Bait

  

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Bait

Definitions: Bait

Bait

Noun

1. Anything that serves as an enticement.

2. Something used to lure victims into danger.

Verb

1. Harass with persistent criticism or carping; "The children teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my failure"; "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie".

2. Lure, entice, or entrap with bait.

3. Attack with dogs or set dogs upon.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bait" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)



Specialty Definitions: Bait

DomainDefinitions

Satire

BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty. Source: Devil's Dictionary.

Food & Agriculture

Any substance that by its appearance or smell is used to lure fish to take a hook or enter a pot or trap. Source: European Union. (references)

Literature

Bait Food to entice or allure, as bait for fish. Bait for travellers is a "feed" by way of refreshment taken en passant. (Anglo-Saxon, bætan , to bait or feed.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Bait

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.

EntrySourceExpressionField

BAIT

EnglishBacterial Automated Identification TechniqueN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Bait

Synonyms: come-on (n), decoy (n), hook (n), lure (n), sweetener (n), cod (v), rag (v), rally (v), razz (v), ride (v), tantalise (v), tantalize (v), taunt (v), tease (v), twit (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Bait

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Attack

Strike at, poke at, thrust at; aim a blow at, deal a blow at; give one a blow, fetch one a blow, fetch one a kick, give one a kick; have a cut at, have a shot at, take a cut at, take a shot at, have a fling at, have a shy at; be down upon, pounce upon; fall foul of, pitch into, launch out against; bait, slap on the face; make a thrust at, make a pass at, make a set at, make a dead set at; bear down upon.

Deception

Snare, trap, pitfall, decoy, gin; springe, springle; noose, hoot; bait, decoy-duck, tub to the whale, baited trap, guet-a-pens; cobweb, net, meshes, toils, mouse trap, birdlime; dionaea, Venus's flytrap; ambush; trapdoor, sliding panel, false bottom; spring-net, spring net, spring gun, mask, masked battery; mine; flytrap; green goods; panel house.

Decoy, waylay, lure, beguile, delude, inveigle; entrap, intrap, ensnare; nick, springe; set a trap, lay a trap, lay a snare for; bait the hook, forelay, spread the toils, lime; trapan, trepan; kidnap; let in, hook in; nousle, nousel; blind a trail; enmesh, immesh; shanghai; catch, catch in a trap; sniggle, entangle, illaqueate, hocus, escamoter, practice on one's credulity; hum, humbug; gammon, stuff up, sell; play a trick upon one, play a practical joke upon one, put something over on one, put one over on; balk, trip up, throw a tub to a whale; fool to the top of one's bent, send on a fool's errand; make game, make a fool of, make an April fool of, make an ass of; trifle with, cajole, flatter; come over; (influence); gild the pill, make things pleasant, divert, put a good face upon; dissemble.

Dupe

Verb: be deceived; be the dupe of; fall into a trap; swallow the bait, nibble at the bait; bite, catch a Tartar.

Food

Meal, repast, feed, spread; mess; dish, plate, course; regale; regalement, refreshment, entertainment; refection, collation, picnic, feast, banquet, junket; breakfast; lunch, luncheon; dejeuner, bever, tiffin, dinner, supper, snack, junk food, fast food, whet, bait, dessert; potluck, table d'hote, dejeuner a la fourchette; hearty meal, square meal, substantial meal, full meal; blowout; light refreshment; bara, chotahazri; bara khana.

Giving

Bribe, bait, ground bait; peace offering, handsel; boodle, graft, grease;blat.

Malevolence

Molest, worry, harass, haunt, harry, bait, tease; throw stones at; play the devil with; hunt down, dragoon, hound; persecute, oppress, grind; maltreat; illtreat, ill-use.

Motive

Bribe, lure; decoy, decoy duck; bait, trail of a red herring; bribery and corruption; sop, sop for Cerberus.

Tamper with, bribe, suborn, grease the palm, bait with a silver hook, gild the pill, make things pleasant, put a sop into the pan, throw a sop to, bait the hook.

