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"BEANS" is a plural of: bean. |
Date "BEANS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
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Bible | Beans mentioned in 2 Sam. 17:28 as having been brought to David when flying from Absalom. They formed a constituent in the bread Ezekiel (4:9) was commanded to make, as they were in general much used as an article of diet. They are extensively cultivated in Egypt and Arabia and Syria. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | This is a bad dream. To see them growing, omens worries and sickness among children. Dried beans, means much disappointment in worldly affairs. Care should be taken to prevent contagious diseases from spreading. To dream of eating them, implies the misfortune or illness of a well loved friend. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Beans slang for property, money, is the French biens, goods. "A bean' = a guinea, is in Grose. "Like a beane [alms-money] in a monkeshood." - Cotgrare. (See Barristers' Gowns.) Beans. Pythagoras forbade the use of beans to his disciples- not the use of beans as a food, but the use of beans for political elections. Magistrates and other public officers were elected by beans cast by the voters into a helmet, and what Pythagoras advised was that his disciples should not interfere with politics or "love beans"- i.e. office. Aristotle says the word bean means venery, and that the prohibition to "abstain from beans" was equivalent to "keeping the body chaste." The French have the proverb, "If he gives me peas I will give him beans," S'il me donne des pois, je lui donnerai des fèves, i.e. I will give him tit for tat, a Rowland for an Oliver. Beans are in flower, les fèvres fleurissent, and this will account for your being so silly. Our forefathers imagined that the perfume of the flowering bean was bad for the head, and made men silly or light-headed. He knows how many beans go to make up five. He is "up to snuff;" he is no fool; he is not to be imposed upon. The reference is to the ancient custom of moving beans in counting. "I was a fool, I was, and didn't know how many beans make five [that is how many beans must be moved to make up five]."- Farjeon. "Few men better knew how many blue beans it takes to make five."- Galt. Blue Beans: "Three blue beans in a blue bladder." A rattle for children. "F. Hark! does it rattle? S. Yes, like three blue beans in a blue bladder." Old Fortunatus (Ancient Dramas), iii. p. 128. "Blue beans" are bullets or shot. Three small bullets or large shot in a bladder would make a very good rattle for a child. (See Blue Beans.) Full of beans. Said of a fresh and spirited horse. To get beans. To incur reproof. I'll give him beans. A licking; a jolly good hiding. A very common phrase. Probably from the French referred to above, meaning as good as I got; "beans for his peas." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A cleaned and screened anthracite product 7/8 in by 3/8 in (22.2 mm by 9.5mm). (references) |
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Green BeansBean is a common name for large plant seeds of several genera of leguminosae (English: leguminous, legumes), used for food or feed.
The term "beans" can also apply to the related species of peas, lentils, vetches and lupins.
Soybeans and peanuts, although leguminous species, are excluded from this article as they are mainly grown for oil extraction.
In English usage beans sometimes also refer to seeds or other organs of non leguminosae for example coffee beans, vanilla beans and cocoa beans.
Vegetables or Pulses
Leguminous crops harvested green for food like snap beans, green peas etc. are classified as vegetable crops. The term "pulses" is usually reserved for those leguminous crops which are harvested for their dry grain. Pulses exclude those crops mainly used for oil extraction like soybean and peanut) or those used exclusively for sowing purposes (clover and alfalfa).Of economic importance are the beans of the following genera of leguminosae
- Phaseolus
- Vigna
- Vicia
- Dolichos
- Pisum
- Lens
- Lupinus
Phaseolus spp
The genus Phaseolus contains 55 species, 5 of which have been domesticated. All Phaseolus species originate in Meso America and have been cultivated for thousands of years by pre-Columbian civilizations.Today, Phaseolus species are cultivated worldwide in both tropical, semi tropical and temperate climates.
Phaseolus vulgaris
P. vulgaris exists in many forms and colours. They are grown as dry beans or as green beans. There are bushy types, climbing types, green, yellow or speckled pods, black, green, red, and speckled seeds. This enormous variety in forms and colours of the different plant parts has given rise to a great variation in names.
P. vulgaris grown for dried bean production are known as pinto, kidney, navy, black turtle bean.
P. vulgaris grown for fresh consumption is known as snap, french, green, wax (yellow pods), pole or runner (climbing) beans.
