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Beano

Definition: Beano

Beano

Noun

1. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "beano" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1915. (references)



Specialty Definitions: Beano

DomainDefinitions

Sports & Leisure

A game resembling lotto or keno, the card used being a grid on which five numbers that are covered in a row in any direction constitute a win. . also called beano. . Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Beano

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The Beano is a British children's comic magazine which was first issued in 1938. There have been several long-running strips over the years. The longest-running strip in the comic as of 2001 is "Dennis the Menace", which first appeared in 1951. Other famous strips include the "Bash Street Kids", "Minnie the Minx", and "Roger the Dodger".

It also has:

External link

Beano is also a dietary product that prevents flatulence.

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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Beano."

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Synonyms: Beano

Synonyms: bingo (n), keno (n), lotto (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Beano

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Beano

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Beano has no effect on gas caused by lactose or fiber. (references)

Beano, a newer over-the-counter digestive aid, contains the sugar-digesting enzyme that the body lacks to digest the sugar in beans and many vegetables. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Beano

"Beano" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.48% of the time. "Beano" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)90.48%1980,337
Noun (common)9.52%2245,945
                    Total100.00%21N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Beano

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

beano

174

beano cook

35

beano comic

6

beano chat cook

4

annual beano

4

beano gas

3

beano game

3

beano font

2

beano collector

2

beano chat cook wrap

2

beano chat

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Beano

Language Translations for "beano"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

aheng (bacchanal, carousal, feast). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

празненство (fete, gala, jubilee). (various references)

   

French

  

bingo. (various references)

   

German

  

schmaus (bean feast, feast, nosh, nosh-up, spread). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מסב" עליז". (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

muri (bang, bean-feast, bender, bingo, blow-out, do, jollification, junketing, spree), lakoma (banquet, bout, cheer, conviviality, feast, junket, repast, spread), amerikai tombolafajta. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eanobay

   

Russian 

  

гулянка (partying). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

comilona (a big spread, beanfeast, feed, nosh-up, spread). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

skiva (cut, dial, disc, disk, Gill, jamboree, nut washer, party, piece, planch, plate, record, round, scale, sheet, slab, slice, table, top, wafer, washer, wheel). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ziyafet (banquet, beanfeast, dinner, dinner party, entertainment, feast, junket, spread, treat), eğlence (amusement, bash, blow out, carnival, conviviality, distraction, diversion, entertainment, festivity, fete, frolic, fun, gag, gaiety, high jinks, jamboree, jollification, jolliness, jollity, merriment, merrymaking, party, pastime, play, plaything, racket, recreation, recreational, rejoicing, relaxation, revel, saturnalia, setout, sport), şölen (banquet, beanfeast, feast, fete, spread). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

гулянка (beanfeast, booze, junket, revel, revelry, wassail, whiz, whizz). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Beano

Derivations

Words beginning with "beano": beanos. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Beano

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-n-o"

-1 letter: aeon, bane, bean, bone, ebon, nabe.

-2 letters: abo, ane, ban, ben, boa, eon, nab, nae, neb, nob, obe, one.

-3 letters: ab, ae, an, ba, be, bo, en, na, ne, no, oe, on.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-n-o"
 

+1 letter: beacon, beanos, bemoan, borane.

 

+2 letters: abalone, abdomen, ambones, amoeban, baloney, bandore, banjoes, baronet, baronne, bayonet, beacons, begonia, begroan, bemoans, boatmen, bogbean, bondage, boranes, broaden, cabezon, cowbane, dogbane, hambone, jawbone, jobname, niobate, nosebag, notable, ownable, reboant, soybean.

 

+3 letters: abalones, abdomens, abounded, airborne, amoebean, anaerobe, atonable, backbone, ballonet, ballonne, baloneys, banderol, bandores, banknote, bannerol, baritone, baronage, baroness, baronets, baronies, baronnes, barytone, baseborn, bayonets, beaconed, beanpole, bedsonia, begonias, begroans, bemoaned, benzoate, betatron, bevatron, bioclean, blazoned, blazoner, boardmen, boatsmen, bogbeans, bogeyman, bohemian, bondable, bondages, bonehead, bonemeal, boneyard, boniface, botanies, botanise, botanize, broadens, buoyance, butanone, cabezone, cabezons, coinable, cowbanes, debonair, dogbanes, downbeat, emblazon, gambeson, hamboned, hambones, hornbeam, ibogaine, jawboned, jawboner, jawbones, jobnames, joinable, knowable, loanable, moneybag, moonbeam, nabobery, nabobess, niobates, nobleman, nosebags, noseband, notables, obeisant, obtained, obtainer, openable, rawboned, reobtain, sawbones, seaborne, searobin, soybeans, stonable, subpoena, taborine, tailbone, umbonate, undoable, zabaione, zabajone.

