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Definition of 'BILL'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) bill
a statement of money owed for goods or services supplied.

2.  bill
a piece of paper money worth a specified amount:
a ten-dollar bill.

3.  bill
a form or draft of a proposed statute presented to a legislature, but not yet enacted or passed and made law.

4.  bill
a written or printed public notice or advertisement.

5.  bill
any written statement of particulars.

6.  bill
a written statement, usu. of complaint, presented to a court.

7.  bill
Informal. a one-hundred-dollar bill or the sum of one hundred dollars.

8.  bill
entertainment scheduled for presentation; program:
a good bill at the movies.

9. (v.t.) bill
to send a list of charges to.

10.  bill
to enter (charges) in a bill.

11.  bill
to advertise (something) by bill or public notice.

12.  bill
to schedule on a program:
to bill the play for two weeks.

13.  bill
fill the bill, to fulfill a particular need.

14. (n.) bill
the parts of a bird's jaws that are covered with a horny or leathery sheath; beak.

15.  bill
the visor of a cap.

16.  bill
a beaklike headland.

17. (v.i.) bill
to join bills, as doves.

18.  bill
bill and coo, to kiss or fondle and whisper endearments.

19. (n.) bill
a medieval shafted weapon having at its head a hooklike cutting blade with a beak at the back.

20.  bill
the extremity of a fluke of an anchor.

Etymology: (1570–80)

Definition of 'BILL'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) bill, measure
a statute in draft before it becomes law
"they held a public hearing on the bill"

2. (noun) bill, account, invoice
an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered
"he paid his bill and left"; "send me an account of what I owe"

3. (noun) bill, note, government note, bank bill, banker's bill, bank note, banknote, Federal Reserve note, greenback
a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank)
"he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes"

4. (noun) bill
the entertainment offered at a public presentation

5. (noun) circular, handbill, bill, broadside, broadsheet, flier, flyer, throwaway
an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution
"he mailed the circular to all subscribers"

6. (noun) poster, posting, placard, notice, bill, card
a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement
"a poster advertised the coming attractions"

7. (noun) bill
a list of particulars (as a playbill or bill of fare)

8. (noun) bill, billhook
a long-handled saw with a curved blade
"he used a bill to prune branches off of the tree"

9. (noun) bill, peak, eyeshade, visor, vizor
a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes
"he pulled down the bill of his cap and trudged ahead"

10. (verb) beak, bill, neb, nib, pecker
horny projecting mouth of a bird

11. (verb) charge, bill
demand payment
"Will I get charged for this service?"; "We were billed for 4 nights in the hotel, although we stayed only 3 nights"

12. (verb) bill
advertise especially by posters or placards
"He was billed as the greatest tenor since Caruso"

13. (verb) placard, bill
publicize or announce by placards

Definition of 'BILL'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) bill
a written statement of money owed
to pay the electricity bill

2.  bill
a piece of paper money
a ten dollar bill

3.  bill
a proposal for a law in Congress, Parliament, etc.
to vote on the energy bill; to pass the bill into law

4.  bill
a check in a restaurant
Can I have the bill, please?

5.  bill
a bird's beak
a duck's bill

6. (verb) bill
to send a written statement asking for money owed
They billed me for two subscriptions.

Definition of 'BILL'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) BILL
a beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal

2. (noun) BILL
the bell, or boom, of the bittern

3. (noun) BILL
a cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle; -- used in pruning, etc.; a billhook. When short, called a hand bill, when long, a hedge bill

4. (noun) BILL
a weapon of infantry, in the 14th and 15th centuries. A common form of bill consisted of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, having a short pike at the back and another at the top, and attached to the end of a long staff

5. (noun) BILL
one who wields a bill; a billman

6. (noun) BILL
a pickax, or mattock

7. (noun) BILL
the extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke

8. (noun) BILL
a declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law

9. (noun) BILL
a writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document

10. (noun) BILL
a form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law

11. (noun) BILL
a paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods; a placard; a poster; a handbill

12. (noun) BILL
an account of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; a statement of a creditor's claim, in gross or by items; as, a grocer's bill

13. (noun) BILL
any paper, containing a statement of particulars; as, a bill of charges or expenditures; a weekly bill of mortality; a bill of fare, etc

14. (verb) BILL
to strike; to peck

15. (verb) BILL
to join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness

16. (verb) BILL
to work upon ( as to dig, hoe, hack, or chop anything) with a bill

17. (verb) BILL
to advertise by a bill or public notice

18. (verb) BILL
to charge or enter in a bill; as, to bill goods

Definition of 'BILL'

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

1. BILL
A ship

Translation of 'BILL'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a bird's beak a bird with a yellow bill.
Afrikaans: snawel	Arabic: مِنْقار	Bulgarian: човка
Brazilian: bico	Czech: zobák	German: der Schnabel
Danish: næb	Greek: ράμφος	Spanish: pico
Estonian: nokk	Farsi: نوک	Finnish: linnun nokka
French: bec	Hebrew: מָקוֹר	Hindi: चोंच
Croatian: ptičji kljun	Hungarian: csőr	Indonesian: paruh
Icelandic: fuglsnef, goggur	Italian: becco	Japanese: くちばし
Korean: 부리	Lithuanian: snapas	Latvian: knābis
Malay: paruh	Dutch: snavel	Norwegian: nebb
Polish: dziób	Persian: نوک	Pashto: مشوکه څوکه
Portuguese: bico	Romanian: cioc	Russian: клюв
Slovak: zobák	Slovenian: kljun	Serbian: kljun
Swedish: näbb	Thai: ปากนก	Turkish: gaga
Taiwanese: 鳥喙	Ukrainian: дзьоб	Urdu: زرد چونچ والا پرندہ
Vietnamese: mỏ (chim)	Chinese: （鸟类）喙
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