Phaseolus coccineus
P. coccineus is normally a pluriannual plant whith stems that can reach several metres. The main uses are the green pods or the white dried seeds. The seeds are large. The scarlet runner beans have been grown extensively in Meso America, Europe and parts of Africa (Ethiopia). P. coccineus has large flowers which are scarlet or white in colour. Due to its flowers, scarlet runner beans are also grown as ornamental plants in the USA and Europe. P.coccineus is often grown in association with maize or sorghum whereby the maize or sorghum acts as support for the semi climbing runner beans.
Phaseolus acutifolius or Tepary bean
P. acutifolius is a very drought reistant bean which is grown in (semi)desert conditions from Arizona through Mexico to Costa Rica. The water requirements are low and the crop will grow in areas where annual rainfall is less than 400 mm.
Phaseolus lunatis
Also known as Lima bean, butter bean, duffin bean, rangoon bean, burma bean.
P. lunatis is well adapted to the drier climates.
Vigna spp
The genus Vigna includes a number of important food crops grown in tropical and semi tropical regions.
- Vigna angularis Adzuki bean
- Vigna radiata Mung bean
- Vigna sinensis Cowpea, balckeye pea/bean
- Vigna sesquipedalis Yardlong bean
Vicia spp
- Vicia faba horse bean, broad bean, field bean
- Vicia sativa common vetch
Dolichos spp
- Dolichos lablab Lablab bean, Hyacinth bean
Pisum spp
- Pisum sativum Garden pea
- Pisum arvense Field pea, protein pea
Lens esculata
- Lentil
Lupinus spp
Other beans
- Cicer arietinum Chick pea, Garbanzo bean, Bengal gram
- Canavalia ensiformis Jack bean, Sword bean
- Pachyrhizus spp Yam bean, Jicama
- Psophocarpus tetragonolobus Winged bean
- Stizolobium spp Velvet bean
- Cyamopsis tetragonoloba Guar bean
- Cajanus cajan Pigeon pea, cajan pea, Congo bean
Cultivating beans
From the 1881 Household CyclopediaBeans naturally succeed a culmiferous crop, and we believe it is not of much importance which of the varieties is followed, provided the ground be in decent order, and not worn out by the previous crop. The furrow ought to be given early in winter, and as deep as possible, that the earth may be sufficiently loosened, and room afforded for the roots of the plant to search for the requisite nourishment. The first furrow is usually given across the field, which is the best method when only one spring furrow is intended; but as it is now ascertained that two spring furrows are highly advantageous, the one in winter ought to be given in length, which lays the ground in a better situation for resisting the rains, and renders it sooner dry in spring than can be the case when ploughed across. On the supposition that three furrows are to be given, one in winter and two in spring, the following is the most eligible preparation:
Modes of drilling
The land being ploughed in length as early in winter as is practicable, and the gaw and headland furrows sufficiently dug out, take the second furrow across the first as soon as the ground is dry enough in spring to undergo the operation; water it immediately, and dig again the gaw and headland furrows, otherwise the benefit of the second furrow may be lost. This being done, leave the field for some days, till it is sufficiently dry, when a cast of the harrows becomes necessary, so that the surface may be leveled. Then enter with the ploughs and form the drills, which are generally made up with an internal of twenty-seven inches. In the hollow of this interval deposit the seed by a drill-barrow, and reverse or slit out the drills to cover the seed, which finishes the process for the time. After ten or twelve days, according to the state of the weather, cross-harrow the drills, thereby leveling the field for the hoeing process. Water the whole thing in a neat manner, and spade and shovel the gaw and the headland furrows, which concludes the whole process.
This is the most approved way of drilling beans. The next best is to give only one spring furrow, and to run the drill-barrow after every third plough, in which way the intervals are nearly of the same extent as already mentioned. Harrowing is afterwards required before the young plants reach the surface, and water-furrowing, etc., as above described.
