Betting

Definition: Betting

Betting

Adjective

1. Preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance; "led a dissipated life"; "a betting man"; "a card-playing son of a bitch"; "a gambling fool"; "sporting gents and their ladies".

Date "betting" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1599. (references)

Synonyms: Betting

Synonyms: card-playing (adj), dissipated (adj), gambling (adj), sporting (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Intention	Gaming house, gambling house, betting house; bucket shop; gambling joint; totalizator, totalizer; hell; betting ring; dice, dice box.
	Drawing lots; sortilegy, sortition; sortes, sortes Virgilianae; rouge et noir, hazard, ante, chuck-a-luck, crack-loo, craps, faro, roulette, pitch and toss, chuck, farthing, cup tossing, heads or tails cross and pile, poker-dice; wager; bet, betting; gambling; the turf.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I'm betting he's going to swerve first. (Groundhog Day; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) We lost over four million francs betting on the war. (The Cheap Detective; writing credit: Neil Simon) Nicky's methods of betting weren't scientific, but they worked. (Casino; writing credit: Nicholas Pileggi) As a betting man, you must concede there is a certain thrill to it. Consider also how elegantly I've moved from proposal to proposition. (Ideal Husband, An; writing credit: Oscar Wilde; Oliver Parker)
Lyrics	'FORE YOU GO BETTING IT ALL ("Come Back In One Piece"; performing artist: Aaliyah)
Clever	Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. (references; author: W.C. Fields)
Movie/TV Titles	Betting Field (1898)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories (reference) Can You Win?: The Real Odds for Casino Gambling, Sports Betting, and Lotteries (reference) Insights into Sports Betting (2nd Edition, New & Revised) (reference) Riches and Regrets: Betting on Gambling in Two Colorado Mountain Towns (reference) Sharp Sports Betting (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Hm Customs And Excise Receipts From Betting Gaming And Lotte (reference) (more periodical examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Play	Caption
	Gambling; taking risks; betting; bet; wager; Las Vegas; gaming.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Samuel Butler	What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, ''I bet that my Redeemer liveth.''
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead	Tom Stoppard	Inside where nothing shows, I am the essence of a man spinning double-headed coins, and betting against himself in private atonement for an unremembered past.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Betting on favorite teams is also very common in the country. (references)
Economic History	Bahamas	As a further incentive to draw tourists, the Government amended the Lotteries and Gaming Acts in October 1995 to allow for sports betting. (references)
	Hong Kong	Other government revenue sources include a stamp duty on property and stock market transactions, betting duties, an estate duty and a hotel accommodation tax. (references)
	Ghana	The GIPC law specifies areas of investment reserved for Ghanaians, namely, petty trading, operation of taxi services (except when a non-Ghanaian has a minimum fleet of 10 vehicles), pool betting businesses and lotteries (except soccer pools), beauty salons and barber shops. (references)
Trade	Vietnam	Special consumption taxes also apply for services such as dancing, massage, karaoke, casino, jackpot machine games, certain betting activities and golf. (references)
Travel	Ghana	Value-Added Tax (VAT): A 12.5% VAT is levied on all consumer purchases, services, accommodation in hotels and guest houses, food in restaurants, hotels and snack bars, as well as advertising, betting and entertainment. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Conan O'Brien	Murdoch would go for it because he's a betting man. That guy's crazy, Murdoch, so he'll go for it. And NBC, they'll do as I tell them. They'll do as I tell them.
Dennis Miller	I don't get angry watching my kids play sports ever since I stopped betting on their games.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Betting" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 53.64% of the time. "Betting" is used about 261 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 Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	53.64%	140	26,789
Adjective (general or positive)	30.27%	79	37,388
Noun (singular)	10.73%	28	65,706
Noun (proper)	5.36%	14	93,893
Total	100.00%	261	N/A

Expressions using "betting": betting man ♦ betting odds ♦ betting office ♦ betting shop. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "betting": betting-mad, betting-post, betting-shop, betting-shops, betting-slip, betting-slips.
	Ending with "betting": credit-betting, tote-betting.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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.

