Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word bill. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in bill.
Definitions and meaning of bill
bill
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /bɪl/, enPR: bîl
(Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): [bɪɫ]
(l-vocalizing: UK, General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): [bɪo̯], [bɪʊ̯]
Rhymes: -ɪl
Etymology 1
From Middle Englishbille, from Anglo-Normanbille, from Old Frenchbulle, from Medieval Latinbulla(“seal", "sealed document”). Compare bull.
Noun
bill (pluralbills)
A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.)
A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.)
A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
Synonym:measure
(obsolete, law) 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.
(US, Canada) A piece of paper money; a banknote.
(slang, Canada, US) One hundred dollars.
(slang, UK) One hundred pounds sterling.
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A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; an invoice.
Synonyms:account, invoice
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 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; a bill of exchange. In the United States, it is usually called a note, a note of hand, or a promissory note.
Synonyms:bank bill, banker's bill, bank note, banknote, Federal Reserve note, government note, greenback, note
A set of items presented together.
Derived terms
Descendants
→ Swahili: bili
→ Thai: บิล(bin)
→ Tokelauan: pili
→ Jamaican Creole: bills
Translations
See also
check
Verb
bill (third-person singular simple presentbills, present participlebilling, simple past and past participlebilled)
(transitive) To advertise by a bill or public notice.
Synonym:placard
(transitive) To charge; to send a bill to.
Synonym:charge
Derived terms
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Etymology 2
From Middle Englishbill, bil, bille, bile, from Old Englishbile(“beak (of a bird); trunk (of an elephant)”), of unknown origin. Perhaps from a special use of Old Englishbil, bill(“hook; sword”) (see below).
Noun
bill (pluralbills)
The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal.
Synonyms:beak, neb, nib, pecker
A beak-like projection, especially a promontory.
Of a cap or hat: the brim or peak, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.
Derived terms
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Verb
bill (third-person singular simple presentbills, present participlebilling, simple past and past participlebilled)
(obsolete) to peck
to stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness
Derived terms
bill and coo
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle Englishbill, bille, bil, from Old Englishbil, bill(“a hooked point; curved weapon; two-edged sword”), from Proto-Germanic*bilją(“axe; sword; blade”), from Proto-Indo-European*bʰeyH-(“to strike; beat”). Cognate with West Frisianbile(“axe”), Dutchbijl(“axe”), GermanBille(“axe”).
Noun
bill (pluralbills)
Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attached to the end of a long staff.
Synonym:polearm
A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.
Synonyms:billhook, hand bill, hedgebill
Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.
Synonym:billman
A pickaxe or mattock.
(nautical) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).
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Verb
bill (third-person singular simple presentbills, present participlebilling, simple past and past participlebilled)
(transitive) To dig, chop, etc., with a bill.
Translations
Etymology 4
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
bill (pluralbills)
The bell, or boom, of the bittern.
Etymology 5
From a pronunciation spelling of build.
Verb
bill (third-person singular simple presentbills, present participlebilling, simple past and past participlebilled)
(transitive, intransitive, UK, slang) To roll up a marijuana cigarette.
Derived terms
Cimbrian
Etymology 1
From Middle High Germanwille, from Old High Germanwillo, from Proto-Germanic*wiljô(“will, wish, desire”). Cognate with GermanWille, Englishwill.
Noun
billm
(Sette Comuni) will (legal document)
Synonym:testamentén
Etymology 2
From Middle High Germanwilde, from Old High Germanwildi, from Proto-West Germanic*wilþī, from Proto-Germanic*wilþijaz(“wild”). Cognate with Germanwild, Englishwild.
Adjective
bill (comparativebillor, superlativedar billorste)(Sette Comuni)
wild, crazy, mad
wild (not domesticated)
stupid
Declension
Derived terms
billa gòas
billa hénna
billar haano
billar balt
billekhot
dorbìllaran
References
“bill” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
East Central German
Etymology
Compare Germanbisschen.
Adverb
bill
(Erzgebirgisch) (often with e or a) (a) little
Further reading
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Englishbill; doublet of bulle(“bubble”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /bil/
Noun
billm (pluralbills)
(law)bill (draft UK law)
(Canada)bill (invoice in a restaurant etc)
Further reading
“bill”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old English
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /bill/, [biɫ]
Noun
billn
Alternative form of bil
Swedish
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /bɪl/
Rhymes: -ɪl
Etymology 1
From Old Swedishbilder, from Old Norsebíldr, from Proto-Germanic*bīþlaz(“axe”). An instrumental derivation of *bītaną(“to bite”). Closely related to bila(“broadaxe”).
Noun
billc
(agriculture) a share; the cutting blade of a plough
Declension
Derived terms
plogbill
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Englishbill, from Middle Englishbille, from Anglo-Normanbille, from Old Frenchbulle, from Medieval Latinbulla(“seal, sealed document”). Doublet of bulla.
Noun
billc
(law) a draft of a law in English-speaking countries