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mechanical | b |

As an adjective mechanical

is characteristic of someone who does manual labour for a living; coarse, vulgar.

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.

mechanical

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Characteristic of someone who does manual labour for a living; coarse, vulgar.
  • *, I.43:
  • all manner of silks were already become so vile and abject, that was any man seene to weare them, he was presently judged to be some countrie fellow, or mechanicall man.
  • Related to mechanics (the branch of physics that deals with forces acting on mass).
  • Related to mechanics (the design and construction of machines).
  • Done by machine.
  • Using mechanics (the design and construction of machines): being a machine.
  • As if performed by a machine: lifeless or mindless.
  • (of a person) Acting as if one were a machine: lifeless or mindless.
  • *, chapter=15
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}
  • (informal) Handy with machines.
  • Derived terms

    * electromechanical * mechanical erasure * mechanicality * mechanically * mechanicalness * mechanical pencil * postmechanical * premechanical

    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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