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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

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

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

Draw Sa, Sb, and from a draw aD to point of distance, which cuts Sb at o, and determines the depth of the square acob.

From The Theory and Practice of Perspective by G. A. (George Adolphus) Storey

An alloy of Sb and Pb is employed for type-metal as it expands at the instant of solidification.

From An Introduction to Chemical Science by Rufus Phillips Williams

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

The sb. slaisterer, "a slink, an untidy person," is also found.

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom

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

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

Gleit, sb. literally "anything shining," used in Palace of Honour, II, 8, for polish of speech.

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom

Maistri, sb. mastery, lordship 2.37; pl. maistres 12.26.

From Erthe Upon Erthe by Various

In August he helped lock in a 10-gigawatt data center lease with SB Energy that came with a financial guarantee from Nvidia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

SB Energy is behind a 10-gigawatt project in Ohio for OpenAI and says that it has more than $400 billion in its backlog, a figure representing estimated future revenue based on binding customer contracts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

The company joined a host of private companies that reportedly delayed their anticipated IPO plans, including SoftBank-backed SB Energy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

“When disaster strikes, families shouldn’t have to face a second disaster in the claims process. SB 876 modernizes laws that were written for a different era,” Padilla said in a statement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

From each division draw lines to 8th distance; by their intersections with SB we obtain 80 measurements of 40, 80, 120, 160, &c., feet.

From The Theory and Practice of Perspective by G. A. (George Adolphus) Storey

Check out: Just 18 miles east of S.B. on the coast highway you’ll find the small town of Carpinteria, which has one of the state’s kid-friendliest beaches and a Main Street vibe along Linden Avenue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

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

In 2024, however, a group of self-described “non-African Americans” challenged S.B.

From Slate ● Mar. 24, 2025

This manifests in another thing you and I have been thinking about, which is the 5th Circuit’s song and dance over S.B.

From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2024

The rest of the needed detectives also came in, and Dave was soon busy posting his men to patrol the S.B.

From The Young Engineers in Colorado Or, At Railwood Building in Earnest by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

"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

Norse kilte, to tuck up, O. Sw. kilta, sb.

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom

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

Transverse section at the engine-room. rb Rudder-well. sb Propeller-well.

From Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I by Fridtjof Nansen

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