(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.
Gage
Definition:
(n.) A pledge or pawn; something laid down or given as a security for the performance of some act by the person depositing it, and forfeited by nonperformance; security.
(n.) A glove, cap, or the like, cast on the ground as a challenge to combat, and to be taken up by the accepter of the challenge; a challenge; a defiance.
(n.) A variety of plum; as, the greengage; also, the blue gage, frost gage, golden gage, etc., having more or less likeness to the greengage. See Greengage.
(n.) To give or deposit as a pledge or security for some act; to wage or wager; to pawn or pledge.
(n.) To bind by pledge, or security; to engage.
(n.) A measure or standard. See Gauge, n.
(v. t.) To measure. See Gauge, v. t.
Example Sentences:
(1) Measurements of acetylcholine-induced single-channel conductance and null potentials at the amphibian motor end-plate in solutions containing Na, K, Li and Cs ions (Gage & Van Helden, 1979; J. Physiol.
(2) 20 November 2008: Gage said he intended to question every soldier who witnessed the incident , whether or not they were directly responsible.
(3) Comprised of four octagonal half strain rings, the strain gage dynamometer measures the three moment load components at the boot.
(4) They lack the site that is ordinarily modified by pertussis toxin and their sequences vary from the canonical Gly-Ala-Gly-Glu-Ser (GAGES) amino acid sequence found in most other G protein alpha subunits.
(5) Experiments in dogs revealed that mercury-in-silastic strain gage apparatus can successfully be used to measure the biomechanical dynamics of the trachea and subglottis.
(6) A highly sensitive M136 gage with 0.5 microA complete deviation current is employed in the scheme, this permitting measurements of high electric resistance of dental hard tissues within a range of 1-200 M omega, painless for patients.
(7) Rosette strain gage, electromyography (EMG), and cineradiographic techniques were used to analyze loading patterns and jaw movements during mastication in Macaca fascicularis.
(8) The abuse of Mousa and nine other detainees "did not amount to an entrenched culture of violence in the [British] battlegroup – a reference to the rest of British forces in southern Iraq", Gage concludes.
(9) Stress wave propagation in a long bone with a progressively increasing defect in the bony cortex, simulating a healing fracture, was studied by recording the outputs of bonded semiconductor strain gages, proximal and distal to the defect.
(10) The FEM was validated against a normal strain-gaged turkey ulna, loaded in vivo in an identical fashion to the experimental ulnae.
(11) The lack is seen most clearly in the experimental and clinical literature on frontal lobe function, especially in relation to the kinds of changes seen in the Gage case.
(12) Furthermore the "head at risk" signs, except the gage-sign, were better to describe by BRI than by conventional x-rays.
(13) Inter-rat difference, leg positioning and strain gage placement were evaluated as sources of variability of applied strains.
(14) The angular accelerometer of vertebrates, the semi circular canal, is a pressure gage.
(15) Remnant gastric motility was studied during the digestive and interdigestive states by chronically implanted strain gage transducer (S.G.T.)
(16) Gage's report noted: "He must have seen the shocking condition of the detainees.
(17) The overall Berkson-Gage actuarial survival at 3 years, uncorrected for death from intercurrent disease, is 85.8%.
(18) Only 14 of those referred to in the Gage report are still in the army.
(19) The design and operation of a strain gage signal conditioning amplifier is described.
(20) The heart was driven at a steady heart rate through one electrode and very late premature beats were applied at various coupling times at another site through an electrode attached to the miniature strain gage.