Bote vs Byte - What's the difference?
bote | byte |
The atonement, compensation, amends, satisfaction, penance, expiation; as, manbote, a compensation for a man slain.
A payment of any kind.
A privilege or allowance of necessaries, especially in feudal times.
(legal, historical) A right to take wood from property not one's own.
(obsolete) repairs
(obsolete) advantage, benefit, profit, cure, remedy
(computing) A sequence of adjacent bits (binary digits) that can be operated on as a unit by a computer; the smallest usable machine word; nearly always eight bits, which can represent an integer from 0 to 255 or a single character of text.
(computing) A unit of computing storage equal to eight bits
As nouns the difference between bote and byte
is that bote is the atonement, compensation, amends, satisfaction, penance, expiation; as, manbote, a compensation for a man slain while byte is a sequence of adjacent bits (binary digits) that can be operated on as a unit by a computer; the smallest usable machine word; nearly always eight bits, which can represent an integer from 0 to 255 or a single character of text.bote
English
Alternative forms
* *Noun
(en-noun)- Iesu For synne þat hath my soule bounde, Let þi blessed blood be my bote . — Iesu þat art heuene
- Þey shulde..do bote to brugges þat to-broke were. — Pier's Plowman, 1400
- Heo lufeden bi wurten, bi moren, and bi rote; nas þer nan oðer boten . — Layamon's Brut, 1275
Usage notes
* Often used to form compounds indicating a right to take wood only for a specific purpose.Synonyms
* estoversDerived terms
* burghbote * cartbote * firebote * frithbote * haybote * hedgebote * housebote * maegbote * manbote * plowbote, ploughbote * theftbote * wainboteReferences
(Webster 1913) * Middle English Dictionary ----byte
English
Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia byte)- The word “hello” fits into five bytes of ASCII code.