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Definition: Bite |
BiteNoun1. A wound resulting from biting. 2. A small amount of solid food; a mouthful; "all they had left was a bit of bread". 3. A painful wound caused by the thrust of a stinger into skin. 4. A light informal meal. 5. A sharp bitter taste property. 6. The act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws. Verb1. To grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws; "Gunny invariably tried to bite her". 2. Cause a sharp of stinging pain or discomfort; "The sun burned his face". 3. Penetrate or cut, as with a knife; "The fork bit into the surface". 4. Of insects, scorpions, or other animals; "A bee stung my arm yesterday.". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bite" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Bite |
Chemical Industry | Ability of a coating to penetrate or soften a previous coating or to chemically attack a substrate in order to enhance the adhesion. Source: European Union. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | This dream omens ill. It implies a wish to undo work that is past undoing. You are also likely to suffer losses through some enemy. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | Anchor is said to bite when it begins to hold in ground. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | A)the depth of engagement with the work-piece by each successive cutter(e. g. saw tooth, knife)or, b)for fixed-knife planers, hand planes and veneer slicers, the thickness removed from the work-piece with each stroke. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Bite A cheat; one who bites us. "The biter bit" explains the origin. We say "a man was bitten" when he "burns his fingers" meddling with something which promised well but turned out a failure. To bite the dust, as "Their enemies shall bite the dust," i.e. be slain in battle. Bite To bite one's thumb at another. To insult; to provoke to a quarrel. "Gregory. I will frown as I pass by: and let them take it as they list. "Sampson. Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them; which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it."- Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, i. 1. To bite the lip, indicative of suppressed chagrin, passion, or annoyance. "She had to bite her lips till the blood came in order to keep down the angry words that would rise in her heart."- Mrs. Gaskell: Mary Barton, chap. xi. To bite upon the bridle. To champ the bit, like an impatient or restless horse. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | BITE. A cheat; also a woman's privities. The cull wapt the mort's bite; the fellow enjoyed the wench heartily. Cant. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A bite is a wound received from the mouth of an animal.Bite wounds raise a number of issues from the viewpoint of medicine in addition to the physical wounds they leave, including the possibility of:
The most frequent animal implicated in bite attacks that require medical treatment is Homo sapiens. A bite relates to the act of eating quickly intended to temporarily tide one's hunger. From the Middle English word snacche meaning bite, comes the word snack.
- poison
- infection by bacteria or other pathogens; and
- rabies
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bite."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
BITE | English | Behavior control,Information control,Thought control,Emotional control | N/A |
BITE | French | événement téléphonique d'interfonctionnement vers l'arrière | Electrical Engineering, Post & Telecom |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: BiteSynonyms: bit (n), chomp (n), collation (n), insect bite (n), morsel (n), nosh (n), pungency (n), sharpness (n), snack (n), burn (v), prick (v), seize with teeth (v), sting (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deception | Verb: deceive, take in; defraud, cheat, jockey, do, cozen, diddle, nab, chouse, play one false, bilk, cully, jilt, bite, pluck, swindle, victimize; abuse; mystify; blind one's eyes; blindfold, hoodwink; throw dust into the eyes; dupe, gull, hoax, fool, befool, bamboozle, flimflam, hornswoggle; trick. |
