neb
IPA: nˈɛb
noun
- (now dialectal) A bird's beak or bill.
- (obsolete) A person's mouth.
- (now dialectal) A person's nose.
- (now dialectal) The peak of a flat cap.
- (now dialectal) The nose or snout of an animal, now especially of a fish.
- (now dialectal) A projecting extremity; a point or sharp projection.
- (now dialectal) A nib, as of a pen.
- (astronomy) Initialism of North Equatorial Band.
- (UK, historical) Initialism of National Enterprise Board.
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Examples of "neb" in Sentences
- Al – but we needed to invade Iraq, right? neb Says:
- I order a portable chest X-ray and an albuterol neb.
- The NEB is one of the most active belts on the planet.
- Representation on the NEB is proportionate to membership.
- NEB may play a role as chemoreceptors in hypoxia medical detection.
- The memory and microprocessor company Inmos was set up by the NEB in 1978.
- PNEC and NEB exist from fetal stage and neonatal stage in lungs airway area.
- Rebecca arrives in less than a minute and asks the nurses to get a racemic epinephrine neb.
- Some cities — Cleveland, Detroit and St. Louis — shrank to one-half or less of their former size. neb Says:
- The figure is standing on a basket called a neb, which in ancient Egyptian iconography signifies a ruler or deity.
- The current thinking on Neanderthal physiology includes a neb which is capable of a large throughput, such as that.
- Now he plays soccer, baseball and football, knows his peak number, when he needs the neb, and when the inhaler will do.
- It is only rarely, and at a later period, that prophecy is called nebû'ah, a cognate of nabî '; more ordinarily we find hazôn, vision, or word of God, oracle
- He had created an empathy with that part of his native county's audience, "one of us" who had given the stuffed shirts and jazz-hatters down south "a bloodied neb", metaphorically at least.