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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.

As a proper noun shanghai is

shanghai.

b

Translingual

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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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    shanghai

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) , with reference to the former practice of forcibly crewing ships heading for the Orient.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To force or trick (someone) into joining a ship which is lacking a full crew.
  • * 1999 June 24, ‘The Resurrection of Tom Waits’, in Rolling Stone'', quoted in ''Innocent When You Dream , Orion (2006), page 256,
    • It was the strangest galley: the sounds, the steam, he's screaming at his coworkers. I felt like I'd been shanghaied .
  • To abduct or coerce.
  • * 1974 September 30, ‘ Final Report on the Activities of the Children of God',
    • Oftentimes the approach is to shanghai an unsuspecting victim.
  • To commandeer; appropriate; hijack
    • Let's see if we can shanghai a room for a couple of hours.
    Synonyms
    * press-gang

    Etymology 2

    From Scottish (m), from (etyl) (m), influenced by the Chinese city.Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English, by Eric Partridge, 2006, p. 613

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A slingshot.
  • *1985 , (Peter Carey), Illywhacker , Faber and Faber 2003, p. 206:
  • *:They scrounged around the camp […] and held out their filthy wings to the feeble sun, making themselves an easy target for Charles's shanghai .

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