What is the difference between wager and bet?
wager | bet |
Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge.
* Sir W. Temple
* Bentley
(legal) A contract by which two parties or more agree that a certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or delivered to one of them, on the happening or not happening of an uncertain event.
That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet.
To bet something; to put it up as collateral
(figuratively) To daresay.
Agent noun of wage; one who wages.
* 1912 , Pocumtack Valley Memorial Association, History and Proceedings of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association , p. 65:
* 1957 , Elsa Maxwell, How to Do It; Or, The Lively Art of Entertaining , p. 7:
A wager, an agreement between two parties that a stake (usually money) will be paid by the loser to the winner (the winner being the one who correctly forecast the outcome of an event).
A degree of certainty.
To stake or pledge upon the outcome of an event; to wager.
* Shakespeare
* O. W. Holmes
To be sure of something; to be able to count on something.
(poker) To place money into the pot in order to require others do the same, usually only used for the first person to place money in the pot on each round.
Bet is a synonym of wager.
In lang=en terms the difference between wager and bet
is that wager is a contract by which two parties or more agree that a certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or delivered to one of them, on the happening or not happening of an uncertain event while bet is to place money into the pot in order to require others do the same, usually only used for the first person to place money in the pot on each round.As nouns the difference between wager and bet
is that wager is something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge while bet is a wager, an agreement between two parties that a stake (usually money) will be paid by the loser to the winner (the winner being the one who correctly forecast the outcome of an event).As verbs the difference between wager and bet
is that wager is to bet something; to put it up as collateral while bet is to stake or pledge upon the outcome of an event; to wager.As an initialism BET is
a nitrogen adsorption technique used to measure the specific surface area of a solid.As a proper noun Bet is
a diminutive of Elizabeth.wager
English
(Webster 1913)Etymology 1
From (etyl) wageure'', from ''wagier'' "to pledge" (compare Old French guagier, whence modern French gager). See also ''wage .Noun
(wikipedia wager) (en noun)- Besides these Plates, the Wagers may be as the Persons please among themselves, but the Horses must be evidenced by good Testimonies to have been bred in Ireland.
- If any atheist can stake his soul for a wager against such an inexhaustible disproportion, let him never hereafter accuse others of credulity.
- (Bouvier)
Verb
(en verb)- I'd wager my boots on it.
- I'll wager that Johnson knows something about all this.
Synonyms
* (to daresay) lay oddsEtymology 2
From the verb, to wage + .Noun
(en noun)- They were wagers of warfare against the wilderness and the Indians, and founders of families and towns.
- Hatshepsut was no wager of wars, no bloodstained conqueror.
bet
English
Etymology 1
From 16th century criminal slang, likely from abet or (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Dylan owes Fletcher $30 from an unsuccessful bet.
- It’s a safe bet that it will rain tomorrow.
- It’s an even bet that Jim will come top of the maths test tomorrow
Verb
- John a Gaunt loved him well, and betted much money on his head.
- I'll bet you two to one I'll make him do it.
- You bet !
