Bit

Definition: Bit

Bit

Adjective

1. Injured by bites or stings; "leaving the biter bit"; "her poor mosquito-bitten legs".

Noun

1. (British) a small quantity; "a spot of tea"; "a bit of paper".

2. A small fragment of something broken off from the whole; "a bit of rock caught him in the eye".

3. An indefinitely short time; "wait just a moment"; "it only takes a minute"; "in just a bit".

4. An instance of some kind; "it was a nice piece of work"; "he had a bit of good luck".

5. Piece of metal held in horse's mouth by reins and used to control the horse while riding; "the horse was not accustomed to a bit".

6. A unit of measurement of information (from Binary + digIT); the amount of information in a system having two equiprobable states; "there are 8 bits in a byte".

7. A small amount of solid food; a mouthful; "all they had left was a bit of bread".

8. A small fragment; "overheard snatches of their conversation".

9. A short theatrical performance that is part of a longer program; "he did his act three times every evening"; "she had a catchy little routine"; "it was one of the best numbers he ever did".

10. : the cutting part of a drill; usually pointed and threaded and is replaceable in a brace or bitstock or drill press; "he looked around for the right size bit".

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

Date "bit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: Bit \Bit\, noun. [Old English bite, Anglo-Saxon bita, from b[=i]tan to bite; akin to Dutch beet, German bissen bit, morsel, Icelandic biti. See Bite, v., and compare to Bitpart of a bridle.]. (references)

Computing

Aerospace

Bible

Census

Geological

Literature

Mining

Slang in 1811

Sports & Leisure

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

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

Synonyms: Bit

Prison

Yoke, collar, halter, harness; muzzle, gag, bit, brake, curb, snaffle, bridle; rein, reins; bearing rein; martingale; leading string; tether, picket, band, guy, chain; cord; (fastening); cavesson, hackamore, headstall, jaquima, lines, ribbons.

Smallness

Small quan modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point; material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch, cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive; snip, snippet; snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair.

Crosswords: Bit

Albanian (bit), Czech (bit), French (binary digit, bit), German (bit), Hungarian (bit), Italian (bit), Papiamen (exceed, surpass), Portuguese (binary character, binary digit, binary element, International Labour Office), Serbo-Croatian (being, bit), Spanish (bit), Swedish (bit, Cantel, Cantle, chip, cob, cutting, fragment, joint, lump, morsel, mouthful, piece, scrap, section, stick, tablet), Turkish (bit, cootie, headlouse, louse), Welsh (bit).

I want to say something, but I'm gonna fumble it a little bit, so I'd just like you to wait till I'm done before you respond (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin.)

I imagine that right now you're feeling a bit like Alice, tumbling down the rabbit hole (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

You couldn't kiss me like that and not mean it just a teensy bit! (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green)

I've thought about this quite a bit sir and I would have to say considering what's waiting out there for me, I don't want to sell anything, buy anything or process anything as a career (Say Anything; writing credit: Cameron Crowe.)

You wanna hear something really nutty? I heard of a couple guys who wanna build something called an airplane, you know you get people to go in, and fly around like birds, it's ridiculous, right? And what about breaking the sound barrier, or rockets to the moon? Atomic energy, or a mission to Mars? Science fiction, right? Look, all I'm asking is for you to just have the tiniest bit of vision (Contact; writing credit: Carl Sagan;)

Oh yeah, oh yeah, a little bit goes a long, long way (A Little Bit; performing artist: Jessica Simpson)

A little bit of Mary all night long (Mambo No. 5 (a little bit of ...); performing artist: Lou Bega)

Give a little bit of your love to me (Give A Little Bit; performing artist: SUPERTRAMP)

That I'm a little bit wrong (A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You; performing artist: The Monkees)

With a bit of rock music, everything is fine ("Dancing Queen"; performing artist: Abba)

Show a little bit of your anger everyday instead of showing a lot of it on one day. (references; author: unknown)

A big bug bit a bold bald bear, and the bold bald bear bled blood badly. (references; author: unknown)

Betty beat a bit of butter to make a better batter. (references; author: unknown)

A Little Bit of Wisdom (1974)

Part 2: A Little Bit of Negligence Explosives - Accidents (1963)

A Bit of the Best (1953)

Doin' Their Bit (1942)

Doing Their Bit (1942)

Ooh Aah…Just A Little Bit (performing artist: Gina G)

