(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.
Certainty
Definition:
(n.) The quality, state, or condition, of being certain.
(n.) A fact or truth unquestionable established.
(n.) Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity.
Example Sentences:
(1) IT can, therefore, be excluded almost with certainty that the meat would contain such large amounts of hormone residues.
(2) Here's a certainty: When you play out your personal dramas, hurt and self-interest in the media, it's a confection.
(3) "Thousands of scientists and officials from over 100 countries have collaborated to achieve greater certainty as to the scale of the warming," the panel said.
(4) Analysis according to clinical importance, gestation at booking, maternal age, parity, birth order, ethnic origin, and certainty of gestational age.
(5) But in a country with an unemployment rate of nearly 70%, including many former child soldiers, there are no certainties.
(6) The type of semantic categories missing from the UMLS consisted mainly of modifier information relating to certainty, degree, and change type of information.
(7) Tests included recording the scalp EEG, visual and auditory cerebral evoked-potentials, the CNV, cerebral slow potentials related to certainty of response correctness in auditory discrimination tasks, heart rate, respiration and the galvanic skin response.
(8) However, there is no certainty that both of Ainu and the people in Ueno derived from the same origin, or that genetic drift due to endogamy in this village took place.
(9) However, there was no certainty about how the cuts will be distributed.
(10) These data suggest that, after discontinuing supplemental oxygen in patients with chronic airways obstruction, more than 25 minutes should elapse if a blood gas measurement is to reflect with certainty conditions during room air breathing.
(11) Metastasis from them has never been described like a certainty with histological evidence.
(12) The certainty of a strong genetic predisposition to malignant melanoma was first established over 35 years ago.
(13) It is not possible to decide with certainty, in the absence of typical infarction signs in the ECG and clinically, whether treatment-resistant angina is due to CHD or other causes.
(14) DNA analysis is expected to provide maximum certainty as to the phenotype of the fetus for approximately 60 per cent of the women; for another 37 per cent a rate of misdiagnosis of 4-5 per cent applies.
(15) It is a virtual certainty that the dermatologist will be called upon routinely to evaluate illness caused by occupational factors.
(16) Henry had hinted during a recent interview with French newspaper L’Equipe he could be interested in a future coaching role with the Gunners, and Wenger insisted on Tuesday that Henry’s return is a certainty when asked about a reunion with the former France striker.
(17) And there are consequences for the more than 30,000 asylum seekers already here, whom the Coalition says will never get permanent visas and who, at the moment, are being denied any visas or work rights or certainty because of a political standoff over the Coalition’s policy to give them “temporary protection visas” instead.
(18) For example, it is not known with any certainty whether the oscillations seen in fetal heart rate are highly organised, in reflection of underlying ultradian rhythms, or whether they are entirely random and haphazard.
(19) Their occurrence rules out any organic involvement almost with certainty, and allows abstaining from additional examinations, or keeping them within minimum limits.
(20) The popliteal artery entrapment syndrome can be diagnosed by computer tomography with a greater degree of certainty than by angiography.