Dung is often given to beans, especially when they succeed wheat which has not received manure. The best way is to apply the dung on the stubble before the winter furrow is given, which greatly facilitates the after process. Used in this way, a fore stock must be in hand; but where the farmer is not so well provided spring dunging becomes necessary, though evidently of less advantage. At that season it may either be put into the drills before the seed is sown or spread upon the surface and ploughed down, according to the nature of the drilling process which is meant to be adopted. Land dunged to beans, if duly hoed, is always in high order for carrying a crop of wheat in succession. Perhaps better wheat, both in respect to quantity and quality, may be cultivated in this way than in any other mode of sowing.
Different machines have been invented for drilling beans, but the most common and handy is one of the narrow form. This hand drill is pushed forward by a man or woman, and will, according as the brush or director is lowered or heightened, sow thicker or thinner, as may be expedient and necessary. Another machine; drawn by a horse, and sowing three drills at a time, has been constructed, and upon flat lands will certainly distribute the seed with the most minute exactness. Upon unequal fields, and even on those laid out in high ridges, the use of this machine is attended with a degree of inconvenience sufficient to balance its advantages. The hand-drill, therefore, in all probability, will be retained for general use, though the other is capable of performing the work with minuter regularity.
Seed quantity
Less than four bushels ought not to be hazarded if a full crop is expected. We seldom have seen thin beans turn out well, unless the soil is particularly rich; nay, unless the rows close, weeds will get away after the cleaning process is finished, thereby disappointing the object of drilling and rendering the system of little avail towards keeping the ground in good condition.
Hoeing process
Beans are cleaned in various ways: 1st. By the handhoe. 2nd. By the scraper, or Dutch hoe. 3d. By a plough of small domensions, but constructed upon the principles of the approved swing plough. Ploughs with double mould-boards are likewise used to earth them up, and with all good managers the weeds in the drills which cannot be touched by the hoe are pulled out by the hand; otherwise no field can be considered as fully cleaned.
In treating of the cleaning process we shall confine ourselves to the one most suited to the generality of bean soils. About ten or twelve days after the young plants have appeared above the surface, enter with the scraper, and loosen any weeds that may have vegetated. At this time the wings or cutters of the implement ought to be particularly sharp, so that the scraper may not run too deep and throw the earth upon the plants. In about ten days after the ground is scraped, according to the state of the weather, and other circumstances, use the small swing plough to lay the earth away from the sides of the rows, and in doing so go as near to the plants as possible, taking care at the same time not to loosen their roots. If any weeds stand in the rows pull them out with the hand, afterwards earth-up the plants with the small swing plough, or run the scraper in the intervals, as may seem expedient.
Cultural aspects
In ancient Greece and Rome, beans were used in voting (a white bean meant yes and a black bean meant no) and as a food for the dead, such as during the annual Lemuria festival. In some folk legends, such as in Estonia and the common Jack and the Beanstalk story, magical beans grow tall enough to bring the hero to the clouds. The Grimm Brothers collected a story in which a bean splits its sides laughing at the failure of others. Dreaming of a bean is sometimes said to be a sign of impending conflict, though others said they caused bad dreams. Pliny claimed they acted as a laxative. European folklore also claims that planting beans on Good Friday or during the night-time is good luck.In English usage, bean is used to denote energy and activity, such as the idiom "full of beans". To "spill the beans" means to give out a secret.
In Java, Bean is a reusable software component. See Enterprise Java Beans.
The title character's name in the Mr. Bean series.
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Beans is a location located in Coos County, New Hampshire. As of the 2000 census, the location had a total population of 0.Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the location has a total area of 25.1 km² (9.7 mi²). None of the area is covered with water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are no people living in the locationSource: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Beans (location), New Hampshire."