Trick, cheat, wile, blind, feint, plant, bubble, fetch, catch, chicane, juggle, reach, hocus, bite; card sharping, stacked deck, loaded dice, quick shuffle, double dealing, dealing seconds, dealing from the bottom of the deck; artful dodge, swindle; tricks upon travelers; stratagem; (artifice); confidence trick, fake, hoax; theft; ballot-box stuffing barney, brace game, bunko game, drop game, gum game, panel game; shell game, thimblerig; skin game. | |
Dupe | Verb: be deceived; be the dupe of; fall into a trap; swallow the bait, nibble at the bait; bite, catch a Tartar. |
Engraving | Verb: engrave, grave, stipple, scrape, etch; bite, bite in; lithograph; Noun: print. |
Food | Verb: eat, feed, fare, devour, swallow, take; gulp, bolt, snap; fall to; despatch, dispatch; discuss; take down, get down, gulp down; lay in, tuck in; lick, pick, peck; gormandize; bite, champ, munch, cranch, craunch, crunch, chew, masticate, nibble, gnaw, mumble. |
Pain | Maltreat, bite, snap at, assail; smite; (punish). |
Physical Pain | Give pain, inflict pain; lacerate; pain, hurt, chafe, sting, bite, gnaw, gripe; pinch, tweak; grate, gall, fret, prick, pierce, wring, convulse; torment, torture; rack, agonize; crucify; cruciate, excruciate; break on the wheel, put to the rack; flog. (punish); grate on the ear. (harsh sound). |
Refrigeration | Verb: cool, fan, refrigerate, refresh, ice; congeal, freeze, glaciate; benumb, starve, pinch, chill, petrify, chill to the marrow, regelate, nip, cut, pierce, bite, make one's teeth chatter, |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You touch me, I bite. (American Pie 2; writing credit: Adam Herz; David H. Steinberg) Gimme a bite of your corn dog (The Jerk; writing credit: Carl Reiner, written by Steve Martin and Carl Gottlieb.) He just dropped in for a quick bite. (The Spy Who Loved Me; writing credit: Christopher Wood) Bite your head off, man. (Ghostbusters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.) But you should know that sudden serious brain injury causes the victim to bite down hard (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont) | |
Lyrics | Speak your heart, Don't bite your tongue (We Need A Resolution; performing artist: Aaliyah) Turn around and sit it down and let em' bite ya (Still Fly; performing artist: Big Tymers) You can tell your dog to bite my leg, ("Achy Breaky Heart"; performing artist: Billy Ray Cyrus) I've been cookin' all morning and you haven't touched a single bite ("Ode to Billy Joe"; performing artist: Bobbie Gentry) Granny does your dog bite ("The Devil Went Down to Georgia"; performing artist: Charlie Daniels Band) | |
Clever | If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man. (references; author: Mark Twain) Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim (references; author: unknown) Man who scratches backside should not bite fingernails. (references; author: unknown) For dog bite, put the dog away for several days. If he has not recovered, then kill it. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Big Bite (1966) Love at First Bite (1950) Don't Bite Your Dentist (1930) The Tramp's Last Bite (1898) Big Bite (2003) | |
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 | Rabies in humans is almost always fatal. Symptoms may be headache, fatigue, fever and pain at the site of the bite can be present. Behavioral changes like apprehension, anxiety, agitation, irritability, insomnia and depression may also appear. Credit: CDC. |  | St. Louis Encephalitis (SLE) virus seen in a mosquito salivary gland, is normally transmitted to humans though the bite of a Culex mosquito. Credit: CDC. |
 | Ector B. Latham Getting a bite to eat on the way to Station Armada. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Trying his luck off a headboat. He just missed a bite. Aboard the headboat YANKEE PATRIOT out of Gloucester. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Don't Bite Off More Than You Can Chew : Smokeless Doesn't Mean Harmless!. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Keep mum if you want 'em to bite -- D.B.H. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Critical moments. Make it go home, Daddie, it might bite or sompin' -- it's been ... Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Which can bite the hardest?. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Fort Madison, Iowa. