Definitions for bite

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Spelling: [bahyt]

IPA: /baɪt/

Bite is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 25 anagrams from letters in bite (beit).

Definitions for bite

noun

1. an act of biting.
2. a wound made by biting:
3. a cutting, stinging, or nipping effect:
4. a piece bitten off:
5. a small meal:
6. a portion severed from the whole:
7. a morsel of food:
8. the occlusion of one's teeth:
9. 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.
10. sharpness; incisiveness; effectiveness:
11. the roughness of the surface of a file.
12. 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.

Idioms

1. bite off more than one can chew, to attempt something that exceeds one's capacity:
2. bite / snap someone's head off, to respond with anger or impatience to someone's question or comment:
3. bite the bullet. bullet (def 7).
4. bite the dust. dust (def 21).
5. bite the hand that feeds one, to repay kindness with malice or injury:
6. 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 cut, wound, or tear with the teeth:
2. to grip or hold with the teeth:
3. to sting, as does an insect.
4. to cause to smart or sting:
5. to sever with the teeth (often followed by off):
6. to start to eat (often followed by into):
7. to clamp the teeth firmly on or around (often followed by on):
8. Informal. to take advantage of; cheat; deceive: to annoy or upset; anger:
9. to eat into or corrode, as does an acid.
10. to cut or pierce with, or as with, a weapon:
11. Etching. to etch with acid (a copper or other surface) in such parts as are left bare of a protective coating.
12. to take firm hold or act effectively on:
13. 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 bite

before 1000; Middle English biten, Old English bītan; cognate with Old High German bīzan (German beissen), Gothic beitan, Old Norse bīta; akin to Latin findere to split

Examples for bite

One bite too many, and I could look down and practically see my thighs expanding before my eyes.

Stopping for a bite to eat in the kitchen, Linda went back to her room.

She has this little bit of a bite to her and a fight within her that does come through in little moments.

Won't you stop for a bite and fresh water with friends of the cause?

Taking a bite out of it made me feel like I was at a family bris… in a good, nostalgic way.

Procinus, however, was spared to die of the bite of a viper.

As soon as she took a bite of the apple, she fell to the ground and was dead.

Leapolitan responded by saying, “hopefully youll [sic] bite into a poison apple.”

The russet of oranges is caused by the bite of an insect on the skin.

She could scratch, kick, and bite—and stab too; but for stabbing she wanted a knife.