Definition of Beg

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Definition of Beg

Beg

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

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

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

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

To take for granted; to assume without proof.

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

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

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Beg Quotations

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
Bill Gates

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Most people do not pray; they only beg.
George Bernard Shaw

If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor,' I beg you to slap me.
Johnny Depp

Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.
Mike Tyson

I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation.
Susan B. Anthony

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.
Lord Acton

Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy.
William S. Burroughs

Beg Translations

beg in Afrikaans is vra
beg in Danish is bede
beg in Dutch is schooien, bedelen
beg in French is implorer, mendier, prier
beg in German is betteln, bitten, bitten
beg in Italian is pregano, questuare
beg in Latin is obtestor, peto, precor, oro
beg in Portuguese is rogar, implore
beg in Spanish is rogar, mendigar, orar
beg in Swedish is tigga, bettla

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