betta

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Any fish of the genus Betta, especially Betta splendens (the Siamese fighting fish).

   “Rather than simply waiting for a clockwise turn and then presenting the mirror, past experience with another betta suggested that the turning behavior could be established more rapidly using a shaping procedure.”

2. sıfat Pronunciation spelling of better, comparative of good.

   “'I think no savvy. This one mo' betta,' he added, pointing to the house where the drunken captain slumbered: 'Take-a-sun all-e-time.'”

3. zarf Pronunciation spelling of better, comparative of well.

   ““Now she be lookin' betta,” one of the women said. “Like she has a chance to make it.””

4. zarf Pronunciation spelling of better (“had better”).

   ““Boy, if I done told you once, I done told you a thousand times, you betta leave them white girls alone before one of their boyfriends or husbands roll up on you, and put a hurtin on yo lil behind.””