Language		Translations for "betting"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		bast (bet, wager). (various references)

Arabic		‏رهان (bet, pools, stake, wager). (various references)

Bulgarian		обзалагане (bet, wager), залагане (bet, pop), бас (base, bass, basso, bet, wager). (various references)

Chinese		�"赌 (Betted). (various references)

Czech		sázení (setting). (various references)

Danish		spilleafgifter med undtagelse af de afgifter,der pålægges gevinster (gambling and betting, other than those on winnings, taxes on lotteries). (various references)

Dutch		belastingen op winsten uit loterijen,kansspelen en weddenschappen (gambling or betting winnings, taxes on lottery), belasting op het wedden op sportwedstrijden (tax on betting on sporting events). (various references)

Finnish		veikkaus. (various references)

French		pari (bet). (various references)

German		wetten (bet, bets, betted, lay odds, punt, to bet, wager, wagers, warrant), wettend (staking, wagering). (various references)

Greek		φόροι επί λαχνού,τυχερών παιγνιδιών ή στοιχημάτων (gambling or betting winnings, taxes on lottery). (various references)

Hebrew		�"תערבות (interference, intervention, intrusion, meddlesomeness, mixture). (various references)

Hungarian		fogadás (backing, bet, flutter, gamble, reception, salon, wager). (various references)

Italian		scommesse, scommessa (bet, stake, wager). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		賭事 (gambling), 賭け (a gamble, gambling), 賭 (a gamble, gambling). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		かけ�"と (gambling), かけ (a gamble, credit, fragment, gambling, splinter). (various references)

Korean		내기 (Bet). (various references)

Manx		cur gial er (lay a wager), chebbal (bet, bid, bidding, offer, present). (various references)

Pig Latin		ettingbay

Portuguese		aposta (bet, bid, wager). (various references)

Romanian		pariu (bet, parlay, wager). (various references)

Russian		пари (bet, parlay, wager). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		opklada (bet, parlay, sweepstakes, wager). (various references)

Spanish		apuesta (ante, bet, punt, wager). (various references)

Swedish		vadhållning. (various references)

Thai		การพนัน (bet, gambling, sweepstakes). (various references)

Turkish		bahse girme (wager). (various references)

