| ABET | • abet v. (Transitive) To incite; to assist or encourage by aid or countenance in crime. • abet v. (Transitive) To support, countenance, maintain, uphold, or aid (any good cause, opinion, or action); to maintain. • abet v. (Obsolete, transitive) To urge on, stimulate (a person to do) something desirable. |
| BATE | • bate v. (Transitive) To reduce the force of something; to abate. • bate v. (Transitive) To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation. • bate v. (Transitive, sometimes figuratively) To cut off, remove, take away. |
| BEAT | • beat n. A stroke; a blow. • beat n. A pulsation or throb. • beat n. (Music) A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus… |
| BEET | • beet n. Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar. • beet n. (US, Canada) A beetroot, a swollen root of such a plant. • beet v. (Transitive, obsolete, dialect) To improve; to mend. |
| BELT | • belt n. A band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one’s body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a… • belt n. A band used as a restraint for safety purposes, such as a seat belt. • belt n. A band that is used in a machine to help transfer motion or power. |
| BENT | • bent v. Simple past tense and past participle of bend. • bent adj. (Of something that is usually straight) Folded, dented. • bent adj. (Colloquial, chiefly UK) Corrupt, dishonest. |
| BEST | • best adj. Superlative form of good: most good. • best adj. Most; largest. • best adj. Most superior; most favorable. |
| BETA | • beta n. The second letter of the Greek alphabet (Β, β), preceded by alpha (Α, α) and followed by gamma, (Γ… • beta n. (Education) An academic grade better than a gamma and worse than an alpha. • beta n. (Finance) Average sensitivity of a security’s price to overall securities market prices. |
| BETE | • bete v. Obsolete spelling of beat. • bete v. Obsolete spelling of beet. • βETE n. (Biochemistry) Abbreviation of β-exotoxin I exporter. |
| BETH | • beth n. The second letter of the Aramaic alphabet, 𐡁. • beth n. The second letter of the Hebrew alphabet, ב. • beth n. The second letter of the Syriac alphabet, ܒ. |
| BETS | • bets n. Plural of bet. • bets v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bet. • Bets prop.n. A diminutive of Elizabeth. |
| BITE | • bite v. (Transitive) To cut into something by clamping the teeth. • bite v. (Transitive) To hold something by clamping one’s teeth. • bite v. (Intransitive) To attack with the teeth. |
| BLET | • blet v. To undergo bletting, a fermentation process in certain fruit beyond ripening. • BLET n. a form of decay in fruit which is overripe. • BLET v. to decay like this. |
| BOET | • boet n. (South Africa, informal) A brother; often prefixed informally to a man’s first name. • boet n. (South Africa, informal) A familiar form of address: pal, mate. • BOET n. (South African) a brother, or a buddy. |
| BOTE | • bote n. Atonement, compensation, amends, satisfaction; as, manbote, a compensation for a man slain. • bote n. A privilege or allowance of necessaries, especially in feudal times. • bote n. A right to take wood from property not one’s own. |
| BUTE | • bute n. (Informal) Phenylbutazone. • Bute prop.n. Any of a number of towns in English-speaking countries. • Bute prop.n. An island in the Firth of Clyde, and part of Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland. |
| BYTE | • byte n. (Computing) A short sequence of bits (binary digits) that can be operated on as a unit by a computer;… • byte n. (Computing, most commonly) A unit of computing storage equal to eight bits, which can represent any… • BYTE n. a set of usually eight binary digits (bits) considered as a unit. |
| DEBT | • debt n. An action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another… • debt n. The state or condition of owing something to another. • debt n. (Finance) Money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another, generally as a result… |
| TUBE | • tube n. Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape. • tube n. An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain… • tube n. (Britain, colloquial, often capitalised as Tube, a trademark) The London Underground railway system… |
| YBET | • BEAT v. to strike repeatedly. |