(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.
Bookmark
Definition:
(n.) Something placed in a book to guide in finding a particular page or passage; also, a label in a book to designate the owner; a bookplate.
Example Sentences:
(1) When searching for an adjective to describe our comprehensively surveilled networked world – the one bookmarked by the NSA at one end and by Google, Facebook, Yahoo and co at the other – "Orwellian" is the word that people generally reach for.
(2) Samsung also says that Apple infringed three other patents: the use of email in a camera-equipped phone; bookmarking a photo in a camera-equipped phone's image gallery; multitasking on a mobile device so you can listen to music in the background.
(3) And it's through the live experience – something that can't be shared or bookmarked for later listening, that you have to be present for in real-time – that EDM has really achieved lift-off.
(4) Interaction of the dodecamer in duplex form with a tryptophan-containing peptide, KGWGK, has also been investigated to test the "bookmark" hypothesis (Gabbay et al., 1976) under the uniform structural constraint of the oligonucleotide of defined sequence.
(5) London still has several which have held out against the endlessly rising rents – the SWP's Bookmarks , Gay's the Word in Bloomsbury, the pacifist Housmans , and the anarchist Freedom Books.
(6) Updated at 12.43am GMT 9.57pm GMT There's a couple of other issues I need to bookmark but swimming with the news cycle for now, the Liberal senator Zed Seselja is on Sky News on a panel.
(7) However, the new system is opt-in, meaning that Facebook users will have to actively choose to download, add, or bookmark the new button onto their homepage.
(8) I would then have to sit down at my laptop and navigate my way to the (bookmarked) UKBA homepage to check that no new rules had been announced without my noticing, which would require me to pack my bags and leave.
(9) But perhaps the web can provide better metrics for scientists in the future, such as download numbers, bookmarks in social bookmarking services or even tweets and Facebook likes.
(10) Specifically, Samsung says Apple infringed: • '941 and '515 - essential for implementing 3G mobile communications • '460 - covers the use of email in a camera-equipped phone • '892 - bookmarking a photo in the image gallery of a camera-equipped phone • '711 - multitasking on a mobile device and allowing users to listen to music in the background What's at stake?
(11) He joined the BBC in 1983 went on to work as a producer and director in music and arts, on shows including Omnibus, Bookmark and Arena, and was a founding producer on BBC2's The Late Show.
(12) I never know what happens to them afterwards, but I still hear their voices.” Sign up to our Bookmarks newsletter Read more The book, published in France as Elle va nue la liberté , is in the process of translation into English and it is one of the great recent collections of war poetry.
(13) It’s that it has such universal power over its users that it’s kind of important that we not allow that power to fall into the hands of monsters,” said Maciej Ceglowski, a developer and the owner of Pinboard, a social bookmarking site.
(14) In both cases the parallel groups making bookmarks received particularly low scores.
(15) Has Samsung proven that Apple has infringed its utility patents '516 and '941 (3G standard); '711 (multitasking on a mobile device); '893 (bookmarking a photo on a camera-equipped phone); '460 (use of email in a camera-equipped phone)?
(16) Either way, Hugh's stunning photography and Sara's personable writing style make it one to bookmark.
(17) The author will be in discussion with Dean Peacock of Sonke Gender Justice at an event at Bookmarks bookshop , London, at 7pm on Thursday 2 October
(18) Four groups (two with a parallel structure and two with a project structure) participated in a bookmark-making activity.
(19) The tool provides bookmarks, annotations, quotations, and other utilities across our entire HyperCard courseware collection.
(20) These folders of foreign newspaper and magazine clippings – with bookmarks in red for negative coverage of Russia, yellow for neutral and green for positive – were a major source of anxiety for Putin’s office in mid-2000s.