beta — meaning in English

English meaning

• beta noun The second letter of the Greek alphabet.
• browse verb To look through something casually, without a specific goal in mind.
• graze verb To eat growing grass, or to let animals feed on pasture.

Senses

beta is used for these senses in English:

• beta (of a person, object or action) Associated with the beta male/female archetype.
• beta 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.
• browse (intransitive, of an animal) To move about while eating parts of plants, especially plants other than pasture, such as shrubs or trees.
• graze (ambitransitive) To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture)

beta — full definition

1. noun The second letter of the Greek alphabet.
2. adj Describing an early, unfinished version of a product released for testing.
3. verb To test an early version of software before its official release.

browse — full definition

1. verb To look through something casually, without a specific goal in mind.
2. verb Of an animal, to feed on leaves, shoots, or shrubs.

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