bit

Meaning

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, used to bore holes.
3. Applied to a various small units of currency and coins.
4. Applied to a various small units of currency and coins.
5. (obsolete) Applied to a various small units of currency and coins.
6. Applied to a various small units of currency and coins.
7. Applied to a various small units of currency and coins.
8. A small amount of something.
9. (informal) Specifically, a small amount of time.
10. (informal) A small fraction above a whole number.
11. (informal) Fractions of a second.
12. A portion of something.
13. Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree. See also a bit.
14. (slang) A prison sentence, especially a short one.
15. An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc.
16. (slang) A gag or put-on; a humorous conceit, especially when insistently presented as true.
17. Short for bit part.
18. The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.
19. The cutting iron of a plane.
20. The bevelled front edge of an axehead along which the cutting edge runs.
21. A gag of a style similar to a bridle.
22. A gun.

piece

small amount

small piece

small quantity

little bit

component part

tiny bit

plant component

drilling bit

horse’s bit

New York minute

tiny amount

short distance

small portion

binit

smidge

statute title

twist bit

straight bit

tool bit

binary bit

binary numeral

binary place

drill head

cutter blade

cutterblock

drillshank

binary number base

binary format code

bit tool

nose of tool

fly-bar

subula

drill points

stop drill

check bit

binary character

cutting tool

knife blade

solid borer

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bɪt/

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.

Cognate with Dutch

bit

Cognate with German

Biss

New

bite

1. To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
2. To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
3. To attack with the teeth.
4. To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
5. To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
6. To have significant effect, often negative.
7. To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
8. To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
9. To sting.
10. To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
11. To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.
12. To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
13. To take or keep a firm hold.
14. To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
15. (slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
16. (informal) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
17. (slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.
18. (obsolete,slang) To deceive or defraud; to take in.