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What (who) is bet - definition
SECOND LETTER OF MANY SEMITIC ALPHABETS
ב; ﺏ; ﺐ; ﺑ; ﺒ; בּ; בֿ; Bāʼ; ܒ; Beth (Hebrew); ب; Beth (letter); Vet (letter); ﺑ ﺏ; Bāʾ; ࠁ; 𐤁; 𐡁; Beh (letter); בִ; Bēt
bet
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BET (disambiguation); Bet (disambiguation); B.E.T.
¦ verb (bets, betting; past and past participle bet or betted)
1. risk a sum of money or other valued item against someone else's on the basis of the outcome of an unpredictable event such as a race or game.
2. informal used to express certainty: he'll be surprised to see me, I'll bet.
¦ noun an act of betting.
?a sum of money staked.
?informal a candidate or option offering a specified likelihood of success: Allen looked a good bet for victory.
?(one's bet) informal one's opinion.
Phrases
you bet! informal you may be sure; certainly.
Derivatives
betting noun
bettor (also better) noun
Origin
C16: perh. a shortening of the obs. noun abet 'abetment'.
bet
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BET (disambiguation); Bet (disambiguation); B.E.T.
(bets, betting)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
Note: The form 'bet' is used in the present tense and is the past tense and past participle.
1.
If you bet on the result of a horse race, football game, or other event, you give someone a sum of money which they give you back with extra money if the result is what you predicted, or which they keep if it is not.
Jockeys are forbidden to bet on the outcome of races...
I bet ?10 on a horse called Premonition...
He bet them 500 pounds they would lose.
VERB: V on n, V amount on n, V n amount that
•
Bet is also a noun.
Do you always have a bet on the Grand National?
N-COUNT
• betting
...his thousand-pound fine for illegal betting.
...betting shops.
N-UNCOUNT
2.
A bet is a sum of money which you give to someone when you bet.
You can put a bet on almost anything these days.
N-COUNT
3.
If someone is betting that something will happen, they are hoping or expecting that it will happen. (JOURNALISM)
The party is betting that the presidential race will turn into a battle for younger voters...
People were betting on a further easing of credit conditions.
VERB: only cont, V that, V on n
4.
see also betting
5.
You use expressions such as 'I bet', 'I'll bet', and 'you can bet' to indicate that you are sure something is true. (INFORMAL)
I bet you were good at games when you were at school...
I'll bet they'll taste out of this world...
PHRASE
6.
If you tell someone that something is a good bet, you are suggesting that it is the thing or course of action that they should choose. (INFORMAL)
Your best bet is to choose a guest house.
PHRASE
7.
If you say that it is a good bet or a safe bet that something is true or will happen, you are saying that it is extremely likely to be true or to happen. (INFORMAL)
It is a safe bet that the current owners will not sell.
PHRASE: usu it v-link PHR that
8.
If you hedge your bets, you follow two courses of action to avoid making a decision between two things because you cannot decide which one is right.
NASA is hedging its bets and adopting both strategies.
= play safe
PHRASE: V inflects
9.
You use I bet or I'll bet in reply to a statement to show that you agree with it or that you expected it to be true, usually when you are annoyed or amused by it. (INFORMAL, SPOKEN)
'I'd like to ask you something,' I said. 'I bet you would,' she grinned.
PHRASE: oft PHR that [feelings]
10.
You can use my bet is or it's my bet to give your personal opinion about something, when you are fairly sure that you are right. (INFORMAL)
My bet is that next year will be different...
It's my bet that he's the guy behind this killing.
PHRASE
11.
If you say don't bet on something or I wouldn't bet on something, you mean that you do not think that something is true or will happen. (INFORMAL, SPOKEN)
'We'll never get a table in there'-'Don't bet on it.'
PHRASE
12.
If you reply 'Do you want to bet?' or 'Want a bet?' to someone, you mean you are certain that what they have said is wrong. (INFORMAL, SPOKEN)
'Money can't buy happiness'-'Want to bet?'
CONVENTION
13.
You use 'You bet' or 'you bet your life' to say yes in an emphatic way or to emphasize a reply or statement. (INFORMAL, SPOKEN)
'It's settled, then?'-'You bet.'...
'Are you afraid of snakes?'-'You bet your life I'm afraid of snakes.'
PHRASE [emphasis]
bet
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BET (disambiguation); Bet (disambiguation); B.E.T.
I
n.
1) to make a bet
2) to place a bet on
3) to accept, take a bet
4) a side bet
5) a bet that + clause (she made a bet that her team would win)
6) on a bet (he did it on a bet)
7) (misc.) to hedge one's bets ('to protect oneself by placing several bets')
II
v.
1) (D; intr., tr.) to bet on (he bet on that horse; he bet a month's salary on that horse)
2) (L; may have an object) I bet (her) that it would snow
3) (O; can be used with one, two, or three objects) we bet him; we bet ten pounds; we bet him ten pounds; we bet him ten pounds that it would rain
Wikipedia
Bet (letter)
Bet, Beth, Beh, or Vet is the second letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Bēt , Hebrew Bēt ב, Aramaic Bēth , Syriac Bēṯ ܒ, and Arabic Bāʾ ب. Its sound value is the voiced bilabial stop ⟨b⟩ or the voiced labiodental fricative ⟨v⟩.
The letter's name means "house" in various Semitic languages (Arabic bayt, Akkadian bītu, bētu, Hebrew: bayiṯ, Phoenician bt etc.; ultimately all from Proto-Semitic *bayt-), and appears to derive from an Egyptian hieroglyph of a house by acrophony.
The Phoenician letter gave rise to, among others, the Greek beta (Β, β), Latin B (B, b) and Cyrillic Be (Б, б) and Ve (В, в).
Examples of use of bet
1. Shin Bet Daniela Weiss: Shin Bet behind attack on left–wing advocate prof.
2. "If you forced me to bet, I would bet on it working.
3. Sometimes she confers with financial analyst Alex Forshaw, who has also bet on Intrade, before hedging a bet.
4. Bet on Asked whether he would bet on Schumacher winning the championship, Button replied: "I probably would.
5. But today, "if I had to bet, I would bet on disintegration" into Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish entities.