lib
noun
lib
1 American
[lib]
/ lɪb /
lib.
2
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abbreviation
lib.
3
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abbreviation
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librarian.
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library.
Lib.
4
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lib.
1
British
abbreviation
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librarian
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library
Lib.
2
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abbreviation
lib
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/ lɪb /
noun
Etymology
Origin of lib1
First recorded in 1965–70; by shortening
Origin of lib.2
From the Latin word liber
Example Sentences
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“My character is like an early bird of women’s lib, which Bella becomes then too.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2024
"I've realised that usually I like to ad lib but you can't ad lib a script because your fellow actor doesn't know when you're going to stop talking."
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2023
To illustrate this, he recalls an actor leaning into his fan to deliver a line before spitting in his vicinity as an ab lib.
From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2022
There are conflicting stories about when the ad lib started.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2021
Dad had a good sense of theater, and he’d try to time this apparent ad lib so that it would coincide with the change in traffic.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
"It's very ad lib. So you're never really able to simulate what's going to happen."
From US News ● Nov. 5, 2015
Senior Account Manager - Digital Marketing Agency ad lib. windsor, berkshire. £27k - £35k.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2010
UK USA UK Browse more society jobs Digital Designers & Flash Designers ad lib. fancy the idea of joining a handpicked team of dig….
From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2010
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From The Guardian ● Mar. 21, 2010
Div. lib. vi.312.Chateaubriand very truly says, “qu'Orose et saint Augustin étoient plus occupés du schisme de Pélage que de la désolation de l'Afrique et des Gaules.”—Études histor. vime discours, 2de partie.
From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole
“I’m serious, Lib. If anything goes wrong, my parents’ll never let me leave home again. Ever.”
From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle
Isle, or any one that knoweth either learnyng or // Lib. iv.
From The Schoolmaster by Ascham, Roger
Imperial Lib. of St. Petersburg, communicated to the Bulletin de la Soc. de l'hist. du prot. fr., xxii.
From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Baird, Henry Martyn
But it seems most likely, as we have said, that embalming first arose from physical and sentimental considerations naturally operating, rather than from any 8 Lib. iii. cap.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville
Above and quite round the Steps Lib. 5.Chap. 6.Lib.
From An Abridgment of the Architecture of Vitruvius Containing a System of the Whole Works of that Author by Perrault, Claude
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