Come A Little Bit Closer (performing artist: Jay and the Americans)

A Little Bit (performing artist: Jessica Simpson)

Love's Been A Little Bit Hard On Me (performing artist: Juice Newton)

A LITTLE BIT ME, A LITTLE BIT YOU  (performing artist: Monkees )

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

Books

• A Nasty Bit of Rough (reference)

• Babies Are a Bit of Heaven (reference)

• Bit by the Fleas (reference)

• Choosing the Right Bit for Your Horse (Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin, A-273) (reference)

• Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Bit (reference)

• Bulletin Officiel Du Bit : Series A & B - French Ed (reference)

• Publications Du Bit (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• A Little Bit of Soul (reference)

• Armitage III Part 4: Bit of Love (reference)

• D-Mob:Little Bit of This and That (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Mozart for the Morning Commute: A Lively Bit of Traveling Music (reference)

• Every Little Bit Hurts: Solid Soul 6 (reference)

• Explorations (20 Bit Mastering) [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference)

• Misterioso (20 Bit Mastering) [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Orinoco Silver Pccard PCMCIA 802.11b Client with 64 Bit Encryption (reference)

• UPG-V GROUPWISE 6 10U 128+ BIT (reference)

• UPG-V GROUPWISE 6 5U (128+ BIT) (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Tupperware 12-Piece Little Bit of Everything Set (reference)

• Freud FC-107 7-Piece Carbide Forstner Bit Sets (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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A bergy bit floating quietly in Tracy Arm Fjord. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Georges Bank starting to kick up a little bit. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

The Bering Sea kicking up a little bit. On the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Ship BROWN BEAR. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Translated as a "Comfortable position for the traveller!", obviously a bit of humor. The sailor is passing a line over the pulley to keep it from striking end of the boom during Bouree net towing operations. Plate VIII, print 11. In: "Results of the Scientific Campaigns of the Prince of Monaco." Vol. 89. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Storage bin for rice with worker raking up kernels to get the last bit. Credit: USDA.

Hardware fragments. Measured drawing delineated by Frederic Lansing, 1936. (Reproduction Number: HABS NJ-16, sheet 27 of 27) The wrought-iron hardware depicted in this HABS drawing comes from a Dutch Colonial house built sometime between 1677 and 1720 by David des Marest, a French Huguenot and immigrant to the American Colonies from the Netherlands. The hinges may have been part of the original building or may have been added later as part of an improvement project during the colonial period. The stone pestle for grinding and the wrought-iron fire tongs and horse's bit were also found around the house. Credit: Library of Congress.

Doctor Doctor- I'm a bit run down. Can I have a prescription? : You don't need a pill for every ill- let the Doctor decide. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Get in and I will take you home to give me a bit of mittagessen] / W.T. Benda. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mr. Coon: Good morning, Mrs. Porcupine, how are the twins? : Mrs. Porcupine: They have been a bit cross lately, you see, they are just cutting their quills. Credit: Library of Congress.

I'm not a bit curious but I'd like to peep into that book. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Thus the grass my horse has bit; the turfs my servant has cut; and the ore I have digged in any place, where I have a right to them in common with others, become my property, without the assignation or consent of any body. (Second Treatise of Government)

Or do you mean modern bourgeois private property? But does wage-labour create any property for the labourer? Not a bit. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

However, at last she stretched her arms round it as far as they would go, and broke off a bit of the edge with each hand

You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato

Beautiful, charming, devastatingly intelligent, at last I'd got her to myself for a bit and was plying her with a bit of talk when this friend of yours barges up and says 'Hey doll, is this guy boring you

She bit her lips, and her face assumed an expression of hatred

It would be lovely in bed after the sheets got a bit hot.

The bank owned the land then, but we stayed and we got a little bit of what we raised

Her Majesty used to put a bit of meat upon one of my dishes, out of which I carved for myself, and her diversion was to see me eat in miniature

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Health

Some women have a bit of irritation at the site where the patch is placed. (references)

Your eye may also hurt a bit. This is easily controlled with drugs that your eye care professional can suggest. (references)

You can reduce the risk of potentially harmful drug interactions and side effects with a little bit of knowledge and common sense. (references)

Business

Currently, 8M bit models lead local flash memory sales, followed by 16M and 4M bit items. (references)

The trend in Norwegian travel seems to be a bit different from the other Nordic countries. (references)