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad men getting a bite to eat in the reading room. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Alex[ander] Rolle, Bailiff (?), Old Bite, Cat Is[land], July 1935. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "THE WHOLE THING!" by KATI GARNER Commentary: "A three-year old boy contemplates a bite of mom's sandwich." | "Mad Cat" by Erris Van Ginkel Commentary: "She took a bite out of my hand after I took this picture :-)." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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 | Dogfight; growl; bite; bark; dog; . | | Celery; biting; bite; vegetable; crunchy. |
| Chomp; bite; biting; chomping; eating; devour; crunch; eat. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Author Unknown | Trivial things do matter... More people are killed each year by the bite of mosquitoes than are stepped upon by charging elephants. |
George Herbert | His bark is worse than his bite. |
Pompey | A dead man cannot bite. |
Stanislaw J. Lec | Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody. |
Thomas Jefferson | Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it. |
Thomas Szasz | The proverb warns; ''Don't bite the hand that feeds you.'' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Two Brothers | Carroll, Lewis | The fish hurried up by the dozens, All ready and eager to bite, For the lad that he flung was so tender and young, It quite gave them an appetite |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The pretty little creature gave one a desire to bite her cherry cheeks |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The truck driver gnawed down the stick of gum slowly, opening his jaws and lips wide with each bite. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | For your mouths lying flat with your faces, you can hardly bite each other to any purpose, unless by consent |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | I looked down and saw two bite marks and some blood. (references) | |
People usually get get rabies from the bite of a rabid animal. (references) | ||
We cleaned out the bite with soap, hot water, and a disinfectant. (references) | ||
Business | Omnitel’s strongest competitor, Bite GSM, is owned by TeleDenmark, and has approximately 120,000 users and 40% of the Lithuanian mobile communications market. (references) | |
Bite GSM has in previous years concentrated on developing their tele-communications infrastructure and the Bite GSM network, but is currently leaning more towards developing high-speed data communications and Internet services, the latter through distributors. (references) | ||
The market for mobile Internet services, ISDN lines, and mobile phone lines have been constantly growing for the past few years and will continue to do so. These services represent strong investment areas for U.S. investors, though Omnitel, Bite GSM and Lietuvos Telekomas already hold a large stake in these markets. (references) | ||
Economic History | Canada | Nevertheless, higher natural gas and electricity prices will bite into aggregate disposable income, reducing some of the positive impact of federal and provincial tax cuts. (references) |
Lithuania | The four main players operating the Lithuanian mobile telecommunication network market are Omnitel, Comliet, Bite GSM and Levi&Kuto, all of them joint ventures with foreign companies. (references) | |
Human Rights | South Africa | After the attack, the victims were treated at the local hospital for bite wounds on their hands and feet. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TZETZE (or :TSETSE:) :FLY:, n. An African insect (Glossina morsitans) whose bite is commonly regarded as nature's most efficacious remedy for insomnia, though some patients prefer that of the American novelist (Mendax interminabilis). U |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | You know, when you're knocking over small children as you careen down the street because you're literally crating cargo in your pants, it seems like the cooler move at that point would be just to bite the bullet and go with the man-purse. |
Robert Atkins | Rarely. I may take a bite of that but basically I just have a lot of vegetables and mostly the green ones and I eat about as many vegetables as the average vegetarian, I would think. |
