This document provides definitions for a variety of terms beginning with the letters A through B. It includes definitions for words like aardvark, abbreviation, aberration, above, academia, accomplished, adaptation, adenine, adorable, advanced, and aerial. It also defines balance, babble, beetroot, besides, bevel, biennial, bioinformatics, bleep, blind, bonanza, book, bran, break, bridge, brioche, buzzard, and bystander.
This document provides definitions for a variety of terms beginning with the letters A through B. It includes definitions for words like aardvark, abbreviation, aberration, above, academia, accomplished, adaptation, adenine, adorable, advanced, and aerial. It also defines balance, babble, beetroot, besides, bevel, biennial, bioinformatics, bleep, blind, bonanza, book, bran, break, bridge, brioche, buzzard, and bystander.
This document provides definitions for a variety of terms beginning with the letters A through B. It includes definitions for words like aardvark, abbreviation, aberration, above, academia, accomplished, adaptation, adenine, adorable, advanced, and aerial. It also defines balance, babble, beetroot, besides, bevel, biennial, bioinformatics, bleep, blind, bonanza, book, bran, break, bridge, brioche, buzzard, and bystander.
This document provides definitions for a variety of terms beginning with the letters A through B. It includes definitions for words like aardvark, abbreviation, aberration, above, academia, accomplished, adaptation, adenine, adorable, advanced, and aerial. It also defines balance, babble, beetroot, besides, bevel, biennial, bioinformatics, bleep, blind, bonanza, book, bran, break, bridge, brioche, buzzard, and bystander.
A nocturnal badger-sized burrowing Adjective • Believed to be within one’s mammal of Africa, with long ears, a financial means. tubular snout, and a long extensible Agnostic (ag-nos-tik) Noun • A tongue, feeding on ants and termites. person who holds that the existence Also called antbear. of the ultimate cause, as God, and Abbreviated (uh-bree-vee-ey-tid) the essential nature of things are un- Adjective • Constituting a shorter or known and unknowable, or that hu- smaller version of man knowledge is limited to experi- Aberration (ab-uh-rey-shuh n) ence. Noun • The act of deviating from the Aioli (ahy-oh-lee) Noun • Mayon- ordinary, usual, or normal type. naise seasoned with garlic. Above (uh-buhv) Preposition • In Alchemy (al-kuh-mee) Noun • The extended space over and not touch- medieval forerunner of chemistry, ing. concerned with the transmutation of Academia (ak-uh-dee-mee-uh) matter, in particular with attempts to Noun • The environment or commu- convert base metals into gold or find nity concerned with the pursuit of a universal elixir. research, education, and scholarship. Algebra (al-juh-bruh) Noun • The Accomplished (uh-kom-plisht) part of mathematics in which letters Adjective • Completed; done; effected. and other general symbols are used to Highly trained or skilled in a particu- represent numbers and quantities in lar activity. formulae and equations. Acidophilic (uh-sid-uh-fil-ik, as-i- Amatol (am-uh-tawl) Noun • A duh-) Adjective • Biology: having an high explosive consisting of a mixture affinity for acid stains; eosinophilic. of TNT and ammonium nitrate. Ecology: thriving in or requiring an Almanac (awl-muh-nak) Noun • acid environment. An annual publication containing a Adaptation (ad-uh p-tey-shuh n) calendar for the coming year, the Noun • The action or process of adapt- times of such events and phenomena ing or being adapted. Biology: The Animal (an-uh-muh l) Noun • A process of change by which an organ- living organism which feeds on or- ism or species becomes better suited ganic matter, typically having special- to its environment ized sense organs and nervous system Adenine (ad-n-in, -een, -ahyn) and able to respond rapidly to stimuli. Noun • A compound which is one Ascension (auh-sen-shuh n) Noun of the four constituent bases of nu- • The action of rising to an important cleic acids. A purine derivative, it position or a higher level. is paired with thymine in double- Aspire (uh-spahyuh r) Verb • Di- stranded DNA. rect one’s hopes or ambitions towards Adorable (uh-dawr-uh-buh l) Ad- achieving something. jective • Inspiring great affection or de- Athlete (ath-leet) Noun • a per- light. son trained or gifted in exercises or Advanced (ad-vanst) Adjective • contests involving physical agility, Far on or ahead in development or stamina, or strength; a participant in progress. a sport, exercise, or game requiring Aerial (air-ee-uh l) Noun • A rod, physical skill. wire, or other structure by which sig- Azobenzene (az-oh-ben-zeen) nals are transmitted or received as Noun • A synthetic crystalline organic part of a radio or television transmis- compound used chiefly in dye manu- sion or receiving system. facture.
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Babble (bab-uh l) Verb • Talk science of collecting and analysing
rapidly and continuously in a foolish, complex biological data such as ge- excited, or incomprehensible way. netic codes. Balance (bal-uh ns) Noun • An Bleep (bleep) Noun • A short high- even distribution of weight enabling pitched sound made by an electronic someone or something to remain up- device as a signal or to attract atten- right and steady. An instrument for tion. determining weight, typically by the Blind (blahynd) Adjective • Unable equilibrium of a bar with a fulcrum at to see; lacking the sense of sight; sight- the center, from each end of which is less. suspended a scale or pan, one hold- Bonanza (buh-nan-zuh) Noun • A ing an object of known weight, and situation which creates a sudden in- the other holding the object to be crease in wealth, good fortune, or prof- weighed. its. Barbet (bahr-bit) Noun • A large- Book (boo k) Noun • A written headed, brightly coloured fruit-eating or printed work consisting of pages bird that has a stout bill with tufts glued or sewn together along one side of bristles at the base. Barbets are and bound in covers. found on all continents, especially in Bran (bran) Noun • The partly the tropics. ground husk of wheat or other grain, Beetroot (beet-root) Noun • The separated from flour meal by sifting. edible dark-red spherical root of a Break (breyk) Verb • Separate into kind of beet, eaten as a vegetable. pieces as a result of a blow, shock, or Besides (bih-sahydz) Preposition • strain. In addition to; apart from. Bridge (brij) Noun • A structure Bevel (bev-uh l) Noun • A slope carrying a road, path, railway, etc. from the horizontal or vertical in car- across a river, road, or other obsta- pentry and stonework; a sloping sur- cle. Music: The part of a stringed in- face or edge. strument over which the strings are Bevel (bev-uh l) Noun • A slope stretched. from the horizontal or vertical in car- Brioche (bree-ohsh) Noun • A light pentry and stonework; a sloping sur- sweet yeast bread typically in the face or edge. form of a small round roll. Biennial (bahy-en-ee-uh l) Adjec- Buzzard (buhz-erd) Noun • A tive • Taking place every other year. large hawklike bird of prey with Bioinformatics (bahy-oh-in-fer- broad wings and a rounded tail, of- mat-iks) Noun • The retrieval and anal- ten seen soaring in wide circles. ysis of biochemical and biological data Bystander (bahy-stan-der) Noun • using mathematics and computer sci- A person who is present at an event ence, as in the study of genomes. The or incident but does not take part.