Synonyms: BEANSSynonyms: Legumes, Vegetables. (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disclosure | Divulge, reveal, break; squeal, tattle, sing, rat, snitch; let into the secret; reveal the secrets of the prison house; tell; (inform); breathe, utter, blab, peach; let out, let fall, let drop, let slip, spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag; betray; tell tales, come out of school; come out with; give vent, give utterance to; open the lips, blurt out, vent, whisper about; speak out; (make manifest); make public; unriddle; (find out) a; split. |
Information | Let slip, blurt out, spill the beans, unburden oneself of, let off one's chest; disclose. |
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Screenplays | Goin' through some mighty rough country tomorrow, you'd better have some beans. (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre; writing credit: B. Traven; John Huston) I'd like to eat her liver with some farver beans and a nice bottle of Chianti (Dumb and Dumber; writing credit: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly, and Bennett Yellin.) How'd you get the beans above the frank (There's Something About Mary; writing credit: Ed Decter; John J. Strauss) When you've been married to a man for forty years you know all that don't amount to a hill of beans. I've been married to Walt that long and I swear in all that time I just lie there thinkin' about my canning (The Night of the Hunter; writing credit: James Agee; Davis Grubb) Franks and beans. (City Slickers; writing credit: Lowell Ganz; Babaloo Mandel) | |
Lyrics | Eating pork and beans or corn flakes wit no milk (Life Story; performing artist: Black Rob) Maybe eat some steak with my beans and rice, a (Fantastic Voyage; performing artist: Coolio) We took a little bacon and we took a little beans ("The Battle of New Orleans"; performing artist: Johnny Horton) Red beans and rice didn't miss her (Baby Got Back; performing artist: SIR MIX-A-LOT) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Don't Spill the Beans (1965) The Magic Beans (1939) Jumping Beans (1930) String Beans (1918) Beans (1918) | |
Song Titles | I Wanna Love Him So Bad (performing artist: The Jelly Beans) | |
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 | Various members of a family can be seen in a garden setting picking beans. In the background a farm house and the mountains can be seen. It is a summer day. These people are members of a large Mormon family who are presently being studied for their low cancer death rate. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | (1) color slide shows a group of four or five raw string beans. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). |
 | African American farmer Ben Burkette prepares to plant beans in Perry County, MS. Burkette is Executive Director of the Mississippi Association of Cooperatives. Credit: USDA. |  | Ben Burkette plows field before planting beans in Perry County, Mississippi. Credit: USDA. |
 | Urban garden with two people picking squash and beans. Credit: USDA. |  | Closeup of green beans. Credit: USDA. |
 | Mr. Corneilus Williams farms five acres of vegitables for market. Here he cultivates his beans. Credit: USDA. |  | Spores released from the fan-shaped basidiocarp of this inch-wide Crinipellis perniciosa mushroom can infect cacao trees and drastically reduce yields of the beans from which cocoa and chocolate products are made. Photo Scott Bauer. Credit: USDA ARS News. |
 | Colorful and tasty nuna beans will pop after a few minutes of cooking. Someday they may appear on supermarket shelves as a nutritious snack food. Credit: USDA ARS News. |  | A pot of beans from the Pioneer Festival at the NHOTIC. Credit: BLM Staff. |
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| "Farmers Market - Beans" by Erik Dungan Commentary: "I've been collecting photographs every Saturday at my local farmers market. Each week the textures, colors and natural light make for new and unique opportunities." | "Coffee beans" by John Philip Commentary: "Coffee beans." |
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Ronald Reagan | You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans. |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | They live on rice and beans, the business men said |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Incessant labor with my hands, at first, for I had my house to finish and my beans to hoe at the same time, made more study impossible |