Ukranian		заклад (bet, hock, lien, pledge, wager), парі (bet). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "betting": abetting, gibbetting, nonbetting, overbetting. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Betting" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Battig, battting, beatting, beeting, Benteng, bentong, Bertioga, betating, betina, betine, betong, Bettagno, Bettany, bettina, bettings, betton, Betzig, bittin, bitting, Bretigny, brettan, Etting. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "betting" (pronounced be"ting)
5	b e" t i ng	abetting.
4	-e" t i ng	begetting, besetting, Fetting, forgetting, fretting, getting, jetting, letting, netting, offsetting, petting, regretting, setting, sweating, upsetting, vetting, wetting.
3	-t i ng	abating, abbreviating, abdicating, abducting, aborting, abrogating, abutting, accelerating, accenting, accentuating, accepting, accommodating, accosting, accounting, accrediting, accumulating, acquitting, acting, activating, adapting, addicting, adjudicating, adjusting, administrating, admitting, adopting, advocating, affecting, affiliating, afflicting, aggravating, agitating, airlifting, alerting, alienating, alleviating, allocating, allotting, alternating, amounting, annotating, anticipating, appointing, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, arbitrating, arresting, articulating, assassinating, assaulting, asserting, assimilating, assisting, associating, attempting, attesting, attracting, attributing, auditing, augmenting, authenticating, automating, averting, awaiting, babysitting, backbiting, baiting, balloting, bankrupting, batting, beating, befitting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, berating, besting, biting, bitting, blacklisting, blanketing, blasting, bloating, bloodletting, blunting, boasting, boating, bolting, boosting, booting, boycotting, breasting, broadcasting, budgeting, bullfighting, bunting, bursting, busting, butting, calculating, captivating, carpeting, carting, castigating, casting, castrating, catapulting, cavorting, celebrating, cementing, chanting, charting, chatting, cheating, chlorinating, circulating, circumventing, citing, clotting, coagulating, coasting, coating, coexisting, cohabiting, collaborating, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commemorating, commenting, committing, communicating, commuting, compensating, competing, complementing, completing, complicating, complimenting, composting, computing, concentrating, concocting, conducting, confiscating, conflicting, confronting, congratulating, connecting, consenting, consisting, consolidating, consorting, constituting, constricting, constructing, consulting, consummating, contacting, contaminating, contemplating, contesting, contracting, contradicting, contrasting, contributing, converting, convicting, cooperating, coordinating, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corroborating, corrupting, costing, counteracting, Counterfeiting, counting, courting, crafting, crating, creating, crediting, cresting, culminating, cultivating, cutting, darting, dating, daunting, debating, debilitating, decaffeinating, decanting, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, deducting, defaulting, defeating, defecting, deflating, deflecting, defrosting, degenerating, delegating, deleting, deliberating, delighting, delineating, delisting, demonstrating, denigrating, denting, departing, depicting, depleting, deporting, depositing, deprecating, depreciating, deregulating, deserting, designating, destructing, detecting, deteriorating, detonating, detracting, devastating, devoting, dictating, dieting, differentiating, digesting, diluting, directing, disappointing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discounting, discrediting, discriminating, disgusting, disintegrating, disorienting, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, disrupting, dissecting, disseminating, dissenting, dissipating, distorting, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, divesting, documenting, domesticating, dominating, donating, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, duplicating, dusting, eating, editing, educating, effecting, elaborating, elating, electing, electroplating, elevating, eliciting, eliminating, emanating, emigrating, emitting, emulating, enacting, encapsulating, enchanting, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, enunciating, equating, equivocating, eradicating, erecting, erupting, escalating, escorting, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, everlasting, evicting, exacerbating, exacting, exaggerating, exalting, exasperating, excavating, excepting, exciting, excoriating, excruciating, executing, exempting, exerting, exhausting, exhibiting, exhilarating, exhorting, existing, exiting, exonerating, expecting, expediting, experimenting, exploiting, exporting, extenuating, exterminating, extorting, extracting, extraditing, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fainting, fascinating, fasting, faulting, feasting, fermenting, ferreting, fidgeting, fighting, fingerprinting, firefighting, fitting, flaunting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fluctuating, fomenting, footing, footnoting, forecasting, forfeiting, formulating, fragmenting, fronting, frosting, fruiting, frustrating, generating, gifting, glinting, gloating, graduating, grafting, granting, grating, gravitating, greeting, gritting, grouting, grunting, gunfighting, gusting, gutting, gyrating, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, harvesting, Hasting, hating, haunting, heating, hesitating, highlighting, hinting, hitting, hoisting, homeporting, hosting, humiliating, hunting, hurting, hydrogenating, igniting, illuminating, illustrating, imitating, impacting, imparting, impersonating, implanting, implementing, implicating, importing, imprinting, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, inciting, incorporating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, indicting, infatuating, infecting, infighting, infiltrating, inflating, inflicting, infuriating, ingesting, ingratiating, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, initiating, injecting, innovating, inserting, insinuating, insisting, inspecting, instigating, instituting, instructing, insulating, insulting, integrating, interacting, intercepting, interdicting, interesting, interpreting, interrogating, interrupting, intersecting, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, inventing, investigating, investing, invigorating, inviting, irritating, isolating, jolting, jousting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lambasting, lamenting, laminating, lasting, legislating, levitating, liberating, lifting, lighting, limiting, liquidating, listing, litigating, locating, looting, lubricating, lusting, malting, mandating, manifesting, manipulating, marketing, marting, masturbating, mating, matting, mediating, meditating, meeting, melting, migrating, minting, misappropriating, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, misstating, mistreating, mitigating, moderating, molesting, molting, moonlighting, motivating, mounting, mutating, mutilating, muting, nauseating, navigating, necessitating, negating, neglecting, negotiating, nesting, nitrating, nominating, nonbiting, nonoperating, nonsporting, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obliterating, obstructing, obviating, officiating, omitting, operating, opting, orbiting, orchestrating, originating, oscillating, ousting, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overestimating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, overstating, painting, panting, parachuting, parenting, participating, parting, pasting, patenting, patting, penetrating, percolating, perfecting, permeating, permitting, perpetrating, perpetuating, persecuting, persisting, perverting, picketing, piloting, pinpointing, pirating, pitting, placating, planting, plating, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, pointing, polluting, pontificating, populating, porting, posting, pouting, precipitating, predicting, predominating, preempting, preexisting, presenting, preventing, printing, procrastinating, profiting, prognosticating, prohibiting, projecting, proliferating, promoting, prompting, promulgating, propagating, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, protesting, pulsating, purporting, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, quoting, radiating, rafting, ranting, ratcheting, rating, reacting, reactivating, readjusting, reallocating, reasserting, rebutting, recalculating, recanting, recasting, reciprocating, reciting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstituting, reconstructing, recounting, recreating, recruiting, recuperating, redacting, redecorating, redirecting, redistributing, redistricting, reelecting, reevaluating, refitting, reflecting, refuting, regenerating, regulating, rehabilitating, reigniting, reincorporating, reinstating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinventing, reinvesting, reinvigorating, reiterating, rejecting, rejuvenating, relating, relegating, relenting, relocating, remarketing, renegotiating, renovating, renting, repainting, repatriating, repeating, replanting, replicating, reporting, representing, reprinting, repudiating, requesting, rerouting, resenting, resisting, resonating, resorting, respecting, restarting, restating, resting, restricting, resubmitting, resulting, resurrecting, resuscitating, retaliating, retesting, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverberating, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, roasting, rocketing, rooting, rotating, rotting, rusting, salivating, salting, saluting, saturating, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, seating, sedating, segregating, selecting, separating, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shorting, shouting, shunting, shutting, sifting, sighting, simulating, siting, sitting, skating, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slanting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, smelting, snorting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, sorting, speculating, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprinting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squinting, squirting, stagnating, starting, stating, stimulating, stipulating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, subordinating, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suffocating, suggesting, superconducting, supplanting, supplementing, supporting, surmounting, suspecting, Sweeting, syndicating, tabulating, tainting, targeting, tasting, taunting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tempting, tenting, terminating, testing, thermosetting, thrusting, thwarting, ticketing, tilting, titillating, toasting, tolerating, tormenting, toting, touting, translating, transmitting, transplanting, transporting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underestimating, underreporting, understating, underwriting, undulating, unexciting, uninteresting, uninviting, uniting, unrelenting, unremitting, unseating, unstinting, unsuspecting, unwitting, updating, uplifting, uprooting, urinating, vacating, vacillating, validating, vaulting, ventilating, venting, vesting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, waiting, wanting, wasting, weighting, weightlifting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, wresting, writing, yachting.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-e-g-i-n-t-t"
	-1 letter: bitten.
	-2 letters: begin, being, binge, tinge.
	-3 letters: bent, bine, bint, bite, bitt, gent, gibe, gien, nett, nite, tent, tine, ting, tint.
	-4 letters: beg, ben, bet, big, bin, bit, eng, gen, get, gib, gie, gin, git, neb, net, nib, nit, teg, ten, tet, tie, tin, tit.
	-5 letters: be, bi, en, et, in, it, ne, ti.
	Words containing the letters "b-e-g-i-n-t-t"
	+1 letter: abetting.
	+2 letters: battening, battering, befitting, begetting, besetting, besotting, bettering, bittering, buttering, obtesting, rebutting, tableting.
	+3 letters: bassetting, befretting, beknotting, belittling, besmutting, betrothing, blattering, brevetting, embattling, extubating, gibbetting, hebetating, nonbetting, rebottling, subletting, tabletting.
	+4 letters: bayonetting, befittingly, benefitting, betattering, briquetting, buttressing, embittering, embrittling, geobotanist, imbittering, misbegotten, outbleating, outdebating, overbetting, rebuttoning, unbefitting.
	+5 letters: bantamweight, bespattering, bloodletting, breathtaking, butterflying, carburetting, debilitating, geobotanists, letterboxing, obliterating, resubmitting.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

