What does BET mean?

Definitions for BET
bɛtbet

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word BET.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. stake, stakes, bet, wagernoun

    the money risked on a gamble

  2. bet, wagerverb

    the act of gambling

    "he did it on a bet"

  3. bet, wagerverb

    maintain with or as if with a bet

    "I bet she will be there!"

  4. bet, wager, playverb

    stake on the outcome of an issue

    "I bet $100 on that new horse"; "She played all her money on the dark horse"

  5. count, bet, depend, look, calculate, reckonverb

    have faith or confidence in

    "you can count on me to help you any time"; "Look to your friends for support"; "You can bet on that!"; "Depend on your family in times of crisis"

Wiktionary

  1. betnoun

    A degree of certainty.

  2. betverb

    To agree that payment be made to the successful forecaster of the result of an event (usually sporting) by the other party in the agreement. To make a guess about the outcome of an event.

  3. betverb

    To be sure of something; to be able to count on something.

    You bet!

  4. betverb

    To place money into the pot in order to require others do the same, usually only used for the first person to place money in the pot on each round.

  5. Betnoun

    A diminutive of Elizabeth.

  6. Etymology: Named after its inventors Brunau, Emmett and Teller.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. BETnoun

    A wager; something laid to be won upon certain conditions.

    Etymology: weddian, to wager; wed, a wager, Sax. from which the etymologists derive bet. I should rather imagine it to come from betan, to mend, encrease, or better, as a bet encreases the original wager.

    The hoary fool, who many days
    Has struggl’d with continu’d sorrow,
    Renews his hope, and blindly lays
    The desp’rate bet upon tomorrow. Matthew Prior.

    His pride was in piquette,
    Newmarket fame, and judgment at a bet. Alexander Pope.

  2. Betthe old preterite of beat.

    He staid for a better hour, till the hammer had wrought and bet the party more pliant. Francis Bacon, Henry VII.

  3. To Betverb

    To wager; to stake at a wager.

    Etymology: from the noun.

    He drew a good bow: and dead? John of Gaunt loved him well, and betted much upon his head. William Shakespeare, Henry IV. p. ii.

    He flies the court for want of clothes,
    Cries out ’gainst cocking, since he cannot bet. Ben Jonson.

    The god, unhappily engag’d,
    Complain’d, and sigh’d, and cry’d, and fretted,
    Lost ev’ry earthly thing he betted. Matthew Prior.

Wikipedia

  1. BET

    Black Entertainment Television (acronym BET) is an American basic cable channel targeting African-American audiences. It is owned by the CBS Entertainment Group unit of Paramount Global via BET Networks and has offices in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and was formerly headquartered in Washington, D.C.As of February 2015, approximately 88,255,000 American households (75.8% of households with television) receive the channel.

ChatGPT

  1. bet

    A bet is an agreement between two or more parties where they predict the outcome of an event, such as a game or sports competition, and stake a specified amount of money or goods on that outcome. The party correctly predicting the outcome wins what is specified in the agreement, typically the pooled amount of what is staked. Placing a bet often occurs in the context of gambling.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Betnoun

    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

  2. Bet

    of Bet

  3. Betverb

    to stake or pledge upon the event of a contingent issue; to wager

  4. Bet

    imp. & p. p. of Beat

  5. Bet

    an early form of Better

Wikidata

  1. Bet

    Bet, Beth, Beh, or Vet is the second letter of many Semitic abjads, including Arabic alphabet bāʾ ب, Aramaic, Hebrew ב, Phoenician and Syriac ܒ. Its value is. This letter's name means "house" in various Semitic languages, and appears to derive from a Middle Bronze Age picture of a house by acrophony. The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Beta, Latin B, and Cyrillic Б, В.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Bet

    bet, n. a wager: something staked to be lost or won on the result of a doubtful issue, as a horse-race, or the like.—v.t. and v.i. to lay or stake, as a bet:—pr.p. bet′ting; pa.t. and pa.p. bet or bet′ted.—ns. Bet′ter, one who bets—also Bet′tor; Bet′ting, act of betting or proposing a wager.—An even bet, an equal chance.—You bet, in American slang, certainly. [Prob. shortened from the noun Abet.]

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. BET

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Bet is ranked #102688 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Bet surname appeared 175 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Bet.

    85.1% or 149 total occurrences were White.
    8.5% or 15 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    2.8% or 5 total occurrences were Black.
    2.8% or 5 total occurrences were Asian.

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British National Corpus

  1. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'BET' in Written Corpus Frequency: #829

  2. Verbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'BET' in Verbs Frequency: #668

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of BET in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of BET in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of BET in a Sentence

  1. Barack Obama:

    Betting on you was the right thing to do, that bet has paid off for America.

  2. Though Bush:

    I'm a better bet, i got a proven record and I campaign in a way that's based on that record and based on ideas that I've had. I've been vetted. I've been tested. I'm an open book.

  3. Ipek Ozkardeskaya:

    Oil prices will certainly continue their journey to the north making the oil companies more profitable in the coming quarters, the rising short bets also means a rising risk of a short squeeze, where investors who have bet for the prices to fall decide to close their positions — and closing a short position involves buying back the stock.

  4. Darlie Routier:

    God ... I bet if we could have gotten the prints maybe.

  5. Ernest Rutherford:

    You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10-12 to 1.

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