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Health | Raffinose - Beans contain large amounts of this complex sugar. (references) | |
Limit foods such as milk, cheese, nuts, dried beans, and dark colas. (references) | ||
These include vegetables, cereal, grains, beans, peas, and other starchy foods. (references) | ||
Economic History | Burma | Pulses and beans production has shown strong growth over the past decade. (references) |
India | Comment: India is world's largest importer of pulses (peas, lentils and beans). (references) | |
Norway | However, their import in 2000 of 414,000 tons was more to secure GMO free beans. (references) | |
Human Rights | Cameroon | In late April, an angry mob beat to death Abdulai Fonyuy for stealing some beans in Melim, a small locality of Bui Division, Northwest Province. (references) |
Political Economy | Ethiopia | Exports consist primarily of coffee, chat, hides, skins, beans, and oilseeds. (references) |
Trade | Moldova | WESTNIS has 50 percent of the company's equity and purchased Massey Ferguson combines for harvesting peas, barley, wheat, soy, beans, sunflower, and corn, as well as bailer for straw. (references) |
Travel | Nicaragua | Gallo Pinto: Rice with beans, served most commonly at breakfast or dinner. (references) |
Nicaragua | Outside of the capital, the local diet consists of chicken, beef, fish, rice, beans, plantains and potatoes. (references) | |
Jamaica | Some of the most popular Jamaican dishes are: rice and beans; ackee and salt fish; patties (meat-filled pastries); jerk chicken; curried goat; and mackerel rundown. (references) | |
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Andrew Weil | The way that the food is presented in our book is really how I eat. Rosie too. I eat lots of fruits and vegetables. I eat fish. I eat some dairy products, some natural cheeses. I eat a lot of soy products and beans. I don't eat meat. I don't eat poultry. |
Sarah Ferguson | You can have baked beans on toast. You can have steak and kidney pie. You can have fish and chips. What do you mean not famous! Fish and chips. Nothing better. Friday night. Fish and chip night. |
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| "BEANS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 99.92% of the time. "BEANS" is used about 1,322 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 |
| Noun (plural) | 99.92% | 1,321 | 6,004 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.08% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,322 | N/A |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "BEANS" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Beans | Last name | 300 | 25,810 |
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Expressions using "BEANS": anthracite beans ♦ baked beans ♦ be full of beans ♦ Boston baked beans ♦ broad beans ♦ butter beans ♦ castor beans ♦ cocoa beans ♦ coffee beans ♦ french beans ♦ fresh beans ♦ full of beans ♦ give smb. beans ♦ green beans ♦ Lima beans ♦ locust beans ♦ locust or carob beans ♦ not to know beans ♦ pork and beans ♦ pounded beans ♦ refried beans ♦ snap beans ♦ soy beans ♦ spill the beans ♦ string beans. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "BEANS": beans-and-bullets, beans-in-a-tin. | |
Ending with "BEANS": broad-beans, cocoa-beans, coffee-beans, has-beans, horse-beans, runner-beans, string-beans, Thornton-le-beans. | |
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| Language | Translations for "BEANS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zbavitës (amusing, diverting, entertaining, escapist, full of beans, funny, light), nxjerr të fshehtën (spill the beans), fasule thyese (snap beans), energjik (abuzz, active, aggressive, busily, dapper, drastic, dynamic, eager, energetic, forceful, full of beans, get going, high-spirited, live, lively, peppy, punchy, pushing, rattling, snappy, stirring, sturdy, vigorous, vital, zippy). (various references) | |
Arabic | في صحة جيدة (full of beans, prime, sound), في أحسن مزاج (full of beans), فول (bean, broad bean, horse-beans), كشف سرا (spill the beans, telltale). (various references) | |
Asturian | fabes verdines (green beans). (various references) | |
Bemba | cilamba (green beans). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | боб (haricot bean). (various references) | |
Cebuano | balatong (green beans). (various references) | |
Chinese | 豆 (bean), 藿 (Lophanthus rugosus). (various references) | |
Czech | zrnková káva (coffee beans), v nejlepší náladì (full of beans). (various references) | |
