Num. 4:6, etc. The tabernacle was covered with badgers' skins; the shoes of women were also made of them (Ezek. 16:10). Our translators seem to have been misled by the similarity in sound of the Hebrew _tachash_ and the Latin _taxus_, "a badger." The revisers have correctly substituted "seal skins." The Arabs of the Sinaitic peninsula apply the name _tucash_ to the seals and dugongs which are common in the Red Sea, and the skins of which are largely used as leather and for sandals. Though the badger is common in Palestine, and might occur in the wilderness, its small hide would have been useless as a tent covering. The dugong, very plentiful in the shallow waters on the shores of the Red Sea, is a marine animal from 12 to 30 feet long, something between a whale and a seal, never leaving the water, but very easily caught. It grazes on seaweed, and is known by naturalists as Halicore tabernaculi.

Badger, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa

Population (2000): 610

Housing Units (2000): 232

Land area (2000): 1.691226 sq. miles (4.380256 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 1.691226 sq. miles (4.380256 sq. km)

FIPS code: 04195

Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19

Location: 42.615303 N, 94.144454 W

ZIP Codes (1990): 50516

Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

Headwords:

Badger, IA

Badger

Badger, SD -- U.S. town in South Dakota

Population (2000): 144

Housing Units (2000): 66

Land area (2000): 1.064676 sq. miles (2.757498 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 1.064676 sq. miles (2.757498 sq. km)

FIPS code: 03060

Located within: South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46

Location: 44.485685 N, 97.207380 W

ZIP Codes (1990): 57214

Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

Headwords:

Badger, SD

Badger

Badger, MN -- U.S. city in Minnesota

Population (2000): 470

Housing Units (2000): 228

Land area (2000): 1.332007 sq. miles (3.449882 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 1.332007 sq. miles (3.449882 sq. km)

FIPS code: 03160

Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27

Location: 48.780003 N, 96.016780 W

ZIP Codes (1990): 56714

Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

Headwords:

Badger, MN

Badger

Badgerer (n.) One who badgers.

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

Badgerer (n.) Someone who tries to embarrass you with gibes and questions and objections [syn: heckler, badgerer].

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. [Prov. Eng.]

Badgering (n.) The act of harassing someone [syn: badgering, worrying, torment, bedevilment].

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

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

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

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

Badinage (n.) Frivolous banter.

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

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

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).

Bad Lands (n.) An eroded and barren region in southwestern South Dakota and northwestern Nebraska [syn: Bad Lands, Badlands].

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

Note: Badly is often used colloquially for very much or very greatly, with words signifying to want or need.

Badly (adv.) To a severe or serious degree; "fingers so badly frozen they had to be amputated"; "badly injured"; "a severely impaired heart"; "is gravely ill"; "was seriously ill" [syn: badly, severely, gravely, seriously].

Badly (adv.) (`ill' is often used as a combining form) In a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well; "he was ill

prepared"; "it ill befits a man to betray old friends"; "the car runs badly"; "he performed badly on the exam"; "the team played poorly"; "ill-fitting clothes"; "an ill-conceived plan" [syn: ill, badly, poorly] [ant: good, well].

Badly (adv.) Evilly or wickedly; "treated his parents badly"; "to steal is to act badly."

Badly (adv.) In a disobedient or naughty way; "he behaved badly in school"; "he mischievously looked for a chance to embarrass his sister"; "behaved naughtily when they had guests and was sent to his room" [syn: badly, mischievously, naughtily].

Badly (adv.) With great intensity (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for `badly'); "the injury hurt badly"; "the buildings were badly shaken"; "it hurts bad"; "we need water bad" [syn: badly, bad].

Badly (adv.) Very much; strongly; "I wanted it badly enough to work hard for it"; "the cables had sagged badly"; "they were badly in need of help"; "he wants a bicycle so bad he can taste it" [syn: badly, bad].

Badly (adv.) Without skill or in a displeasing manner; "she writes badly"; "I think he paints very badly" [ant: well].

Badly (adv.) In a disadvantageous way; to someone's disadvantage; "the venture turned out badly for the investors"; "angry that the case was settled disadvantageously for them" [syn: badly, disadvantageously] [ant: advantageously, well].

Badly (adv.) Unfavorably or with disapproval; "tried not to speak ill of the dead"; "thought badly of him for his lack of concern" [syn: ill, badly] [ant: well].

Badly (adv.) With unusual distress or resentment or regret or emotional display; "they took their defeat badly"; "took her father's death badly"; "conducted himself very badly at the time of the earthquake" [ant: well].

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

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

Badminton (n.) A game played on a court with light long-handled rackets used to volley a shuttlecock over a net.

Badness (n.) The state of being bad.

Badness (n.) That which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency; "take the bad with the good" [syn: bad, badness] [ant: good, goodness].