 

+4 letters: abandoned, abandoner, abhorrent, abiogenic, abjection, abnegator, abominate, aborigine, absconded, absconder, absorbent, adsorbent, aitchbone, anaerobes, anaerobic, anklebone, anybodies, arabinose, backbones, balconied, balconies, ballonets, ballonnes, ballooned, bandboxes, banderole, banderols, bandoleer, bandolier, banknotes, bannerols, barbitone, baritones, baronages, baronetcy, barytones, bastioned, bayoneted, beaconing, beanpoles, bedsoniae, bedsonias, begroaned, bemoaning, benzoates, betatrons, bevatrons, biconcave, blazoners, bohemians, bombazine, bombinate, boneheads, bonemeals, boneyards, bonifaces, boogerman, boogeyman, boomerang, botanised, botanises, botanized, botanizes, breakdown, broadened, broadness, bromelain, brominate, buoyances, butanones, cabezones, canoeable, carbonade, carbonate, carbonize, cobaltine, confabbed, constable, cornbread, countable, detonable, downbeats, earthborn, eastbound, emblazons, embryonal, endamoeba, enjoyable, enjoyably, entamoeba, forebrain, gambesons, geobotany, habergeon, hobnailed, honorable, hornbeams, horsebean, ibogaines, ignorable, ionizable, isobutane, jawboners, lazybones, moneybags, moonbeams, mountable, nonarable, nonverbal, nonviable, nosebands, obeisance, observant, obstinate, obtainers, reobtains, sanbenito, sandboxes, searobins, soundable, stoneboat, subdeacon, subpoenas, taborines, tailbones, unlovable, unmovable, warbonnet, whalebone, wolfsbane, zabaiones, zabajones.

 

+5 letters: abandoners, aberration, abhorrence, abiogenist, abjections, abnegation, abnegators, abominable, abominated, abominates, aborigines, abreaction, absconders, absorbance, absorbency, absorbents, abstention, actionable, adsorbents, aitchbones, ambitioned, anklebones, antibioses, antibodies, arabinoses, autobahnen, balneology, banderoles, bandoleers, bandoliers, bankrolled, bankroller, barbitones, barleycorn, baronesses, baronetage, baudronses, bayoneting, bayonetted, beachfront, becloaking, beforehand, begroaning, belaboring, belladonna, benefactor, benzocaine, benzofuran, blazonries, bombazines, bombinated, bombinates, boneheaded, boomerangs, borderland, boundaries, brainpower, breakdowns, breakfront, breastbone, broadening, bromelains, brominated, brominates, browbeaten, buoyancies, carabinero, carbonades, carbonated, carbonates, carbonized, carbonizes, carbonless, carbonnade, cobaltines, cognizable, collarbone, combinable, condonable, conglobate, constables, consumable, cornbreads, cornerback, corybantes, debonairly, earthbound, embargoing, emblazoned, emblazoner, emblazonry, endamoebae, endamoebas, endorsable, entamoebae, entamoebas, exorbitant, forbearing, forebrains, geobotanic, governable, habergeons, hebetation, hibernator, honourable, horsebeans, iceboating, inexorable, inexorably, inoperable, insociable, insolvable, inviolable, isobutanes, liberation, linerboard, lobsterman, loganberry, marrowbone, membranous, mountebank, naboberies, nabobesses, negotiable, neoliberal, noblewoman, nonbearing, noncabinet, nondurable, nonsalable, nontaxable, noticeable, noticeably, notifiable, obeisances, obeisantly, oblateness, obnubilate, observance, observants, obtainable, obtainment, outbalance, outbeaming, overbaking, overbeaten, panbroiled, paperbound, pardonable, pawnbroker, personable, ponderable, reasonable, reasonably, reboarding, reobtained, reprobance, roundtable, rowanberry, sanbenitos, sawboneses, seasonable, seasonably, snowballed, stoneboats, subdeacons, suboceanic, subpoenaed, summonable, tablespoon, tambourine, tobogganed, tobogganer, trabeation, unabsorbed, unknowable, unopenable, unprovable, unsociable, unsolvable, unworkable, vagabonded, vibraphone, warbonnets, waterborne, whalebones, wolfsbanes, xenophobia, zabaglione.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Beano


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 65 61 6E 6F

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .    .-    -.    ---

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01100101 01100001 01101110 01101111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#101 &#97 &#110 &#111

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0065 0061 006E 006F

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3671678081

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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