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bet

bɛt
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Map of the northern part of South America with the Dutch territories. Two bets with maps of the islands of Curaçao, Bonaire and Aruba and of the islands of St. Maarten, Saba and St. Eustatius. Part of the sheet metal 'Gezigten uit Neerland's West-Indien'.
Map of the northern part of South America with the Dutch territories. Two bets with maps of the islands of Curaçao, Bonaire and Aruba and of the islands of St. Maarten, Saba and St. Eustatius. Part of the sheet metal 'Gezigten uit Neerland's West-Indien'.
  1. (v) bet
    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"
  2. (v) bet
    maintain with or as if with a bet "I bet she will be there!"
  3. (v) bet
    stake on the outcome of an issue "I bet $100 on that new horse","She played all her money on the dark horse"
  4. (n) bet
    the act of gambling "he did it on a bet"
  5. (n) bet
    the money risked on a gamble
Illustrations
Map of the Netherlands around the tenth century. With different bets with eight partial cards of the Netherlands and Europe. The boundaries between the different regions (the "go") are indicated in colors. Numbered top right: No. II.
Map of the Netherlands around the tenth century. With different bets with eight partial cards of the Netherlands and Europe. The boundaries between the different regions (the "go") are indicated in colors. Numbered top right: No. II.
Map of Brabant, Limburg, Flanders and part of Zeeland. Bottom left a bet with a map of a part of Zeeland. To the right of it a legend and two scale sticks: 3 Deutsche Meilen 15 auf einen Grad / 4 Stunden Weges 20 auf einen Grad. The map is graduated along the edges.
Map of Brabant, Limburg, Flanders and part of Zeeland. Bottom left a bet with a map of a part of Zeeland. To the right of it a legend and two scale sticks: 3 Deutsche Meilen 15 auf einen Grad / 4 Stunden Weges 20 auf einen Grad. The map is graduated along the edges.
Model of a ship's galley on a deck between two bets. The deck is covered with brass at the location of the galley; the chimney protrudes through a portion of the deck above, which is marked three planks wide and stands on deck struts that run right through the stanchions. The galley itself, secured with hooks in the knees, is made entirely of copper; insides of pans etc. are tin-plated. It is a particularly detailed model and can be taken apart. At the front left is a large oven with a low cooker above it for rectangular pans: the cooker can be adjusted for five or six pans. To the right of this is a high part with a firebox underneath, a water tank with a tap above it, a firebox above it and a hob for ordinary pans or rectangular hobs. A low bread oven has been installed on both sides. At the back, two huge rectangular barrels hang above fireboxes. Scale 1:10 (Obreen).
Model of a ship's galley on a deck between two bets. The deck is covered with brass at the location of the galley; the chimney protrudes through a portion of the deck above, which is marked three planks wide and stands on deck struts that run right through the stanchions. The galley itself, secured with hooks in the knees, is made entirely of copper; insides of pans etc. are tin-plated. It is a particularly detailed model and can be taken apart. At the front left is a large oven with a low cooker above it for rectangular pans: the cooker can be adjusted for five or six pans. To the right of this is a high part with a firebox underneath, a water tank with a tap above it, a firebox above it and a hob for ordinary pans or rectangular hobs. A low bread oven has been installed on both sides. At the back, two huge rectangular barrels hang above fireboxes. Scale 1:10 (Obreen).
