bite/bight/byte
bite (bīt)
Verb., bit, bit·ten, or bit, bit·ing, bites.
Verb. Transitive.,
- To cut, grip, or tear with or as if with the teeth.
- To pierce the skin of with the teeth, fangs, or mouthparts.
- To sting with a stinger.
- To cut into with or as if with a sharp instrument: The ax bit the log deeply.
- To grip, grab, or seize: bald treads that couldn't bite the icy road; bitten by a sudden desire to travel.
- To eat into; corrode.
- To cause to sting or be painful: cold that bites the skin; a conscience bitten by remorse.
Verb. Intransitive.
- To grip, cut into, or injure something with or as if with the teeth.
- To have a stinging effect.
- To have a sharp taste.
- To take or swallow bait.
- To be taken in by a ploy or deception: tried to sell the Brooklyn Bridge, but no one bit.
Noun.
- The act of biting.
- A skin wound or puncture produced by an animal's teeth or mouthparts: the bite of an insect.
- A stinging or smarting sensation.
- An incisive, penetrating quality: the bite of satire.
- An amount removed by or as if by an act of biting: Rezoning took a bite out of the town's residential area.
- An excerpt or fragment taken from something larger, such as a film.
- An amount of food taken into the mouth at one time; a mouthful.
- Informal. A light meal or snack.
- The act or an instance of taking bait: fished all day without a bite; an ad that got a few bites but no final sales.
- A secure grip or hold applied by a tool or machine upon a working surface.
- The part of a tool or machine that presses against and maintains a firm hold on a working surface.
bight (bīt)
Noun.
- A loop in a rope.
- The middle or slack part of an extended rope.
- A bend or curve, especially in a shoreline.
- A wide bay formed by such a bend or curve.
byte (bīt)
Noun.
A sequence of adjacent bits, usually eight, operated on as a unit by a computer.
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