Pain

Displease, annoy, incommode, discompose, trouble, disquiet; faze, feaze, feeze (U.S.); disturb, cross, perplex, molest, tease, tire, irk, vex, mortify, wherret, worry, plague, bother, pester, bore, pother, harass, harry, badger, heckle, bait, beset, infest, persecute, importune.

Refreshment

Noun: bracing; Verb: recovery of strength, recuperation; restoration, revival; repair, refection, refocillation, refreshment, regalement, bait; relief.

Support

Noun: support, ground, foundation, base, basis; terra firma; bearing, fulcrum, bait, caudex crib; point d'appui, gr/pou sto/gr, purchase footing, hold, locus standi; landing place, landing stage; stage, platform; block; rest, resting place; groundwork, substratum, riprap, sustentation, subvention; floor; (basement).

Willingness

Swallow the bait, nibble at the bait; gorge the hook; have no scruple of, make no scruple of; make no bones of; jump at, catch at; meet halfway; volunteer.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Bait

English words defined with "bait": anglewormbait casting, Baited, bigeye scad, big-eyed scad, bloodworm, BranlinCaddis, Corydalus cornutus, crawlerDap, dew worm, dobson, dobson fly, dobsonflyearthwormfish lure, fisherman's lure, fishing worm, fishworm, Fly cap, Fly fishing, Fly-fishGobio gobio, goggle-eye, Gorge fishing, ground bait, gudgeonHellgramite, hellgrammiate, HippeInescateKibblings, killifishLant, Ledger bait, lobworm, Lug, lugwormnightcrawler, nightwalkerplecopteranred worm, rough fishSand bug, Selar crumenophthalmus, Spoon bait, still-fish, stone fly, stonefly, surf casting, surf fishingTen-pounder, To jump at, Tolewiggler. (references)
Specialty definitions using "bait": bait packer, bait tier, BRYANCREEL CLERKdieEXTERMINATOR HELPERfish-worm grower, flame baitGuineapighand-spray operatorlampara netMOSQUITO SPRAYEROURATEAPAINTER, AIRBRUSH, pest control worker, pest control worker helperSCOTCH BAIT, spam bait, sprayer, insecticide, SUPERVISOR, FISH BAIT PROCESSING, SUPERVISOR, MARINA SALES AND SERVICEtroll liningvermin exterminatorWORM GROWER, WormsYHBT. (references)
Etymologies containing "bait": AmadouInescate. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Bait" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Indonesian (abode, distich, stanza, verse).

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Modern Usage: Bait

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Now shut up! The only reason you're still alive is because you're just the bait I need. (Shadow Raiders; writing credit: Christy Marx; Katherine Lawrence)

I've never been the bait before. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Big bait catches big rat! (Babes in Toyland; writing credit: Frank Butler; Nick Grinde)

Paul, you're forcing me to throw my weight at you. Fish, or cut bait. Get on your feet or take your troubles elsewhere. (In Harm's Way; writing credit: James Bassett; Wendell Mayes)

Listen. Since I've met you I've nearly been incinerated, drowned, shot at, and chopped into fish bait. We're caught in the middle of something sinister here, my guess is dad found out more than he was looking for and until I'm sure, I'm going to continue to do things the way I think they should be done. (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; writing credit: Mario Van Peebles)

Lyrics

And I was the bait ("TOUCH ME (I WANT YOUR BODY)"; performing artist: Samantha Fox)

Movie/TV Titles

The Bait (1973)

Male Bait (1971)

Date Bait (1960)

Devil's Bait (1959)

Blonde Bait (1956)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Bait

DomainTitle

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Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Bait

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Bear bait - sometimes this was the best that could be done for a camp.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Jeremiah Morton's survey crew on Saipan Newspaper article termed Morton and his crew "sniper bait".Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Preparing poison bait.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[Eight public health service workers (?) (full-length portrait, standing, facing front) holding buckets filled with rat bait (?), San Francisco, Calif.].Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[Fish Die On Bait. Men Die On Drugs.].Credit: National Library of Medicine.

