(obsolete) An act of abetting; of helping; of giving aid.
(obsolete) Fraud or cunning.
verb
(obsolete) To back up one's forecast of a doubtful issue, by staking money, etc., to bet.
(obsolete, transitive) To urge on, stimulate (a person to do) something desirable.
(transitive) To incite; to assist or encourage by aid or countenance in crime.
(transitive) To support, countenance, maintain, uphold, or aid (any good cause, opinion, or action); to maintain.
bate
bate
noun
A vat which contains this liquid.
An alkaline lye which neutralizes the effect of the previous application of lime, and makes hides supple in the process of tanning.
Strife; contention.
verb
(archaic, transitive) To leave out, except, bar.
(intransitive) To contend or strive with blows or arguments.
(intransitive, falconry) Of a falcon: To flap the wings vigorously; to bait.
(intransitive, slang) To masturbate.
(obsolete or nonstandard) simple past tense of beat; = beat.
(transitive) To reduce the force of something; to abate.
(transitive) To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation
(transitive) To soak leather so as to remove chemicals used in tanning; to steep in bate.
(transitive, sometimes figuratively) To cut off, remove, take away.
To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
To deprive of.
To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
To waste away.
beat
beat
adj
(African-American Vernacular and gay slang) Having impressively attractive makeup.
(US slang) Exhausted.
(slang) Boring.
(slang, of a person) Ugly.
Dilapidated, beat up.
Relating to the Beat Generation.
noun
(Australia) An area frequented by gay men in search of sexual activity. See gay beat.
(archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
(authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
(colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
(dated or obsolete, Southern US) A precinct.
(dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
(dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
(fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
(hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
(journalism) The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
(music) A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
(music) The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
(slang) A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
A beatnik.
A pulsation or throb.
A rhythm.
A stroke; a blow.
The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
verb
(especially colloquial) past participle of beat
(intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
(intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
(intransitive, MLE, MTE, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse.
(intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
(military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
(transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
(transitive) To hit; to strike.
(transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
(transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
(transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
(transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
(transitive, UK, in haggling for a price of a buyer) To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
(transitive, slang) To rob.
To be in agitation or doubt.
To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
To make a sound when struck.
To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
To tread, as a path.
simple past tense of beat
beet
beet
noun
(US, Canada) A beetroot, a swollen root of such a plant.
Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar.
verb
(transitive, obsolete, dialect) To improve; to mend.
(transitive, obsolete, dialect) To kindle a fire.
(transitive, obsolete, dialect) To rouse.
belt
belt
noun
(astronomy) A collection of small bodies (such as asteroids) which orbit a star.
(astronomy) One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.
(baseball) The part of the strike zone at the height of the batter's waist.
(military, nautical) A band of armor along the sides of a warship, protecting the ship's vital spaces.
(music) A vocal tone produced by singing with chest voice above the break (or passaggio), in a range typically sung in head voice.
(usually capitalized) A geographical region known for a particular product, feature or demographic (Corn Belt, Bible Belt, Black Belt, Green Belt).
(weaponry) A device that holds and feeds cartridges into a belt-fed weapon.
A band that is used in a machine to help transfer motion or power.
A band used as a restraint for safety purposes, such as a seat belt.
A band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun or sword), or serve as a decorative piece of clothing.
A powerful blow, often made with a fist or heavy object.
A quick drink of liquor.
A trophy in the shape of a belt, generally awarded for martial arts.
Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe.
verb
(transitive) To drink quickly, often in gulps.
(transitive) To encircle.
(transitive) To fasten a belt on.
(transitive) To hit with a belt.
(transitive) To invest (a person) with a belt as part of a formal ceremony such as knighthood.
(transitive, baseball) To hit a pitched ball a long distance, usually for a home run.
(transitive, colloquial) To hit someone or something.
(transitive, informal, normally belt out) To scream or sing in a loud manner.
bent
bent
adj
(Of a person) leading a life of crime.
(Of something that is usually straight) Folded, dented.
(colloquial, chiefly UK) Corrupt, dishonest.
(colloquial, chiefly US) Suffering from the bends.
(derogatory, colloquial, chiefly UK) Homosexual.
(slang) High from both marijuana and alcohol.
(slang, soccer) Inaccurately aimed.
Determined or insistent.
noun
A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
A grassy area, grassland.
A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
An inclination or talent.
Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.
Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
Such a subunit as a component of a barn's framing, joined to other bents by girts and summer beams.
Such a subunit as a reinforcement to, or integral part of, a bridge's framing.
Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
The old dried stalks of grasses.
The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bend
bert
best
best
adj
Most superior; most favorable.
