attractive and fashionable /J\ Vj %£ W; M 3£ fJr $j5 :

The house was terribly small and cramped, but the agent described it as a bijou residence, 7 4'        #fj #r, ft

bike £Ht /baik/ noun, verb

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* verb 1 [V, usually +adv./prep.] (informal) to go some­where on a bicycle or motorcycle 1$ @        ^

$ ) ; !»ft: My dad bikes to work every day.

A lt ft.1: IS o 2 [VN] (informal) to send sth to sb by motorcycle    I’ll bike the contract over to

you this afternoon, A 7 ft   ft ft 7 #1 o' fnl *p ft i£

xlft0 ► bik ing noun [U]: The activities on offer include sailing and mountain biking.    g

z&ifflli!ifelfto — compare bicycle, cycle ‘bike lane noun (NAmE, informal) = cycle lane biker /’baika(r)/ noun 1 a person who rides a motor­cycle, usually as a member of a large group A(ftAA@HA,$cM) 2a person who rides a bicycle, especially a mountain bike It ^ft ft^J A ( ASsItliilfe iftft# )

bikie /'baiki/ noun (AustralE, NZE, informal) a member of a group of people who ride motorcycles j?jjft{ft|A/i£ S bi-kini /bi'kiini/ noun a piece of clothing in two pieces that women wear for swimming and lying in the sun tfc

bi'kini line noun the area of skin around the bottom half of a bikini and the hair that grows there, which some women remove ttS/SH (

bikky = BICKY

bi la bial /.bai'leibial/ noun (phonetics iH ft) a speech sound made by using both lips, such as /b/ /p/ and /m/ in /buy/ /pie/ and /my/        ► bilabial adj.

bi lat eral /.bai'lseteral/ adj. 1 involving two groups of people or two countries M ft (ft ; M&tfJ:   bilateral

relations/agreements/trade/talks ft iift 7 /#$ /

D / ft ^ij 2 (medical |g) involving both of two parts or sides of the body or brain (  ##

ft];   ( AJ® )      ► bi-laterally adv. —compare

MULTILATERAL, TRILATERAL, UNILATERAL

bi,lateral 'symmetry noun [U] the fact of the two halves of sth on either side of a particular line being exactly the same Mill ft ft; ftftftft bil-berry /'bilbori; NAmE beri/ noun (pi. -ies) a small dark blue berry that grows on bushes on hills and in woods in northern Europe and can be eaten. The bush is also called a bilberry. MIMM (

El® 1ft ftl# ) — compare blueberry bilby /'bilbi/ noun (pi. -ies) a small Australasian animal with a long nose, a long tail and big ears  ( ft

iftMAMM ):

bile /bail/ noun [U] 1 the greenish brown liquid with a bitter unpleasant taste that is produced by the liver to help the body to deal with the fats we eat, and that can come into your mouth when you vomit with an empty stomach JJS vf 2 (formal) anger or hatred      If tg:

The critic’s review of the play was just a paragraph of bile.

‘bile duct noun the tube that carries bile from the liver and the gall bladder to the duodenum fluff bilge /bild3/ noun 1 [C] (also bilges [pi.]) the almost flat part of the bottom of a boat or a ship, inside or outside Afttfr; ]|Sif 2 (also bilge water) [U] dirty water that collects in a ship’s bilge ItsfftvJc bil har zia /biThaitsia; NAmE -'ha:rt-/ noun [u] a serious disease, common in parts of Africa and S America, caused by small worms that get into the blood giftfK ft^,

biliary /'biliari; NAmE -eri/ adj. (medical j£) relating to bile or to the bile duct fllffft; ISHft