  

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Bait

AuthorQuotation

Edmund Spenser

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

John Dryden

Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

Thomas Jefferson

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Bait

TitleAuthorQuote

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

It is good bait sometimes, I allow.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Bait

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Set Environmental Protection Agency-approved rodenticide with bait under plywood or plastic shelter along baseboards. (references)

This is done by putting oral vaccines in a special bait. The baits are then dropped from airplanes or placed in areas where wildlife are likely to be. The wild animals then eat the food with the vaccine in it. This keeps them from getting rabies if they are bitten by a rabid animal. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

DIE, n. The singular of "dice." We seldom hear the word, because there is a prohibitory proverb, "Never say die." At long intervals, however, some one says: "The die is cast," which is not true, for it is cut. The word is found in an immortal couplet by that eminent poet and domestic economist, Senator Depew: A cube of cheese no larger than a die May bait the trap to catch a nibbling mie.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Bait

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Al Hunt

Bob, alas, you did not go for our bait to get into a new fight with David Obey, but I think the tension between Mitch Daniels and the appropriators on Capitol Hill is inherent, it's going to continue, and it's because of those big tax cuts.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Bait

"Bait" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.77% of the time. "Bait" is used about 466 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)87.77%40913,773
Lexical Verb (infinitive)6.44%3063,341
Lexical Verb (base form)3.86%1882,615
Noun (proper)1.5%7133,076
Noun (common)0.43%2245,945
                    Total100.00%466N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Bait

Expressions using "bait": bait a hook Bait bug bait casting bait stealer bait the hook bait with a silver hook flame bait ground bait lay the bait Ledger bait rise to the bait spam bait spoon bait take the bait white bait. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "bait": bait-and-switch, bait-box, bait-boxes, bait-diggers, bait-making, bait-runner, bait-sized.

Ending with "bait": jail-bait, ledger-bait, live-bait, pre-bait, re-bait, red-bait.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bait

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bait bus

1,257

catfish bait

391

bait

273

fishing bait

208

carp bait

183

live bait

137

fish bait

115

bait tank

87

jail bait

72

power bait

62
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Bait

Language Translations for "bait"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

bie në qafë (bedevil, get on smb.'s nerves, harass), ngasje (allurement, temptation), ndërsej (incite, instigate, unleash), koj, karrem (carrot, decoy, lure, troll, worm), joshje (attraction, draw, enticement, inveiglement, seduction, solicitation, temptation), i jap tagji (fodder). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏وقف (bristle, carry, cessation, check, come to a halt, devote, discontinuation, disposal, get up, halt, pause, pull up, refraining, rise, severance, stand, stand up, stasis, stood, stoppage, stopping), ‏غوى (be seduced, debauch, entice, enticement, seduce, snare, solicit, tempt, undo), ‏توقف إثناء الرحلة, ‏زود بطعم, ‏علف الخيل, ‏طعم مذاق (decoy, flavor, flavour, smack), ‏طعم للسم, ‏إغراء (allurement, appeal, glamor, glamour, invitation, seduction, solicitation, temptation), ‏أغرى (addict, beckon, bring, entice, importune, induce, inveigle, invite, lead on, seduce, suborn, tempt, undo). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

стръв (lure), слагам стръв, разкъсвам (dismember, lacerate, pick, pull, rend, rift, rip up, rupture, tear, tear asunder, tear off, tear open, tear up), храня (aliment, cherish, do, entertain, feed, indulge, maintain, nourish, nurse), тормозя (badger, bedevil, bully, chivy, excruciate, fret, harass, hunt down, jade, murder, persecute, pester, pick on, plague, play up, prey, push, put upon, rack, rag, ride, scourge, worry), назобвам, преследвам (chase, chivy, drive, drive at, haunt, hunt down, lay siege to, martyr, obsess, persecute, prosecute, pursue, push, run, siege, tag), подмамвам (allure, cajole, carny, decoy, entice, juggle, lure on), изкушение (allurement, temptation), дразня (annoy, bosh, bugger about, bullyrag, burn up, dig, exacerbate, fetch, fray, fuss, gall, gravel, gripe, harass, irritate, jar, jive, mad, madden, nag, niggle, nip, offend, peeve, pinprick, piss off, play up, provoke, rag, rasp, rib, ride, rile, rub, spite, tease, titillate, try, twit, vex, worry), давя (choke, drown, strangle, worry). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(cakes), 诱饵. (various references)