Map of the county of Flanders. Bottom left the title cartouche. Bottom right a bet with a view of Ghent. On top of the inset two costume figures depicting inhabitants of Flanders. To the left of the inset a cartouche with two scale sticks: 3 Horae Itineris / 2 Miliaria Germanica. The map is graduated along the edges. Latin text on the reverse.
Map of the county of Flanders. Bottom left the title cartouche. Bottom right a bet with a view of Ghent. On top of the inset two costume figures depicting inhabitants of Flanders. To the left of the inset a cartouche with two scale sticks: 3 Horae Itineris / 2 Miliaria Germanica. The map is graduated along the edges. Latin text on the reverse.
Sheet with 8 images of two friends making a bet. Klaas thinks he can cycle without falling. He cannot do that. A caption below each image. Numbered top left: Série 14. - No. 17.
Sheet with 8 images of two friends making a bet. Klaas thinks he can cycle without falling. He cannot do that. A caption below each image. Numbered top left: Série 14. - No. 17.
Map of the fortifications around the city of Namur. At the bottom right a bet with a profile of the castle. Part of an atlas with 223 maps of countries and cities and war scenes in Europe in the period c. 1690-1735.
Map of the fortifications around the city of Namur. At the bottom right a bet with a profile of the castle. Part of an atlas with 223 maps of countries and cities and war scenes in Europe in the period c. 1690-1735.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
Author Dr. Seuss wrote the book "Green Eggs and Ham" because the editor made him a bet that he could not write a book, which contained less than fifty words
  1. Bet
    An early form of Better.
  2. Bet
    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. "Having made his bets ."
  3. Bet
    To stake or pledge upon the event of a contingent issue; to wager. "John a Gaunt loved him well, and betted much money on his head.", "I'll bet you two to one I'll make him do it."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
Calvin Coolidge, was so famous for saying so little that a White House dinner guest made a bet that she could get him to say more than two words. She told the president of her wager. His reply: "You lose."
  1. bet
    Obsolete and earlier Middle English form of better.
  2. bet
    To pledge as a forfeit to another who makes a similar pledge in return, on a future contingency, in support of an affirmation or opinion; stake; wager.
  3. bet
    To lay a wager; stake money or anything of value upon a contingency.
  4. (n) bet
    The pledging of some valuable thing, as money (or of the doing of some onerous act), to bc forfeited, in ease some future event happens contrary to the assertion or belief of the one making the pledge, to another who pledges a forfeit in return on the opposite contingency.
  5. (n) bet
    That which is wagered; also, that about which a wager is made.
  6. (n) bet
    An obsolete preterit of beat.
  7. (n) bet
    In faro, a card which is a case, that is, the only one of that denomination remaining in the box: so called because the player cannot be split.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Bet
    bet a wager: something staked to be lost or won on the result of a doubtful issue, as a horse-race, or the like
  2. (v.t., v.i) Bet
    to lay or stake, as a bet:—pr.p. bet′ting; pa.t. and pa.p. bet or bet′ted
  3. (v.t) Bet
    and v.i. to lay or stake, as a bet:—pr.p. bet′ting; pa.t. and pa.p. bet or bet′ted
Quotations
No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.
Amar Gopal Bose
Samuel Butler
What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
Samuel Butler
One of the worst things that can happen to you in life is to win a bet on a horse at an early age.
Danny Mcgoorty
Nobody has ever bet enough on a winning horse.
American Proverb
Pete Rose
Never bet on baseball.
Pete Rose
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that is the way to bet.
Damon Runyon
Idioms

