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Antonyms for bit

Grammar : Noun
Spell : bit
Phonetic Transcription : bɪt


Definition of bit

Origin :
  • "small piece," c.1200; related Old English bite "act of biting," and bita "piece bitten off," probably are the source of the modern words meaning "boring-piece of a drill" (1590s), "mouthpiece of a horse's bridle" (mid-14c.), and "a piece bitten off, morsel" (c.1000). All from Proto-Germanic *biton (cf. Old Saxon biti, Old Norse bit, Old Frisian bite, Middle Dutch bete, Old High German bizzo "biting," German Bissen "a bite, morsel"), from PIE root *bheid- "to split" (see fissure).
  • Meaning "small piece, fragment" is from c.1600. Sense of "short space of time" is 1650s. Theatrical bit part is from 1909. Money sense in two bits, etc. is originally from Southern U.S. and West Indies, in reference to silver wedges cut or stamped from Spanish dollars (later Mexican reals); transferred to "eighth of a dollar."
  • noun tiny piece
  • noun short period of time
  • noun computer information
Example sentences :
  • He doesn't look a bit healthy and hasn't since he quit eating breakfast.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • He looked absently at the sandwich, and bit a generous semicircle into it.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • But say, that yellow-haired woman, she ain't a bit diffident, is she?
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • "I'll walk a bit with you," said his sister, donning her jacket and a cap.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • The blow was a bit too severe and the Egyptian fell down dead.
  • Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
  • A broken kitchen knife had been thrust through a bit of the paper on the box.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • All you had to do when you got it inside a man was to turn it round a bit, and the wound gaped and tore.
  • Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke
  • Their cat came over the garden wall and bit off the blades of the irises.
  • Extract from : « Life and Death of Harriett Frean » by May Sinclair
  • It was an express order for two hundred francs, in payment of a bit of verse.
  • Extract from : « Ballads of a Bohemian » by Robert W. Service
  • And yet he had small occasion to keep up on the bit as he rode her.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand

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