noun
1.
a statement of money owed for goods or services supplied: He paid the hotel bill when he checked out.
2.
a piece of paper money worth a specified amount: a ten-dollar bill.
3.
Government. a form or draft of a proposed statute presented to a legislature, but not yet enacted or passed and made law.
5.
a written or printed public notice or advertisement.
6.
any written paper containing a statement of particulars: a bill of expenditures.
7.
Law. a written statement, usually of complaint, presented to a court.
8.
Slang. one hundred dollars: The job pays five bills a week.
9.
10.
entertainment scheduled for presentation; program: a good bill at the movies.
11.
verb (used with object)
12.
to charge for by bill; send a bill to: The store will bill me.
13.
to enter (charges) in a bill; make a bill or list of: to bill goods.
14.
to advertise by bill or public notice: A new actor was billed for this week.
15.
to schedule on a program: The management billed the play for two weeks.
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16.
fill the bill, to fulfill the purpose or need well: As a sprightly situation comedy this show fills the bill.
Related forms
bill·er, noun
Synonyms
1. reckoning, invoice, statement. 5. bulletin, handbill, poster, placard, announcement, circular, throwaway, flyer, broadside.
1. reckoning, invoice, statement. 5. bulletin, handbill, poster, placard, announcement, circular, throwaway, flyer, broadside.
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noun
1.
the parts of a bird's jaws that are covered with a horny or leathery sheath; beak. See diag. under bird.
2.
the visor of a cap or other head covering.
3.
a beaklike promontory or headland.
verb (used without object)
Idioms 4.
to join bills or beaks, as doves.
5.
bill and coo, to kiss or fondle and whisper endearments, as lovers: My sister and her boyfriend were billing and cooing on the front porch.
noun
1.
a medieval shafted weapon having at its head a hooklike cutting blade with a beak at the back.
2.
Also called billman. a person armed with a bill.
3.
Also called billhook. a sharp, hooked instrument used for pruning, cutting, etc.
4.
Also called pea. Nautical. the extremity of a fluke of an anchor.
Origin:
before 1000; Middle English bil, Old English bill sword; cognate with Old High German bil pickax
before 1000; Middle English bil, Old English bill sword; cognate with Old High German bil pickax
bi, ˈkɒz‐
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bill1 (bɪl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | money owed for goods or services supplied: an electricity bill |
| 2. | a written or printed account or statement of money owed |
| 3. | chiefly (Brit) Usual US and Canadian word: check such an account for food and drink in a restaurant, hotel, etc |
| 4. | any printed or written list of items, events, etc, such as a theatre programme: who's on the bill tonight? |
| 5. | informal fit the bill, fill the bill to serve or perform adequately |
| 6. | a statute in draft, before it becomes law |
| 7. | a printed notice or advertisement; poster |
| 8. | (US), (Canadian) a piece of paper money; note |
| 9. | an obsolete name for promissory note |
| 10. | law See bill of indictment |
| 11. | See bill of exchange |
| 12. | See bill of fare |
| 13. | archaic any document |
| —vb | |
| 14. | to send or present an account for payment to (a person) |
| 15. | to enter (items, goods, etc) on an account or statement |
| 16. | to advertise by posters |
| 17. | to schedule as a future programme: the play is billed for next week |
| [C14: from Anglo-Latin billa, alteration of Late Latin bulla document, | |
| bill2 (bɪl) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | the mouthpart of a bird, consisting of projecting jaws covered with a horny sheath; beak. It varies in shape and size according to the type of food eaten and may also be used as a weapon |
| 2. | any beaklike mouthpart in other animals |
| 3. | a narrow promontory: Portland Bill |
| 4. | nautical the pointed tip of the fluke of an anchor |
| —vb | |
| 5. | (of birds, esp doves) to touch bills together |
| 6. | (of lovers) to kiss and whisper amorously |
| [Old English bile; related to bill | |
| bill3 (bɪl) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a pike or halberd with a narrow hooked blade |
| 2. | short for billhook |
| [Old English bill sword, related to Old Norse bīldr instrument used in blood-letting, Old High German bil pickaxe] | |
| bill4 (bɪl) | |
| —n | |
| ornithol another word for boom | |
| [C18: from dialect beel | |
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Word Origin & History
bill
"written statement," mid-14c., from Anglo-L. billa "list," from M.L. bulla "decree, seal, sealed document," in classical L. "bubble, boss, stud, amulet for the neck" (hence "seal;" see bull (2)). Sense of "account, invoice" first recorded c.1400; that of "order to pay" (technically
bill of exchange) is from 1570s; that of "paper money" is from 1660s. Meaning "draft of an act of Parliament" is from 1510s. The verb meaning "to send someone a bill of charge" is from 1867.
bill
"bird's beak," O.E., related to bill, a poetic word for "a kind of sword" (especially one with a hooked blade), from a common Germanic word for cutting or chopping weapons (cf. O.H.G. bihal, O.N. bilda "hatchet," O.S. bil "sword"), from PIE base *bheie- "to cut, to strike." Used also in M.E. of beak-like
projections of land.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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