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.

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binary digit

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browse

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doit

taste

horse’s bit

drillshank

chewing

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gobbet

binary bit

binary place

binit

binary number base

binary numeral

binary code

binary format code

column

place

position

potential

bit tool

cutterblock

tool bit

blade

cutter blade

fly-bar

insert

knife blade

razor blade

nose of tool

check

check bit

bodkin

bore

bur

straight bit

subula

drill head

drill points

solid borer

stop drill

cone

pyramid

binary character

piecemeal

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tiny amount

teeth

web

grip

hold

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patch

New York minute

hour

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wee

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article

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paragraph

solid

song

statute title

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volume

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a trifle

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touch

sherd

sliver

core

division

boon

gift

present

bread

plant component

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period

trice

twinkling

something

Frequency

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.

New

bitten

past participle of bite

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