Cb

¹ American  

Symbol, Chemistry.

1. columbium.

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CB ² American  

1. Citizens Band.

2. Military. construction battalion.

3. continental breakfast.

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C.B. ³ American  

abbreviation

1. Bachelor of Surgery.

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C.B. ⁴ American  

abbreviation

1. British. Companion of the Bath.

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CB ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. Citizens' Band

2. Companion of the (Order of the) Bath (an English title)

3. County Borough

4. (in Canada) Cape Breton Island

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Cb ² British  

symbol

1. columbium

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cb ³ British  

abbreviation

1. centre of buoyancy (of a boat, etc)

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Etymology

Origin of C.B.

From Latin Chīrurgiae Baccalaureus

Example Sentences

G.235.We must now except the seventh century corrector of Cod. א called by Tischendorf Ca, who actually changes the original reading εκδ. into ενδ., to be himself set right by a later hand Cb.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose

Cb Enter alphabetically, names of authors, with the title of their works, one author to a line.

From A Library Primer by Dana, John Cotton

A third type of circuit, also fourfold, is represented by the arrows Bc Cn Nc Cb.

From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Phillips, Chester Arthur

Thus C stands for carbon, Cl for chlorine, Cd for cadmium, Ce for cerium, Cb for columbium.

From An Elementary Study of Chemistry by McPherson, William

The first, Oc, is contained within the circuit Bo Oc Cb and, since no "nondepositors" intervene, represents money changing hands once between its withdrawal from bank and its redeposit there.

From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Phillips, Chester Arthur

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