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Definitions
- 1. Belgium
- 2. Belgian
- 3. to compare
- 4. (followed by a noun and adjective) more {adj.} than {noun}
- 5. ratio
- 6. to gesture
- 7. (Taiwan pr. [bì] in some compounds derived from Classical Chinese)
Example Sentences
1 shown他媽媽看起來 比 實際年齡年輕。
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Words Containing 比
signal-to-noise ratio
pentasorbital sodium (a sedative)
Shakespeare (name)
beauty contest
for example
Bia, daughter of Pallas and Styx in Greek mythology, personification of violence
lit. even a scrawny camel is bigger than a horse (idiom)
to be just like; can be compared to
to start a match
Iberia
Port Moresby, capital of Papua New Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Abidjan (city in Ivory Coast)
rupee (Indian currency) (loanword)
comparatively speaking
close friend in a distant land, far-flung realms as next door
can be compared
lit. a pair of birds flying close together (idiom)
proportion
rabbi (loanword)
pizza (loanword)
Pretoria, capital of South Africa
percentage by volume
Kobe Bryant (1978-2020), Los Angeles Lakers NBA star
libido (loanword)
(Internet slang) to form a hand heart using one's thumb and forefinger (or by using both hands)
(bird species of China) Bianchi's warbler (Seicercus valentini)
Buddhist monk (loanword from Sanskrit \bhiksu\)
Mozambique
Białystok, city in Poland
unlike
Rebiya Kadeer or Rabiye Qadir (1947-), Uighur businesswoman and activist, imprisoned 1999-2005, then president of the World Uighur Congress
Live as long as the Zhongnan Mountains! (idiom)
Mississippi, US state
Barbie
BYD Auto, PRC car company
to give a thumbs-up
to conspire
to liken to
Dolby (audio technology)
compression ratio
equality ration fund, a charitable investment fund that can be drawn down in proportion to further donations
(statistics) period on period (i.e. \month on month\ or \quarter on quarter\ etc, depending on the context)
computer metaphor
Buddhist nun (loanword from Sanskrit \bhiksuni\)
boxing match
to compete fiercely
(statistics) compared with the same period of the previous year; year on year; year over year
bikini (loanword)
P⁄E ratio (price-to-earnings ratio)
aminopyrine (loanword)
proportional to inverse square (physics)
transmission ratio
lit. don't worry about not knowing goods, but about comparing them (proverb)
Aibi Lake (Ebinur) in Xinjiang
Bizet (name)
Bitcoin (cryptocurrency)
Abyssinia, historical name of Ethiopia
hurdling
Nubia
compound ratio
Bienne, Switzerland
Amharic (language)
(flying) wing to wing
(literary) every year; year after year
Caribbean
Chesapeake Bay
Hobbit
antipyrine (loanword)
Hibiya Park in central Tokyo
Rugby (game)
by comparison
far-flung realms as next door (idiom)
(literary) when
pit bull (loanword)
to compare
Rabiye or Rebiya (name)
Snoopy (comic strip pet dog)
lately
chemical colorimetry
Thebes, place name in ancient Egypt
British Columbia, Pacific province of Canada
Ethiopic (language)
Sotheby's auction house
price relations
São Tomé and Príncipe
Kobe Bryant
Justin Bieber (1994-), Canadian singer
row upon row
(loanword) daddy
burpee (loanword)
Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)
District of Columbia, USA
specific heat
Ethiopian Zone, aka Afrotropical realm
analogy
burpee (loanword)
amobarbital (drug) (loanword)
score
kopeck (unit of money, one hundredth of ruble) (loanword)
to be comparable to
(electronics) common-mode rejection ratio (CMRR)
cannot compare to
Philip
Bill (name)
specific humidity
Abiud (son of Zerubbabel)
stadium
Abilene
for example
analogy strategies
Rabiye or Rebiya (name)
see 本那比市[běn nà bǐ shì]
lit. a hair plucked from (person A) would be thicker than (person B)'s waist (idiom)
Mississippi
to contrast
stroke play (golf)
Bishkek, capital of Kyrgyzstan
British Columbia, Pacific province of Canada
to compare
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien 托爾金|托尔金
comparatively (colloquial)
see 庫布里克|库布里克[kù bù lǐ kè]
proportion
to evaluate (by comparison)
Bihar, state in eastern India
Cupid (Eros)
specific volume
Machu Picchu
sporting competition
bit (binary digit) (loanword)
Libya
Abby or Abi (name, sometimes short for Abigail)
Babylon
Ebinur River in Xinjiang
to make a comparison
constantly comparing oneself to others will only make one angry (proverb)
absolute (not liable to comparative degree)
Bissau, capital of Guinea-Bissau
word association
Colombia
Caribbean Sea
BYD Company (company name)
temperature contrast
Rebiya Kadeer or Rabiye Qadir (1947-), Uighur businesswoman and activist, imprisoned 1999-2005, then president of the World Uighur Congress
Beverly Hills
geometric progression
Baume hydrometer
to compare two unsatisfactory things
see 天涯若比鄰|天涯若比邻[tiān yá ruò bǐ lín]
Hajdú-Bihar county in east Hungary on the border with Romania, capital Debrecen 德布勒森
lined up close (like teeth of a comb)
to fall short of the best but be better than the worst
Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines
Pontius Pilate (in the Biblical passion story)
Snoopy (comic strip pet dog)
to liken to
extremely ugly
martial arts competition
Bikini atoll, French nuclear test site in South Pacific
compound ratio (i.e. the product of two or more ratios)
Leipzig, city in the state of Saxony, Germany
Zambia
colorimetric analysis
see 比基尼[bǐ jī ní]
inverse square law (physics)
geometric series (such as 1+2+4+8+...)
