beta

ен+нг=енг

Антички Грчки Алфабет

← alpha		→ gamma
Β β Ancient Greek: βῆτα
Wikipedia article on beta

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• (UK) enPR: bēʹtə, МФА^(кључ): /ˈbiːtə/
• (US) enPR: bāʹtə, МФА^(кључ): /ˈbeɪtə/

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• Риме: -iːtə, -eɪtə
• (UK) Homophone: beater (non-rhotic accents)
• (US) Homophone: baiter (non-rhotic accents)

beta (plural betas)

1. 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.
2. Used in marking scheme: α, β, γ or α+, α, α-, β etc.
3. (finance) Average sensitivity of a security's price to overall securities market prices.
5. (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.

   The company is offering a public beta program to test the software.

6. (computing, video games, countable) Software in such a phase; a preliminary version.
   • 2007, Michael Lopp, Managing Humans (page 107)

     He quickly deduced our goal—ship a quality beta—but he also quickly discerned that we had no idea about the quality of the product because of our pile of untriaged bugs.

   • 2015 фебруар 14, Steven Strom, “Evolve Review: Middle of the food chain”, in Ars Technica‎^[1]:

     Before Evolve had even seen its first beta, the game's publisher dipped its toe into presenting it as an eSport.

7. (climbing) Information about a route which may aid someone in climbing it.
8. (physics) A beta particle or beta ray.
9. (aviation) Sideslip angle.
10. (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.
11. Алтернативно спеловање од betta (“fish in the genus Betta”)
12. (slang, manosphere, masculism) Script error: The function "show_from" does not exist. beta male., a man who is less competent or desirable than an alpha male.
    • 2006, Catherine Mann, Blaze of Glory, Harlequin (2006), →ISBN 9781459228252, unnumbered page:

      “I guess in your psychological language of alpha males and beta males, I would be firmly in the camp that prefers the more laid-back betas,” she took a deep breath, “like your father.”

    • 2010, L. A. Banks, "Dog Tired (of the Drama!)", in Blood Lite II: Overbite (ed. Kevin J. Anderson), Gallery Books (2010), →ISBN 9781439187654, page 121:

      “They want sexy, virile alpha males, yes? But that doesn't come with sensitive and loyal and all of that. That's a beta. A frickin' collie, Lola. […]

    • 2010, Terry Spear, Wolf Fever, Sourcebooks Casablanca (2010), →ISBN 9781402237577, page 24:

      She'd always had a thing for alpha males. Not that she had any intention of being bossed around, even if one had her best interests at heart. Her fascination with alphas was that they were a challenge. Betas didn't hold much of an appeal.

    • 2015, Stephen Jarosek, Tyrants of Matriarchy:

      When they ride the cock carousel in preference to the responsible betas that they find so boring, well, we guess that they pay.

    • 2018, Corey Pein, Live Work Work Work Die‎^[2]:

      News of Harper-Mercer's murder spree, which killed ten, prompted speculation on neoreactionary forums that the long-awaited “beta uprising” of virginal shut-ins had begun. Not quite. But in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017, a large audience of Americans finally saw the real beta uprising in the violent Nazi rally that shut the city down

13. (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.
    • 2013, Kristina Busse, "Pon Farr, Mpreg, Bonds, and the Rise of the Omegaverse", in Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World (ed. Anne Jamison), page 317:

      Many A/B/O stories posit societies where biological imperatives divide people based on wolf pack hierarchies into sexual dominants (alphas), sexual submissives (omegas), and everyone else (betas).

    • 2017, Marianne Gunderson, "What is an omega? Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 99:

      In ASD, the beta also functions as a contrast, as Yuri is assumed to be a beta before his first heat reveals his omega status.

    • 2018, Laura Campillo Arnaiz, "When the Omega Empath Met the Alpha Doctor: An Analysis of Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics in the Hannibal Fandom", in The Darker Side of Slash Fan Fiction (ed. Ashton Spacey), page 119:

      Betas are usually second in command to the reigning alpha, and omegas belong to the lowest caste of the social hierarchy.

