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bit
  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. (dated, Britain) A coin of a specified value. (Also formerly used for a nine-pence coin in the British Caribbean, and a fourpenny piece, or groat, in the British West Indies.)
  4. (obsolete, Canada) A ten-cent piece, dime.
  5. (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.)
  6. (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.
  7. A small amount of something.
  8. (informal) Specifically, a small amount of time.
  9. A portion of something.
  10. Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree.
  11. (slang) A prison sentence, especially a short one.
  12. An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc.
  13. The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.
  14. The cutting iron of a plane.
  15. Synonyms:
  16. Examples:
    1. “You can add just a bit of sugar to minimize the tangy taste.”
      “This is the bit in the book where I get to thank all those very important people who have helped to turn my ideas into print.”
      “Carefully recovered and analyzed bits of china, cutlery, jugs, crocks, jars, and bottles provide a picture of daily meals.”
bite
  1. The act of biting.
  2. The wound left behind after having been bitten.
  3. The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
  4. A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
  5. (slang) Something unpleasant.
  6. (slang) An act of plagiarism.
  7. A small meal or snack.
  8. (figuratively) aggression
  9. The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
  10. (colloquial, dated) A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
  11. (colloquial, dated, slang) A sharper; one who cheats.
  12. (printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
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  14. Examples:
    1. “At first, he was angry about it, but after one bite into a juicy steak, the anger swiftly faded.”
      “The next morning, he noticed an insect bite on his left forearm which was swollen and extremely itchy.”
      “I'm going to get me a bite to eat before I get back to work.”
bit
  1. (mathematics) A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
  2. (computing) The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.
  3. (information theory, cryptography) Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.
  4. (information theory) A unit of measure for information entropy.
  5. A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC).
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  7. Examples:
    1. “You can add just a bit of sugar to minimize the tangy taste.”
      “This is the bit in the book where I get to thank all those very important people who have helped to turn my ideas into print.”
      “Carefully recovered and analyzed bits of china, cutlery, jugs, crocks, jars, and bottles provide a picture of daily meals.”
biter
  1. Agent noun of bite; someone or something who bites.
  2. (curling) A stone that barely touches the outside of the house.
  3. (slang) One who copies someone else's work, style or techniques, especially in hip-hop.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “I do enjoy reading Guido's blog, it's fun, but this case of the biter bit was just too tempting to ignore.”
      “The researchers found that, pound for pound, the Tasmanian devil is the most powerful biter alive today.”
      “Note that the left forewing of the recipient wasp has been bent away from her body by the biter.”
bittock
  1. A little bit; a small piece.
  2. A short distance.
  3. Examples:
    1. “Hoot toot, lassie, what's the taxes on a bittock o' wild land and useless water?”
      “He ate his saumon wi' his fork in ae hand, and a bittock of bread in the other.”
bitt
  1. (nautical) The bitts.
  2. (nautical) A bollard.
bitts
  1. (nautical, plural only) A frame composed of two strong oak timbers (bitt-heads) fixed vertically in the fore part of a ship, bolted to the deck beams to which are secured the cables when the ship rides to anchor
  2. Examples:
    1. “And how many boats have their windlasses, cleats and bitts attached firmly enough that they would not tear out?”
      “Samson posts or towing bitts don't have to be located on the centerline.”
      Bitts and bollards, by the way, are for tying rope around, not redirecting it.”
biteforce
  1. The force applied by the masticatory muscles when biting or chewing.
bitting
  1. the part of a key that engages the tumblers to activate the lock
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bitingness
  1. The state or quality of biting or being biting.
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bitemark
  1. The mark left by a bite (of an animal)
  2. Examples:
    1. “I mean how unique is it, and how was in that circumstance, the forensic odontologist able to create an image of an offender from just the bitemark?”
      “However he was not able to shake the bitemark evidence which was subject to two appeals, and he was eventually executed ten years after his conviction.”
biting
bitee
  1. One who is bitten.
bits
  1. plural of bit
  2. (slang) genitals
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The resulting stills were then splashed all over the front of the Screws of the World with all the naughty bits artfully pixelated out.”
      “These bits are interlaced with the usual interview cuts from Lawrence, director David Raynr, and the production team.”
      “These bits can be collected by responsible field walking and all the information that goes with such finds can be recorded before it is lost.”
biteforces
  1. plural of biteforce
bitemarks
  1. plural of bitemark
bittings
bittocks
  1. plural of bittock
  2. Examples:
    1. “Then I cut the flesh into bittocks And Shahrazad was surprised by the dawn of day and fell silent and ceased to say her permitted say.”
bitings
biters
bitees
  1. plural of bitee
bites
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