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

Editor: Sharon

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