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Bit   /bɪt/   Listen
noun
Bit  n.  
1.
The part of a bridle, usually of iron, which is inserted in the mouth of a horse, and having appendages to which the reins are fastened. "The foamy bridle with the bit of gold."
2.
Fig.: Anything which curbs or restrains.


Bit  n.  In the British West Indies, a fourpenny piece, or groat.


Bit  n.  
1.
A part of anything, such as may be bitten off or taken into the mouth; a morsel; a bite. Hence: A small piece of anything; a little; a mite.
2.
Somewhat; something, but not very great. "My young companion was a bit of a poet." Note: This word is used, also, like jot and whit, to express the smallest degree; as, he is not a bit wiser.
3.
A tool for boring, of various forms and sizes, usually turned by means of a brace or bitstock. See Bitstock.
4.
The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.
5.
The cutting iron of a plane.
6.
In the Southern and Southwestern States, a small silver coin (as the real) formerly current; commonly, one worth about 12 1/2 cents; also, the sum of 12 1/2 cents.


Bit  n.  (Information theory, Computers)
1.
The smallest unit of information, equivalent to a choice between two alternatives, as yes or no; on or off. See also qubit.
2.
(Computers) The physical representation of a bit of information in a computer memory or a data storage medium. Within a computer circuit a bit may be represented by the state of a current or an electrical charge; in a magnetic storage medium it may be represented by the direction of magnetization; on a punched card or on paper tape it may be represented by the presence or absence of a hole at a particular point on the card or tape.
Bit my bit, piecemeal.


verb
Bit  v. t.  (past & past part. bitted; pres. part. bitting)  To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of.


Bit  v.  Imp. & p. p. of Bite.


Bit  v.  3d sing. pr. of Bid, for biddeth. (Obs.)





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"Bit" Quotes from Famous Books



... its Dorian majesty! This almost unmutilated and glorious memorial of past ages here reigns alone—the only building far or near visible in the whole horizon; and what a position has its architect secured! In the midst of hills on a bit of table-land, apparently made such by smoothing down the summit of one of them, with a greensward in front, and set off behind by a mountain background, stands this eternal monument of the noblest of arts amidst the finest dispositions of nature. There is another ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXLV. July, 1844. Vol. LVI. • Various
... hold of A soldier asleep, suddenly tore him, Bit his bone-prison, the blood drank in currents, Swallowed ...
— Halleck's New English Literature • Reuben P. Halleck
... everybody,—that would be like slushy weather, but don't keep yourself so continually so far below zero that you won't have time to strike—well—say eighty-five in the shade, when the right bit of masculine sunshine does come along! ...
— The Girl with the Green Eyes - A Play in Four Acts • Clyde Fitch
... one of the banditti, 'but we maun ripe his pouches a bit, and see if the tale be true or no.' Jean set up her throat in exclamations against this breach of hospitality, but without producing any change in their determination. The farmer soon heard their stifled whispers and light steps by his bedside, and understood they were rummaging ...
— Guy Mannering • Sir Walter Scott
... reliable drunkard that a-way comes mighty near bein' a disease. It ain't no question of nerve, neither. Some dead- game gents I knows—an' who's that obstinate they wouldn't move camp for a prairie-fire—couldn't pester a little bit with whiskey. ...
— Wolfville • Alfred Henry Lewis


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