noun
- A wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person.
- A small amount of solid food; a mouthful.
- usage: "all they had left was a bit of bread"
- A painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin.
- A light informal meal.
- Angling) an instance of a fish taking the bait. (
- usage: "after fishing for an hour he still had not had a bite"
- Wit having a sharp and caustic quality.
- usage: "he commented with typical pungency"; "the bite of satire"
- A strong odor or taste property.
- usage: "the pungency of mustard"; "the sulfurous bite of garlic"; "the sharpness of strange spices"; "the raciness of the wine"
- The act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws.
- A portion removed from the whole.
- usage: "the government's weekly bite from my paycheck"
verb
- To grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws.
- usage: "Gunny invariably tried to bite her"
- Cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort.
- usage: "The sun burned his face"
- Penetrate or cut, as with a knife.
- usage: "The fork bit into the surface"
- Deliver a sting to.
- usage: "A bee stung my arm yesterday"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.i.) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent; as, it bites like pepper or mustard.
- (v.) The act of seizing with the teeth or mouth; the act of wounding or separating with the teeth or mouth; a seizure with the teeth or mouth, as of a bait; as, to give anything a hard bite.
- (v.i.) To take or keep a firm hold; as, the anchor bites.
- (v.t.) To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a crust; the dog bit a man.
- (v.i.) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
- (v.t.) To cause sharp pain or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense; as, pepper bites the mouth.
- (v.) A morsel; as much as is taken at once by biting.
- (v.) A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
- (v.) The act of puncturing or abrading with an organ for taking food, as is done by some insects.
- (v.t.) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the anchor bites the ground.
- (v.i.) To take a bait into the mouth, as a fish does; hence, to take a tempting offer.
- (v.t.) To cheat; to trick; to take in.
- (v.) 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.
- (v.) 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.
- (v.) A sharper; one who cheats.
- (v.t.) To puncture, abrade or sting with an organ (of some insects) used in taking food.
- (v.i.) To seize something forcibly with the teeth; to wound with the teeth; to have the habit of so doing; as, does the dog bite?.
- (v.) The wound made by biting; as, the pain of a dog's or snake's bite; the bite of a mosquito.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.