Badness (n.) Used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather [syn: badness, severity, severeness].

Badness (n.) An attribute of mischievous children [syn: naughtiness, mischievousness, badness].

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

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

Baenosome (n.) (Zool.) The thorax of Arthropods. -- Packard.

Baff (v. t. & i.) [Scot., prob. imitative; cf. G. baff, interj. imitating the sound of a shot.] To strike; to beat; to make a baff. [Scot. or Golf]

Baff (n.) A blow; a stroke ; thud. [Scot.] -- H. Miller.

Baff (n.) specif. (Golf), A stroke in which the sole of the club hits the ground and drives the ball aloft. [Scot. or Golf]

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. [Obs.]

He by the heels him hung upon a tree, And baffled so, that all which passed by The picture of his punishment might see. -- Spenser.

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

The art that baffles time's tyrannic claim. -- Cowper.

Baffle (v. t.) To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart. "A baffled purpose." -- De Quincey.

A suitable scripture ready to repel and baffle them all. -- South.

Calculations so difficult as to have baffled, until within a . . . recent period, the most enlightened nations. -- Prescott.

The mere intricacy of a question should not baffle us. -- Locke.

Baffling wind (Naut.), One that frequently shifts from one point to another.

Syn: To balk; thwart; foil; frustrate; defeat.

Baffle (v. i.) To practice deceit. [Obs.] -- Barrow.

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

Baffle (n.) 困惑 A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture. [R.] "A baffle to philosophy." -- South.

Baffle (n.) (Engin.) (a) A deflector, as a plate or wall, so arranged across a furnace or boiler flue as to mingle the hot gases and deflect them against the substance to be heated.

Baffle (n.) (Engin.) (b) A grating or plate across a channel or pipe conveying water, gas, or the like, by which the flow is rendered more uniform in different parts of the cross section of the stream; -- used in measuring the rate of flow, as by means of a weir.

Baffle (n.) (Coal Mining) A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine. [Local, U. S.]

Baffle (n.) A flat plate that controls or directs the flow of fluid or energy [syn: baffle, baffle board].

Baffle (v.) Be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me-- I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me" [syn: perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound].

Baffle (v.) Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent" [syn: thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk].

Baffle (v.) Check the emission of (sound) [syn: baffle, regulate].

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.

Bafflement (n.) Confusion resulting from failure to understand [syn: bewilderment, obfuscation, puzzlement, befuddlement, mystification, bafflement, bemusement].

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

Baffling (a.) Frustrating; discomfiting; disconcerting; as, baffling currents, winds, tasks. -- Baff"ling*ly, adv. -- Baff"ling*ness, n.

Baffling (a.) Making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home" [syn: baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough].

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.) 容器，貯藏器；貯藏所；【植】花托；囊托；（電源）插座 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.) 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.) 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.

Receptacle (n.) A container that is used to put or keep things in.

Receptacle (n.) Enlarged tip of a stem that bears the floral parts.

Receptacle (n.) An electrical (or electronic) fitting that is connected to a source of power and equipped to receive an insert.

Compare: Udder

Udder (n.) (Anat.) （母牛、母山羊等的）乳房；乳腺 [C] 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.

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

Bag (n.) 袋；提袋 [C]；錢包；（女用）手提包；旅行袋 [C]；袋狀物 [C]；一袋之量 [C] [（+of）]；【貶】醜婦；獵獲物；一次獵獲物之數量 [S1] ；【棒】【壘】壘；處境；生活方式 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.) 把……裝入袋中；獵獲；【口】佔據；私吞；偷竊；收集；使膨大 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.) 【口】（如袋狀）鬆垂 [（+out）] 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, () A pocket of a cone-like shape in which Naaman bound two pieces of silver for Gehazi (2 Kings 5:23). The same Hebrew word occurs elsewhere only in Isa. 3:22, where it is rendered "crisping-pins," but denotes the reticules (or as R.V., "satchels") carried by Hebrew women.

Bag, () Another word (kees) so rendered means a bag for carrying weights (Deut. 25:13; Prov. 16:11; Micah 6:11). It also denotes a purse (Prov. 1:14) and a cup (23:31).

Bag, () Another word rendered "bag" in 1 Sam. 17:40 is rendered "sack" in Gen. 42:25; and in 1 Sam. 9:7; 21:5 "vessel," or wallet for carrying food.

Bag, () The word rendered in the Authorized Version "bags," in which the priests bound up the money contributed for the restoration of the temple (2 Kings 12:10), is also rendered "bundle" (Gen. 42:35; 1 Sam. 25:29). It denotes bags used by travellers for carrying money during a journey (Prov. 7:20; Hag. 1:6).

Bag, () The "bag" of Judas was a small box (John 12:6; 13:29).

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

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

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?