(sideslip angle): alpha, gamma, theta

• betavoltaic
• betavoltaics

beta (not comparable)

1. Identifying a molecular position in an organic chemical compound.
2. Designates the second in an order of precedence.
3. (computing) Preliminary; prerelease. Refers to an incomplete version of a product released for initial testing.
4. (of a person, object or action) associated with the beta male/female archetype.

beta (third-person singular simple present betas, present participle betaing, simple past and past participle betaed)

1. (computing) To preliminarily release computer software for initial testing prior to final release.
2. (chiefly Internet) To beta-read a text.
   • 1999, sqira a., in alt.tv.x-files.creative [3]

     My thanks to Heather; who read it and betaed it. Thank you.

   • 2000, Elizabeth Durack, quoted in Angelina I. Karpovich, “The Audience as Editor: The Role of Beta Readers in Online Fan Fiction Communities” (essay), in Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse (editors), Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet, McFarland (2006), →ISBN 9780786426409, page 180,

     Beta’ing is time-consuming, so asking a lot of people to give you a detailed analysis isn’t the most polite thing to do.

   • 2002, Jane Davitt, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative [4]

     The next part is written and beta'd (thanks, Jen!), ready to go but <shuffles feet> I haven't even started what should be the final part yet.

   • 2002, Karmen Ghia, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated [5]

     I had the honor of betaing this story and as I was doing the first read through I had the odd, but lovely, experience when a story suspends the reader in its own rhythm and flow, its own reality.

• Bate, Teba, abet, bate, beat ^{(alphagram abet)}

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From Classical Malay بيتا‎ (beta, “I”).

beta

1. I first-person singular pronoun

• bet

• Шаблон:R:abs:Takaria; Pieter:1998

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From Антички Грчки βῆτα (bêta).

beta f (plural betes)

1. beta (Greek letter)

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• МФА^(кључ): (Central, Balearic) [ˈbɛ.tə]
• МФА^(кључ): (Valencia) [ˈbɛ.ta]

From Антички Грчки βῆτα (bêta).

beta f (plural betes)

1. beta; the Greek letter Β (lowercase β).

From Occitan beta.

beta f (plural betes)

1. boat; specifically a small, flat-bottom boat common to the coasts of Provence and Languedoc.

• “beta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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From Антички Грчки βῆτα (bêta).

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1. beta (Greek letter)

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From Антички Грчки βῆτα (bêta), ultimately from Proto-Semitic *bayt- (“house”).

• МФА^(кључ): /ˈpeːʰta/
• Риме: -eːʰta
• Homophone: betað

beta n (genitive singular beta, plural betu)

1. beta (Greek letter)

Declension of beta
n1	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	beta	betað	betu, betur	betuni
accusative	beta	betað	betu, betur	betuni
dative	beta	betanum	betum	betunum
genitive	beta	betans	betna	betnanna

• betageisli m
• betageisling f

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From Антички Грчки βῆτα (bêta).

beta m (plural betas)

1. beta (Greek letter)

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beta n (genitive singular alfa, no plural)

1. beta (Greek letter)

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• МФА^(кључ): /ˈbɛ.ta/
• Риме: -ɛta
• Хифенација: bè‧ta

From Латински bēta, from Антички Грчки βῆτα (bêta).

beta f (plural #)

1. The name of the Greek script letter Β/β; beta
2. (computing) beta (software version)

• betacismo

• bet

From Латински bēta (“beet”), from Celtic.

beta f (plural bete)

1. Alternative form of bieta; beet

• beat, tabe ^{(alphagram abet)}

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beta

1. Rōmaji transcription of ベタ

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Said by some sources to be of Celtic origin,^[1][2] but no obvious Celtic cognates exist. Also compared are blitum (“spinach”), meta (“conic heap of stones”) (compared to the root's spindle form), and less likely, sense 2, with the seed vessel resembling the letter.

beta

1. A beet.

First declension..

