biller

See also: Biller

English

Etymology

From bill ‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪlə(ɹ)

Noun

biller (plural billers)

1. (business) An issuer of a bill.
2. One who bills (caresses in fondness), in the context of billing and cooing.
   • 1923, Walter de la Mare, Seaton's Aunt:

     " […] O, O, O," continued the horrible old creature, "you billers and cooers, I have been listening to such flatteries, such confessions! Beware, beware, Arthur, there's many a slip."

Translations

issuer of a bill

• Finnish: laskuttaja

Anagrams

• brille, rebill

Danish

Noun

biller c

1. indefinite plural of bille

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi.je/

• Audio:

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Verb

biller

1. to turn a piece of wood placed on a support
2. to flatten dough with a rolling pin
3. to place balls of solder on a component in preparation for welding to a printed circuit board

Conjugation

Conjugation of biller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	biller
	compound	avoir past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	billant /bi.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant past participle
past participle		billé /bi.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	bille /bij/	billes /bij/	bille /bij/	billons /bi.jɔ̃/	billez /bi.je/	billent /bij/
	imperfect	billais /bi.jɛ/	billais /bi.jɛ/	billait /bi.jɛ/	billions /bij.jɔ̃/	billiez /bij.je/	billaient /bi.jɛ/
	past historic2	billai /bi.je/	billas /bi.ja/	billa /bi.ja/	billâmes /bi.jam/	billâtes /bi.jat/	billèrent /bi.jɛʁ/
	future	billerai /bij.ʁe/	billeras /bij.ʁa/	billera /bij.ʁa/	billerons /bij.ʁɔ̃/	billerez /bij.ʁe/	billeront /bij.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	billerais /bij.ʁɛ/	billerais /bij.ʁɛ/	billerait /bij.ʁɛ/	billerions /bi.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	billeriez /bi.jə.ʁje/	billeraient /bij.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	bille /bij/	billes /bij/	bille /bij/	billions /bij.jɔ̃/	billiez /bij.je/	billent /bij/
	imperfect2	billasse /bi.jas/	billasses /bi.jas/	billât /bi.ja/	billassions /bi.ja.sjɔ̃/	billassiez /bi.ja.sje/	billassent /bi.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	bille /bij/	—	billons /bi.jɔ̃/	billez /bi.je/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir past participle	simple imperative of avoir past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• bille

Further reading

• “biller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

biller m

1. indefinite plural of bille

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

biller f

1. indefinite plural of bille