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noun
- idle, Idle talk; senseless prattle; gabble; twaddle.
- "This is mere moral ." Milton.
- inarticulate, Inarticulate speech, such as was used at the building the tower of Babel; constant or confused murmur.
- Quotations
- The of our young children. - Darwin.
- The of the stream. - Tennyson.
- A sound of or alike that which of flowing water.
verb (babbl, ing)
- (intransitive) To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as, a child babbles.
- (intransitive) To talk incoherently; to utter unmeaning words.
- (intransitive) To talk much; to chatter; to prate.
- (intransitive) To make a continuous murmuring noise, as shallow water running over stones.
- In every babbling brook he finds a friend. - Wordsworth.
- Hounds are said to babble, or to be babbling, when they are too noisy after having found a good scent.
- (transitive) To utter in an indistinct or incoherent way; to repeat, as words, in a childish way without understanding.
- These words he used to in all companies. - Arbuthnot.
- (transitive) To disclose by too free talk, as a secret.
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noun
- One's social heritage; what one did in the past/previously.
- The lawyer had a in computer science.
- A part of the picture that depicts scenery to the rear or behind the main subject. Context.
- Information relevant to the current situation about past events; history.
- A less important feature of scenery (as opposed to foreground.)
- There was tons of noise in the .
- The photographer let us pick a for the portrait.
- (computing): (Windows): The solid color that provides contrast with items (usually icons) appearing on it.
- (computing): Activity on a computer that is not normally visible to the user
- The antivirus program is running in the .
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noun
- the width, usually measured in hertz, of a frequency band.
- of a signal, the width of the smallest frequency band within which the signal can fit
- (networking) a measure of data flow rate in digital networks typically in bits per second
- (informal) the capacity, energy or time required
- I think it's a worthy project, but I just don't have the right now.
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noun
- Something that makes a beeping sound
- A pager
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noun
- The letter B in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
- A hired thug; an assassin.
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noun - (telecommunications) A wide band of electromagnetic frequencies
- (Internet) An internet connection with a much larger capacity than dial-up or ISDN.
adjective - (telecommunications) Of, pertaining to, or carrying a a wide band of electromagnetic frequency, frequencies
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proper noun
- the Bug River, flowing northwest 450 mile, mi. between Belarus and Poland.
- the Bug River in the Ukraine, flowing 530 mile, mi. to the Dnieper estuary.
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verb (busies, busying, busied)
- To make somebody , to keep busy with, to occupy, to make occupied.
- On my vacation I'll myself with gardening.
- To rush somebody.
adjective (busier, busiest)
- Doing a great deal; having a lot of things to do in the space of time given
- It has been a day.
- engaged, Engaged in another activity or by someone else.
- The director cannot see you now, he's .
- Her telephone has been all day.
- Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.
- Flowers, stripes, and checks in the same fabric make for a pattern.
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