Suzanne Somers | Little boys are so full of testosterone and energy, and I have two grandsons that bite each other constantly, but then the girls, they like to play in the corner, and they're just different. |
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| "Bite" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 52.98% of the time. "Bite" is used about 1,190 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 52.98% | 630 | 10,302 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 37.36% | 445 | 13,012 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 9.49% | 113 | 30,464 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.17% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,190 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "bite": a bite and a sup ♦ back bite ♦ barking dogs never bite ♦ bite and sup ♦ bite at ♦ bite back ♦ Bite Force ♦ bite in ♦ bite into ♦ bite nails ♦ bite of a snake ♦ bite of snake ♦ bite off ♦ bite off more than one can chew ♦ bite on ♦ bite on granite ♦ bite one's lips ♦ bite one's nails ♦ bite open ♦ bite out ♦ bite smb.'s head off ♦ bite smb.'s nails ♦ bite the bullet ♦ bite the dust ♦ bite the ground ♦ bite the tongue ♦ bite through ♦ bite to death ♦ bite together ♦ dead dogs don't bite ♦ dog bite ♦ flea bite ♦ frost bite ♦ giga bite ♦ gnat bite ♦ have a bite ♦ his bark is worse than his bite ♦ i haven't had a bite all day ♦ insect bite ♦ love bite ♦ more bark than bite ♦ mosquito bite ♦ one's bark being worse than his bite ♦ put the bite on smb. ♦ snake bite ♦ sound bite ♦ take a bite ♦ take a quick bite ♦ To bite in ♦ To bite the dust ♦ To bite the ground ♦ To bite the thumb at ♦ To bite the tongue ♦ without bite or sup. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "bite": bite-back, bite-detector, bite-mark, bite-marks, bite-shaped, bite-size, bite-sized. | |
Ending with "bite": sound-bite. | |
Containing "bite": Rat-Bite Fever. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
spider bite | 3,228 | spider bite symptom | 145 |
tick bite | 1,058 | bite photo spider | 144 |
insect bite | 1,053 | bite golf shoes | 141 |
sound bite | 658 | cat bite | 130 |
mosquito bite | 634 | picture of tick bite | 122 |
brown recluse spider bite | 611 | black widow spider bite | 119 |
bite | 543 | bite grosse | 112 |
bite picture spider | 440 | scorpion bite | 104 |
bug bite | 425 | rattle snake bite | 102 |
chigger bite | 410 | another one bite the dust | 101 |
flea bite | 405 | black widow bite | 96 |
dog bite | 382 | bite seattle | 95 |
brown recluse bite | 364 | bed bug bite | 94 |
movie sound bite | 295 | love bite | 93 |
nigella bite | 274 | reality bite | 86 |
snake bite | 260 | flea bite human | 83 |
ant bite | 174 | bite spider treatment | 76 |
insect bite picture | 168 | tic bite | 73 |
bite me | 159 | bite bug picture | 70 |
fire ant bite | 150 | picture of brown recluse spider bite | 70 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "bite"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | byt, beet (beet). (various references) | |
Albanian | kafshoj (bite off, champ, nip, snap at). (various references) | |
Arabic | وجبة طعام (helping, serving), ألم شديد (smart), أمسك (catch, cradle, get hold of, grasp, grip, gripe, hold, lay hold of, refrain, withhold), أكل (eat, manage, run through), إستحوذ على (take), خدع (bamboozle, beguile, betray, bilk, bitch, blind, bluff, brown, bubble, camouflage, catch, cheat, chisel, con, crook, deceive, deception, decoy, defraud, delude, diddle, do, dupe, entrap, fall for, feint, fiddle, fob, fool, fox, get round, give the lie to, gull, gyp, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, illusory, impose, intrigue, jape, job, leg pull, lure, mislead, mock, mystify, nick, overreach, pitch, play a trick, pose, prank, pull a fast one, pull his leg, ream, rook, sell, settle his hash, skin, skunk, slang, stick, string along, swank, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, victimize, wile), عض (bitch, champ, nibble, nip, pain, snap), ثبت (affirm, anchor, assure, aver, belay, belt, bend, bolt, bolt on, brace, cable, catch, chock, confirm, corroborate, countersign, demonstrate, display, endure, establish, evince, fastening, fix, lash, last, pin