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

42 65 74 74 69 6E 67

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

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

⁼

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 01110100 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#101 &#116 &#116 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0065 0074 0074 0069 006E 0067

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

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

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
betting	4,692	betting line	181
sports betting	3,178	hockey betting	156
online betting	1,406	online casino and betting	114
pro football betting	1,302	internet betting	109
horse betting	863	cricket betting	107
soccer betting	834	offshore betting	107
betting odds	580	golf betting	106
football betting line	573	on line sports betting	104
off track betting	522	virtual betting	102
football betting online	424	betting basketball	100
online sports betting	374	online horse betting	97
horse racing betting	359	betting site	93
football betting	350	baseball betting online	93
basketball betting line	302	nba betting line	86
sport betting	278	spread betting	83
football betting odds	272	black jack betting	80
casino betting	271	sports betting odds	73
nfl betting	226	tennis betting	71
horse race betting	200	online horse racing betting	66
baseball betting	184	online basketball betting	65
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Betting

Definition: Betting

Betting

Adjective

Synonyms: Betting

Synonyms within Context: Betting

Intention

Crosswords: Betting

Modern Usage: Betting

Screenplays

Lyrics

Clever

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Betting

Books

Periodicals

Image Slideshow: Betting

Computer Images:Betting

Sounds Captioned with "Betting".

Familiar Quotations: Betting

Samuel Butler

Use in Literature: Betting

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

Tom Stoppard

Non-Fiction Usage: Betting

Spoken Usage: Betting

Conan O'Brien

Dennis Miller

Usage Frequency: Betting

Expressions: Betting

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Betting

betting

betting line

sports betting

hockey betting

online betting

online casino and betting

pro football betting

internet betting

horse betting

cricket betting

soccer betting

offshore betting

betting odds

golf betting

football betting line

on line sports betting

off track betting

virtual betting

football betting online

betting basketball

online sports betting

online horse betting

horse racing betting

betting site

football betting

baseball betting online

basketball betting line

nba betting line

sport betting

spread betting

football betting odds

black jack betting

casino betting

sports betting odds

nfl betting

tennis betting

horse race betting

online horse racing betting

baseball betting

online basketball betting

Modern Translations: Betting

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Betting