bite : Idioms & Phrases

• adverb to a small degree; somewhat
  a little; a trifle.
  
  • it's a bit warm
  • felt a little better
  • a trifle smaller

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• a bit with a cutting edge or blade like that of an anger.

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• noun a bit for horses that is a solid bar of metal
  

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• adverb a little bit at a time
  little by little; in stages; piecemeal.
  
  • the research structure has developed piecemeal
• adverb in a gradual manner
  gradually; step by step.
  
  • the snake moved gradually toward its victim

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• noun a field containing only binary characters
  

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• piecemeal.

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• noun a small role
  minor role.
  

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• adjective satellite one thing at a time
  stepwise; in small stages; piecemeal; step-by-step.
  

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• verb bite off with a quick bite
  snap at.
  
  • The dog snapped off a piece of cloth from the intruder's pants

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• verb utter
  
  • She bit out a curse

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• noun a removable dental appliance that is worn in the palate for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes
  biteplate.
  

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Bit"ing in"

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1. (Etching.) The process of corroding or eating into metallic plates, by means of an acid. See Etch. G. Francis.

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• noun wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds
  louse; bird louse.
  

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• noun minute two-winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects
  punkie; punkey; punky; no-see-um.
  

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• noun a drilling bit with cutting edges usually hardened against wear
  blade bit.
  

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• noun a drill for penetrating rock
  stone drill; rock drill; borer.
  

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• noun a drill consisting of a bit and a brace to hold and turn it
  

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Can"ker-bit` adjective

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1. Eaten out by canker, or as by canker. Obs.

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Can"on bit`

Etymology

F. canon, fr. L. canon a rule.

Definitions

1. That part of a bit which is put in a horse's mouth.

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• noun a bit with a sharp center point for guidance and two side cutters
  center bit.
  

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• noun a bit with a sharp center point for guidance and two side cutters
  center bit.
  

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• noun a bit that is used for beveling
  

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• noun (computer science) a bit that is used in an error detection procedure in which a 0 or 1 is added to each group of bits so that it will have either an odd number of 1's or an even number of 1's; e.g., if the parity is odd then any group of bits that arrives with an even number of 1's must contain an error
  check bit; parity.
  

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• noun a hollow drilling bit that is the cutting part of a core drill; allows core samples to be taken
  

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• noun a bit for enlarging the upper part of a hole
  counterbore; countersink.
  

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Crib"-bit`ing noun

Definitions

1. Same as Cribbing, 4.

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• noun a rock drill having cruciform cutting edges; used in mining
  

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• noun a horse's bit with an attached chain or strap to check the horse
  curb.
  

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• a stiff bit having branches by which a leverage is obtained upon the jaws of horse. Knight.

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• noun a bite inflicted by a dog
  

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• noun a bit used in drilling for oil
  drill bit.
  

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• noun a bit used in drilling for oil
  drill bit.
  

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• adverb to the same degree (often followed by `as')
  equally; as.
  
  • they were equally beautiful
  • birds were singing and the child sang as sweetly
  • sang as sweetly as a nightingale
  • he is every bit as mean as she is

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• (Mech.), a bit or drill made adjustable for holes of various sizes; one which can be expanded in diameter while boring.

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• noun a bit with a cutting blade that can be adjusted to different sizes
  expansion bit.
  

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• noun a bit with a cutting blade that can be adjusted to different sizes
  expansion bit.
  

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Fip"pen*ny bit` noun

Etymology

Corruption of five penny bit.

Definitions

1. The Spanish half real, or one sixteenth of a dollar, -- so called in Pennsylvania and the adjacent States. Obs. ✍ Before the act of Congress, Feb. 21, 1857, caused the adoption of decimal coins and the withdrawal of foreign coinage from circulation, this coin passed currently for 6¼ cents, and was called in New England a fourpence ha'penny or fourpence; in New York a sixpence; in Pennsylvania, Virginia, etc., a fip; and in Louisiana, a picayune.

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• noun a drilling bit with cutting edges usually hardened against wear
  blade bit.
  

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• noun sting inflicted by a flea
  
• noun a very minor inconvenience
  

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Flea"-bite` noun

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1. The bite of a flea, or the red spot caused by the bite.
2. A trifling wound or pain, like that of the bite of a flea. Harvey.

