Beans are small seeds that grow in pods and can be eaten. People cook or eat them fresh. They are healthy food.
I like to eat beans with rice.
She bought fresh beans at the market.
Beans in this slang mean care or interest. When someone doesn’t give a bean, it means they don’t care or don’t understand.
I don’t give a bean about the news.
He didn’t have a bean about the game.
The phrase 'spill the beans' means to tell a secret by accident or on purpose. Beans here symbolize confidential information.
Don’t spill the beans about the party.
She spilled the beans to her friend.
Beans can be used as small objects for games or counting. Children sometimes use real beans as tokens in games.
Children are playing with beans today.
She used beans as game counters.
Coffee beans are the seeds roasted to make coffee drink. They are different from other kinds of beans but called the same.
I bought fresh coffee beans today.
Coffee beans smell very good.
In computing, beans are software parts that can be used many times. They help programmers make programs faster.
This application uses Java beans components.
Beans help in building software easily.
Sometimes beans refer to a small amount of something or nothing important. It is used to say something is very little or untrue.
He doesn’t have a bean of sense.
Not a bean of truth is in his story.