   

Czech

  

vnadidlo (decoy, fishhook, spoon, spoon bait), trápit (afflict, agonize, ail, beset, bother, discommode, disgruntle, grieve, nag, pain, pester, plague, pother, rack, tantalize, torment, torture, trouble, vex, worry), návnada (decoy, lure), štvát (chase, heckle), škádlit (banter, kid, rib, tease). (various references)

   

Danish

  

madding, anfang (springing), agn. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

lokaas, aas (ace, atomic absorption, atomic absorption spectrometry, atomic absorption spectrophotometry, carrion). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

logilo, logaĵo. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

مایه تطمیع , چینه (Enclosure, Layer, Stratum), طعمه رابه قلاب ماهیگیری بستن , طعمه دادن , خوراک دادن (Feed, Nourish), دانه ء دام , دانه (Bean, Birdseed, Grain, Granule, Kernel, Pill, Rash, Seed, Semen). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

syötti (decoy). (various references)

   

French

  

leurre, appât, amorce. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

ies (carrion). (various references)

   

German

  

köder (decoy, lure, seal). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

δόλωμα (decoy, lure, sop). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ממשך (draft, stroke of the bow), פתיון (decoy, inducement, lure). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

csali (decoy), csalétek (decoy, lure, trains). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

umpan (decoy), memberi umpan. (various references)

   

Italian

  

esca (decoy, firebrand, fuel, lure, tinder). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

(feed), 好餌 (decoy, lure). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

"うじ (affairs after one's death, alley, construction work, curious, decoy, edict, fortune, future affairs, good deed, government business, higher-order-, lane, leaven, lure, malt, meta-, mould used to make sake, mouth and ear, public announcement, yeast), えさ (feed). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

미끼 (Decoy). (various references)

   

Manx

  

meer (bit, bite, bite of food, coin, element, extract, fleck of dust, item, number, par, part, passage, patch, piece, portion, scrap, section, segment), brasnaghey (affront, aggravation, incense, incite, irritate; incitement, provocation, rev, spur, to provoke), bitey (baiting), bite eeastee, bite (lure, wick). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

lokkemat (lure), agn, åte. (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

as (ace). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aitbay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

isca (cast, decoy, decoy duck, igniter, lure, punk, spunk, tinder, troll), engodo (enticement, inveiglement, lure). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

momealã (decoy, enticement, hook, lure), amorsa (Fang, kindle, prime), chinui (agonize, bore, drudge, fester, grill, harass, Harrow, Harry, lacerate, martyr, martyrize, mortify, overdrive, persecute, pinch, plague, prey, prick, rack, slave, tantalize, torment, torture, trouble, try, worry, wring), da de mâncare calului, face un popas, hãitui (beset, Chevy, Hunt), ispitã (inducement, lure, temptation), ademeni (allure, corrupt, dangle, decoy, delude, ensnare, entice, fascinate, inveigle, lead up the garden, lure, seduce, tempt), mâncare (bite, board, bread, cheer, chow, dish, eatable, eating, edibles, esculent, food, grub, meal, meat, mess, plate, repast, table, tuck in, victuals), tenta (tempt), momi (allure, decoy, entice, inveigle, lure, tempt), nadã (hook, lure), necãji (anger, badger, bother, crab, depress, dishearten, endeavor, endeavour, fret, gall, grieve, irritate, lark, molest, rile, spite, tease, trouble, vex, worry), otravã (bane, bitterness, poison, venom), popas (halt, stand, stoppage), poposi (halt, lie, Lodge), pune momealã în, ispiti (allure, appeal, attract, carry away, decoy, entice, examine, inveigle, invite, lure, tax, tempt, torture, try). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

