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"ref": "2007, Mark Summerfield, Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt: The Definitive Guide to PyQt Programming, Pearson Education",
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},
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"text": "2002, Karmen Ghia, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated http://groups.google.com/group/alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated/msg/8405f53e8acbb0c1?dmode=source\nI had the honor of betaing this story and as I was doing the first read through I had the odd, but lovely, experience when a story suspends the reader in its own rhythm and flow, its own reality."
}
],
"glosses": [
"To beta-read a text."
],
"links": [
[
"Internet",
"Internet"
],
[
"beta-read",
"beta-read"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(chiefly Internet) To beta-read a text."
],
"tags": [
"Internet"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈbiːtə/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈbeɪtə/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈbɛtə/",
"tags": [
"Philippine"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːtə"
},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪtə"
},
{
"rhymes": "(Philippines) -ɛtə"
},
{
"homophone": "beater (non-rhotic accents)"
},
{
"homophone": "baiter (non-rhotic accents)"
},
{
"audio": "En-us-beta.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/05/En-us-beta.ogg/En-us-beta.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/En-us-beta.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
},
{
"enpr": "bēʹtə"
},
{
"enpr": "bāʹtə"
},
{
"enpr": "bĕʹtə"
}
],
"word": "beta"
}
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