Definitions for biting

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biting bit·ing

Spelling: [bahy-ting]

IPA: /ˈbaɪ tɪŋ/

Biting is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in biting (bgiint).

Definitions for biting

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:

adjective

1. nipping; smarting; keen:
2. cutting; sarcastic:

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 biting

First recorded in 1250-1300, biting is from the Middle English word bitynge. See bite, -ing²

Examples for biting

He hesitated, biting his lip and plucking absently the tangles from the forelock of his horse.

His humor, by turns playful and biting, ranges over the stories he tells.

"You shall hear from me, sir," said the officer, biting his lips.

Abramson, biting her tongue, was widely portrayed in rival outlets as classily above the fray.

"Crooked as a dog's hind legs," snarled Lewis, biting viciously at his cigar.

She stood there in the biting wind, while he uncovered the horse and drove away.

She has personally confronted suicide, business failure and biting criticism, and in the face of it all she perseveres.

At least one mobster said he always kept two biting monkeys in the room when he met his associates.

The biting finger of agony had drawn lines upon his haggard brow.

The region of interest is known as the Amundsen Sea Sector, which means climate change is biting Earth in the ASS.