noun
definition
A reusable software component written in Java.
noun
definition
Any plant of several genera of the taxonomic family Fabaceae that produces large edible seeds or edible seedpods.
definition
The large edible seed of such a plant (for example, a broad bean, navy bean or garbanzo bean).
definition
The edible seedpod of such a plant.
definition
(by extension) The bean-like seed of certain other plants, such a a vanilla bean or (especially) a coffee bean.
definition
(by extension) An object resembling a pea or bean in shape, often made from plastic or styrofoam and used in large numbers as packing material or as stuffing for beanbags and similar items.
definition
The head or brain.
definition
The clitoris.
definition
A person.
definition
A guinea coin.
definition
(usually in the negative) Money.
example
I haven't got a bean.
verb
definition
To hit deliberately with a projectile, especially in the head.
example
The pitcher beaned the batter, rather than letting him hit another home run.
Examples of bean in a Sentence
Destiny helped her with planting the green bean seeds.
If she likes imitating a bean pole, that's her choice.
The symptoms of Calabar bean poisoning have all been stated above.
The alkaloid calabarine is, on the other hand, a stimulant of the motor and reflex functions of the cord, so that only the pure alkaloid physostigmine and not any preparation of Calabar bean itself should be used when it is desired to obtain this action.
Larger concretions formed under other conditions are known as "bean ore."
The kidney bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) is another staple product in every part of the country, and is perhaps the most popular article of food among all classes of Chileans.
After the attempt of Bean - who was a hunchback, really insane - parliament passed a bill empowering judges to order whipping as a punishment for those who molested the queen; but somehow this salutary act was never enforced.
Additionally, of the energy the plant absorbs, it only stores one tenth of it in the potato or bean or whatever part we eat.
Are you going to insist that Howie admit to her what we're doing at Econ Scrutiny all day; not just counting sheep births and soy bean crops?
The castor bean grows wild, the green castor in the low, damp regions, the red castor at medium altitudes.
Bean straw is sometimes given as part of the roughage in Scotland, but not in England.
The bean usually contains a little more than 1% of alkaloids.
This primitive process is still being carried out in Manchuria, in the production of soja bean cake and soja bean oil, one of the staple industries of that country.
The British pharmacopoeia contains an alcoholic extract of the bean, intended for internal administration; but the alkaloid is now always employed.
Do not eat bean sprouts or alfalfa sprouts raw.
Dean nearly choked on a string bean.
The first direct purchase in China was made at Amoy, the teas previously obtained by the Company's factors having bean purchased in Madras and Surat, whither it was brought by Chinese junks after the expulsion of the British from Java.
Madonna Nudes 1979 for Men contains top notes of olive blossom, citron and grapefruit peel; middle notes of cardamom, star anise and Tonka bean; and base notes of musk, tobacco and teak.
Meats and tougher vegetables, such as celery, carrots, and broccoli will cook longest, while vegetables such as bean sprouts or green onions don't require much cooking at all, so you add them last for the least amount of cooking.
Anna Bean is an online shop perfect for the girly-girl.
L.L. Bean carries several styles of bucket hats.
The influence of Demeter, however, was not limited to corn, but extended to vegetation generally and all the fruits of the earth, with the curious exception of the bean, the use of which was forbidden at Eleusis, and for the protection of which a special patron was invented.
The berries are dried in the sun and sent down to Hodeda or Aden, where they are subjected to a process for separating the husk from the bean; the result is about 50% of cleaned berries, bun safe, which is exported, and a residue of husk or kishr, from which the Yemenis make their favourite beverage.
It was always Prince Albert's opinion that if Oxford had been flogged the attempt of Francis on the queen in 1842 and of Bean in the same year would never have been perpetrated.
A form of duelling with the seeds is also known among the natives, in which the two opponents divide a bean, each eating one-half; that quantity has been known to kill both adversaries.
Although thus highly poisonous, the bean has nothing in external aspect, taste or smell to distinguish it from any harmless leguminous seed, and very disastrous effects have resulted from its being incautiously left in the way of children.
Species of the bean and pepper plant are also indigenous, and the former is said to have been cultivated by the natives.
The imports are mainly woollen and cotton goods, iron and opium, and the exports include bean cake, bean oil, peas, raw silk, straw-braid, walnuts, a coarse kind of vermicelli, vegetables and dried fruits.
If these results are confirmed and the treatment can be worked commercially, the importance to agriculture of the discovery cannot be overestimated; each plant will provide, like the bean and vetch, its own nitrogenous manure, and larger crops will be produced at a decreased cost.
Alfalfa, the Japanese soy bean and the wheat fields - which furnish the finest of pasture in the early spring and ordinarily well into the winter season - are the props of a prosperous dairy industry.
Cond and Coligny, who, having obtained liberty of conscience in January 1561, now demanded liberty of worship. The colloquy at Poissy between the cardinal of Lorraine and Theodore Bean (September 1561), did not end in the agreement hoped for, and the duke of Guise so far abused its spirit as to embroil the French Calvinists with the German I
Physostigmine, the active principle of the Calabar bean, acts chiefly as a stimulant to voluntary and involuntary muscles, and at the same time exercises a depressing effect upon the spinal cord.
At a glance it appeared the gear was newer than usual and Dean could read the L. L. Bean label on the backpack.
New diagnostic morphological criteria have been found, and these are used routinely to rapidly confirm the identify the bean anthracnose isolates.
Every year, in the first really hot spell, the black bean aphid starts its regular invasion of the broad bean plants.
Next to the dried beans and rice were stalls of fresh noodles and bean curd.
The beat of the cocoa bean, Falling on the ground.
It looks somewhat like a Lima bean in the center of his brain from the angle she showed us.
Stir-fry for a minute or two until barely tender, then add the bean sprouts, soy sauce and chili sauce.
Children are given a bean by Barnardo's and challenged to grow a beanstalk.
Dr. L.F. Lowenstein OR children run up the bean stalk when you shout GIANT they climb back down and chop the beanstalk down.
A brazil nut allergen was identified in soya bean genetically engineered with a brazil nut gene (Nordlee et al, 1996 ).
The machine has a 3kg bean hopper plus four further canisters for powdered milk, chocolate, sugar and decaffeinated coffee.
The runner bean plants appear a little wind damaged, and the leaves do not have the normal dark green coloring.
Soya beans also make the protein rich bean curd.
Aphids were also a problem in early salad crops especially black bean, peach potato and lettuce currant aphid.
Herculex I protects against several insect pests, including European and southwestern corn borer, western bean cutworm and black cutworm.
And it's all very disciplined and professional even tho none of us get paid a bean!
Derived from the white kidney bean it contains no ephedrine, no caffeine, no stimulants and there's no failure.
The bean counters will then find good reason to get the leaks fixed.