Bet vs. Beg — What's the Difference?

Risk a sum of money or valued item against someone else's on the basis of the outcome of an unpredictable event such as a race or game

To ask (someone) for something in an urgent or humble manner

Used to express certainty

To ask for (something) in an urgent or humble manner

An act of betting a sum of money

To ask for (food or money, for instance) as a beggar.

An agreement usually between two parties that the one who has made an incorrect prediction about an uncertain outcome will forfeit something stipulated to the other; a wager

To ask (permission) to do something

An amount or object risked in a wager; a stake

To evade; dodge

One on which a stake is or can be placed

To take for granted without proof

A plan or an option considered with regard to its probable consequence

To ask for something, especially money or food from strangers, in an urgent or humble manner.

(Informal) A view or opinion, especially about something that cannot be known at the present time

To live as a beggar.

To stake (an amount, for example) in a bet.

To make an urgent or humble plea

To make a bet with

(intransitive) To request the help of someone, often in the form of money.

To make a bet on (a contestant or an outcome).

(transitive) To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat.

To maintain confidently, as if making a bet

(transitive) To unwillingly provoke a negative, often violent, reaction.

To make or place a bet.

(transitive) In the phrase beg the question: to assume.

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).

In the phrase beg the question: to raise (a question).

A candidate (for elections and pageants).

To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.

A degree of certainty.

The act of begging; an imploring request.

Alternative form of beth

A provincial governor under the Ottoman Empire; a bey.

To stake or pledge upon the outcome of an event; to wager.

A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.

To be sure of something; to be able to count on something.

To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to beseech.

(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.

To ask for as a charity, esp. to ask for habitually or from house to house.

(knitting) between

To make petition to; to entreat; as, to beg a person to grant a favor.

That which is laid, staked, or pledged, as between two parties, upon the event of a contest or any contingent issue; the act of giving such a pledge; a wager.

To take for granted; to assume without proof.

To stake or pledge upon the event of a contingent issue; to wager.

To ask to be appointed guardiln for, or to aso to havo a guardian appointed for.

An early form of Better.

To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms.

The money risked on a gamble

Call upon in supplication; entreat;

The act of gambling;

Make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently;

Maintain with or as if with a bet;

Ask to obtain free;

Stake on the outcome of an issue;

Have faith or confidence in;