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Definition: Pb

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull gray.[Wordnet].

Source: WordNet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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"Pb" is a common misspelling or typo for: pub, ph, BP, lb, pbs, Pg, PV, PCB, Ob, PPB, PBL, PN, PBC, PBX, POB, PDB, CPB, PBF, MPB, PIB, PBG, PBM, DPB, PWB.

Date "Pb" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1881. (references)

Common Expressions: Pb

Expressions Definition
Library of Congress Classification:Class P, subclass PB -- Modern languages and Celtic languages Subclass PB: Modern languages. Celtic languages is a classification used by the Library of Congress classification system under Class P -- Language and Literature. This article describes subclass PB. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Expressions: Pb

Expressions Domain Definition
PB Cache Computing PB Cache Pipeline Burst Cache. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing..

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Pb

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry Source Expression Field
PB Dutch Publicatieblad van de Europese Gemeenschappen Public Administration, European Union
PB English Plugboard N/A
PB French Pseudo-bruit Post & Telecom
PB German Abteilung Postbetrieb Public Administration, Post & Telecom
PB Italian Peste bovina Food & Agriculture, Biology & Biotechnology
pb Portuguese Par de bases Medicine
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Extended Definition: PB

PB

Pb is the abbreviation for the element lead. PB may also stand for:

  • Punjab
  • Philosophy & Belief (PB),a subject taught in some secondary schools used as an alternative name or subject to the traditional Religious Education, received by every secondary and primary student by Law in the UK
  • Paintball
  • Packard Bell
  • Palladium Books
  • Parsons Brinckerhoff
  • Passed ball
  • Patrol boat
  • Pb (Latin: plumbum), chemical element, lead
  • Petabyte (computers)
  • Performance Bikes Magazine
  • picobarn (physics) - correctly written in lower case: pb
  • Pilatus Railway (from the German name of Pilatus Bahn)
  • Peanut butter
  • Performance Bond
  • Personal best, ie one's own best ever athletic performance
  • Pro bono
  • PunkBuster
  • Piranha Bytes
  • Playboy Magazine
  • Pipe bomb
  • PowerBuilder
  • Premium Bond
  • ProBoards
  • Price-to-book ratio
  • Pacific Beach, a neighborhood of San Diego, California
  • Pitney Bowes
  • PBair
  • Prison Break
  • PB a coach body built by Irizar
  • Prussian Blue (duo), a White Nationalist folk teen duo in the United States
  • Presiding Bishop
  • Panda Bear
  • Phantom Brave, a tactical role-playing game
  • Petabit (Pb), a unit of information used, for example, to quantify computer memory or storage capacity
  • Petabyte (PB), a unit of information used, for example, to quantify computer memory or storage capacity


Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "PB"



Topics by Level of Interest: Pb

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
PB Djarum 18     Irizar PB 4
Library of Congress Classification:Class P, subclass PB -- Modern languages and Celtic languages 4     Library of Congress Classification:Class P, subclass PB -- Modern languages and Celtic languages 4
Irizar PB 4     PB 4
PB 4     PB 01 Tyrrel Bay 3
PB 02 Levera 3     PB 02 Levera 3
PB 01 Tyrrel Bay 3     PB Djarum 18

Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).

"Pb" is a common misspelling or typo for: pub, ph, BP, lb, pbs, Pg, PV, PCB, Ob, PPB, PBL, PN, PBC, PBX, POB, PDB, CPB, PBF, MPB, PIB, PBG, PBM, DPB, PWB.

Synonyms: Pb
Position Synonyms (sorted by strength)

Noun

 hint, leash, star, tether, tip, track, trail, wind.
Consider also: trace, coil, course, haul, path, twist, clue, hunt, tail, train, dash, dump, intimation, line, peak, point, lecture, report, speech, statement.

Other

 lead, leading, principal, steer, petabyte, inform, notify, talk.

Expression

 confidential information, jumper cable, jumper lead, lead story, pencil lead, spark advance.
Consider also: atomic number, make known, publication board, to inform.
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Computed Synonyms: Pb

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   1.0194   Pb     plumbum     lead, plumb, sinker, plumbing, plummet   
 2   1.0184   Pb     publication board     make known, to inform, lecture, inform, talk   
 3   1.0096   Pb     rep     representative, agent, repp, reputation, deputy   
 4   1.0095   Pb     lead     conduct, leading, guide, drive, steer   
 5   1.0095   Pb     talk     speak, converse, to talk, chat, confabulate   
 6   1.0094   Pb     report     account, statement, record, inform, tell   
 7   1.0094   Pb     speech     talk, address, language, discourse, utterance   
 8   1.0093   Pb     inform     acquaint, notify, advise, report, announce   
 9   1.0093   Pb     notify     announce, inform, advise, advertise, apprise   
 10   1.0092   Pb     lecture     lesson, discourse, sermon, rebuke, talk   
 11   1.0090   Pb     statement     declaration, report, account, assertion, utterance   
 12   1.0090   Pb     to inform     inform, acquaint, to acquaint, advise, tell   
 13   1.0089   Pb     make known     announce, notify, publish, show, advertise   
Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Translations: pb

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Chinese Simplified 外围缓冲器 (pb), 拢冒拢芒禄煤露炉脳茅录镁 (Pb motorization), 拢脨拢脗禄煤脙忙脮脮脙梅脛脢鹿芒碌脝 (neon lighting for Pb casting). Additional references: Chinese Simplified, China, Brunei, pb. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Traditional 外圍緩沖器 (pb), 鉛 (lead, Pb, plumbum), 報告 (report, lecture, speech, to inform, make known). Additional references: Chinese Traditional, China, Brunei, pb. (volunteer & more translations)
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