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• adjective satellite worn and broken down by hard use
  run-down; woebegone; creaky; decrepit; derelict.
  
  • a creaky shack
  • a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape
  • a flea-bitten sofa
  • a run-down neighborhood
  • a woebegone old shack

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Flea"-bit`ten adjective

Definitions

1. Bitten by a flea; as, a flea-bitten face.
2. White, flecked with minute dots of bay or sorrel; -- said of the color of a horse.

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• a boring tool for piercing ebony, rosewood, and other hard woods.

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Fly"-bit`ten adjective

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1. Marked by, or as if by, the bite of flies. Shak.

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• noun European floating plant with roundish heart-shaped leaves and white flowers
  Hydrocharis morsus-ranae; frogbit.
  

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• noun simple nearly stemless freshwater aquatic plants; widely distributed
  Hydrocharidaceae; family Hydrocharitaceae; frogbit family; Hydrocharitaceae; family Hydrocharidaceae.
  

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Frog"s`-bit" noun

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1. (Bot.) Frogbit.

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Frost`-bit"ten participial adjective

Definitions

1. Nipped, withered, or injured, by frost or freezing.

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• a wood-boring tool, having a long elliptical pod and a scew point.

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• a boring bit, shaped like a gouge.

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• adjective satellite tough and callous by virtue of experience
  pugnacious; hard-boiled.
  

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Hun"ger-bit`, Hun"ger-bit`ten adjective (Also<

• Hunger-bit
• Hunger-bitten

)

Definitions

1. Pinched or weakened by hunger. Obs. Milton.

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• noun a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
  bite; sting.
  

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• (Railroad), a bar across the jaws of a pedestal underneath an axle box.

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• a pod auger. See Auger.

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• noun a temporary red mark on a person's skin resulting from kissing or sucking by their lover
  hickey.
  

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• a portion left in a dish for the sake of good manners. Hallwell.

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• noun a sting inflicted by a mosquito
  

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• adjective satellite (of a situation) characterized by or causing suspense
  cliff-hanging; suspensive; suspenseful.
  

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• (Carp.), a bit similar to a gouge bit, but having a cutting edge on one side of its boring end.

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• noun (computer science) a bit that is used in an error detection procedure in which a 0 or 1 is added to each group of bits so that it will have either an odd number of 1's or an even number of 1's; e.g., if the parity is odd then any group of bits that arrives with an even number of 1's must contain an error
  check bit; parity.
  

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• noun a small bit that drills a first hole to guide a larger drill
  

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• an auger or bit the channel of which is straight instead of twisted.

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• a bit for boring resembling the half of a reed split lengthways and having its end sharpened like a gouge.

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• a bit designed to prevent a horse from lifting his head when rearing. Knight.

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• noun a drill bit that has hardened rotating rollers
  rock bit.
  

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• noun a drill bit that has hardened rotating rollers
  rock bit.
  

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• (Bot.), a European herb (Jasione montana) having much the appearance of scabious.

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• a tool shaped like a gouge, used with a brace in boring wood. See Bit, n., 3.

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• noun a simple jointed bit for a horse; without a curb
  snaffle.
  

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• noun a very short speech; usually on radio or television
  

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• noun a thin bit with a center point and cutting edges on either side
  

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• a bit for boring, hollowed or furrowed along one side.

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• adverb in the slightest degree or in any respect
  at all; in the least.
  
  • Are you at all interested? No, not at all
  • was not in the least unfriendly

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• (Etching), to corrode or eat into metallic plates by means of an acid.

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• . See under Bite, v. t.

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• to fall in the agonies of death; as, he made his enemy bite the dust.

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• . See under Bite, Break.

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• (any one), formerly a mark of contempt, designed to provoke a quarrel; to defy. "Do you bite your thumb at us ?" Shak.

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• to keep silence. Shak.

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• noun a bit or drill having deep helical grooves
  twist drill.
  

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Weath"er-bit` noun

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1. (Naut.) A turn of the cable about the end of the windlass, without the bits.

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Weath"er-bit`ten adjective

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1. Eaten into, defaced, or worn, by exposure to the weather. Coleridge.

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Yeast"-bit`ten adjective

Definitions

1. (Brewing) A term used of beer when the froth of the yeast has reëntered the body of the beer.

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