Bit vs Bate - What's the difference?
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A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to reins to direct the animal.
A rotary cutting tool fitted to a drill, used to bore holes.
(dated, British) A coin of a specified value. (Also used for a nine-pence coin in the British Caribbean)
(US) An eighth of a dollar. Note that there is no coin minted worth 12.5 cents. (When this term first came into use, the Spanish 8 reales coin was widely used as a dollar equivalent, and thus the 1 real coin was equivalent to 12.5 cents.)
(historical, US) In the southern and southwestern states, a small silver coin (such as the real) formerly current; commonly, one worth about 12½ cents; also, the sum of 12½ cents.
A small amount of something.
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, chapter=15 (informal) Specifically , a small amount of time.
A portion of something.
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(slang) A prison sentence, especially a short one.
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(An excerpt of material) An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc.
The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.
The cutting iron of a plane.
To a small extent; in a small amount (usually with "a").
To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of (a horse).
(bite)
, bitten
(label) bitten.
(label) Having been bitten.
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1946] First used in print 1948 by (Claude Shannon). Compare (byte) and (nybble).
(mathematics, computing) A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
(computing) The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.
(information theory, cryptography) Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.
(information theory) A unit of measure for information entropy.
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To reduce the force of something; to abate.
* Dryden
To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation; as, with bated breath .
(transitive, sometimes, figuratively) To cut off, remove, take away.
* Dr. Henry More, Government of the Tongue :
* Holland
(archaic) To leave out, except, bar.
* 1610 , , act 2, scene 1:
* Beaumont and Fletcher
To waste away.
* 1597 , , act 3, scene 3:
To deprive of.
* Herbert
To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
* John Locke
To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
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Strife; contention.
* 1598, William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 2 :
* 1888, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night (Arabian Nights)
* 1911, H.G. Wells, The New Machiavelli :
To contend or strive with blows or arguments.
(falconry) Of a falcon: To flap the wings vigorously; to bait.
An alkaline lye which neutralizes the effect of the previous application of lime, and makes hides supple in the process of tanning.
A vat which contains this liquid.
To soak leather so as to remove chemicals used in tanning; to steep in bate.
(nonstandard) (beat); = beat.
* 2008 October 20th, , episode 5: “The Euclid Alternative”
(slang) To masturbate.
As verbs the difference between bit and bate
is that bit is to beat (to strike or pound repeatedly) while bate is .bit
English
(wikipedia bit)Etymology 1
From (etyl) bita and bite - all from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough! […] What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’}}
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Focus on Everything, passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.
- Am I bored? Not a bit of it!
- My young companion was a bit of a poet.
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Synonyms
* (coin) coin, piece * (small piece) morsel (of food), piece, scrap * (portion) portion, share, segment * (horse equipment) snaffle, pelham, kimberwickeDerived terms
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(-)- That's a bit too sweet.
Verb
(bitt)Etymology 2
See biteVerb
(head)- Your dog bit me!
- I have been bit by your dog!
Adjective
(-)Etymology 3
Coined by (John Tukey) in 1946 as an abbreviation of (binary digit), probably influenced by connotations of “small portion”.[http://www.princeton.edu/pr/news/98/q2/0602-honorary.html][http://www.thocp.net/timeline/1944.htmNoun
(en noun)- status bits''' on IRC; permission '''bits in a file system
- The researchers found that the original texts spanned a variety of entropy values in different languages, reflecting differences in grammar and structure.
But strangely, the difference in entropy between the original, ordered text and the randomly scrambled text was constant across languages. This difference is a way to measure the amount of information encoded in word order, Montemurro says. The amount of information lost when they scrambled the text was about 3.5 bits per word.
Synonyms
* (smallest unit of storage) bDerived terms
* bit-depth * bitwise * hidden bit * high-order bit * least significant bit * most significant bit * * * * *See also
* ban, nat, qubitStatistics
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English
Etymology 1
Aphetic from (abate).Verb
(bat)- Abate thy speed, and I will bate of mine.
- He will not bate an ace of absolute certainty.
- About autumn bate the earth from about the roots of olives, and lay them bare.
- (Sebastian) "Bate , I beseech you, widow Dido."
- Bate me the king, and, be he flesh and blood, / He lies that says it.
- (Falstaff) "Bardolph, am I not fallen away vilely since this last action? do I not bate ? do I not dwindle?"
- When baseness is exalted, do not bate / The place its honour for the person's sake.
- He must either bate the labourer's wages, or not employ or not pay him.
- to whom he bates nothing or what he stood upon with the parliament
References
* 1897 Universal Dictionary of the English Language , Robert Hunter and Charles Morris (editors), volume 1, page 459.Etymology 2
* Noun: From the verb, or directly from the noun (debate). * Verb: From Anglo-Saxon = contention. From (etyl) batre (French battre). From batere.Noun
(-)- ... and wears his boots very smooth, like unto the sign of the leg, and breeds no bate with telling of discreet stories;
- So the strife redoubled and the weapons together clashed and ceased not bate and debate and naught was to be seen but blood flowing and necks bowing;
- The other merely needs jealousy and bate , of which there are great and easily accessible reservoirs in every human heart.
Verb
(bat)- (Francis Bacon)
See also
* (to contend or strive with blows or arguments) bait.Etymology 3
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(bat)References
* 1897 Universal Dictionary of the English Language , Robert Hunter and Charles Morris (editors), volume 1, page 459.Etymology 4
Formed by analogy with eat ? ate, with which it shares an analogous past participle (eaten ? beaten).Verb
(head)- . Goodnight.
