Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation Baruch
from The Century Dictionary.
- To kiss.
- To lull asleep by a continuous, inarticulate, musical hum.
- The chemical symbol of barium.
- noun A ball.
- noun An abbreviation of Bachelor of Agricultural Science;
- noun Bachelor of Applied Science: degrees conferred by some institutions.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To kiss.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun chemistry Symbol for
barium . - noun physics The
CGS symbol for thebarye , unit of pressure. - proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Charopidae — sole known species isBa humbugi , a small air-breathingland snail .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a bachelor's degree in arts and sciences
- noun a soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group; found in barite
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Examples
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RESSA: Although those words find support in the streets, intellectuals like Dewi dismiss the political threat of what she calls Ba'Asyir's French groups.
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Egyptians once believed that when death came to a man, the soul of him, which they called the Ba, winged its way to the gods, but that, moved by a sweet unselfishness, it returned sometimes to his tomb, to give comfort to the poor, deserted mummy.
The Spell of Egypt Robert Smythe Hichens 1907
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Now this Soul, this "Ba," is a loving visitant to the dead man.
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Ba is a serious thug with impeccable taste for bloodbath, genocide and zionist racism.
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She sees none of the pride found in Ba; and Grandmother Jones, a devout Christian, frowns on the spells, potions and magic taught to Ruba by Ba.
Stormwitch 2007
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A Vietnamese biologist has recently discovered two new lizard species in Ba Den mountain, Tay Ninh province.
Archive 2006-12-01 2006
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Orangeburg, S.C., died Feb. 16 in Ba'qubah, Iraq, when she was involved in
Gulf War II 2005
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Columbus, Ga., died February 14 in Ba'qubah, Iraq, when his vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device.
Gulf War II 2005
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Their remains were re-interred in Ba Huyen Cemetery north of Hanoi in late 1972 or early
Dennison, Terry A. 1990
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SYNOPSIS: Gerasimo Arroya-Baez and Richard L. Bowers, two U.S. advisors, two other Americans and a number of ARVN personnel were on duty at Tam Soc operating base in Ba Xuayn Province, near Saigon.
Bowers, Richard L. 1969
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