Meaning of bit | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Acronym of Behavioural Insights Team.
   UK, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
2. A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.
3. An Austroasiatic language spoken in China and Laos.
4. A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
5. A rotary cutting tool, fitted to a drill, brace, or router, used to bore or drill holes or to remove material from the profile of the workpiece.
6. The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.
7. Applied to a various small units of currency and coins.
   British, dated
8. A coin of a specified value.
   British, dated
9. Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.
10. A unit of currency worth one eighth of a dollar, originally of a Spanish dollar but later also US or Canadian; also, a coin with this value, in particular the silver Spanish real.
    Canada, US, historical
11. A unit of measure for information entropy.
12. A coin of a value similar but not equal to this, in particular the ‘short bit’, i.e. the ten-cent piece or dime.
    Canada, US, obsolete
13. A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC).
14. A unit of currency and coin of the British West Indies worth six black dogs, originally equal to one-eighth of a Spanish dollar but later increasingly debased to one tenth, one eleventh, one twelfth, etc.
    historical
15. A unit of currency of the Dutch West Indies in the early 20th century, worth one fifth of a cent.
    historical
16. Synonym of microbitcoin.
17. A small amount of something.
18. Specifically, a small amount of time.
    informal
19. A small fraction above a whole number.
    informal
20. Fractions of a second.
    in-plural, informal
21. A portion of something.
22. Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree. See also a bit.
23. A replaceable tip for a hand tool or power tool, comprising the portion that drives a fastener.
24. A prison sentence, especially a short one.
    slang
25. An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc.
26. A gag or put-on; a humorous conceit, especially when insistently presented as true.
    slang
27. Ellipsis of bit part.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
28. The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.
29. The cutting iron of a plane.
30. The bevelled front edge of an axehead along which the cutting edge runs.
31. A gag of a style similar to a bridle.
32. A gun.
    Multicultural-London-English

Equivalents

Examples

“A horse hates having a bit put in its mouth.”

“router bit”

“chamfering bit”

“a threepenny bit”

“A quarter is two bits.”

“He left after shaking her down for four bits for carrying the bags.”

“The smallest coin we had in Canada in early days was a dime, worth ten cents. The Indians called this coin “a Bit”. Our next coin, double in buying power and in size, was a twenty-five cent piece and this the Indians called “Two Bits”.”

“I trusted to the Lord to be with me; and at one of our trips to St. Eustatia, a Dutch island, I bought a glass tumbler with my half bit, and when I came to Montserrat I sold it for a bit, or sixpence.”

“There were bits of paper all over the floor.”

“Does your leg still hurt? —Just a bit now.”

“I've done my bit; I expect you to do yours.”

“‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough! […] What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’”

“I'll be there in a bit; I need to take care of something first.”

“He was here just a bit ago, but it looks like he's stepped out.”

“The movie lasted for two and a bit hours.”

“The 400 metres race was won in 47 seconds and bits.”

“I'd like a big bit of cake, please.”

“Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.[…]A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that. Developed as a tool to electronically combine the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale.”

“Am I bored? Not a bit of it!”

“My young companion was a bit of a poet.”

“Near-synonym: driver”

“driver bit”

“Had it not been for the influence of Mrs. Booth and Hope Hall I should still be grafting or doing a bit in some stir”

“Before doing that I am going to tell you what was the result of my own incarceration, because I presume it may not be a secret to you, that I have done a "bit" myself, not the "bit" which the prosecuting attorney was so anxious to have me do.”

“Chino didn't make me think of Dachau or that notorious joint in Angola, Louisiana, where a brother who had done a bit there told me how they used to cut the grass on the front lawn with their fingernails.”

“Not counting the days—that's okay for a county-time slap, but it'll make you crazy if you've got years to go on a felony bit.”

“His bit about video games was not nearly as entertaining as the other segments of his show.”

“Are you serious, or is this a bit?”

“Also, I'm bi. I like dudes! ...That's weird to say. Everything I say feels like a bit now, god dammit.”

“She acted her bit in the opening scene.”

“Jimmy: I need to get my hands on some bits. If you’re still in the business. Ronnie (played by Nick Nevern): Oi! Trojan (played by Jean-Paul Van Cauwelaert): Ronnie. […] Trojan: Now that is a SIG Sauer P226.”

“status bits on IRC”

“permission bits in a file system”

“The researchers found that the original texts spanned a variety of entropy values in different languages, reflecting differences in grammar and structure. But strangely, the difference in entropy between the original, ordered text and the randomly scrambled text was constant across languages. This difference is a way to measure the amount of information encoded in word order, Montemurro says. The amount of information lost when they scrambled the text was about 3.5 bits per word.”

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