[
US
/ˈbaɪt/
]
[ UK /bˈaɪt/ ]
[ UK /bˈaɪt/ ]
VERB
-
deliver a sting to
A bee stung my arm yesterday -
to grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws
Gunny invariably tried to bite her -
cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
The sun burned his face -
penetrate or cut, as with a knife
The fork bit into the surface
NOUN
- a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person
- a light informal meal
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a portion removed from the whole
the government's weekly bite from my paycheck - a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
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a strong odor or taste property
the pungency of mustard
the sharpness of strange spices
the raciness of the wine
the sulfurous bite of garlic -
a small amount of solid food; a mouthful
all they had left was a bit of bread - the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws
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(angling) an instance of a fish taking the bait
after fishing for an hour he still had not had a bite -
wit having a sharp and caustic quality
the bite of satire
he commented with typical pungency
How To Use bite In A Sentence
- People were gulping down sundowners, women seemed to be, rather disinterestedly, sipping their drinks and picking up a bite.
- On arriving in Britain she found herself to be a virtual slave to Dunlop, who exhibited her to curious Europeans who were eager to view Baartman's steatopygous buttocks and genitalia. ANC Daily News Briefing
- Of course the 'nester' or 'punkin roller,' as we contemptuously called the small farmer, began sifting in here and there in spite of our guns, but he was only a mosquito bite in comparison with the trouble which our cow-punchers stirred up. Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West
- A cenobite is usually a monk in a monastery, as opposed to an anchorite, who is a monk living alone (also called an ‘eremite’ or ‘hermit’).
- Posting of slanderous, libelous, abusive or defamatory material is totally prohibited.
- Mostly, however, she seems to be held in some kind of incommunicado status until they need a sound bite, and then they throw the power switch, download the text and out she spits it, with all the emotion of an automaton. Condi a Waste of Time
- Work with your staff on understanding the regressive behaviors that may be exhibited.
- He buckled them into place with a strap that dented my forehead, and gave me a wire to bite. Times, Sunday Times
- One account is debited for the amount involved in any transaction and another account is credited.
- Henry, ever the pragmatist, considered the farrago of his brother's recent attempted coup, which had ended in the destruction of the Jacobite clans, to have been the Stuarts' last chance.
