Bit vs Part - 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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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree.
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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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(label) A portion; a component.
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#A group inside a larger group.
#Share, especially of a profit.
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#A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.
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#3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.
#A section of a document.
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#A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.
#*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.vi:
#*:the Faery knight / Besought that Damzell suffer him depart, / And yield him readie passage to that other part .
# A factor.
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Duty; responsibility.
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#Position or role (especially in a play).
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, title= #(label) The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.
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#Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand".
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#*:the fruition of life cannot perfectly be pleasing unto us, if we stand in any feare to lose it. A man might nevertheless say on the contrary part , that we embrace and claspe this good so much the harder, and with more affection, as we perceive it to be less sure, and feare it should be taken from us.
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#*:He that is not against us is on our part .
#*(Edmund Waller) (1606-1687)
#*:Make whole kingdoms take her brother's part .
(US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
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(label) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3? seconds. (jump)
A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.
*(Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)
*:men of considerable parts
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*:great quickness of parts
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:which maintained so politic a state of evil, that they will not admit any good part to intermingle with them.
(lb) To leave.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:He wrung Bassanio's hand, and so they parted .
*(Anthony Trollope) (1815-1882)
*:It was strange to him that a father should feel no tenderness at parting with an only son.
*(George Eliot) (1819-1880)
*:his precious bag, which he would by no means part from
To cut hair with a parting; shed.
(lb) To divide in two.
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*1884 , (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter VII
*:I run the canoe into a deep dent in the bank that I knowed about; I had to part the willow branches to get in; and when I made fast nobody could a seen the canoe from the outside.
(lb) To be divided in two or separated; shed.
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To divide up; to share.
*1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. (Bible) , (w) III:
*:He that hath ij. cootes, lett hym parte with hym that hath none: And he that hath meate, let him do lyke wyse.
*(Bible), (w) xix. 24
*:They parted my raiment among them.
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:to part his throne, and share his heaven with thee
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*:He left three sonnes, his famous progeny, / Borne of faire Inogene of Italy; / Mongst whom he parted his imperiall state
(lb) To have a part or share; to partake.
*(Bible), 1 (w) xxx. 24
*:They shall part alike.
To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
*(Bible), (w) xxiv. 51
*:While he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:The narrow seas that part / The French and English.
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*:"A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted , and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. He is strengthening his forces now against Mr. Benton out there.."
(lb) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:The stumbling night did part our weary powers.
To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
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*(Matthew Prior) (1664-1721)
*:The liver minds his own affair,/ And parts and strains the vital juices.
To leave; to quit.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:since presently your souls must part your bodies
To leave (an IRC channel).
*2000 , "Phantom", Re: Uhm... hi... I guess...'' (on newsgroup ''alt.support.boy-lovers )
*:He parted the channel saying "SHUTUP!"since then, I've been seeing him on IRC every day (really can't imagine him not being on IRC anymore actually).
Fractional; partial.
Partly; partially; fractionally.
Bit is a related term of part.
As a verb bit
is to beat (to strike or pound repeatedly).As a noun part is
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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
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Adverb
(-)- 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
*part
English
Noun
(en noun)Towards the end of poverty, passage=America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}
An internet of airborne things
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights,
Synonyms
* portion, component, element * faction, party * position, role * parting (UK), (l), (l)/(l) * (jump) chelek * See alsoHolonyms
* wholeDerived terms
* part and parcel * part of speechVerb
(en verb)Derived terms
* part ways * part withAdjective
(-)- Fred was part owner of the car.