Dictionary Entry
bill
bill is a 4-letter English word with 31 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 9 · 31 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal.
- 2intransitive verb
To strike; to peck.
- 3intransitive verb
To join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness.
- 4noun
The bell, or boom, of the bittern
- 5noun
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.
- 6noun
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.
- 7noun
One who wields a bill; a billman.
- 8noun
A pickax, or mattock.
- 9noun
The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke.
- 10transitive verb
To work upon ( as to dig, hoe, hack, or chop anything) with a bill.
- 11noun
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.
- 12noun
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.
- 13noun
A form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
- 14noun
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.
- 15noun
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.
- 16noun
Any paper, containing a statement of particulars; as, a bill of charges or expenditures; a weekly bill of mortality; a bill of fare, etc.
- 17transitive verb
To advertise by a bill or public notice.
- 18transitive verb
To charge or enter in a bill; as, to bill goods.
- 19noun
the entertainment offered at a public presentation
- 20noun
horny projecting mouth of a bird
- 21noun
a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes
"he pulled down the bill of his cap and trudged ahead"
- 22noun
a long-handled saw with a curved blade
"he used a bill to prune branches off of the tree"
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- 23noun
a list of particulars (as a playbill or bill of fare)
- 24noun
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"
- 25noun
a statute in draft before it becomes law
"they held a public hearing on the bill"
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- 26noun
a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement
"a poster advertised the coming attractions"
- 27noun
an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution
"he mailed the circular to all subscribers"
- 28noun
a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank)
"he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes"
- 29verb
advertise especially by posters or placards
"He was billed as the greatest tenor since Caruso"
- 30verb
publicize or announce by placards
Synonyms
- 31verb
demand payment
"Will I get charged for this service?"
"We were billed for 4 nights in the hotel, although we stayed only 3 nights"
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