What is the difference between bobble and mb?

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bobble

English

Noun

(en noun)

A furry ball attached on top of a hat.

(British) Elasticated band used for securing hair (for instance in a ponytail), a hair tie

(informal) A pill (ball formed on surface of fabric, as on laundered clothes).

(knitting) A localized set of stitches forming a raised bump.

* 2008 , Claire Compton, ?Sue Whiting, The Knitting and Crochet Bible (page 45)

From the top the sample shows four stitch popcorns, five stitch bobbles , two rows of bells and a central leaf with leaves sloping to the left and right each side.

A wobbling motion.

* 2013 , Elizabeth Chatterjee, Delhi: Mostly Harmless: One woman’s vision of the city

My favourite dubious history of the head bobble was put forward by an Indian management consultant

Derived terms

* bobble hat * bobbly

Verb

(bobbl)

To bob up and down.

(US) To make a mistake in.

to roll slowly

* November 17 2012 , BBC Sport: Arsenal 5-2 Tottenham [http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20278355]

A neat interchange between Mikel Arteta and Wilshere set up Podolski and his finish bobbled into the net via Gallas.

Derived terms

* bobbler

mb

English

Noun

(en noun)

Bachelor of Medicine degree (Latin Medicinae Baccalaureus).

(China, slang) moneyboy

(SI) megabyte (1,000 kilobytes or 1,000,000 bytes).

* 1989 , IBM, IBM 3390 Direct Access Storage Reference Summary , page 7

MB equals 10⁶ bytes and GB equals 10⁹ bytes

(computing) Motherboard.

Proper noun

(en proper noun)

Manitoba, a province of Canada.

===(en)=== (en-abbr)

(knitting) make bobble

* 2011 , Jane Davis, Knitting - The Complete Guide (page 145)

Row 1: K2, MB , k1, do not turn.

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