травить собаками, наживка (gentle, ledger-bait, lure), приманка (allurement, decoy, decoy duck, draw, enticement, jig, lure), искушение (temptation). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

maoirne (a bait for a fishing hook), maghar (a bait for fishing with, bait for fish). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

užina na putovanju, primamiti (attract), peckati (prickle, smart, tingle), mamac (allure, decoy, gentle, lure, spoon bait, stalking horse, troll), dražiti (provoke, stimulate), dovabiti. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cebo (blasting cap, detonator, detonator charge, food, lure, primer, priming, squib), carnada. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

agn (glume, gudgeon, husk, ledger-bait), hetsa (hound, incite, stampede), bete (act, behave, Fang, grazing, gudgeon, lure, pasturage, pasturage on grass, pasture, pasturing, tusk, tusk (a tooth)). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ใส่เหยื่อตกปลา, เหยื่อ (john, target), การ"ึง"ู"ใจ, หยอกล้อ (chaff, rag). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yemlemek (fodder, hold out a carrot to smb., lure), yem takmak, yem (decoy, draw, fodder, food, forage, lure, prey, provender, silage), rahatsız etmek (ail, annoy, badger, bother, chafe, chivvy, chivy, derange, devil, discomfort, discommode, distract, disturb, get in smb.'s hair, goad, goad on, harass, hassle, hatchel, hump, incommode, inconvenience, irritate, make a draft on, pester, put smb. to inconvenience, put upon, trouble, twist smb.'s tail, worry), olta yemi (troll), mola (baiting, break, breather, breathing space, intermission, pause, recess, slack, stopover, time out), kandırmak (argue, bamboozle, befool, beguile, cheat, con, cozen, deceive, delude, diddle, dish, dissuade, dupe, entice, fast-talk, finagle, flimflam, fool, gammon, get round, gyp, hornswoggle, induce, intrigue, inveigle, jockey, jolly, kid, lead on, lie, persuade, play with, put across, put over, rope in, sell smb. a pup, serve a trick, spoof, stall off, stick, string, string along, stuff smb., take in, trick, wheedle), kandırma (deception, dissuasion, inducement, inveiglement, put on, spoof), köpek saldırtmak, kızdırmak (aggravate, anger, annoy, badger, bug, burn, chafe, enrage, exacerbate, exasperate, gall, get across, get in one's hair, heat, heat up, huff, incense, inflame, infuriate, irritate, nettle, overheat, peeve, play to, provoke, put about, put out, put smb. out of temper, put smb.'s nose out of joint, rile, rough the wrong way, rouse, ruffle smb.'s temper, steam up, superheat, tease, twit, vex), cezbetmek (attract, beguile, captivate, catch, charm, draw on, engross, fascinate, fetch, hypnotize, lure, magnetize, prepossess, wile), cezbetme (captivation, enchantment), cezbeden şey, canını sıkmak (annoy, bother, cast down, devil, disgruntle, displease, distress oneself, fash, get in one's hair, give smb. the hump, give the hump, give the pips, hassle, irk, offput, put about, put off, ruffle smb.'s temper, trouble, turn off, vex). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

отрута для пацюків, принада (allurement, beauty, decoy, delight, draw, inducement, nest egg, temptation), привал (baiting, encampment), піддавати цькуванню, ловити на вудочку, заманювати (allure, entice, rope, tempt, wile), затримуватися (hold off, linger, pause, stick), зупинятися (alight, draw up, pause, put in, run down, stanch, stand still, stay, stop), дражнити (badger, badinage, banter, chaff, needle, pick on, quiz, rag, start on, taunt, tease, vex), не давати покою, їжа (aliment, board, chow, chuck, eating, fare, feed, feeding, fodder, food, meat, nosh, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, nutritive, pabulum, potluck, thing, Tommy, viand, victual), відпочинок (blow, comfort, recreation, refreshment, relaxation, repose, resource, rest, sabbath, vacation), годувати коней, корм (feed, foodstuff, nurture, nutriment, pabulum), цькування собаками, цькувати собаками (hound), робити привал (noon), спокуса (allure, allurement, enticement, honeypot, lure, seducement, seduction, temptation), наживка (fly, kill-devil, lure, squid). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

m"i (decoy). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

baetio (maltreat), baeddu (beat, belabor, buffet, soil, thump), eirthio, abwydo, abwyd (earthworm, worm). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Bait