Danish | bønner (bean). (various references) | |
Dutch | bonen. (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | jabas (lima beans). (various references) | |
Esperanto | sojfaboj (soy beans). (various references) | |
Faeroese | grøn bønir (green beans). (various references) | |
Finnish | pavut. (various references) | |
French | haricots,fèves et féveroles, grains, flageolets. (various references) | |
Frisian | griene beanen (green beans). (various references) | |
German | Bohnen. (various references) | |
Greek | φασόλια,κουκιά και λάθηροι. (various references) | |
Guarani | kumanda. (various references) | |
Hebrew | לגלות סוד (betray, confide, divulge, give away, let on, let the cat out of the bag, spill the beans, telltale), גריסי פולים (pounded beans), במצב רוח מרומם (full of beans, in high spirits). (various references) | |
Hungarian | suska (chips), semmi (any, aught, diddly, diddly-squat, eff all, nae, naught, nil, Nix, none, not any, nothing, nothingness, nought, ought, sod all, to be no hope of sg, vacancy, zero, zilch), kábítószer-pirula, halandzsa (baloney, boloney, claptrap, double Dutch, double talk, flummery, gas, gobbledygook, hokum, lingo, malarkey, mumbo-jumbo, pitch), bab (bean, haricot bean). (various references) | |
Italian | fagioli e fave. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 隠元 , 豆 (peas). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | まめ (blister, clitoris, corn, devoted, faithful, hardworking, healthy, honest, peas), いんげん. (various references) | |
Korean | 콩 (bean, soybean). (various references) | |
Macedonian | boranija (green beans). (various references) | |
Maya | bu'ul. (various references) | |
Mohawk | ohsahèta. (various references) | |
Pidgin English | akara (beans cake). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eansbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | grãos de feijão, feijões e favas. (various references) | |
Provencal | tecas (green beans). (various references) | |
Romanian | bine dispus (cheerful, crank, debonair, full of beans, full-blooded, good humoured, good-humored, in good spirits, jolly, merry, mettlesome, tails up, well disposed), vioi (active, alert, animated, breezy, bright, brisk, briskly, cheery, chirpy, crisp, full of beans, gamy, hasty, hoity toity, lightsome, lithe, live, lively, living, mercurial, merry, mettlesome, nimble, nimbly, pleasant, quick-witted, racy, Randy, ready, smart, snappy, spirited, sportive, sprightly, spry, vigorous, volatile), trage o chelfãnealã cuiva (give smb. beans), lua la trei parale pe cineva (give smb. beans), fasole verde (haricot, string beans), energic (a live wire, active, alive, brisk, buoyant, dapper, drastic, dynamic, emphatic, energetic, energetically, forcible, full of beans, humming, iron, keen, lively, living, managing, mightily, peppy, peremptory, pushful, pushing, sharp, snappy, stout, stoutly, strenuous, strong, strong-minded, trenchant, virile), divulga (babble, disclose, divulge, let on, spill the beans), da de gol (babble, spill the beans), întrece pe cineva (give smb. beans). (various references) | |
Romany | bòboos. (various references) | |
Ruanda | imikerera (green beans). (various references) | |
Russian | стручковый фасоль (string bean, string beans), энергичный (active, aggressive, devil, eager, energetic, full of beans, go ahead, humming, keen, live, macho, oomph, peppy, punchy, red blooded, rip-roaring, smart, two-fisted, up and coming, vigorous, youthful, zippy), распустить язык (spill the beans), конские бобы (horse beans), горячий (ardent, boiling hot, burning, earnest, fervent, fervid, fiery, full of beans, glowing, heady, heated, hot, hot-blooded, hot-brained, hot-headed, mettled, red-hot, vehement, warm blooded), во всю прыть (as fast as one can, like beans), ломкая фасоль (snap beans, snap-beans), быть наказанным (get beans), пустяки (duck soup, fiddle-faddle, hill of beans, playgame, small potatoes, song and dance, trivia), проговориться (spill the beans), избитым (get beans). (various references) | |
Scottish | pònair (bean or beans, collectively). (various references) | |
Sepedi | dinawa tae tala (green beans). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | boranija (snap beans, string bean), biti proliven (spill the beans), rogač (carob, judas-tree, locust bean, locust beans), razdragan (full of beans, gleeful, mirthful). (various references) | |
Spanish | judias, judías verdes, habas y haboncillos, frijoles, alubias. (various references) | |
Swazi | li-bhontjîsi. (various references) | |
