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  • bit pattern — (data)   A sequence of bits, in a memory, a communications channel or some other device. The term is used to contrast this with some higher level interpretation of the bits such as an integer or an image. A bit string is similar but suggests an arbitrary, as opposed to predetermined, length.
  • bit-robbing — in-band signalling
  • bitmap font — a font format in which letters and symbols are stored as a pattern of dots
  • bitter dock — any of various weedy plants belonging to the genus Rumex, of the buckwheat family, as R. obtusifolius (bitter dock) or R. acetosa (sour dock) having long taproots.
  • bitter herb — an Old World herb, Centaurium erythraea, used dried in medicine as a tonic.
  • bitter lake — a salt lake containing in solution a high concentration of sulfates, carbonates, and chlorides.
  • bitter pill — a distressing experience or result that is hard to accept (often in the expression a bitter pill to swallow): Being passed over for promotion was a bitter pill to swallow.
  • bitterbrush — a flowering plant of the genus Purshia, native to North America
  • bittercress — one of several perennial or annual plants of the genus Cardamine, that are related to lady's-smock, including hairy bittercress (C. hirsuta), a common weed resembling shepherd's purse, with which it is often confused: family: Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • bitterender — a person who persists until the bitter end without compromising or yielding; diehard.
  • bittersweet — If you describe an experience as bittersweet, you mean that it has some happy aspects and some sad ones.
  • black vomit — vomit containing blood, often a manifestation of disease, such as yellow fever
  • black witch — any of several large noctuid moths of the genus Erebus, especially the blackish E. odora (black witch) of Central and North America.
  • bleacherite — someone who sits in the bleachers at a sports stadium
  • bleed white — to deprive slowly of resources
  • blepharitis — inflammation of the eyelids
  • body cavity — the internal cavity of any multicellular animal that contains the digestive tract, heart, kidneys, etc. In vertebrates it develops from the coelom
  • boiler suit — A boiler suit consists of a single piece of clothing that combines trousers and a jacket. You wear it over your clothes in order to protect them from dirt while you are working.
  • bon appetit — enjoy your meal
  • bondability — something that binds, fastens, confines, or holds together.
  • book titles — (publication)   There is a tradition in hackerdom of informally tagging important textbooks and standards documents with the dominant colour of their covers or with some other conspicuous feature of the cover. Many of these are described in this dictionary under their own entries. See Aluminum Book, Blue Book, Cinderella Book, Devil Book, Dragon Book, Green Book, Orange Book, Pink-Shirt Book, Purple Book, Red Book, Silver Book, White Book, Wizard Book, Yellow Book, bible, rainbow series.
  • break it up — stop fighting
  • breunnerite — an iron-containing type of magnesite used in the manufacture of refractory bricks
  • brith milah — the rite of circumcision on the eighth day after birth
  • british gum — dextrin.
  • british lop — a breed of large white pig with large drooping ears, originating from Wales, Cumberland, and Ulster
  • brittlebush — any of several composite plants of the genus Encelia, of desert regions of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having alternate leaves and yellow ray flowers with a yellow or purple center.
  • brittleness — the quality of being brittle
  • brochantite — a mineral, hydrous copper sulfate, Cu 4 (OH) 6 SO 4 , occurring in green fibrous masses and similar in physical properties to antlerite: formerly a major ore of copper.
  • brood bitch — a female dog used for breeding.
  • buck rabbit — Welsh rabbit with either an egg or a piece of toast on top
  • bullbaiting — a type of blood sport involving the baiting of a bull by dogs
  • bullshitter — nonsense, lies, or exaggeration.
  • c1 security — Orange Book
  • c2 security — Orange Book
  • californite — vesuvianite jade.
  • campbellite — a member of the Disciples of Christ.
  • cap-haitien — a port in N Haiti: capital during the French colonial period. Pop: 134 000 (2005 est)
  • capacitance — the property of a system that enables it to store electric charge
  • capacitated — Simple past tense and past participle of capacitate.
  • capacitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of capacitate.
  • capernoited — capricious
  • capernoitie — the head
  • capillarity — a phenomenon caused by surface tension and resulting in the distortion, elevation, or depression of the surface of a liquid in contact with a solid
  • capillitium — a mass of very fine threads interspersed among the spores of certain fungi
  • capital sum — an amount of money paid to an insured person or paid as an initial fee or investment
  • capitalised — to write or print in capital letters letters or with an initial capital letter.
  • capitalists — Plural form of capitalist.
  • capitalized — Simple past tense and past participle of capitalize.
  • capitalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of capitalize.
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