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How to pronounce “bud

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Pronunciation guide for bud

Learning goal
Practice the English pronunciation of bud with real speech in context.
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Real speech example
Navy SEAL’s 10 Fail Safe Principlesand my buddy, whom I'd been training with,
Definition summary
A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.

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How to pronounce bud

Navy SEAL’s 10 Fail Safe Principles

and my buddy, whom I'd been training with,

Example Sentences

A Deep Dive Into “bud

Meaning

  • [Noun]
  • A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.
  • (figuratively) Something that has begun to develop.
  • A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.
  • (usually uncountable, slang) Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the "bud"), or marijuana generally.
  • A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.
  • (dated, term of endearment) A pretty young girl.
  • [Verb]
  • (intransitive) To form buds.
  • (intransitive) To reproduce by splitting off buds.
  • (intransitive) To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
  • (intransitive) To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.
  • (transitive) To put forth as a bud.
  • (transitive) To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.

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