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

cibi, cibis, cibo, ciborum, ciborumque, cibos, cibum, cibus, esca, escae, escam, escarum, escas, escis. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Bait

Derivations

Words beginning with "bait": baited, baiter, baiters, baith, baiting, baits. (additional references)

Words ending with "bait": jailbait, rebait, redbait, whitebait. (additional references)

Words containing "bait": bearbaiting, bearbaitings, bullbaiting, bullbaitings, rebaited, rebaiting, rebaits, redbaited, redbaiting, redbaits, whitebaits. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Bait" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abait, abi, abiet, abito, absit, Baai, baa'th, babich, Babij, babit, Babt, bacio, Bact, badt, baet, baia, Baic, baich, baid, Baif, baig, baii, baij, baik, baint, baio, baiq, bair, baist, baite, baith, Baitha, Bajt, Balt, bami, banit, bant, barit, Basiti, Bati, batir, batiti, batt, bauf, bayat, bayet, bayt, bayti, bcit, bedit, beit, belit, benit, Beti, betia, bevit, Bhai, Bhaid, bhaji, bhakti, Bhatia, bia, biaa, Biac, Biart, biate, bisit, bita, biti, blait, Blawith, blit, Blitt, Bnaid, boai, boit, Botia, Boyett, brati, Bravitt, buit, buti, bwint, bzit, hbai, jait, vait, Xbai, yait. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Bait"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "bait" (pronounced bā"t)
3b ā" tabate, Bate, debate.
2-ā" tate, await, berate, Cate, collate, conflate, conjugate, crate, create, date, deflate, demodulate, desecrate, dictate, dilate, eight, elate, equate, estate, fate, fete, freight, gait, gate, gestate, grate, great, hate, inflate, innate, interrelate, interstate, intrastate, irate, late, lightweight, mate, misstate, multistate, negate, oblate, ornate, overrate, overweight, pate, plate, postdate, predate, procreate, prorate, rate, Recriminate, reflate, reinstate, relate, remunerate, restate, sate, sedate, skate, slate, spate, state, straight, Strait, Tate, trait, translate, underrate, update, upstate, wait, weight.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Bait

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-i-t"

-1 letter: ait, bat, bit, tab.

-2 letters: ab, ai, at, ba, bi, it, ta, ti.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-i-t"
 

+1 letter: ambit, baith, baits, batik, biota, habit, tabid, tibia.

 

+2 letters: abatis, albeit, albite, ambits, baited, baiter, bandit, barite, batiks, bating, battik, bawtie, bhakti, binate, biotas, bonita, gambit, habits, obtain, rabbit, rebait, rubati, tabbis, tabuli, terbia, tibiae, tibial, tibias, timbal, tribal.

 

+3 letters: abating, abattis, ability, abiotic, absinth, abstain, adhibit, airboat, albites, albitic, ambient, antibug, arbiter, astilbe, babbitt, babysit, backbit, backfit, backlit, bailout, baiters, baiting, bandits, banties, baptise, baptism, baptist, baptize, barefit, barites, barytic, basinet, basmati, bassist, bastile, basting, bastion, batfish, bathing, batiste, batlike, battier, battiks, batting, batwing, bauxite, bawties, beastie, beatify, beating, beatnik, bepaint, bestial, betaine, bhaktis, bimetal, biparty, biretta, bistate, bitable, blastie, boating, bobtail, bonitas, botanic, bothria, brisant, britska, britzka, cabinet, cambist, catbird, citable, cohabit, cubital, dingbat, dirtbag, fatbird, gambits, gigabit, habitan, habitat, habited, habitue, habitus, halibut, iceboat, inhabit, isobath, labiate, librate, limbate, megabit, niobate, oblasti, obtains, obviate, orbital, pigboat, rabbits, rabbity, rarebit, rebaits, redbait, stabile, stibial, tabanid, tabbied, tabbies, tabbing, tabetic, tabling, tabloid, taborin, tabouli, tabuing, tabulis, taxicab, terbias, tieback, timbale, timbals, timbral, triable, tribade, tubaist, vibrant, vibrate, vibrato.

