bean
- noun
- /biːn/
- Specialized
Examples
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I'm gonna buy ten million cans of baked beans."
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Dinner: either turkey burger or salmon with a side of black beans and a vegetable.
Blog text (13) -
Actually, business had been slower than usual, and we'd been dining on nothing but beans for a month.
Fiction book (1993) -
The cooked soymilk is formed into bean curd, much like making cottage cheese from milk.
Academic text (2002) -
In 1966, Alfred Peet began selling roasted whole-bean coffee for home sale in Berkeley, California.
Academic text (2018) -
A Java bean is a reusable software component that follows specific design patterns.
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Developers use an Enterprise Java bean to manage business logic in their applications.
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The Spring framework simplifies the creation of beans for use in web applications.
Compounds
- Offensive
A person who pays too much attention to small money details and misses the big picture
A large red seed shaped like a kidney that people cook and eat or the plant that grows it
A small red-brown bean from East Asia often used in Japanese and Chinese sweets and flour
- US
An edible root that looks like a nut and was an important food for some Native American people
A small insect that eats the leaves of bean plants and often damages bean crops
- Specialized
A fragrant black seed from a South American tree that gives perfumes and food a warm, sweet smell
A small reddish-brown bean used in Chinese and Japanese cooking, often in sweet dishes
- Indian
A tropical climbing plant with edible pods that have four raised edges and thick edible roots
- UK
A dark brown seed from a West African plant that is poisonous and used in traditional medicine and rituals
A large tropical shrub with big hand-shaped leaves and spiny seed pods that give seeds used to make castor oil
- Specialized
A bushy tropical plant grown for animal feed with long pods of white seeds
A plant from Europe that produces large flat seeds eaten by people and fed to animals
- Specialized
A dry-land shrub or small tree with spiral seed pods from the US Southwest and Mexico
- US
A climbing plant from the southwestern United States and Mexico that makes small edible beans
A long pod from the carob tree with sweet pulp used like chocolate and as animal feed
- Specialized
A shrub or small tree with blue flowers and red seeds that are poisonous to people and animals
How Reusable
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bean in computing is a small, reusable part of a program; programmers borrowed the word because a bean is a small seed that can grow, and these small parts act like building pieces that help a program work.