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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).
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(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 cut off a piece by clamping the teeth.
To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
To attack with the teeth.
To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
To have significant effect, often negative.
(of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
(metaphor) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
(intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.
To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense.
* Shakespeare
To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
* Bible, Proverbs xxiii. 32
To take or keep a firm hold.
To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
* Charles Dickens
(slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
(transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. (Used in invective).
(intransitive, AAVE, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.
The act of .
* Walton
The wound left behind after having been bitten.
The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
A piece of food of a size that would be produced by ; a mouthful.
(slang) Something unpleasant.
(slang) An act of plagiarism.
A small meal or snack.
(figuratively) aggression
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The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
(colloquial, dated) A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
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(colloquial, dated, slang) A sharper; one who cheats.
(printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
(Webster 1913)
Bite is a related term of bit.
In lang=en terms the difference between bit and bite
is that bit is a prison sentence, especially a short one while bite is an act of plagiarism.In transitive terms the difference between bit and bite
is that bit is to put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of (a horse) while bite is to take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.As an adverb bit
is to a small extent; in a small amount (usually with "a").As an adjective bit
is bitten.bit
English
(wikipedia bit)Etymology 1
From (etyl) bita and bite - all from (etyl) .Noun
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- 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
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* bit-depth * bitwise * hidden bit * high-order bit * least significant bit * most significant bit * * * * *See also
* ban, nat, qubitStatistics
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English
Verb
- As soon as you bite that sandwich, you'll know how good it is.
- That dog is about to bite !
- If you see me, come and say hello. I don't bite .
- I needed snow chains to make the tires bite .
- For homeowners with adjustable rate mortgages, rising interest will really bite .
- Are the fish biting today?
- I've planted the story. Do you think they'll bite ?
- These mosquitoes are really biting today!
- It bites like pepper or mustard.
- Pepper bites the mouth.
- Frosts do bite the meads.
- At the last it [wine] biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
- The anchor bites .
- The anchor bites the ground.
- The last screw of the rack having been turned so often that its purchase crumbled, it turned and turned with nothing to bite .
- This music really bites .
- You don't like that I sat on your car? Bite me.
- He always be biting my moves.
Derived terms
* bite back * bite in the ass * bite me * bite off * bite off more than one can chew * bite one's knuckle * bite one's tongue * biter * bite someone's head off * bite the big one * bite the bullet * bite the dust * bite the hand that feeds one * bitingNoun
(en noun)- I have known a very good fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite .
- That snake bite really hurts!
- After just one night in the jungle I was covered with mosquito bites .
- There were only a few bites left on the plate.
- That's really a bite !
- That song is a bite of my song!
- I'll have a quick bite to quiet my stomach until dinner.
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- The baser methods of getting money by fraud and bite , by deceiving and overreaching.
- (Johnson)