 

+4 letters: abatises, abattoir, abbatial, abdicate, abetting, ablating, ablation, ablative, ablution, aboiteau, aborting, abortion, abortive, absinthe, absinths, abstains, abstrict, abutilon, abutting, acerbity, adhibits, agitable, airboats, airburst, ambients, ambition, ambivert, anabatic, antibias, antibody, antiboss, antisnob, arbalist, arbiters, arbitral, arborist, asbestic, astilbes, aubretia, aubrieta, babbitts, babysits, backbite, backfits, backlist, bacteria, bacterin, baggiest, bailment, bailouts, balkiest, balletic, ballista, balmiest, banality, banditry, banditti, bangtail, banister, banjoist, bantling, baptised, baptises, baptisia, baptisms, baptists, baptized, baptizer, baptizes, barbital, baritone, barkiest, barmiest, barniest, bartisan, bartizan, basaltic, basicity, basinets, basmatis, bassinet, bassists, bastiles, bastille, bastings, bastions, batching, bathetic, batistes, battalia, batterie, battiest, battings, battling, bauxites, bauxitic, bawdiest, beadiest, beakiest, beamiest, beasties, beatific, beatings, beatniks, beauties, beautify, bepaints, berating, bestiary, betaines, betaking, biacetyl, biathlon, bidental, biforate, bigamist, bijugate, bilobate, bimetals, binately, biotical, biparted, birdbath, birettas, birretta, birthday, biteable, bivalent, blastier, blasties, blasting, blatting, bleating, bloating, bloviate, boasting, boatbill, boatings, boatlike, bobtails, boltonia, boracite, borating, botanica, botanies, botanise, botanist, botanize, brakiest, brantail, brattice, brattier, brattish, braunite, brickbat, britskas, britzkas, britzska, bucktail, cabalist, cabinets, cambists, catbirds, catbrier, celibate, citeable, cobaltic, cohabits, daubiest, debating, diabetes, diabetic, diatribe, dingbats, dirtbags, dutiable, editable, epiblast, evitable, fabulist, fatbirds, fireboat, firebrat, fittable, fleabite, gabbiest, gigabits, gigabyte, habitans, habitant, habitats, habiting, habitual, habitude, habitues, halibuts, hautbois, iceboats, imitable, incubate, inhabits, instable, intubate, isobaths, jailbait, jubilant, jubilate, labiated, labiates, lability, laborite, lambiest, libation, libelant, liberate, librated, librates, lifeboat, liftable, listable, lobation, megabits, niobates, obeisant, obituary, oblation, obligate, obligati, obligato, obtained, obtainer, obviated, obviates, obviator, orbitals, oribatid, partible, pigboats, pitiable, pitiably, rabbited, rabbiter, rabbitry, rabidity, rabietic, rarebits, rebaited, rebating, redbaits, reobtain, rubaiyat, sabbatic, sailboat, satiable, satiably, sibilant, sibilate, snakebit, spitball, stabbing, stabiles, stabling, stablish, strobila, subtopia, suitable, suitably, sybarite, tabanids, tabbises, tabbying, tabering, tabetics, tabloids, tabooing, taborine, taboring, taborins, taboulis, tailback, tailbone, tangible, tangibly, taxicabs, thebaine, tiebacks, tillable, tiltable, timbales, tippable, tithable, titrable, tribades, tribadic, tribally, tribasic, tribrach, tribunal, trilobal, tubaists, turbinal, urbanist, urbanite, urbanity, verbatim, vibrants, vibrated, vibrates, vibrator, vibratos, vitiable, writable, ytterbia, zaibatsu.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Bait


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 61 69 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .-    ..    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01100001 01101001 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#97 &#105 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0061 0069 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36677586

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Familiar
9. Quotations: Fiction
10. Quotations: Non-fiction
11. Quotations: Spoken
12. Usage Frequency
13. Expressions
14. Expressions: Internet
15. Translations: Modern
16. Translations: Ancient
17. Abbreviations
18. Acronyms
19. Derivations
20. Rhymes
21. Anagrams
22. Orthography
23. Bibliography


  

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