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As a verb ab

is (first person singular present form of the negation verb).

As a letter b is

the second letter of the.

As a symbol b is

a blood type that has a specific antigen that aggravates the immune response in people with type a antigen in their blood they can receive blood from type b or type o, but cannot receive blood from ab or a.

ab

English

(wikipedia ab)

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of (abdominal) (muscles).

Noun

(en noun)
  • (informal) abdominal muscle.
  • * 2006 , H. Peter Steeves, The Things Themselves (page 75)
  • The bikinied models in most of the ESPN2 shows have abs . Many of the malnourished bikinied models in the commercials have visible rib cages. How did the two get conflated into a shared vision of beauty?
  • * 2010 , Bill Geiger, "6-pack Abs in 9 Weeks", Reps! 17:106
  • When possible, do your ab workout on a day when you're not training a major muscle group.
    Usage notes
    Most often used attributively. Substantive use is more common in the plural form (abs).

    Etymology 2

    Abbreviation of (abscess).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) An abscess caused by injecting an illegal drug, usually heroin.
  • Etymology 3

    Abbreviations, see definitions.

    b

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=a, next=c, image= (wikipedia b)

    Letter

  • The second letter of the .
  • Usage notes

    The letter b is used in several romanization systems to represent the bilabial plosive or stop, usually voiced (.

    See also

    * (Latin script ): Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz * For more variations, see . {{Letter, page=B , NATO=Bravo , Morse=–··· , Character=B2 , Braille=? }} Image:Latin B.png, Capital and lowercase versions of B , in normal and italic type File:Fraktur letter B.png, Uppercase and lowercase B in Fraktur File:UncialB-01.png, uncial approximate form of Greek upper case beta that was the source for both common variants of b B in uncial script

    Symbol

    (Voiced bilabial plosive) (head)
  • voiced bilabial plosive
  • (label) beauty quark, bottom quark
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