Most; largest.
superlative form of good: most good.
adv
To the most advantage; with the most success, cause, profit, benefit, or propriety.
superlative form of well: most well
noun
(countable) The person (or persons; or thing or things) that is (are) most excellent.
(uncountable) One's best behavior.
(uncountable) The supreme effort one can make, or has made.
verb
(modal verb, colloquial) Had best.
(transitive) To beat in a contest.
To surpass in skill or achievement.
beta
beta
adj
(computing) Preliminary; prerelease. Refers to an incomplete version of a product released for initial testing.
(of a person, object or action) Associated with the beta male/female archetype.
Designates the second in an order of precedence.
Identifying a molecular position in an organic chemical compound.
noun
(aviation) Sideslip angle.
(aviation) The range of engine power settings in which the blade pitch angle of a constant-speed propeller is controlled directly by the angle of the engine's throttle lever (rather than varying with engine torque and airspeed to maintain a constant propeller RPM), allowing the propeller to be disked to generate high drag and slow the aircraft quickly.
(climbing) Information about a route which may aid someone in climbing it.
(computing, video games, countable) Software in such a phase; a preliminary version.
(computing, video games, uncountable) The phase of development after alpha testing and before launch, in which software, while not complete, has been released to potential users for testing.
(fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, a person of a secondary sex similar to normal humans, lacking the biological drives of alphas and omegas but generally capable of bonding and mating with either.
(finance) Average sensitivity of a security's price to overall securities market prices.
(physics) A beta particle or beta ray.
(slang, manosphere, masculism) Ellipsis of beta male, a man who is less competent or desirable than an alpha male.
Alternative spelling of betta (“fish in the genus Betta”)
The second letter of the Greek alphabet (Β, β), preceded by alpha (Α, α) and followed by gamma, (Γ, γ). In modern Greek it represents the voiced labiodental fricative sound of v found in the English words have and vase.
Used in marking scheme: α, β, γ or α+, α, α-, β etc.
verb
(chiefly Internet) To beta-read a text.
(computing) To preliminarily release computer software for initial testing prior to final release.
bete
bete
verb
Obsolete spelling of beat
Obsolete spelling of beet
beth
beth
noun
The second letter of the Aramaic alphabet, 𐡁
The second letter of the Hebrew alphabet, ב
The second letter of the Syriac alphabet, ܒ
bets
bets
noun
plural of bet
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bet
bett
betz
bite
bite
noun
(colloquial, dated) A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
(colloquial, dated, slang) A sharper; one who cheats.
(figuratively) aggression
(printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
(slang) A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.
(slang) An act of plagiarism.
(slang) Something unpleasant.
(television) Short for sound bite.
A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
A small meal or snack.
The act of biting.
The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
The wound left behind after having been bitten.
verb
(intransitive) To attack with the teeth.
(intransitive) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
(intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
(intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
(intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.
(intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
(intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold.
(intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.
(intransitive, figurative) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
(intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
(intransitive, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
(intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.
(obsolete) To deceive or defraud; to take in.
(transitive) To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
(transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
(transitive) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
(transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
(transitive, sometimes figurative) To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.
blet
blet
verb
To undergo bletting, a fermentation process in certain fruit beyond ripening.
bmet
bnet
bote
bote
noun
A privilege or allowance of necessaries, especially in feudal times.
A right to take wood from property not one's own.
Atonement, compensation, amends, satisfaction; as, manbote, a compensation for a man slain.
bret
bute
bute
noun
(informal) Phenylbutazone.
byte
byte
noun
(computing) A short sequence of bits (binary digits) that can be operated on as a unit by a computer; the smallest usable machine word.
(computing, most commonly) A unit of computing storage equal to eight bits, which can represent any of 256 distinct values.
debt
debt
noun
(finance) Money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another, generally as a result of a loan or other financial transaction.
(law) An action at law to recover a certain specified sum of money alleged to be due
An action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another, or give to another.
The state or condition of owing something to another.
tebu
theb
tobe
tobe
noun
A cotton garment worn in parts of northern Africa.
tube
tube
noun
(Australia, slang) A tin can containing beer.
(Britain, colloquial, often capitalised as Tube, a trademark) The London Underground railway system, originally referred to the lower level lines that ran in tubular tunnels as opposed to the higher ones which ran in rectangular section tunnels. (Often the tube.)
(Canada, US, colloquial) A television. Compare cathode ray tube and picture tube.
(Scotland, slang) An idiot.
(obsolete) One of the tubular tunnels of the London Underground.
(surfing) A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.
An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances.
Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.
verb
(medicine, transitive, colloquial) To intubate.
(transitive) To supply with, or enclose in, a tube.