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Jitter vs Bitter - What's the difference?

jitter | bitter |

As nouns the difference between jitter and bitter

is that jitter is a nervous action; a tic while bitter is a liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic.

As verbs the difference between jitter and bitter

is that jitter is to be nervous while bitter is to make bitter.

As an adjective bitter is

having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).

jitter

English

Etymology 1

Possibly alteration of

Noun

(en noun)
  • A nervous action; a tic.
  • A state of nervousness.
    • That creepy movie gave me the jitters .
  • * 2014 , Ian Black, " Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis", The Guardian , 27 November 2014:
    • It is a sunny morning in Amman and the three uniformed judges in Jordan’s state security court are briskly working their way through a pile of slim grey folders on the bench before them. Each details the charges against 25 or so defendants accused of supporting the fighters of the Islamic State (Isis), now rampaging across Syria and Iraq under their sinister black banners and sending nervous jitters across the Arab world.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Chris Whyatt , title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=But Bolton deserve real credit, seeking to take advantage of their jitters at every opportunity in typically determined fashion.}}
  • (telecommunications) An abrupt and unwanted variation of one or more signal characteristics.
    • Related terms
    * jitterbug

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be nervous.
    • Synonyms
    * fidget

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) A program or routine that performs jitting.

    • Anagrams

    *

    bitter

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).
  • :
  • *
  • *:Long after his cigar burnt bitter , he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped?; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth.
  • Harsh, piercing or stinging.
  • :
  • *1999 , (Neil Gaiman), Stardust , p.31 (Perennial paperback edition)
  • *:It was at the end of February,.
  • Hateful or hostile.
  • :
  • *(Bible), (w) iii. 19
  • *:Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
  • Cynical and resentful.
  • :

    • Usage notes

    * The one-word comparative form (bitterer) and superlative form (bitterest) exist, but are less common than their two-word counterparts (term) and (term).

    Derived terms

    * bitter pill to swallow

    See also

    * bitter end

    Antonyms

    * (cynical and resentful) optimistic

    Synonyms

    * (cynical and resentful) jaded

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (usually in the plural bitters) A liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic.
  • * 1773 , Oliver Goldsmith,
    • Thus I begin: "All is not gold that glitters,
    "Pleasure seems sweet, but proves a glass of bitters .
  • A type of beer heavily flavored with hops.
  • (nautical) A turn of a cable about the bitts.

    • Derived terms

    * brought up to a bitter

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make bitter.
    • (Wolcott)
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