BOB


Meaning of BOB in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ bɒb ]

( bobs, bobbing, bobbed)

1.

If something bobs , it moves up and down, like something does when it is floating on water.

Huge balloons bobbed about in the sky above...

VERB : V prep / adv

2.

If you bob somewhere, you move there quickly so that you disappear from view or come into view.

She handed over a form, then bobbed down again behind a typewriter.

VERB : V adv / prep

3.

When you bob your head, you move it quickly up and down once, for example when you greet someone.

A hostess stood at the top of the steps and bobbed her head at each passenger.

= nod

VERB : V n

Bob is also a noun.

The young man smiled with a bob of his head.

= nod

N-COUNT

4.

A bob is a fairly short hair style for women in which the hair is the same length all the way round, except for the front.

N-COUNT

5.

Bits and bobs are small objects or parts of something. ( mainly BRIT INFORMAL )

The microscope contains a few hundred dollars-worth of electronic bits and bobs.

PHRASE

Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary.      Английский словарь Коллинз COBUILD для изучающих язык на продвинутом уровне.