Mb vs Throttle - What's the difference?
mb | throttle |
Bachelor of Medicine degree (Latin Medicinae Baccalaureus).
(China, slang) moneyboy
(SI) megabyte (1,000 kilobytes or 1,000,000 bytes).
* 1989 , IBM,
(computing) Motherboard.
Manitoba, a province of Canada.
===(en)===
(en-abbr)
(knitting) make bobble
* 2011 , Jane Davis, Knitting - The Complete Guide (page 145)
A valve that regulates the supply of fuel-air mixture to an internal combustion engine and thus controls its speed; a similar valve that controls the air supply to an engine.
The lever or pedal that controls this valve.
The windpipe or trachea.
To cut back on the speed of (an engine, person, organization, network connection, etc.).
To strangle or choke someone.
* Milton
To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.
To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.
To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated.
* Shakespeare
As an initialism mb
is megabit, a unit of information or computer storage.As a noun throttle is
a valve that regulates the supply of fuel-air mixture to an internal combustion engine and thus controls its speed; a similar valve that controls the air supply to an engine.As a verb throttle is
to cut back on the speed of (an engine, person, organization, network connection, etc).mb
English
Noun
(en noun)IBM 3390 Direct Access Storage Reference Summary, page 7
- MB equals 106 bytes and GB equals 109 bytes
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Row 1: K2, MB , k1, do not turn.
Anagrams
* English initialisms ----throttle
English
(wikipedia throttle)Etymology 1
From (etyl) *. More at (l).Noun
(en noun)- (Sir Walter Scott)
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(throttl)- Grant him this, and the Parliament hath no more freedom than if it sat in his noose, which, when he pleases to draw together with one twitch of his negative, shall throttle a whole nation, to the wish of Caligula, in one neck.
- Throttle their practised accent in their fears.