down, plant, prove, reinforce, secure, set, spike, stabilize, stay, steady, stick, strengthen, substantiate, testify, validate, verify, warrant), تشبث (cling, clutch, hang on, hug, staple, tenacity), مضغة (bit, chew, morsel, quid), قرص (jab, nip, nip out, nipping, pill, pinch, sting, tweak), قضم (bite into, bite nails, bite off, biting, champ, chew, crush, gnaw, munch, nibble, prey, snap, worry at), لدغ (biting, burr, lisp, nettle, pinch, sting, stinging, strike), لذع (acrimony, burning, poignancy, pungency, scorch, sharpness, smart), لسع (biting, dig, hurt with words, nettle, offend, sting, stinging), لقمة (bit, morsel, mouthful), عضة (pang). (various references) | |
Aymara | jihuaña (to bite). (various references) | |
Basque | hozkatu (bite to). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разяждам (attack, burn, canker, corrode, eat, erode, fret, gnaw, rust), щипя (nip, pinch, sting, tingle), хапя (nibble, nip, savage, worry), въздействувам силно, захапвам (bite into, nip, occlude, snap up), жиля (sting). (various references) | |
Chinese | 齮 , 齦 (gnaw, gums), 叮咬, 咬 (nip), 咥 (gnaw, loud laugh). (various references) | |
Czech | kousat (be itchy). (various references) | |
Danish | bide, bid (biting, dogs bite, pattern). (various references) | |
Dutch | knauwen, happen, beitsen (staining), beet (biting, dogs bite, pattern, wound caused by a bite). (various references) | |
Esperanto | buŝpreno, mordo, mordi. (various references) | |
Faeroese | bíta. (various references) | |
Farsi | نیش زدن (Sting), نیش (Nip, Prick, Sting, Tang, Tooth, Twinge), گزیدن (Choose, Select, Sting), گزندگی , گزش , گازگرفتن (Gnaw, Nip, Snap), گاز (Gas). (various references) | |
Finnish | purra (chew), purema (animal bites, biting, dogs bite). (various references) | |
French | mordre (bite on), morsure (biting, wound caused by a bite). (various references) | |
Frisian | byt (beet), bite. (various references) | |
German | beißen (chew, sting, to bite, to bite (bit), Biss (nip, occlusion), stich (engraving, grasp, hint, jab, lurch, pang, piercing pain, prick, puncture, spades, stab, stab wound, sting, stitch, suggestion, taint, thrust, tinge, trick, twinge), happen (morsel, mouthful, snack), greifen (catch, clasp, clutch, grab, grasp, grip, grope, hold, reach, seize, snatch, span, strike, take hold of, to snatch), bissen (bit, morsel, mouthful), Biß. (various references) | |
Greek | δάγκωμα (biting), τσίμπημα (nip, pich, pinch, pinching), δαγκώνω (snap). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | kafshoj. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מנשך, לעקוץ (be sarcastic, catch, dig, needle, sting), להכיש (knock, snap, sting), לנשוך (knap, sting), עקיצה (mordancy, sarcasm, sting), נשיכה (biting, snap, sting), נגיסה (biting), נגס. (various references) | |
Hungarian | marás (cut, cutting, milling, milling cut), harapás (nibble, snack), falat (bit, chaw, junk, morsel, mouthful, nibble, swallow, tiny bit). (various references) | |
Icelandic | bíta. (various references) | |
Indonesian | menggigit (nibble, scathing), mencapit (snap at), gigitan (a bite), gigit. (various references) | |
Inuktitut | kiivaa (to bite). (various references) | |
Italian | mordere (bite into, champ, nip), morso (bit, nibble, nip, pang, pinch, scrap, sting). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 魚信 (strike), バイキング料理 (bicology, bicycle motocross, bike, binary, binary dump, binary file, bin-aural, binder, bisexual, bypass, byte, byte swap, byte-code, byte-compile, motorcycle, smorgasbord, viper, vitality, work), 咀嚼 , 一飲み (easy prey, mouthful, sip, swallow). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぎょしん (strike), バイト (byte, work), そしゃく (lease), ひとのみ (drinking in one gulp, easy prey, mouthful, sip, swallow). (various references) | |
Korean | 바이트 (byte). (various references) | |
Manx | greimmey (adhere, adherence, adherence of person, adhesion, attach, bite off, catch, clutch, fishing tackle, grab, grasp, grip, gripping, hold, jam, lock in, monopolization, nab, pin on, seize, seizing, snap, snatch, snatch away, snatching, stick, stitch, stitch up, tooth), greim (bit, catch, clutch, commissure, gobbet, grab, grasp, grip, handhold, hold, monopolize, morsel, piece, snap, snatch, tack, tack needlework). (various references) | |
