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Collins Primary Illustrated Dictionary

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2019
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ADJECTIVE 1 difficult to deal with • an awkward situation

2 clumsy and uncomfortable • The large bag was awkward to carry.

[from Old Norse ofugr meaning turned the wrong way]

axe axes

NOUN a tool with a handle and a sharp blade, used for chopping wood

axis axes

NOUN 1 an imaginary line through the middle of something, around which it moves • The earth turns on its axis.

2 one of the two sides of a graph

axle axles

NOUN the long bar that connects a pair of wheels on a vehicle

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babble babbles, babbling, babbled

VERB If someone babbles, they talk in a quick and confused way that is difficult to understand.

baboon baboons

NOUN an African monkey with a pointed face, large teeth and a long tail

baby babies

NOUN a child in the first year or two of its life

baby-sit baby-sits, baby-sitting, baby-sat

VERB If you baby-sit for someone, you look after their children while they are out.

bachelor bachelors

NOUN a man who has never been married

back backs, backing, backed

ADVERB 1 When people or things move back, they move in the opposite direction to the one they are facing.

2 When you go back to a place or situation, you return to it. • She went back to sleep.

NOUN 3 the rear part of your body

ADJECTIVE 4 The back parts of something are the ones at the rear. • the dog’s back legs

VERB 5 If a building backs on to something, the back of it faces in that direction.

backbone backbones

NOUN the column of linked bones along the middle of the back of a human and other vertebrates

background backgrounds

NOUN 1 the things in a picture or scene that are less noticeable than the main things

2 the kind of home you come from, and your education and experience

backstroke

NOUN a style of swimming movement on your back

backward

ADJECTIVE If you take a backward look, you look behind you.

backwards

ADVERB 1 If you move backwards, you move to a place behind you.

2 If you do something backwards, you do it opposite to the usual way. • He told them to count backwards from 20 to 5.

bacon

NOUN meat from the back or sides of a pig, which has been salted or smoked

bacteria

PLURAL NOUN very tiny organisms that can cause disease

[from Greek bakterion meaning little rod; some bacteria are rod-shaped]

bacterial ADJECTIVE

bad worse, worst

ADJECTIVE 1 Bad things are harmful or upsetting. • I have some bad news.

SYNONYMS: distressing, grave, terrible

2 not enough or of poor quality • We thought the film was very bad.

3 Bad food is not fresh.
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