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  • Sb
    Sb
    antimony.
  • sb.
    sb.
    abbreviation
    substantive.
  • SB
    SB
    abbreviation
    Senate Bill.
  • s.b.
    s.b.
    abbreviation
    stolen base; stolen bases.
  • S.B.
    S.B.
    abbreviation
    Bachelor of Science.
  • sb
    sb
    abbreviation
    Solomon Islands

Sb

1 American  
Symbol, Chemistry.
  1. antimony.


sb. 2 American  

abbreviation

  1. substantive.


SB 3 American  

abbreviation

  1. U.S. Government. Senate Bill.


s.b. 4 American  

abbreviation

  1. Baseball. stolen base; stolen bases.


S.B. 5 American  

abbreviation

  1. Bachelor of Science.


S.B. 6 American  

abbreviation

  1. South Britain (England and Wales).


Sb 1 British  

symbol

  1. antimony

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

sb 2 British  

abbreviation

  1. Solomon Islands

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

sb. 3 British  

abbreviation

  1. substantive

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Usage

What else does SB mean? Short for snapback, SB is used on social media platform Snapchat for when you want a user to respond back to a snap, or "message."How is SB pronounced?[ es-bee ]

Etymology

Origin of Sb1

From the Late Latin word stibium

Origin of S.B.5

From Latin Scientiae Baccalaureus

Example Sentences

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Of the five elements Sn, Si, Sb, O, Te, which has the most endothermic reaction?

From Textbooks Feb. 14, 2019

Customized perl scripts were used to identify gene insertions and deletions occurred in the syntenic blocks between Tu3 and Ta3B via detecting whether the orthologues in Bd, Os and Sb exist.

From Nature May 8, 2018

If a Ta3B gene had orthologues in at least two of Bd, Os and Sb but not on Tu3, a gene deletion was defined to have occurred on Tu3.

From Nature May 8, 2018

Sometimes decrepitates, fuses, and when very strongly heated, gives a red sublimate of ,,,Sb with ...Sb,

From A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe Being A Graduated Course Of Analysis For The Use Of Students And All Those Engaged In The Examination Of Metallic Combinations by Anonymous

Try the combustibility of As, Sb, and Cu.

From An Introduction to Chemical Science by Williams, Rufus Phillips

And, since we may go this way only once, why shouldn't sb. like Boies grab all the money he can?

From New York Times Nov. 7, 2017

Coveytous, sb. covetousness 33.55, Conf. of ending for covetise, OF. coveitise.

From Erthe Upon Erthe by Various

Carling, karling, carline, sb. an old woman, a slatternly woman.

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias

Sat = the poem ‘Christ and Satan,’ in Gr. sb. = substantive.

From A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by Hall, J. R. Clark (John R. Clark)

Oode, sb. odd 25.51, for oode ne for ewyne, for odd nor even, on no account.

From Erthe Upon Erthe by Various

SB 887 would ban data centers from receiving ministerial exemptions from the California Environmental Quality Act, known as CEQA.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 21, 2026

A separate IPO would list SB Energy, a midsize solar-power company that has become a data-center builder.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 4, 2026

A newly enacted corporate law, SB 2471, changes the powers that corporations, or other artificial persons like nonprofits, are granted by the state of Hawaii.

From Salon May 28, 2026

The Kaplans, along with Sharon Kroner, whose neighboring vintage boutique Owl Talk is facing the same fate, wrote to Systems Real Estate, citing SB 1103.

From Los Angeles Times May 21, 2026

In these two pencils SA coincides with its corresponding ray SA', SB with its corresponding ray SB', and SM with its corresponding ray SM'.

From An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry by Lehmer, Derrick Norman

He won his first term in the Legislature in 2016, then made his mark the next year when the state passed S.B.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 26, 2025

Meanwhile, White, the Texas researcher, says that S.B.

From Slate May 21, 2025

Maria Zamudio grew up in the shadow of S.B.

From New York Times Jun. 4, 2024

They also fear that the magistrate courts—which, under S.B.

From Slate Apr. 21, 2024

For wings and mechanism of flight, R. von Lendenfeld, S.B.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various

"Tax dollars at work! 18 hours and counting stuck sb i95," another user griped.

From Fox News Jan. 4, 2022

It would take about sb to eight weeks, even after an agreement in principle, to work ou all the technical details.

From Time Magazine Archive

A, Abdominal ganglion at the extremity of the twisted visceral “loop.” sp, Supra-intestinal visceral ganglion on the course of the right visceral cord. sb, Sub-intestinal ganglion on the course of the left visceral cord.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various

Dan. brodde means "to equip with points," a vb. later developed out of the sb.

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias

O. N. skuggi, shade, Norse skugge, to shade, Sw. skugga, sb.,

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias

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