Maya | chi' (mouth, to bite). (various references) | |
Occitan | mossegar. (various references) | |
Papiamen | morde, mordé, mordí. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | itebay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | morder (champ, nibble, nip, prick, savage, snap), mordida (snap). (various references) | |
Romanian | ustura (blister, burn, prick, prickle, smart, sting), urzica (nettle, sting, taunt, tease), pişca (nip, pinch, sting, tweak), muşcare, muşcãturã (nibble, nip, snap, wound), muşca (champ, nip, sting), mâncare (bait, board, bread, cheer, chow, dish, eatable, eating, edibles, esculent, food, grub, meal, meat, mess, plate, repast, table, tuck in, victuals), mânca (browse, consume, dine off, dine on, eat, finish, gnaw, grub, have, Lodge, meal, sting, take, torment), coroda (corrode), arde (bake, be on fire, blister, burn, burn away, burn out, burn up, calcine, cauterize, consume, cook, cremate, diddle, glare, glow, grill, heat, ignite, inflame, overdo, parch, roast, scald, scorch, sear, shrivel, smart, smoke, strike, tan, you are getting hot), apuca cu gura, încolţi (attack, bring to bay, corner, germinate, shoot, spear, sprout), înţepa (prick, prickle, puncture, stick, sting), îmbucãturã (gob, gobbet, joggle, morsel, mouthful). (various references) | |
Romany | dandàv (to bite). (various references) | |
Russian | разгрызать, кусаться, кусать укус, кусать (bitten, nip, sting), жечь (burn), жалить (sting, stung), прикусить. (various references) | |
Scottish | spiol (nibble, pull asunder, snatch), greim (a hold, stitch in), gramasag (anything to chew), criom (nibbling, nip), cìob (a mountain grass, coarse mountain grass). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zalogaj (morsel, mouthful, nibble, toothful), zagristi, ujesti (sting), ujedati, ujed (sting), ugristi (tooth), stezanje (clench, contraction), odgrizak (piece), nagristi (abrade), hvatanje (capture, catch, interception, prehension, seizing, seizure, snap), gristi (corrode, rankle, torment), štipati (pinch, tingle). (various references) | |
Shona | -ruma (to bite). (various references) | |
Spanish | morder (bite into, champ, cheat, clutch, corrode, nibble, strike), mordedura (acid embossing, acid etching, biting, dogs bite, etching, wound caused by a bite), mordisco (nibble, nip, snap), lardón. (various references) | |
Sranan | beti. (various references) | |
Swedish | bita (biting, cut, hold, nip, savage), bett (bit, edge, sting, teeth), nappa (nappa, take), napp (rise, teat). (various references) | |
Tagalog | kagatín. (various references) | |
Thai | กัด (eat into, gnaw away), รอยกัด, หนึ่งคำอาหาร. (various references) | |
Turkish | kavrama (apperception, apprehension, chuck, cinch, clasp, claw, clutch, cognation, cognizance, comprehension, conception, digestion, engaging, fathom, grasp, grip, gripping, insight, penetration, perception, prehension, seizing, understanding, uptake), ısırma (biting, nip, snap), ısırmak (bite off, champ, nibble, nip, savage, snap, sting), aşındırmak (abrade, attack, corrode, eat, eat at, eat away, erode, fray, fray out, fret, gnaw into, wash, wash away, wash off, wear, wear off), acılık (acerbity, bitter, bitterness, heat, keenness, piquancy, poignancy, pungency), acımak (ache, be sorry for, commiserate, deplore, feel for smb., feel pity for, feel sorry for, have compassion, have mercy, hurt, pity, pity smb., relent, rue, smart, sting, sympathize), acıtmak (cause pain, gnaw, hurt, pain, sting, wring), diş izi, ısırık, dişlemek (nibble, tooth), zokayı yutmak, kavramak (absorb, apperceive, appreciate, apprehend, catch, catch on, clasp, clench, clip, clutch, come home, compass, comprehend, conceive, cup, dawn on, digest, discern, fathom, get, get a grip, get hold of, grasp, grip, hold, latch on to, nail, perceive, pick up, realize, see into, seize, sum up, twig, understand), keskinlik (acridity, acuity, acuteness, bitter, bitterness, edge, intension, keenness, mordacity, mordancy, penetration, piquancy, poignancy, pointedness, pungency, quickness, sharpness, tartness, trenchancy, virulence), lokma (bit, chew, gobbet, gulp, morsel, mouthful), oltaya gelmek (rise to the fly, take the bait), oltaya vurma, sızlamak (ache, smart, sting, tingle), sokmak (dig into, drag, drive, engraft, enter, immerse, implicate, ingraft, inject, insert, instil, instill, involve, land, let in, pitchfork, poke, put, put in, ram, send, sink into, slide in, spatchcock, stick, sting, strike, take into, thrust, tuck, tuck in, work up), yakmak (burn, cauterize, fire, flash, ignite, incinerate, kindle, light, light up, put on, scathe, scorch, sear, set on fire, turn on), dişleme (nibble). (various references) | |