The best selling DRAMs in volume terms at present are 64M bit, following by 16M and 128M bit products. (references)

Economic History

Armenia

The BIT supercedes Armenian law. (references)

Croatia

Article III of the BIT covers expropriation. (references)

Brazil

The United States and Brazil currently have no plans to discuss a BIT. (references)

Political Economy

TURKEY

The BIT entered into force in May 1990. (references)

BRAZIL

There is no Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) between the United States and Brazil. (references)

BAHRAIN

Bahrain signed a Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) with the United States in September 1999, the first GCC state to do so. The agreement came into force in May 2001. (references)

Trade

Korea

This may cost a bit more, but may be well worth it. (references)

Korea

Further, the United States and Korea are negotiating a Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT). (references)

Korea

The conclusion of a BIT would provide greater confidence to the American investment community. (references)

Travel

Bahamas

Conversations generally move to a first name basis a bit more slowly than in the United States. (references)

Ghana

Generally, Ghanaian business customs are similar to those of the U.S., but are a bit more formal. (references)

Sweden

One slight difference may be that the senior business people in Sweden may be a bit more "hands on" then their American counterparts. (references)

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

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

A bridle or bit

Expressions using "bit": 16 bit ♦ 64 bit ♦ a bit ♦ a bit at a time ♦ a bit earlier ♦ a bit jealous ♦ a bit later ♦ a bit luck ♦ a bit merry ♦ a bit much ♦ a bit of ♦ a bit of a ♦ a bit of a boy ♦ a bit of a devil ♦ a bit of a fool ♦ a bit of a headache ♦ a bit of a help ♦ a bit of a wag ♦ a bit of advice ♦ a bit of bread ♦ a bit of crumpet ♦ a bit of each ♦ a bit of fluff ♦ a bit of garden ♦ a bit of luck ♦ a bit of money ♦ a bit of news ♦ a bit of skirt ♦ a bit of smth. ♦ a bit of surprise ♦ a bit off ♦ a bit thick ♦ a bit weak upstairs ♦ a bit wet ♦ a bit younger ♦ a good bit ♦ a good bit older ♦ a little bit ♦ a little bit of ♦ a nice bit of money ♦ a saucy bit ♦ a threepenny bit ♦ a tiny bit ♦ a wee bit ♦ added bit ♦ alt bit ♦ alternating bit protocol ♦ Auger bit ♦ backward indicator bit ♦ balancing bit ♦ bar bit ♦ be a bit daft ♦ be a bit of a bind ♦ be a bit on ♦ be on the bit ♦ bit actor ♦ bit and pieces ♦ bit bang ♦ bit bashing ♦ bit bitten stung ♦ bit brace ♦ bit bucket ♦ bit by bit ♦ bit cell ♦ bit combination ♦ bit decay ♦ bit diddling ♦ bit error performance ♦ bit error rate ♦ bit error rate test ♦ bit error rate tester ♦ bit field ♦ bit map ♦ bit mask ♦ Bit my bit ♦ bit of fluff ♦ bit of lint ♦ bit of rag ♦ bit on the side ♦ bit on top ♦ bit oriented ♦ bit part ♦ bit pattern ♦ bit plane ♦ Bit pro Sekunde ♦ bit rate ♦ bit rot ♦ bit slice ♦ Bit stock ♦ bit string ♦ bit stuffing ♦ bit synchronisation ♦ bit synchronism ♦ bit synchronization ♦ bit tired ♦ bit to taste ♦ bit twiddling ♦ bit with the fate of ♦ blade bit ♦ bore bit ♦ brace and bit. Additional references.

Beginning with "bit": bit-blitter, bit-by-bit, bit-by-bit, bit-colour, bit-critical, bit-graphics, bit-image, bit-images, bit-less-bad, bit-line, bit-map, bit-mapped, bit-mapping, bit-maps, bit-napping, bit-now, bit-of-a-poll-tax, bit-on-the-side, bit-packing, bit-paired keyboard, bit-part, bit-parts, bit-pattern, bit-perfect, bit-plane, bit-planes, bit-player, bit-playerish, bit-players, bit-rate, bit-robbing, bit-slices, bit-width, bit-wise.

Ending with "bit": multi-bit, n-bit, one-bit, single-bit, tit-bit, two-bit.

