Bite
[baɪt]
Definition
(noun.) a portion removed from the whole; 'the government's weekly bite from my paycheck'.
(noun.) the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws.
(noun.) (angling) an instance of a fish taking the bait; 'after fishing for an hour he still had not had a bite'.
(noun.) a light informal meal.
(noun.) a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person.
(verb.) penetrate or cut, as with a knife; 'The fork bit into the surface'.
(verb.) to grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws; 'Gunny invariably tried to bite her'.
(verb.) cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort; 'The sun burned his face'.
Inputed by Andre--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a crust; the dog bit a man.
(v. t.) To puncture, abrade, or sting with an organ (of some insects) used in taking food.
(v. t.) To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense; as, pepper bites the mouth.
(v. t.) To cheat; to trick; to take in.
(v. t.) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the anchor bites the ground.
(v. i.) To seize something forcibly with the teeth; to wound with the teeth; to have the habit of so doing; as, does the dog bite?
(v. i.) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent; as, it bites like pepper or mustard.
(v. i.) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
(v. i.) To take a bait into the mouth, as a fish does; hence, to take a tempting offer.
(v. i.) To take or keep a firm hold; as, the anchor bites.
(v.) The act of seizing with the teeth or mouth; the act of wounding or separating with the teeth or mouth; a seizure with the teeth or mouth, as of a bait; as, to give anything a hard bite.
(v.) The act of puncturing or abrading with an organ for taking food, as is done by some insects.
(v.) The wound made by biting; as, the pain of a dog's or snake's bite; the bite of a mosquito.
(v.) A morsel; as much as is taken at once by biting.
(v.) 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.
(v.) A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
(v.) A sharper; one who cheats.
(v.) 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.
Typist: Wesley
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Gnaw, chew, champ.[2]. Blast, nip (as frost).[3]. Defraud, deceive, cheat, dupe, trick, gull, overreach, jockey, cozen, chouse, outwit, bamboozle, diddle, impose upon, beguile, mislead, inveigle, gammon.
Checked by Harlan
Definition
v.t. to seize or tear with the teeth: to sting or pain: to wound by reproach: to deceive or take in—now only passive:—pa.t. bit; pa.p. bit or bit′ten.—n. a grasp by the teeth: a nibble at the bait by a fish: something bitten off: a mouthful.—v.t. Bite′-in to eat out the lines of an etching with acid: to repress.—n. Bit′er one who bites: a fish apt to take the bait: a cheat.—n. and adj. Bit′ing.—To bite the dust to fall to die; To bite the thumb to express defiance by putting the thumbnail into the mouth and knocking it against the teeth.
Editor: Winthrop
Unserious Contents or Definition
This dream omens ill. It implies a wish to undo work that is past undoing. You are also likely to suffer losses through some enemy.
Edited by Annabel
Examples
- She has suffered somewhat from the bite of the adder; but it is exhaustion which has overpowered her. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- You make one bite your head off, when one wants to be soothing beyond everything. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Jo stops in the middle of a bite and looks petrified. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Then, when you don't want to bite your nails, bite them, make yourself bite them. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- You'd bite her, I suspect, says Mr. Bucket. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The wonder and consternation with which Joe stopped on the threshold of his bite and stared at me, were too evident to escape my sister's observation. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Not a bit like home, added Amy. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I think I am a bit i' that line. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Again, a minute bit of bark has been upturned by the scraping hand, and the direction of the break indicates the direction of the passage. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Of course you will find plenty of socialists who see other issues and who smile a bit at the rigors of economic determinism. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Ye couldn't treat a poor sinner, now, to a bit of sermon, could ye,--eh? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He opened a drawer and took out a bit of metal. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- It's simmering now, so I hope he'll keep out of my way, returned Jo, biting her lips as she glowered at Fred from under her big hat. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Sometimes I would meet him in the neighbourhood lounging about and biting his nails. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Then he was quiet, biting his arm, the stump of his leg twitching. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Young John looked hard at him, biting his fingers. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He paused a little, biting his lip. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He bit himself down on the mare like a keen edge biting home, and FORCED her round. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The man took strong sharp sudden bites, just like the dog. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I have had a sirloin so large, that I have been forced to make three bites of it; but this is rare. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- He bites footmen's calves. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He reaches around and bites my legs too. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But she has a tongue that scalds and that bites like a bull whip. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- They were pink and sweet and there were four bites to a prawn. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Then he has bitten through his amber. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The moment he had done so, he could have bitten his tongue out. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- He had been bitten in the face, and was taking the treatment. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He said the fighting was over for the year down here and that the Italians had bitten off more than they could chew. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- In October a shepherd lad, who, though badly bitten himself, had saved some other children from the attack of a rabid dog, was the second one to benefit b y the great discovery. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
Editor: Sharon