Turkmen | garbak-gurbak etmek (eat some), gar (snow), diюlemek (eat a little, have a bite), зokmak (peck, pick), atagzy (mouthful, pliers). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | укус (nip, piercer, snack, sting), кусок (bit, cake, nugget, piece, slab, wad), кусати (snack), клювати (dab, nibble), клювання, гострий біль (stitch). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vết cắn sự châm, thức ăn sự đau nhức, sự ngoạm, sự cắn, sự đốt (burning), phanh, miếng cắn. (various references) | |
Welsh | brathu (stab, sting, wound), brath (stab, sting, wound), tamaid (bit, morsel), cydio (abut, adjoin, annex, join, take hold), cnoi (ache, chew, gnaw), cnoad, cno (chewing, gnawing). (various references) | |
Yucatec | chi'bal. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | pad. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | ictus, mordeant, mordeat, mordebit, mordebunt, mordens, mordent, mordere, mordetis, morsu, morsus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 28, Verse 3 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | SustreyantoV de tou paulou fruganwn plhqoV kai epiqentoV epi thn puran ecidna ek thV qermhV exelqousa kaqhyen thV ceiroV autou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Cum congregasset autem Paulus sarmentorum aliquantam multitudinem et inposuisset super ignem vipera a calore cum processisset invasit manum eius |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | But whanne Poul hadde gederid `a quantite of kittingis of vines, and leide on the fier, an edder sche cam forth fro the heete, and took hym bi the hoond. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And when Paul had gaddered a boundle of stickes and put them into the fyre ther came a viper out of the heet and lept on his honde. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | But when Paul had got some sticks together and put them on the fire, a snake came out, because of the heat, and gave him a bite on the hand. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Acts Chapter 28, Verse 3 |
| Albanian | Dhe, ndërsa Pali mblidhte ca shkarpa dhe i vinte mbi zjarr, nga të nxehtit doli një nepërkë dhe iu ngjit te dora. |
| Cebuano | Ug si Pablo namunit ug usa ka bangan nga mga igsosugnod, ug sa iya na kining gikatam-ok sa daub, usa ka bitin nga malala miwayway tungod sa kainit ug miukob sa iyang kamot. |
| Chinese | 那 時 、 保 羅 拾 起 一 捆 柴 、 放 在 火 上 、 有 一 條 毒 蛇 、 因 為 熱 了 出 來 、 咬 住 他 的 手 。 |
| Croatian | Pavao nakupi naramak granja i baci na krijes kadli zbog vruæine izaðe zmija i pripije mu se za ruku. |
| Danish | Men da Paulus samlede en Bunke Ris og lagde på Bålet, krøb der en Øgle ud på Grund af Varmen og hængte sig fast ved hans Hånd. |
| Dutch | En als Paulus een hoop rijzen bijeengeraapt en op het vuur gelegd had, kwam er een adder uit door de hitte, en vatte zijn hand. |
| Finnish | Mutta Paavali kokosi kasan risuja, ja kun hän pani ne nuotioon, tuli kyykäärme kuumuuden tähden esiin ja kävi kiinni hänen käteensä. |
| French | Paul ayant ramassé un tas de broussailles et l`ayant mis au feu, une vipère en sortit par l`effet de la chaleur et s`attacha à sa main. |
| German | Da aber Paulus einen Haufen Reiser zusammenraffte, und legte sie aufs Feuer, kam eine Otter von der Hitze hervor und fuhr Paulus an seine Hand. |
| Hungarian | Mikor pedig Pál nagy sok venyigét szedett és a tûzre tette, egy vipera a melegbõl kimászva, az õ kezére ragada. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Paulus mengumpulkan kayu, dan menaruh kayu-kayu itu di atas api. Sementara ia melakukan itu, seekor ular keluar, karena panasnya api itu, lalu memagut tangannya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Tetapi apabila Paulus sudah memungut seberkas ranting-ranting dan meletakkan ke atas api itu, maka keluarlah seekor ular, sebab hangat itu, memagut tangannya. |
