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bess

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for bess.

Editorial note

BTW, Bess Levin at the site I linked to below is great for irreverent and snarky comments about Wall Street.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of bess gathered in one view.

noun

A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth.

noun

(gay slang) A term applied to a fellow gay man, usually preceding an admonition.

noun

(military, US) Initialism of Basic Enlisted Submarine School.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for bess.

noun

A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth.

noun

(gay slang) A term applied to a fellow gay man, usually preceding an admonition.

noun

(military, US) Initialism of Basic Enlisted Submarine School.

noun

(medicine) Initialism of biportal endoscopic spine surgery.

Example sentences

1

BTW, Bess Levin at the site I linked to below is great for irreverent and snarky comments about Wall Street.

2

And God bess the brave who lost their lives in the Ukraine.

3

Alice will select a point A on the edge PQ, then Bess will select a point B on the edge PR, then Cath will select a point C on the edge QR.

4

For a german household with highest prices in EU payback would be in about 4y assuming 40ct/kwh But realistically many will not even buy a bess not being able to capture all solar output and many will have worse solar conditions.

5

They don’t." - because in many places of the world solar+bess are not sufficient.

6

As Sportin' Life says in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess: ‘Methusaleh lived nine hundred years.

7

The common musket at the time -- The Brown Bess -- was smooth bore with a 0.75" caliber and a bead sight, i.e., a 12 gauge shotgun.

8

Bess picks a second point B, and Cath then picks a point C.

9

Sounds like you might be talking about Jake Seliger, and indeed, his and Bess' fight to get treatments was rather eye-opening for me too.

10

As everyone knows, each sister will make her choices purely to maximize the area of her own share, except that Alice and Bess, if their own shares are unaffected, will act to the advantage of the youngest sister Cath.

11

Besides, a lot of home solar are grid followers - if there's a blackout, it'll shut down too unless you have a special invertor+bess which many dont have (yet) "And that was before drone wars were a thing." - a drone would do nothing to a NPP.

12

An interesting and related problem, from the Sydney University Maths Competition [0] 2007 [1] goes as follows: The sisters Alice, Bess, and Cath are fighting over a triangular pizza, which may be imagined as a triangle PQR.

Quote examples

1

They don’t." - because in many places of the world solar+bess are not sufficient.

2

The common musket at the time -- The Brown Bess -- was smooth bore with a 0.75" caliber and a bead sight, i.e., a 12 gauge shotgun.

3

Besides, a lot of home solar are grid followers - if there's a blackout, it'll shut down too unless you have a special invertor+bess which many dont have (yet) "And that was before drone wars were a thing." - a drone would do nothing to a NPP.

4

I live in Ithaca, and crossing one of our many gorges generates grades of +/- 150% (as an example, try starting at "Arts Quad, Ithaca, NY" and ending at "Bess Brown Center, Ithaca, NY").

Proper noun examples

1

As Sportin' Life says in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess: ‘Methusaleh lived nine hundred years.

2

Bess picks a second point B, and Cath then picks a point C.

3

Sounds like you might be talking about Jake Seliger, and indeed, his and Bess' fight to get treatments was rather eye-opening for me too.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use bess in a sentence?

BTW, Bess Levin at the site I linked to below is great for irreverent and snarky comments about Wall Street.

What does bess mean?

A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth.

What part of speech is bess?

bess is commonly used as noun.