Etymology : Middle English, from Old English bItan; akin to Old High German bIzan to bite, Latin findere to split
Pronunciation : bIt
Function : verb
Date : before 12th century
1. nibble, morsel; wound made by biting. grip with the teeth; take bait, eat a lure.
2. to copy lyrics from other people: "I know you down south are biting my lines, and if I catch you boy, your ass is mine " -- Schoolly D. (Gucci time.
3. to steal: "You'se a beat biter, a Pac style taker... " --2pac (Hit 'em Up). bite\bite\ , v. t. [imp. bit ; p. p. bitten , bit; p. pr. & vb. n. biting.] [oe. biten, as. bītan; akin to d. bijten, os. bītan, ohg. bīzan, g. beissen, goth. beitan, icel. bīta, sw. bita, dan. bide, l. findere to cleave, skr. bhid to cleave.
4. cf. fissure.].
5. 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. such smiling rogues as these, like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwain.
6. to puncture, abrade, or sting with an organ (of some insects) used in taking food.
7. to cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense; as, pepper bites the mouth. "frosts do bite the meads.".
8. to cheat; to trick; to take in. [colloq.].
9. to take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the anchor bites the ground. the last screw of the rack having been turned so often that its purchase crumbled, it turned and turned with nothing to bite.
10. 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.
11. To puncture, abrade, or sting with an organ used in taking food.
12. To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense; as, pepper bites the mouth.
13. To cheat; to trick; to take in.
14. To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the anchor bites the ground.
15. To seize something forcibly with the teeth; to wound with the teeth; to have the habit of so doing; as, does the dog bite? To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent; as, it bites like pepper or mustard.
16. To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
17. To take a bait into the mouth, as a fish does; hence, to take a tempting offer.
18. To take or keep a firm hold; as, the anchor bites.
19. 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.
20. The act of puncturing or abrading with an organ for taking food, as is done by some insects.
21. The wound made by biting; as, the pain of a dog's or snake's bite; the bite of a mosquito.
22. A morsel; as much as is taken at once by biting.
23. 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.
24. A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
25. A sharper; one who cheats.
26. 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. a portion removed from the whole; "the government's weekly bite from my paycheck" the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws an instance of a fish taking the bait; "after fishing for an hour he still had not had a bite" a light informal meal a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person penetrate or cut, as with a knife; "The fork bit into the surface" to grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws; "Gunny invariably tried to bite her" cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort; "The sun burned his face".
27. 1. If you bite something, you use your teeth to cut into it, for example in order to eat it or break it. If an animal or person bites you, they use their teeth to hurt or injure you. Both sisters bit their nails as children He bit into his sandwich He had bitten the cigarette in two Llamas won't bite or kick.
28. A bite of something, especially food, is the action of biting it. He took another bite of apple You cannot eat a bun in one bite. A bite is also the amount of food you take into your mouth when you bite it. Look forward to eating the food and enjoy every bite.
29. If you have a bite to eat, you have a small meal or a snack. It was time to go home for a little rest and a bite to eat.
30. If a snake or a small insect bites you, it makes a mark or hole in your skin, and often causes the surrounding area of your skin to become painful or itchy. We were all badly bitten by mosquitoes.
31. A bite is an injury or a mark on your body where an animal, snake, or small insect has bitten you. Any dog bite, no matter how small, needs immediate medical attention.
32. When an action or policy begins to bite, it begins to have a serious or harmful effect. As the sanctions begin to bite there will be more political difficulties ahead The recession started biting deeply into British industry.
33. If an object bites into a surface, it presses hard against it or cuts into it. There may even be some wire or nylon biting into the flesh.
34. approval If you say that a food or drink has bite, you like it because it has a strong or sharp taste. the addition of tartaric acid to give the wine some bite.
35. If the air or the wind has a bite, it feels very cold. There was a bite in the air, a smell perhaps of snow.
36. If a fish bites when you are fishing, it takes the hook or bait at the end of your fishing line in its mouth. After half an hour, the fish stopped biting and we moved on. Bite is also a noun. If I don't get a bite in a few minutes I lift the rod and twitch the bait. see also:
love bite, nail-biting.
37. If someone bites the hand that feeds them, they behave badly or in an ungrateful way towards someone who they depend on. She may be cynical about the film industry, but ultimately she has no intention of biting the hand that feeds her.
38. If you bite your lip or your tongue, you stop yourself from saying something that you want to say, because it would be the wrong thing to say in the circumstances. I must learn to bite my lip He bit his tongue as he found himself on the point of saying `follow that car'.
39. If something takes a bite out of a sum of money, part of the money is spent or taken away in order to pay for it. Local taxes are going to be taking a bigger bite out of people's income than they ever have before.
40. someone's bark is worse than their bite: see:
bark to bite the bullet: see bullet to bite off more than one can chew: see chew to bite the dust: see dust. v.
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