| Italian | Mentre Paolo raccoglieva un fascio di sarmenti e lo gettava sul fuoco, una vipera, risvegliata dal calore, lo morse a una mano. |
| Maori | Na ka kohikohia e Paora he pupu wahie, a maka ana e ia ki te kapura: heoi puta mai ana he neke i te wera, ka mau ki tona ringa. |
| Norwegian | Men da Paulus sanket sammen en hop tørre kvister og kastet dem på ilden, krøp en orm ut på grunn av heten og bet sig fast i hans hånd. |
| Portuguese | Ora havendo Paulo ajuntado e posto sobre o fogo um feixe de gravetos, uma víbora, fugindo do calor, apegou-se-lhe à mão. |
| Rumanian | Pavel strknsese o grqmadq de mqrqcini, wi -i pusese pe foc; o nqpkrcq a iewit afarq din pricina cqldurii, wi s`a lipit de mkna lui. |
| Russian | лПЗДБ ЦЕ рБЧЕМ ОБВТБМ НОПЦЕУФЧП ИЧПТПУФБ Й ЛМБМ ОБ ПЗПОШ, ФПЗДБ ЕИЙДОБ, ЧЩКДС ПФ ЦБТБ, РПЧЙУМБ ОБ ТХЛЕ ЕЗП. |
| Shuar | Pápruka jinia kukarun ikiaanak jinium pataamiayi. Túmawai napi tsuéran ashamak jiinki, Papru uwején nemaramiayi. |
| Swahili | Paulo aliokota mzigo mdogo wa kuni akawa anazitia motoni. Hapo, kwa sababu ya lile joto la moto, nyoka akatoka katika kuni akamnasa Paulo mkononi na kujishikilia hapo. |
| Swedish | När Paulus då tog upp ett fång torra kvistar som han lade på elden, kom, i följd av hettan, en huggorm fram därur och högg sig fast vid hans hand. |
| Uma | Paulus mporumpu kaju pai' nalobu. Bula-na mpodampa kaju hi lolo apu, hangaa mehupa' hama'a ule ngkai rala kaju, apa' morani' -hawo nanene apu. Ule toe mpotilo' pale-na. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bite": biteable, biter, biters, bites, bitewing, bitewings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "bite": albite, backbite, cenobite, coenobite, columbite, fleabite, frostbite, overbite, snakebite, stilbite, trilobite. (additional references) | |
Words containing "bite": adhibited, albites, arbiter, arbiters, backbiter, backbiters, backbites, cenobites, coenobites, cohabited, columbites, debited, deorbited, disinhibited, exhibited, fleabites, frostbites, habited, inhabited, inhabiter, inhabiters, inhibited, orbited, orbiter, orbiters, overbites, prohibited, rabbited, rabbiter, rabbiters, reinhabited, snakebites, stilbites, subitem, subitems, trilobites, uninhabited, uninhibited, uninhibitedly, uninhibitedness, uninhibitednesses. (additional references) | |
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"Bite" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: baite, batay, bateo, batep, batey, Bcie, bcit, beate, betem, betwe, beute, biae, biate, bibe, biche, bict, bie, biet, bieten, bife, bifte, bifteck, biftek, bije, bime, Bintje, biotce, biote, Biotex, bipe, biqe, bire, Birte, Bista, bita, Bitat, bitc, bitel, biten, bitey, bith, bithe, biti, bitl, bitn, bitnet, bitod, Bitok, Bitoo, Bitot, bitr, Bitta, bitte, Bitti, bitu, bity, Bitz, bive, boite, bote, botei, Botek, Botez, botte, briten, briti, bti, bute, butke, bwta, byet, Byrte, bytea, bytec, byted, bytei, Bytek, bytel, bytex, Byth, bythe, bzit, ibet, Ibt, ibte, kbyte, oite. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bite" (pronounced bī"t) |
| 3 | b ī" t | byte. |
| 2 | -ī" t | alight, alright, blight, bright, cite, contrite, ignite, delight, despite, disinvite, dunite, excite, fight, flight, forthright, fright, height, hight, incite, indict, indite, invite, kite, knight, Kyte, light, lite, might, mite, night, nite, nonwhite, outright, overexcite, overnight, overwrite, plight, polite, quite, recite, reignite, reinvite, reunite, rewrite, right, rite, sight, site, sleight, slight, spite, sprite, tight, tonight, trite, upright, uptight, white, Wight, Wright, write. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-i-t" | |
-1 letter: bet, bit, tie. | |
-2 letters: be, bi, et, it, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-i-t" | |
+1 letter: befit, bidet, biter, bites, blite, boite, debit, tribe, zibet. | |
+2 letters: albeit, albite, baited, baiter, barite, bawtie, bedsit, befits, begirt, bemist, bemixt, bestir, betide, betime, betise, bidets, billet, binate, bisect, bister, bistre, biters, bitted, bitten, bitter, blites, blithe, blivet, boites, boleti, bootie, debits, gibbet, giblet, henbit, rebait, riblet, sobeit, terbia, terbic, tibiae, timber, timbre, tobies, tribes, ubiety, zibeth, zibets. | |
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