Meaning of Bite | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Acronym of behavior, information, thoughts, emotions (“four aspects of people's lives that a cult attempts to control”).
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable
2. The act of biting.
   countable, uncountable
3. The wound left behind after having been bitten.
   countable, uncountable
4. The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
   countable, uncountable
5. A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
   countable, uncountable
6. Something unpleasant.
   countable, slang, uncountable
7. An act of plagiarism.
   countable, slang, uncountable
8. A small meal or snack.
   countable, uncountable
9. incisiveness, provocativeness, exactness.
   figuratively, uncountable
10. Aggression.
    figuratively, uncountable
11. The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
    countable, uncountable
12. A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
    colloquial, countable, dated, uncountable
13. A sharper; one who cheats.
    colloquial, countable, dated, slang, uncountable
14. A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
    countable, uncountable
15. A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.
    countable, slang, uncountable
16. Ellipsis of sound bite.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
17. The turn that a spin bowler imparts to a pitch.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“[…]I have knowne a very good Fiſher angle diligently four or ſix hours in a day, for three or four dayes together for a River Carp, and not have a bite[…]”

“Now trust me when I tell you, young lady, teeth are something you want to take care of. They’re these rare white things that give us pleasure throughout our life. And give us bite. Our inheritance. Our means of survival. Our right to rule. Their enamel is the front line. And that line needs to be won every day.”

“That snake bite really hurts!”

“After just one night in the jungle I was covered with mosquito bites.”

“There were only a few bites left on the plate.”

“Not a soul in Corlaix will dare give us bite, sup, or shelter; and we shall die starved in a ditch, all four of us—that much we are our own, but in all else we are Monseigneur’s; all else, I say, all—all.”

“In February of this year, 9to5 was forced to lay off four of its paid staff, and began to feel the bite of its high-rent downtown office space.”

“That song is a bite of my song!”

“a bite to eat”

“I'll have a quick bite to quiet my stomach until dinner.”

“Wilma, I promise you one thing. Whatever scum is behind this, not a single cop on this police force will have a minute's rest until he's behind bars. Now let's grab a bite to eat.”

“Would I take someone here for a first date? No. Would I go here for a cheap bite? Also no...”

“Kathy Santen is full of bite as the bizarrely seduced Lady Anne, although her exaggerated diction is a bit too snappishly Shakespearean.”

“In Tarabai’s text this exposure is direct, unusually blunt, full of bite and ridicule, and highly polemical.”

“City scored the goals but periods of ball possession were shared - the difference being Villa lacked bite in the opposition final third.”

“The baser methods of getting money by fraud and bite, by deceiving and overreaching.”

“[I]t was conjectured, that Peregrine was a bite from the beginning, who had found credit on account of his effrontery and appearance, and impoſed himſelf upon the town as a young gentleman of fortune.”

“So he went home cursing the Yorkshire bites, and swearing there was no living among them […]”

“I know three Americans who are running a bar. The cops come in all the time for a bite.”

“cold open: Starting a TV newscast with video or a bite from the lead story rather than starting with the anchor or the standard show open.”

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