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
- US
A climbing plant with purple flowers and long hairy pods used to improve soil and feed animals
- Archaic
A woody climbing plant with purple flowers and hairy pods that farmers grow to feed animals and improve soil
A shrub with leaves in three parts, yellow flowers, and curving seed pods that smells bad when crushed
- Specialized
A group of small trees, shrubs, and herbs that grow in hot, dry, salty places and are sometimes poisonous
A bush that grows small flat beans you can eat, often served as a vegetable
- UK
A dark brown seed from a West African plant that is poisonous and used in traditional medicine and rituals
A tropical African climbing plant that makes beans used in medicine and once used as a poison
An evergreen tree that grows in Mediterranean countries and makes sweet pods eaten like chocolate
A large tropical shrub with big hand-shaped leaves and spiny seed pods that give seeds used to make castor oil
- US
A shrub or small tree with divided leaves, blue flower spikes and red seeds, some poisonous to farm animals
A tropical bean plant with red flowers that grows black beans with white spots you can eat
- Indian
A climbing plant with purple flowers and dark red pods that have edible seeds and are used as a vegetable
A small reddish-brown bean used in Chinese and Japanese cooking, often in sweet dishes
A small red-brown bean from East Asia often used in Japanese and Chinese sweets and flour
- Specialized
A long pod with sweet pulp and small beans people and animals eat, often used like chocolate
A plant from Europe that produces large flat seeds eaten by people and fed to 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.