[
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
- 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.
- The people who inhabited America at that time were fighting an uphill battle. Times, Sunday Times
- The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him. Northern Rock - Pay staff a bonus with public cash.
- If you have more than the duty-free allowance or prohibited goods, you go through the red channel and declare them to a customs officer.