Swedish | bönor. (various references) | |
Thai | มีชีวิตชีวามาก (คำไม่เป็นทางการ) (full of beans). (various references) | |
Turkish | baklayı ağzından çıkarmak (let the cat out of the bag, spill the beans), taze fasulye (french beans), paylamak (baste, bring up, dress down, flay, give smb. beans, inveigh, jaw out, lace into, objurgate, rag, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, scold, tick off), neşeli (airy, animate, animated, blithe, boon, breezy, bright, bucked, buoyant, buoyed up, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, chirpy, cock-a-hoop, debonair, debonaire, easygoing, eupeptic, exhilarated, fit as a fiddle, full of beans, gamesome, gay, genial, gleeful, high, hilarious, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, lively, merry, merrymaking, mirthful, perky, rambunctious, rollicking, slaphappy, spirited, sportive, sprightly, sunny, upbeat, vivacious), keyfi yerinde (full of beans, in a good mood, in fine fettle, in full feather, in good fettle, in high feather), hiç bilmemek (not to know beans), hiç anlamamak (not to know beans), enerjik (active, beany, brisk, driving, dynamic, energetic, full of beans, ginger, gingery, high pressure, lively, peppy, rustling, springy, vibrant, vigorous, virile, warm blooded, zippy), canlı (active, alive, animate, animated, beany, breezy, bright, brightly, brisk, bustling, colorful, colourful, Corky, crisp, crispy, dashing, dewy, driving, exhilarated, expressive, exuberant, feeling, fresh, full of beans, full of life, gay, genially, ginger, gingery, glowing, go-go, graphic, graphical, hearty, humming, in the flesh, inspired, life, live, lively, living, living being, living creature, lusty, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, peppy, perky, picturesque, quick, racy, rich, rousing, sappy, saturated, smart, snappy, spirited, sprightly, springy, swinging, vibrant, vital, vivacious, vivid, warm, with it, zippy), azarlamak (admonish, baste, bawl out, berate, blame, blister, blow up, bring up, call down, call smb. over the coals, carpet, castigate, chew out, chide, come down on, decry, dress down, give a piece of one's mind, give smb. a talking-to, give smb. a telling-off, give smb. beans, give smb. hell, give the stick, inveigh, jaw out, keelhaul, lace into, lambaste, lash, lecture, let smb. have it, light into, objurgate, peck at smb., punish, rag, rail, rap smb. over the knuckles, rate, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, roast, sail into, scold, score, slang, slap, slate, strafe, take to task, talk to smb., tell off, tell smb. one's mind, tick off, trim, twit, upbraid, vituperate). (various references) | |
Turkmen | noяba (kidney beans). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розпащекуватися (spill the beans). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | acus, PHASEOLUS. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | 2 Samuel Chapter 17, Verse 28 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Hnegkan deka koitaV kai amfitapouV kai lebhtaV deka kai skeuh keramou kai purouV kai kriqaV kai aleuron kai alfiton kai kuamon kai fakon |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Obtulerunt ei stratoria et tappetia et vasa fictilia frumentum et hordeum et farinam pulentam et fabam et lentem frixum cicer |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Offreden to hym couerynge clothis, and tapetis, and erthen vessels, whete, and barli, and meele, and powned corn, and benen, and potage, and fryed `gederynge of corns, that is clepid cycer, and hony, |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Brought beds, and basins, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentils, and parched pulse, |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Brought beds, and basins, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentils, and parched pulse, |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Came with beds and basins and pots, and grain and meal, and all sorts of dry foods, |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | 2 Samuel Chapter 17, Verse 28 |
| Cebuano | Nanagdala ug mga higdaanan, ug mga dolang, ug mga saro nga yuta, ug trigo, ug cebada, ug harina, ug sinanglag trigo, ug mga habichuelas, ug mga mongos, ug pinaugang mga liso, |
| Chinese | 帶 著 被 、 褥 、 盆 、 碗 、 瓦 器 、 小 麥 、 大 麥 、 麥 麵 、 炒 穀 、 豆 子 、 紅 豆 、 炒 豆 、 |
| Croatian | donesoše postelja, pokrivaèa, èaša i zemljanog suða, uz to pšenice, jeèma, brašna, pržena žita, boba, leæe, |
