(countable, finance, trading) One who engages in arbitrage; an arbitrageur.
(countable, informal) An arboretum.
(finance, trading) The act of or potential for arbitrage.
verb
(finance, trading, transitive) To engage in arbitrage.
bar
bar
noun
(UK, Parliament) A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.
(UK, law) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay.
(US, Philippines, law, usually with the) The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
(architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
(backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
(by extension, in combinations such as coffee bar, juice bar, etc.) Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.
(countable, uncountable, metallurgy) A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is ¹⁄₄ inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
(farriery) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the centre of the sole.
(farriery, in the plural) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
(figurative) Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome.
(geography, nautical, hydrology) A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance, especially a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501).
(heraldry) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess.
(law, metonymically, "the Bar", "the bar") Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others.
(mathematics) The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed above the digit(s) to show that it applies to the characteristic only and not to the mantissa.
(mining) A drilling or tamping rod.
(mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
(music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
(music) One of those musical sections.
(physics) A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is the negative of its usual value (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle).
(programming, whimsical, derived from fubar) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
(slang) A measure of drugs, typically one ounce.
(soccer, most codes) The crossbar.
(sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault.
(telecommunications, electronics) One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.
(typography) Any of various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly (obsolete) including oblique marks such as the slash.
A broad shaft, band, or stripe.
A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house.
A city gate, in some British place names.
A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.
A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level.
A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
An establishment offering cosmetic services.
An establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served.
An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
The counter of such premises.
prep
(horse racing) Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.
Except, other than, besides.
verb
(transitive) To lock or bolt with a bar.
(transitive) To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
(transitive) To prohibit.
To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
bcr
bcr
Noun
B cell receptor
ber
ber
noun
A fruit-bearing tree (Ziziphus mauritiana); the jujube.
bfr
bmr
bmr
Noun
Basal metabolic rate.
bor
bor
noun
(Norfolk) boy
bra
bra
noun
(physics) One of the two vectors in the standard notation for describing quantum states in quantum mechanics, the row vector; the other (column) vector being its complex conjugate, the ket.
(slang) Alternative form of bro; friend, mate
An item of underwear worn to support the breasts.
brc
bre
brg
bri
brl
brm
brn
brn
noun
Abbreviation of brown.
bro
bro
noun
(slang) brother (a male comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals)
(slang) brother (a male sibling)
(slang) brother (usually used to address a male)
(slang) fratboy (or someone that espouses the fraternity bro culture)
brr
brr
intj
An expression of disgust or aversion, as if shuddering.
Used to express being cold, to show shivering.
brs
brt
bur
bur
noun
A rotary cutting implement having a selection of variously shaped heads.
A rough, prickly husk around the seeds or fruit of some plants.
Alternative form of burr (“small piece of material”).
Any of several plants having such husks.
bwr
bwr
Noun
boiling water reactor
cbr
crb
erb
frb
grb
lrb
orb
orb
noun
(architecture) A blank window or panel.
(architecture) A structural motif or finial in the shape of a sphere
(military) A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defence, especially infantry to repel cavalry.
(poetic) Any revolving circular body, such as a wheel
(poetic) The eye, seen as a luminous and spherical entity
(rare) A sphere of action.
(rare) The time period of an orbit
A globus cruciger; a ceremonial sphere used to represent royal or imperial power
A spherical body; a sphere, especially one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star
A translucent sphere appearing in flash photography (Orb (optics))
An orbit of an heavenly body
One of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be enclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions
verb
(poetic, intransitive) To become round like an orb.
(poetic, transitive) To encircle; to surround; to enclose.
(poetic, transitive) To form into an orb or circle.
prb
rab
rbc
rbe
rbi
rbi
Noun
Runs batted in, a baseball statistic
Risk-based inspection
Proper noun
Reserve Bank of India
Radio Berlin International
Ruđer Bošković Institute
rbt
rbt
Noun
of (of a motorist, employee, etc)
rcb
reb
reb
noun
(US, historical) Clipping of rebel: a Confederate, especially a Confederate soldier.
An honorific used by traditional Jews, much like sir and mister/Mr.
Shortened form of Rebbe.
rfb
rgb
rhb
rhb
noun
(cricket) Alternative form of RHB
rib
rib
noun
(Ireland, colloquial) A single strand of hair.
(aeronautics) Any of several transverse pieces that provide an aircraft wing with shape and strength.
(anatomy) Any of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and other animals and extending from the spine to or toward the sternum.
(archaic, literary or humorous) A wife or woman.
(architecture) A long, narrow, usually arched member projecting from the surface of a structure, especially such a member separating the webs of a vault
(botany) Costmary (Tanacetum balsamita).
(botany) Hound's-tongue (Cynoglossum officinale).
(botany) The main, or any of the prominent veins of a leaf.
(botany) Watercress (Nasturtium officinale).
(by extension) A part or piece, similar to a rib, and serving to shape or support something.
(knitting) A raised ridge in knitted material or in cloth.
(nautical) Any of several curved members attached to a ship's keel and extending upward and outward to form the framework of the hull.
A cut of meat enclosing one or more rib bones.
A stalk of celery.
A teasing joke.
verb
(transitive) To leave strips of undisturbed ground between the furrows in ploughing (land).
To enclose, as if with ribs, and protect; to shut in.
To shape, support, or provide something with a rib or ribs.
To tease or make fun of someone in a good-natured way.
rob
rob
noun
A syrup made of evaporating fruit juice over a fire, usually mixed with sugar or honey, and especially used for medicinal purposes.
verb
(intransitive) To commit robbery.
(sports) To take possession of the ball, puck etc. from.
(transitive) To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud.
(transitive) To steal from, especially using force or violence.
(transitive, UK, slang) To steal.
(transitive, figuratively, used with "of") To deprive (of).
(transitive, slang) To burgle.
rrb
rsb
rub
rub
noun
(UK, naval slang) A loan.
(archaic) A quip or sarcastic remark.
A difficulty or problem.
A mixture of spices applied to meat before it is barbecued.
An act of rubbing.
Any substance designed to be applied by rubbing.
In the game of crown green bowls, any obstacle by which a bowl is diverted from its normal course.
verb
(dated) To move or pass with difficulty.
(intransitive) To be rubbed against something.
(transitive) To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure and friction.
(transitive) To rub something against (a second thing).
(transitive) To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.
(transitive, bowls) To touch the jack with the bowl.
To hinder; to cross; to thwart.
To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; often with up or over.