bill
noun
[ bɪl ]
• a printed or written statement of the money owed for goods or services.
• "the bill for their meal came to £17"
Similar:
invoice,
account,
statement,
list of charges,
tally,
amount due,
check,
the damage,
tab,
shot,
reckoning,
score,
• a draft of a proposed law presented to parliament for discussion.
• "a debate over the civil rights bill"
• a programme of entertainment at a theatre or cinema.
• "she was top of the bill at America's leading vaudeville house"
• a banknote.
• "a ten-dollar bill"
• a poster or handbill.
• "he has been hard at work bill posting in a poster and sticker campaign"
Similar:
poster,
advertisement,
public notice,
announcement,
flyer,
leaflet,
circular,
handout,
handbill,
fly-poster,
dodger,
affiche,
ad,
advert,
bill
verb
• list (a person or event) in a programme.
• "they were billed to appear but did not show up"
Similar:
advertise,
promote,
announce,
post,
give advance notice of,
put up in lights,
schedule,
programme,
timetable,
slate,
• send a bill to (someone).
• "we shall be billing them for the damage caused"
Origin:
Middle English (denoting a written list or catalogue): from Anglo-Norman French bille, probably based on medieval Latin bulla ‘seal, sealed document’ (see also bull2).
bill
noun
• the beak of a bird, especially when it is slender, flattened, or weak, or belongs to a web-footed bird or a bird of the pigeon family.
• the point of an anchor fluke.
• a narrow promontory.
• "Portland Bill"
Similar:
promontory,
headland,
point,
head,
foreland,
cape,
peninsula,
bluff,
ness,
naze,
horn,
spit,
tongue,
mull,
bill
verb
• (of birds, especially doves) stroke bill with bill during courtship.
Origin:
Old English bile, of unknown origin.
bill
noun
• a medieval weapon like a halberd with a hook instead of a blade.
Origin:
Old English bil, of West Germanic origin; related to German Bille ‘axe’.
Bill
noun
• the police.
Origin:
1960s: pet form of the given name William .
