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flop | bit |

As a verb bit is

to beat (to strike or pound repeatedly).

flop

English

Etymology 1

Recorded since 1602, probably a variant of (flap) with a duller, heavier sound

Verb

(flopp)
  • To fall heavily, because lacking energy.
    • He flopped down in front of the television as he was exhausted from work.
    (Charles Dickens)
  • To fail completely, not to be successful at all (about a movie, play, book, song etc.).
    • The latest album flopped and so the studio canceled her contract.
  • (sports) To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer)
    • It starts with Chris Paul, because Blake didn't really used to flop like that, you know, last year.
    While Stern chastised Vogel for on Thursday calling the Heat "the biggest flopping team in the NBA," he did intimate that he sees merit in the sentiment.
  • To strike about with something broad and flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; to flap.
    • The brim of a hat flops .
    Derived terms
    * flophouse * flopover * flopper * floppy

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An incident of a certain type of fall; a plopping down.
  • A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
  • (poker) The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a game.
  • * 1996: John Patrick, John Patrick's Casino Poker: Professional Gambler's Guide to Winning
    • The flop didn't help you but probably did help the other hands.
  • * 2003: Lou Krieger, Internet Poker: How to Play and Beat Online Poker Games
    • Here are six tips to help you play successfully on the flop (the first three communal cards).
  • * 2005: Henry Stephenson, Real Poker Night: Taking Your Home Game to a New Level
    • The strength of your hand now has nothing to do with how strong it may have been before the flop .
  • A place to stay, sleep or live. See flophouse
  • * 1973 , Alan Watts, Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown: A Mountain Journal , Pantheon Books, page 135,
    • They have opened up crypts and basements as immense pads where vagrant and impoverished hippies can flop for the night..
  • * 1969 , Howard E. Freeman, Norman R. Kurtz, America's Troubles: A Casebook on Social Conflict , Prentice-Hall, Page 414,
    • ... is not just the old material goal of "three hots and a place to flop ," it ....
  • * 2006 , Ray Douglas, America Is Headed for a Fall , AuthorHouse, Page 53,
    • Hugh and the boys playing in beautiful settings with beautiful young babes was a far cry from grungy hippies doing it in a filthy flop house, ...
  • A ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop.
  • * 2000 , Dean King, A Sea of Words: A Lexicon and Companion for Patrick O'Brian's Seafaring Tales , Henry Holt & Co., Page 162,
    • ... cowpat or cow-flop , Cow dung, often used dry as heating fuel.
  • * 1960 , Winston Graham, Ross Poldark: A Novel of Cornwall, 1783-1787 , Bodley Head, Page 302,
    • "Maybe as you think," he said, "because as I've the misfortune of an accidental slip on a cow-flop therefore I has the inability of an unborn babe, ...
  • * 2003 , John W. Billheimer, Drybone Hollow , St. Martin's Press, Page 215,
    • "Cow flop in a neat package is still cow flop. What did Cable stand to gain from the flood?"
    Synonyms
    * (complete failure) dud, fiasco, turkey * (specifically in entertainment) box office bomb

    Adverb

    (-)
  • Right, squarely, flat-out.
  • With a flopping sound.
    • See also
    * aflop

    Related terms

    * flip-flop

    Etymology 2

    Syllabic abbreviation of (floating point) + (operation).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) A unit of measure of processor speed, being one floating-point operation per second.
    • Derived terms
    * megaflop * gigaflop * teraflop ----

    bit

    English

    (wikipedia bit)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) bita and bite - all from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=15 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?’}}
  • (informal) Specifically , a small amount of time.
  • A portion of something.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Catherine Clabby
    • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Focus on Everything , passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.
  • Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree.
    • Am I bored? Not a bit of it!
  • * T. Hook
    • My young companion was a bit of a poet.
  • (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.
    • (Knight)
  • The cutting iron of a plane.
    • (Knight)
    Synonyms
    * (coin) coin, piece * (small piece) morsel (of food), piece, scrap * (portion) portion, share, segment * (horse equipment) snaffle, pelham, kimberwicke
    Derived terms
    * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

    Adverb

    (-)
  • To a small extent; in a small amount (usually with "a").
    • That's a bit too sweet.

    Verb

    (bitt)
  • To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of (a horse).

    • Etymology 2

    See bite

    Verb

    (head)
  • (bite)
    • Your dog bit me!
  • , bitten
    • I have been bit by your dog!

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (label) bitten.
  • (label) Having been bitten.
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    • 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.htm
  • 1946] First used in print 1948 by (Claude Shannon). Compare (byte) and (nybble).

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.
    • status bits''' on IRC; permission '''bits in a file system
  • (information theory) A unit of measure for information entropy.
  • * {{quote-web, date = 2011-05-17
    • , author = Lisa Grossman , title = Entropy Is Universal Rule of Language , site = Wired Science , url = http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/05/universal-entropy/ , accessdate = 2012-09-26}}
    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) b
    Derived terms
    * bit-depth * bitwise * hidden bit * high-order bit * least significant bit * most significant bit * * * * *
    See also
    * ban, nat, qubit

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