bit

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.
2. A rotary cutting tool, fitted to a drill, brace, or router, used to bore or drill holes or to remove material from the profile of the workpiece.
3. (British, dated) Applied to a various small units of currency and coins.
4. (Canada, US, historical) Applied to a various small units of currency and coins.
5. (Canada, US, obsolete) Applied to a various small units of currency and coins.
6. (historical) Applied to a various small units of currency and coins.
7. (historical) Applied to a various small units of currency and coins.
8. Applied to a various small units of currency and coins.
9. A small amount of something.
10. (informal) Specifically, a small amount of time.
11. (informal) A small fraction above a whole number.
12. (in-plural, informal) Fractions of a second.
13. A portion of something.
14. Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree. See also a bit.
15. A replaceable tip for a hand tool or power tool, comprising the portion that drives a fastener.
16. (slang) A prison sentence, especially a short one.
17. An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc.
18. (slang) A gag or put-on; a humorous conceit, especially when insistently presented as true.
19. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of bit part.
20. The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.
21. The cutting iron of a plane.
22. The bevelled front edge of an axehead along which the cutting edge runs.
23. A gag of a style similar to a bridle.
24. (Multicultural-London-English) A gun.

Verb

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

Verb

1. (form-of, past) simple past of bite
2. (archaic, form-of, informal, participle, past) past participle of bite, bitten

Adj

Having been bitten.

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Concepts

bit

morceau

mors

fragment

peu

bout

🔚

pièce

frein

moment

bribe

panneton

mordre

partie

acte

chiffre binaire

mèche

part

petit morceau

point

pan

partie de la plante

élément binaire

nombre

🔢

numéro

🔢

éclat

oeuvre inachevée

copeau

bouchée

piquer

déchirage

puce

second

2nd

seconde

terrain

texte

un peu

brin

démolition

gros morceau

mord

mordirent

morsure

outil à aléser

second|seconde

routine

spot

trognon

loi

un petit peu

minute

Opposé de

age, while, jiffy, moment, never in a month of Sundays

Synonymes

piece

fragment

little

part

scrap

morsel

slice

lump

small amount

binary digit

crumb

bite

chip

bridle

chunk

flake

section

spot

small quantity

drill

few

🤏

portion

small piece

particle

moment

jot

grain

whit

atom

trifle

minute

iota

speck

a little

fleck

second

2nd

pinch

mo

mouthful

slightly

snatch

segment

shred

dash

💨

little bit

drop

gimlet

number

🔢

act

nip

Traductions

bit

Bit

pezzetto

pedazo

Stück

1️⃣

bocado

bit

pedaço

morso

Stückchen

bit

Bissen

tros

porção

trozo

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/bɪt/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: bitte

Hérité de ancien anglais: bita

Appartenant à frison occidental: bit

Appartenant à saterlandais: Bit

Appartenant à néerlandais: bit

Appartenant à allemand: Biss

Appartenant à danois: bid

Appartenant à suédois: bit

Appartenant à islandais: biti

In summary

From Middle English bitte, bite, from Old English bita (“bit; fragment; morsel”) and bite (“a bite; cut”), from Proto-Germanic *bitô and *bitiz; both from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split”). More at bite.
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian bit, Saterland Frisian Bit, Dutch bit, German Low German Beet, Biet, German Biss and Bissen, Danish bid, Swedish bit, Icelandic biti.

Phrases

Yet each felt his heart beat a bit faster .

Pourtant, chacun sentit son cœur battre un peu plus vite.

But horses tire bit by bit .

Mais les chevaux se lassent petit à petit.

The bit between the two car parks ?

Le peu entre les deux parkings?

Bit is the short term for binary digit .

Le bit est le court terme pour le chiffre binaire.

A packet is declared incorrect if at least one bit is erroneous .

Un paquet est déclaré incorrect si au moins un bit est erroné.