(n.) That which is laid, staked, or pledged, as between two parties, upon the event of a contest or any contingent issue; the act of giving such a pledge; a wager.
(imp. & p. p.) of Bet
(v. t.) To stake or pledge upon the event of a contingent issue; to wager.
() imp. & p. p. of Beat.
(a. & adv.) An early form of Better.
Example Sentences:
(1) Then a handful of organisers took a major bet on the power of people – calling for the largest climate change mobilisation in history to kick-start political momentum.
(2) But he lost much of his earnings betting on cards and horses, and he has readily admitted that it was losses of up to £750,000 a night that compelled him to make some of his worst films.
(3) One of them, mAb 3F10, was used to affinity-purify the Bet v I.
(4) A week after the New York Film Critics Circle gave the movie its top award, a liberal political commentator wrote: "I'm betting that Dick Cheney will love [the film, which is] a far, far cry from the rousing piece of pro-Obama propaganda that some conservatives feared it would be."
(5) It adds that the number of deals signed in relation to betting shops alone in 2012-13 was 77% greater than the number signed in in 2007-08.
(6) It would be foolish to bet that Saudi Arabia will exist in its current form a generation from now.” Memories of how the Saudis and Opec deliberately triggered an economic crisis in the west in retaliation for US aid to Israel during the 1973 Yom Kippur war still rankle.
(7) Cameron put all of his betting chips on what seemed to be the party's trump card: the "vote for us, we're tough on migration and tough on migrants" strategy.
(8) There's a lot of money betting that you soon will and that device will look a lot like something you own already – a belt, a watch, glasses.
(9) In a burst of defiance, I wanted to answer: “Yes, you bet I can get around safely!” Over a cup of tea, I discussed the problem with my wife.
(10) And yesterday, it began its privatisation programme by selling a €652m stake in a betting firm.
(11) Two new cardenolides were structurally elucidated: strophanthidin-3-O-beta-D-digitoxosido-alpha-L-cymarosido-be ta-D-glucoside and strophanthidin-3-O-beta-D-digitoxosido-beta-D-digoxoside-bet a-D-diginosido-beta-D-glucoside.
(12) In the past couple of years, it has purchased portfolios of loans from RBS, National Australia Bank, Ireland’s National Asset Management Agency (Nama) and Lloyds Bank, betting on a recovery in European property markets.
(13) While Discovery has not made a major acquisition in the UK, aside from a relatively small investment to takeover Betty, the independent producer that makes shows including The Undateables , Zaslav is not afraid to make big bets when the opportunity presents itself.
(14) The court heard how all of these areas and more are gambled on in the unregulated Asian markets, in so-called "fancy bets".
(15) I have been under audit, I’ll bet you 12 or 13 or 14 years in a row.
(16) If you look at teams around the league I bet you’ll find the number of injuries has definitely increased.” Liverpool’s walking wounded Philippe Coutinho Hamstring Dejan Lovren Hamstring Divock Origi Hamstring Daniel Sturridge Hamstring Martin Skrtel Hamstring Jordan Rossiter Hamstring Mamadou Sakho Knee Jordan Henderson Foot Joe Gomez Knee Danny Ings Knee
(17) You can bet your bottom dollar that we are well on the way to escalating [our protest campaign],” she added.
(18) Bet v I, the major birch pollen allergen, could be extracted easily from pollen, and in low amounts from callus and leaves.
(19) But while the betting industry claims it would like to encourage “responsible gambling”, these semantics imply that those who become addicted to their products are entirely to blame, and that their products are not.
(20) It’s a seismic moment for the industry and particularly the big European manufacturers who have done a lot of work on diesel: technologically, they have they made the wrong bet.” Some analysts believe fears of brand damage in Europe are overstated but Bailey says: “In the US it’s very different: VW have killed their diesel market and it has left them in a very difficult position.” For British manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover, the timing of VW’s woes was ominous, as it unveiled two new diesels in America.
Bey
Definition:
(n.) A governor of a province or district in the Turkish dominions; also, in some places, a prince or nobleman; a beg; as, the bey of Tunis.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here's Bey and Jay, smoking a cigar in what looks like a well-manicured garden!
(2) To mark the beginning of Ramadan, the human rights group Reprieve has released to the Guardian a video in which the actor and rapper Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) submits himself to the enteral feeding imposed in Guantánamo.
(3) But I have lower standards than Slate because I really don't care why Hov and Bey are forsaking meat, fish and dairy as there are too many other compensations here.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Yasiin Bey force-fed under standard Guantánamo Bay procedure.
(5) Remember that she's often brought into the "life" by drug dealers who promise her a celebrity lifestyle, clothes like the ones Beyoncé wears, and situation where she can live like Queen Bey: looking hot, being desired by alpha males, wielding power over others with her body and sexuality.
(6) The tour played into both of the pair's strengths: Jay brought the Brooklyn bravado and Bey brought the southern strut.
(7) Wearing a dusty pinstriped suit jacket and apologising for not having showered in six days, 51-year-old Peter Bey was unsure.
(8) It shows a plastic tube being inserted through Bey's nostril into his stomach.
(9) This report clarifies a physiological function of cadaverine in this organism by using DL-alpha-difluoromethyllysine, which had previously been shown to be a selective irreversible inhibitor of lysine decarboxylase of Mycoplasma dispar (Pösö, H., MaCann, P.P., Tanskanen, R., Bey, P., and Sjoerdsma, A.
(10) The reason I heard of Cafe Gratitude is because Gwyneth Paltrow recommended it on her blog Goop – the bible of elitist food fussiness – and I would bet my cashew nut butter that Gwynnie recommended it to her friends Jay and Bey.
(11) They upped the tempo with Upgrade You, and Bey released her golden mane, hair flipping around her husband in true Sasha Fierce fashion.
(12) As a recent New York Times article points out, so-called Queen Bey seemed to stop accepting face-to-face interview requests altogether some time between spring 2013 and the surprise release of her self-titled album in December that year.
(13) 3.6m page views, 438 comments 2) Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) force-fed under standard Guantánamo Bay procedure – video Monday 8 July 2013 In a distressing four minutes and 38 seconds, filmed for the Guardian and the campaign group Reprieve by the Bafta-winning documentary-maker Asif Kapadia , the rapper agreed to be force-fed in the same way as 45 inmates at Guantánamo Bay were undergoing each day.
(14) Frankly, with her two earpierces and stripped back performance, she may as well have had "suck it Bey" painted on the side of the baby grand.
(15) Once the show finally began, Jay and Bey charged through their repertoire at a spitfire pace.
(16) Long time Bey fans will recall an early Destiny’s Child era cover of The Face in 2000 while newer ones will think of the Drunk in Love video on the beach.
(17) Bey, like many others, is hip to the freeing possibilities of good health, even if that means restricting the things you eat.
(18) These results provide support for the postulated mechanism of action of DFMO [Metcalf, Bey, Danzin, Jung, Casera & Vevert (1978) J.
(19) Yasiin Bey, AKA Mos Def, meanwhile, took consciousness to another level in a video to highlight the inhumanity of force-feeding Guantánamo Bay hunger strikers .
(20) In a true nod to the 1930s outlaws, Jay and Bey eventually get caught by what we assume is the police and shot to death in their car.