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ALL meanings of bean

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  • countable noun bean Beans such as green beans, French beans, or broad beans are the seeds of a climbing plant or the long thin cases which contain those seeds. 3
  • countable noun bean Beans such as soya beans and kidney beans are the dried seeds of a bean plant. 3
  • countable noun bean Beans such as coffee beans or cocoa beans are the seeds of plants that are used to produce coffee, cocoa, and chocolate. 3
  • countable noun bean Beans are baked beans. 3
  • singular noun bean If someone has not got a bean, they have no money at all. 3
  • noun bean any of various leguminous plants of the widely cultivated genus Phaseolus producing edible seeds in pods 3
  • noun bean any of several other leguminous plants that bear edible pods or seeds, such as the broad bean and soya bean 3
  • noun bean any of various other plants whose seeds are produced in pods or podlike fruits 3
  • noun bean the seed or pod of any of these plants 3
  • noun bean any of various beanlike seeds, such as coffee 3
  • verb bean to hit (a person) on the head 3
  • noun bean any of various leguminous plants; esp., any of several species of a genus (Phaseolus) of the pea family, including the kidney bean and lima bean 3
  • noun bean the edible, smooth, kidney-shaped seed of any of these plants 3
  • noun bean a pod with such seeds, eaten as a vegetable when still unripe 3
  • noun bean the bean-shaped seed of some other plants 3
  • noun bean any of these other plants 3
  • noun bean the head, brain, or mind 3
  • noun bean even a small amount 3
  • verb transitive bean to hit on the head 3
  • verb transitive bean to hit (a batter) on the head with a pitched ball 3
  • abbreviation Technical meaning of BEAN JavaBeans 3
  • noun bean Alan L(aVern) born 1932, U.S. astronaut. 1
  • noun bean Roy ("Judge") 1825?–1903, U.S. frontiersman and justice of the peace: called himself “the law west of the Pecos.”. 1
  • verb with object bean Slang. to hit on the head, especially with a baseball. 1
  • idioms bean full of beans, Informal. energetic; vigorously active; vital: He is still full of beans at 95. stupid; erroneous; misinformed. 1
  • idioms bean spill the beans, Informal. to disclose a secret, either accidentally or imprudently, thereby ruining a surprise or plan: He spilled the beans, and she knew all about the party in advance. 1
  • noun Technical meaning of bean (programming)   A component architecture for the Java programming language, developed initially by Sun, but now available from several other vendors. JavaBeans components are called "beans". JavaBeans allows developers to create reusable software components that can then be assembled together using visual application builder tools including Sybase's PowerJ, Borland's JBuilder, IBM's Visual Age for Java, SunSoft's Java Workshop and Symantec's Visual Cafe. JavaBeans support Introspection (a builder tool can analyze how a Bean works), Customisation (developers can customise the appearance and behaviour of a Bean), Events (Beans can communicate), Properties (developers can customise and program with Beans(?)) and Persistence (customised Beans can be stored and reused). 1
  • noun bean An edible seed, typically kidney-shaped, growing in long pods on certain leguminous plants. 1
  • noun bean legume 1
  • transitive verb bean hit sb 1
  • noun bean legume plant 1
  • noun bean head 1
  • noun bean Any plant of several genera of the taxonomic family Fabaceae that produces large edible seeds or edible seed pods. 0
  • noun bean The large edible seed of such a plant. 0
  • noun bean The edible seed pod of such a plant. 0
  • noun bean The bean-like seed of certain other plants, especially coffee; coffee in the general. 0
  • noun bean 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. 0
  • noun bean (Slang) The head or brain. 0
  • noun bean (Britain, slang, archaic) A guinea coin. 0
  • noun bean (Britain, slang, usually in the negative) Money. 0
  • noun bean (Slang) The clitoris. 0
  • noun bean (software) Short for JavaBean. 0
  • verb bean (chiefly baseball) To hit deliberately with a projectile, especially in the head. 0
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