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	bēta	bētae
Genitive	bētae	bētārum
Dative	bētae	bētīs
Accusative	bētam	bētās
Ablative	bētā	bētīs
Vocative	bēta	bētae

From Антички Грчки βῆτα (bêta).

beta

1. The Greek letter beta.

• “beta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “beta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• beta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Шаблон:R:es:Roberts:2014
• Berti-Pichat (1866)
• Baxter (1837)
• Poiret (1827)
• von Lippmann (1925)
• Geschwind & Sellier (1902)
• Pabst (1887)
• Becker-Dillengen (1928)
• Biancardi, Panella & Lewellen (2011): Beta maritima: The Origin of Beets

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• (Johor-Selangor) МФА^(кључ): /betə/
• (Riau-Lingga) МФА^(кључ): /beta/
• Риме: -etə, -tə, -ə

From Court Malay, Beta.

Шаблон:ms-pronoun

1. (royal) I, me, my (exclusive use in royalty, subject is either king or queen)

• aku
• saya
• patik

From Антички Грчки βῆτα (bêta).

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1. beta (second letter of the Greek alphabet)

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• bete

• МФА^(кључ): /ˈbʲeda/

beta

1. third-person plural present subjunctive relative of is
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     —Cit comṡuidigthi la Grécu ní écen dúnni beta comṡuidigthi linn., Although they are compounds in Greek (lit. “with the Greeks”), it is not necessary for us that they be compounds in our language (lit. “with us”).

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• МФА^(кључ): /ˈbɛ.ta/

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• Риме: -ɛta
• Syllabification: be‧ta

Позајмљено од Антички Грчки βῆτα (bêta), from Phoenician 𐤁 (b‬ /⁠bēt⁠/).

beta f

1. beta Галицијски

See the etymology of the main entry.

beta m inan

1. genitive/accusative singular of bet

• beta in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• beta in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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From Латински beta, from Антички Грчки βῆτα (bêta).

beta f (plural betas)

1. beta (all senses)

beta f (plural betas)

1. beet (plant)

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From Француски bêta.

beta m (plural beta)

1. beta (Greek letter)

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From Антички Грчки βῆτα (bêta).

• МФА^(кључ): /bêta/
• Хифенација: be‧ta

bȅta f (Ћирилица spelling бе̏та)

1. beta, the Greek letter, Β, β

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From Антички Грчки βῆτα (bêta).

• МФА^(кључ): [ˈbeta]

beta f (genitive singular bety, nominative plural bety, genitive plural biet, declension pattern of žena) OR
beta n

1. beta (Greek letter)

When used in the neuter gender, the word is not declined.

• beta in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

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From Антички Грчки βῆτα (bêta) ultimately from Proto-Semitic *bayt- (“house”).

(Castilian)

• (Latin America)
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• Homophone: veta

beta f (plural betas)

1. beta; the Greek letter Β, β

• “beta” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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Латински bēta, from Антички Грчки βῆτα (bêta).

beta n or c

1. beta; the Greek letter Β, β
2. (computing) a beta version of a program
3. (slang) short for minnesbeta

Declension of beta
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	beta	betat	beta	betan
Genitive	betas	betats	betas	betans

Declension of beta
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	beta	betan	betor	betorna
Genitive	betas	betans	betors	betornas

beta (present betar, preterite betade, supine betat, imperative beta)

1. to test software prior to release

Ultimately from Латински bēta (“beet”).

beta c

1. beetroot

Declension of beta
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	beta	betan	betor	betorna
Genitive	betas	betans	betors	betornas

bete +‎ -a

beta (present betar, preterite betade, supine betat, imperative beta)

1. to graze; to eat grass; to feed on growing herbage.

• beta av
• bete

Clipping of betaga; be- +‎ ta.

• МФА^(кључ): /bɛˈtɑː/

Шаблон:sv-verb-irr

1. to steal

Шаблон:sv-conj-st Шаблон:sv-conj-st