"HB" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Audio: En-au-HB.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} HB (not comparable)
  1. hard black (describing a pencil that makes lighter marks than a grade B, but darker marks than a grade H pencil). Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-HB-en-adj-Y3mKtN8C

Proper name [English]

Audio: En-au-HB.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} HB
  1. Initialism of Hansestadt Bremen. The German city of Bremen. (Used on licence plates and informally in other contexts.) Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: Hansestadt Bremen (extra: The German city of Bremen. (Used on licence plates and informally in other contexts.)) Related terms: Hansestadt Hamburg (alt: Hanseatic city of Hamburg)
    Sense id: en-HB-en-name-rMIT5SRB Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 9 18 5 25 4 21 13 4 1

Noun [English]

Audio: En-au-HB.ogg [Australia] Forms: HBs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} HB (plural HBs)
  1. (stars) Initialism of horizontal branch. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: horizontal branch
    Sense id: en-HB-en-noun-ptI7o93M
  2. (slang, seduction community) A hot babe, someone pickup artists try to seduce. (Usually followed by a number in the 1-10 scale of physical beauty, e.g. HB10.) Tags: slang Categories (topical): Seduction community
    Sense id: en-HB-en-noun-c~4k8gqU Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 9 18 5 25 4 21 13 4 1 Topics: lifestyle, seduction-community, sexuality
  3. (health) Initialism of homebirth. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: homebirth
    Sense id: en-HB-en-noun-ezngLk~K Topics: health, medicine, sciences
  4. (law, politics, often followed by a number) Initialism of house bill (“a bill proposed in or passed by a legislative house”). (Compare SB.) Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, often Alternative form of: house bill (extra: (“a bill proposed in or passed by a legislative house”). (Compare SB.)) Categories (topical): Law, Politics
    Sense id: en-HB-en-noun-tt2BTN7x Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 9 18 5 25 4 21 13 4 1 Topics: government, law, politics
  5. (American football) Initialism of halfback. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: halfback Categories (topical): Football (American)
    Sense id: en-HB-en-noun-Hr6GkcQH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 9 18 5 25 4 21 13 4 1 Topics: American-football, ball-games, football, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: AGB, BHB, TRGB, ZAHB, AB, AR, HR, SB, SR

Phrase [English]

Audio: En-au-HB.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{head|en|phrase}} HB
  1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of happy birthday. Tags: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of Alternative form of: happy birthday
    Sense id: en-HB-en-phrase-HxnqbRN-

Verb [English]

Audio: En-au-HB.ogg [Australia] Forms: HBs [present, singular, third-person], HBing [participle, present], HBed [participle, past], HBed [past], HB'd [participle, past], HB'd [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|past2=HB'd}} HB (third-person singular simple present HBs, present participle HBing, simple past and past participle HBed or HB'd)
  1. (transitive, Internet slang) To hard-block. Tags: Internet, transitive
    Sense id: en-HB-en-verb-2ICOsAyX

Noun [German]

Head templates: {{head|de|noun}} HB
  1. (Switzerland) Initialism of Hauptbahnhof (“central/main train station”). Wikipedia link: de:HB Tags: Switzerland, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: Hauptbahnhof (extra: central/main train station) Synonyms: Hbf.

Noun [Norwegian Bokmål]

IPA: /ˈhoːbə/ Audio: nb-hb.ogg
Rhymes: -oːbə Head templates: {{head|nb|noun}} HB
  1. Initialism of hjemmebrent (“moonshine”). Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: hjemmebrent (extra: moonshine) Derived forms: HB-apparat (english: apparatus for distilling moonshine)
    Sense id: en-HB-nb-noun-oNLOQyfn Categories (other): Norwegian Bokmål entries with incorrect language header

Noun [Swedish]

Head templates: {{head|sv|noun}} HB
  1. Initialism of handelsbolag (“general partnership”). Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: handelsbolag (extra: general partnership)
    Sense id: en-HB-sv-noun-FKZ7O4jr Categories (other): Swedish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Swedish entries with incorrect language header: 70 30
  2. (slang) Initialism of hembränt (“moonshine”). Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, slang Alternative form of: hembränt (extra: moonshine) Synonyms: hb
    Sense id: en-HB-sv-noun-EgdnHjN~

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for HB meaning in All languages combined (12.5kB)

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        "Initialism of homebirth."
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        "(health) Initialism of homebirth."
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        "alt-of",
        "initialism"
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        "health",
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
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        "politics"
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        "(American football) Initialism of halfback."
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        "ball-games",
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        "lifestyle",
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        "Norwegian Bokmål terms with audio links",
        "Norwegian Bokmål terms with quotations",
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        "Initialism of hjemmebrent (“moonshine”)."
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        "alt-of",
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    "Swedish lemmas",
    "Swedish nouns"
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      "name": "head"
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  "lang_code": "sv",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
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          "word": "handelsbolag"
        }
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      "categories": [
        "Swedish initialisms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Initialism of handelsbolag (“general partnership”)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "handelsbolag",
          "handelsbolag#Swedish"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "initialism"
      ]
    },
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "moonshine",
          "word": "hembränt"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "Swedish initialisms",
        "Swedish slang",
        "Swedish terms with usage examples"
      ],
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        {
          "english": "Did anyone get moonshine?",
          "text": "Har nån fixat HB?",
          "type": "example"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "Initialism of hembränt (“moonshine”)."
      ],
      "links": [
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          "hembränt#Swedish"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) Initialism of hembränt (“moonshine”)."
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        "alt-of",
        "initialism",
        "slang"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.