All bets are off - (USA) If all bets are off, then agreements that have been made no longer apply.

Bet the farm - If you bet the farm, you risk everything on something you think will succeed.

Bet the ranch - (USA) If you bet the ranch, you risk everything on something you think will succeed.

Bet your bottom dollar - (USA) If you can bet your bottom dollar on something, you can be absolutely sure about it.

Hedge your bets - If you hedge your bets, you don't risk everything on one opportunity, but try more than one thing.

Make bets in a burning house - (USA) If people are making bets in a burning house, they are engaged in futile activity while serious problems around them are getting worse.

Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Prob. from OE. abet, abetting, OF. abet, fr. abeter, to excite, incite. See Abet

Usage in the news

Two years ago, an options trader bet big on the super-elite condos at the then-new Elysian Tower. chicagomag.com

This week his bet paid off, though not quite as handsomely as he had hoped. chicagomag.com

BET Networks, a division of Viacom, is now using Motorola's high-definition MPEG-4/AVC encoding for delivery of its programming in HD. tvtechnology.com

Brees vs Manning a good bet to entertain . buffalonews.com

Hollywood Casino bets even non-gamblers will be entertained . toledoblade.com

Scuffle doesn't entirely mar BET Awards. mercurynews.com

Performances by Sean Combs ("P. Diddy"), 50 Cent and 2 Chainz not entirely overshadowed by scuffle between Rick Ross, Young Jeezy And G-Unit Crews at BET Hip-Hop Awards. mercurynews.com

If you were going to imagine what OPI's first-ever short film would be, we're betting a dance battle with a pedicured horse wouldn't be the first thing that came to mind. allure.com

What the Fed's Historic Bet Means for You. theatlantic.com

Bet you weren't no Rimbaud. villagevoice.com

Dow puts a big bet on ethylene manufacturing. controleng.com

Through The Years At the start of 2010 Whitney attend the BET Honors. radaronline.com

We're willing to bet most eyebrows aren't half as talented as these. kffm.com

The Best Bet The Armory Show is usually about making careers. nymag.com

I bet you don't know that librarians have, right from the start, been at the forefront of the digital information age. uticaod.com

Usage in scientific papers

In some sense, here the methodology is reversed, betting first of a ”very non commutative” model and trying to guess a method to go down to low energy.
It is the ambiguity. (But only three generations)

My bet is to link it to a preferred kind of metrics, with a preferred set of coordinate systems.
It is the ambiguity. (But only three generations)

It is a safe bet— backed by the sd experience —that the pf results will become as satisfactory as the f p ones.
Spectroscopy with random and displaced random ensembles

Informally, if one considers two players1 : one betting (a|b) will hold, and the other it will not, if in a random experiment (dice toss, coin flip) b doesn’t hold, the game is drawn.
The temporal calculus of conditional objects and conditional events

Now, we should allow the players to repeat their bets.
The temporal calculus of conditional objects and conditional events

Usage in literature

I'll bet he owns a mine down here somewhere. "Across the Mesa" by Jarvis Hall

I bet we hiked up to Brewster's Centre a dozen times before Friday. "Roy Blakeley's Camp on Wheels" by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

I'll bet you're every day of that. "Brand Blotters" by William MacLeod Raine

You bet, if he works it right. "Desert Dust" by Edwin L. Sabin

Didn't you hear me bet Max that I'd go back? "Starman's Quest" by Robert Silverberg

I'll bet they've let all the sets at their end get out of order. "Eight Keys to Eden" by Mark Irvin Clifton

After the cards have been dealt the betting before the draw begins. "Round Games with Cards" by W. H. Peel

Will you bet, stranger? "The Quadroon" by Mayne Reid

I'll bet you were never in a fish cannery before in your life. "El Diablo" by Brayton Norton

You wait, I fry um an' I bet you t'ink dat de bes' meat you ever eat. "Connie Morgan in the Fur Country" by James B. Hendryx

Usage in poetry
To such extremes were I and Bet
Perpetually driven,
We quarrell'd every time we met,
To kiss, and be forgiven.
"Epigram On The Author And Eliza Frequently Disffering In Opinion" by Sir John Carr Author object (618)
For she staked her all on conquest
Of the voluptuous host,
With society's devotees
Bet high, played long and lost.
"Ida" by Samuel Alfred Beadle
I sez to Mandy, sure, sez I,
I'll bet thet air patch o' rye
Thet he'll squash 'em by-and-by,
And he did, by cricket!
"Ezra on the Strike" by Ezra Pound Author object (202)
Says I "D'jer ever travel, Dan?"
"You bet I ain't!" says he;
"I tell you what! the place I've got
Is good enough fer me!"
"The Village Oracle" by Joseph C Lincoln
Says I, "D'jer ever read it, Dan?"
"You bet I ain't!" says he;
"And when I do; well, I tell you,
I'll let you know, by gee!"
"The Village Oracle" by Joseph C Lincoln
My sunshine Bet, she made her choice—
A good man he, and true;
And 'neath my fond contented eyes
Their pretty courtship grew.
"The Six Sorrows" by Dora Sigerson Shorter Author object (144)