to shop around (idiom)
Pisa, town in Toscana, Italy
comparative analysis
direct proportionality
In the sky to be two birds flying wing to wing, on earth to be two trees with branches intertwined
to gesture
ratio; rate; proportion
color contrast
to be shoulder to shoulder
proportion of those present and voting
Pinot noir (grape type)
wasabi (loanword)
the pen is mightier than the sword (idiom)
figurative meaning (of a word)
having matchless strength
competition (sports etc)
(wing) aspect ratio (aerodynamics)
to compare
(slang) silly but amusing person
Abyssinian (person)
sporting event
Beelzebub
peso (currency in Latin America) (loanword)
contest
barbitone
intimate
Bielefeld (city in Germany)
Pelé (1940-), Edson Arantes Do Nascimento, Brazilian football star
to defeat; to be superior to
Cupid, son of Venus and Mars, Roman god of love and beauty
Hajdú-Bihar province of east Hungary on the border with Romania
Mississippi River
to put oneself in sb else's shoes (idiom)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), English Romantic poet
Bi Gan (Chinese god of wealth)
stripping-to-ore ratio
inverse-square law (physics)
to vary inversely
to have a competition
time trial (e.g. in cycle race)
neighbor
according to
contrast (balance of black and white in TV screen setup)
comparative degree
Iberian Peninsula
to draw a parallel
Epistle of St Paul to the Philippians
Bill Gates (1955-), co-founder of Microsoft
British Columbia, Pacific province of Canada
Leaning Tower of Pisa
(slang) BBQ
sex ratio
to flog
lit. don't worry about not knowing goods, but about comparing them (proverb)
comparison
equity ratio
Bay of Biscay
direct ratio
Ardabil in Azerbaijan region of Iran
incomparable
for example; for instance
cost-performance ratio
to be as kind and benevolent as heaven (idiom)
to compare
to fly wing to wing (idiom)
comparable
Liberia
T'bilisi, capital of Georgia 格魯吉亞|格鲁吉亚[gé lǔ jí yà]
parallelism (rhetoric)
compared with
Belgium
tournament (contest in Western chivalry)
Gambia
flatfish
lit. even harder than reaching the sky (idiom)
to liken to
analogy
Karabilah (Iraqi city)
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
to gesticulate
burpee (loanword)
percentage
inversely proportional
can be found everywhere
Taiwan pr. [bì bǔ]
shop around first and you won't get ripped off (idiom)
yield-to-weight ratio (of a nuclear weapon)
Ethiopia
Gatsby
to make invidious comparisons
to gesticulate
halibut
to measure roughly (with the hand, a stick, string etc)
Pyrenees mountains
Funcinpec (royalist Cambodian political party)
Abu Dhabi, capital of United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Pyrenees mountains
Wahhabism (a conservative sect of Islam)
Naypyidaw or Nay Pyi Taw, capital of Myanmar
ratio
Association of Caribbean States
ancient Babylon
comparative literature
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), poet and playwright
can't compare with
Biru county, Tibetan: 'Bri ru rdzong, in Nagchu prefecture 那曲地區|那曲地区[nà qǔ dì qū], central Tibet
marathon (sports)
Namibia
Bilbo Baggins, hero of Tolkien's The Hobbit 霍比特人
scale
things are very different now (idiom)
Columbia University
geometric (of mathematical sequences or progressions)
incomparable