| Danish | Senge, Tæpper, Skåle og Lerkar; og Hvede, Byg, Mel, ristet Korn, Bønner, Linser, |
| Dutch | Beddewerk, en schalen, en aarden vaten, en tarwe, en gerst, en meel, en geroost koren, en bonen, en linzen, ook geroost, |
| Finnish | toivat sinne vuoteita, vateja ja saviastioita, nisuja, ohria, jauhoja ja paahdettuja jyviä, papuja, herneitä |
| French | apportèrent des lits, des bassins, des vases de terre, du froment, de l`orge, de la farine, du grain rôti, des fèves, des lentilles, des pois rôtis, |
| German | Bettwerk, Becken, irdene Gefäße, Weizen, Gerste, Mehl, geröstete Körner, Bohnen, Linsen, Grütze, |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Mereka membawa mangkok, kuali, dan kasur untuk Daud dan anak buahnya, juga gandum, jelai, tepung, gandum panggang, kacang merah, kacang merah besar, madu, keju, kepala susu dan beberapa ekor domba. Mereka tahu bahwa Daud dan anak buahnya sedang lapar, haus dan lelah karena perjalanan di padang gurun. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | dibawanya akan tilam dan pinggan dan periuk belanga dan gandum dan syeir dan tepung dan emping dan kacang dan miju lagi bertih, |
| Italian | portarono letti e tappeti, coppe e vasi di terracotta, grano, orzo, farina, grano arrostito, fave, lenticchie, |
| Maori | He moenga, he peihana, he oko oneone, he witi, he parei, he paraoa, he kanga pahuhu, he pini, he pi, me etahi atu mea pahuhu, |
| Norwegian | kom med senger og fat og lerkar og hvete og bygg og mel og ristet korn og bønner og linser og ristede belgfrukter |
| Portuguese | tomaram camas, bacias e vasilhas de barro; trigo, cevada, farinha, grão tostado, favas, lentilhas e torradas; |
| Rumanian | au adus paturi, lighene, vase de pqmknt, grku, orz, fqinq, grku prqjit, bob, linte, uscqturi, |
| Russian | РТЙОЕУМЙ РПУФЕМЕК, ВМАД Й ЗМЙОСОЩИ УПУХДПЧ, Й РЫЕОЙГЩ, Й СЮНЕОС, Й НХЛЙ, Й РЫЕОБ, Й ВПВПЧ, Й ЮЕЮЕЧЙГЩ, Й ЦБТЕОЩИ ЪЕТЕО, |
| Spanish | trajeron camas, tazas, vasijas de barro, trigo, cebada, harina, grano tostado, habas, lentejas, |
| Swedish | låtit föra dit sängar, skålar, lerkärl, så ock vete, korn, mjöl och rostade ax, ävensom bönor, linsärter och annat rostat, |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "BEANS": beanstalk, beanstalks. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "BEANS": bogbeans, buckbeans, horsebeans, jellybeans, screwbeans, shebeans, soybeans. (additional references) | |
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"BEANS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Baensch, balans, bauns, Bayano, beand, beane, beani, beanos, beant, Beanz, becan, beena, beens, Befana, begans, behan, bein, Beines, beinst, bejants, Benazzi, bernes, besan, Besana, bevan, bevanism, Bevans, biane, bians, bienes, blans, Boanas, brans, Breanski, bue-nas, eban, ebas, ebens, ebons. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BEANS" (pronounced bē"nz) |
| 3 | -ē" n z | convenes, canteens, careens, cleans, cuisines, deans, demeans, Denes, eighteens, fifteens, figurines, fourteens, gasolines, genes, greens, intervenes, jeans, latrines, leans, liens, machines, marines, means, nitrosamines, peens, preteens, Queens, ravines, reconvenes, sardines, scenes, screens, sixteens, skeens, smithereens, sunscreens, teens, vaccines. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: banes, nabes. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-n-s" | |
-1 letter: anes, bane, bans, base, bean, bens, nabe, nabs, nebs, sabe, sane. | |
-2 letters: abs, ane, ban, bas, ben, ens, nab, nae, neb, sab, sae, sea, sen. | |
-3 letters: ab, ae, an, as, ba, be, en, es, na, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-n-s" | |
+1 letter: absent, beanos, sabine. | |
+2 letters: absence, absents, ambones, badness, baleens, banders, bandies, bangers, bangles, banjoes, bankers, banners, bannets, banshee, banshie, banters, banties, barrens, baseman, basemen, basenji, basined, basinet, batsmen, battens, beacons, beanies, bedamns, bedpans, bemeans, bemoans, benames, bendays, bezants, boranes, brazens, butanes, bynames, embanks, enables, grabens, lesbian, nabbers, nebulas, nosebag, sabeing, sabines, shebang, shebean, soybean, subdean, subpena, sunbeam, unbased, unbears. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Spoken | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Names: Frequency 15. Expressions 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Translations: Ancient 18. Bible Trace 19. Derivations 20. Rhymes | 21. Anagrams 22. Bibliography |
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