Definitions for BIT

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IPA: /bɪt/

Bit is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 14 anagrams from letters in BIT (bit).

Definitions for BIT

noun

  1. Machinery. a removable drilling or boring tool for use in a brace, drill press, or the like. a removable boring head used on certain kinds of drills, as a rock drill. a device for drilling oil wells or the like, consisting of a horizontally rotating blade or an assembly of rotating toothed wheels.
  2. the mouthpiece of a bridle, having fittings at each end to which the reins are fastened.
  3. anything that curbs or restrains.
  4. the blade or iron of a carpenter's plane.
  5. the cutting part of an ax or hatchet.
  6. the wide portion at the end of an ordinary key that moves the bolt.
  7. a small piece or quantity of anything:
  8. a short time:
  9. Informal. an amount equivalent to 12½ U.S. cents (used only in even multiples):
  10. an act, performance, or routine:
  11. a stereotypic or habitual set of behaviors, attitudes, or styles associated with an individual, role, situation, etc.:
  12. Also called bit part. a very small role, as in a play or motion picture, containing few or no lines. Compare walk-on (def 1).
  13. any small coin:
  14. a Spanish or Mexican silver real worth 12½ cents, formerly current in parts of the U.S.
  15. Also called binary digit. a single, basic unit of information, used in connection with computers and information theory.
  16. baud.
  17. an act of biting.
  18. a wound made by biting:
  19. a cutting, stinging, or nipping effect:
  20. a piece bitten off:
  21. a small meal:
  22. a portion severed from the whole:
  23. a morsel of food:
  24. the occlusion of one's teeth:
  25. Machinery. the catch or hold that one object or one part of a mechanical apparatus has on another. a surface brought into contact to obtain a hold or grip, as in a lathe chuck or similar device. the amount of material that a mechanical shovel or the like can carry at one time.
  26. sharpness; incisiveness; effectiveness:
  27. the roughness of the surface of a file.
  28. Metalworking. the maximum angle, measured from the center of a roll in a rolling mill, between a perpendicular and a line to the point of contact where a given object to be rolled will enter between the rolls.

verb

  1. simple past tense and a past participle of bite.

Idioms

  1. take the bit in / between one's teeth, to cast off control; willfully go one's own way:
  2. a bit, rather or somewhat; a little:
  3. a bit much, somewhat overdone or beyond tolerability.
  4. bit by bit, by degrees; gradually:
  5. do one's bit, to contribute one's share to an effort:
  6. every bit, quite; just:
  7. quite a bit, a fairly large amount:
  8. bite off more than one can chew, to attempt something that exceeds one's capacity:
  9. bite / snap someone's head off, to respond with anger or impatience to someone's question or comment:
  10. bite the bullet. bullet (def 7).
  11. bite the dust. dust (def 21).
  12. bite the hand that feeds one, to repay kindness with malice or injury:
  13. put the bite on, Slang. to solicit or attempt to borrow money or something of value from. to press for money, as in extortion:

verb (used with object)

  1. to put a bit in the mouth of (a horse).
  2. to curb or restrain with, or as with, a bit.
  3. to grind a bit on (a key).
  4. to cut, wound, or tear with the teeth:
  5. to grip or hold with the teeth:
  6. to sting, as does an insect.
  7. to cause to smart or sting:
  8. to sever with the teeth (often followed by off):
  9. to start to eat (often followed by into):
  10. to clamp the teeth firmly on or around (often followed by on):
  11. Informal. to take advantage of; cheat; deceive: to annoy or upset; anger:
  12. to eat into or corrode, as does an acid.
  13. to cut or pierce with, or as with, a weapon:
  14. Etching. to etch with acid (a copper or other surface) in such parts as are left bare of a protective coating.
  15. to take firm hold or act effectively on:
  16. Archaic. to make a decided impression on; affect.

verb (used without object)

  1. to press the teeth into something; attack with the jaws, bill, sting, etc.; snap:
  2. Angling. (of fish) to take bait:
  3. to accept an offer or suggestion, especially one intended to trick or deceive:
  4. Informal. to admit defeat in guessing:
  5. to act effectively; grip; hold:
  6. Slang. to be notably repellent, disappointing, poor, etc.; suck.

Origin of BIT

before 900; Middle English bite, Old English: action of biting; cognate with German Biss, Old Norse bit. See bite

Examples for BIT

Even the hot Jewish women I mentioned above did something a bit more “intellectual” than pageantry: acting.

But say, that yellow-haired woman, she ain't a bit diffident, is she?

His peers remember him as a bright man who spoke softly and occasionally came across as a bit shy.

She narrowed her eyes, bit her lip as if to chew over the question, and whisked some stray blond hairs away from her face.

"I'll walk a bit with you," said his sister, donning her jacket and a cap.

In a bit of foreshadowing, he repeated that opinion in November.

It reminded me a bit of an alternative take on The Wolf of Wall Street—through the Toni and Candace lens.

The blow was a bit too severe and the Egyptian fell down dead.

He doesn't look a bit healthy and hasn't since he quit eating breakfast.

He looked absently at the sandwich, and bit a generous semicircle into it.

Word Value for BIT
Scrable

5

Words with friends

6

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