Containing "bit": 16-bit application, 16-Bit-Applikation, 32-bit application, 8-bit clean, dread high-bit disease, eight-bit clean, frog's-bit family, get-away-from-only-a-bit-of-it, go-and-get-another-bit-of-moss, little-bit-of, little-bit-of-bread-and-no-cheeeeese, look-no-a-bit-like, oh-he-looks-a-bit-stiff.

Afrikaans

stuk (fragment, lump, part, Parthian, piece, share, spare part). (various references)

Albanian

bit, vë nën fre, vë gojzën kalit, punto, pr e pp e foljes bite, një çikë (crumb, dab, little, pinch, soupcon), monedhë e vogël (bawbee, bits), majë shpuese, grimë (dash, doit, drachm, dram, drop, fleck, hint, hoot, jiff, jiffy, jot, lick, mite, rag, suspicion, tittle, touch, whit), gojëz (mesh, muzzle, put a muzzle on), frenoj (apply the brakes, be an obstacle to, brake, check, choke up, clog, contain, control, Cork, damp, delay, detain, deter, fetter, guard, hamper, hang up, hedge in, hold, hold back, hold in, inhibit, interrupt, keep in, put back, rein, retard, set back, stay put, stem, stop), fre kali (curb), dhëmbë (snick, teeth), copëz (cantlet, nodule, nugget, particle, Pat, scrap), çikë (atom, doit, drachm, dram, dribblet, drop, hoot, jot, near, scrap, tithe, tittle, whit). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كسرة (crumb, fraction, fragment, morsel, scrap, small piece), ‏مسحة (hue, shade, smack, streak, suggestion, tang, tinge, tint, touch, trace), ‏مضغة (bite, chew, morsel, quid), ‏لقمة (bite, morsel, mouthful), ‏لسان المفتاح, ‏قطعة نقد صغيرة, ‏قطعة (chunk, cut, division, fraction, fragment, part, piece, portion, section, segment, share, slice), ‏جزء (fraction, parcel, part, partition, piece, portion, pt., section, share, slice), ‏اللقمة الجزء اللولبي من المثقب, ‏القاطع من الأداة, ‏شكيمة (snaffle). (various references)

Blackfoot

ísskoyipistaa'tsis. (various references)

Breton

tamm. (various references)

Bulgarian 

юздечка, слагам юздечка, спирам (arrest, block, brake, bring to, bring to rest, bring up, call a halt, cease, check, come to a halt, come to rest, cut, cut off, cut short, die, discontinue, draw up, drive up, dwell, end, fix, go phut, halt, hang up, heave to, hold back, hold in, immobilize, impede, inhibit, intervene, keep off, kill, leave off, lock, occlude, preclude, prevent, pull in, pull up, put in, quash, quit, run down, snub, stint, stop, suppress, suspend, trammel, trig, withhold), режеща част на инструмент, частица (atom, fleck, fraction, molecule, particle, sippet, tittle, vestige, whit), късче (cantlet, morsel, scrap, shred, taste), обуздавам (bridle, chastise, curb, hamshackle, harness, leash, manage, quell, rein in, repress, restrain, school, smother, steady), малко количество (dab, dash, dollop, dreg, dribblet, drop, jot, modicum, nibble, pennyworth, relish, scantling, smatter, soupcon, sprinkling, thimbleful, tot, trickle), малко (any, awhile, few, little, remotely, several, slightly, some, somewhat, sort of), пречка (block, blockage, check, clog, cross, difficulty, disadvantage, disqualification, embarrassment, encumbrance, handicap, hindrance, holdback, hurdle, impediment, kibosh, let, liability, manacle, obstacle, preclusion, pull back, remora, rub, setback, spoke, stay, stop, stumbling-stone, traverse), парченце (lick, patch, scrap, shred, sippet, snap, snip), парче (bar, cake, catch, cob, cut, cutting, dollop, fragment, lump, patch, piece, portion, scrap, section, slice, slip, slipping, snatch, splint, splinter). (various references)

Catalan

tela (lump, piece), mica. (various references)

Chinese 

位元 , 位 (bits). (various references)

Czech

bit, zub (tine, tooth), udidlo (curb), trošek, střep (fragment, shard), nùž (case knife, knife, snickersnee), malá mince, kousek (cut, inchmeal, jot, mammock, nibble, parcel, part, patch, piece, scrap, shred, wedge, whit), korunka (coronet, crest, crown), hrot (apex, head, Pike, point, prick, Spike, tip), drobná mince, dost (enough, fairly, quite, that's enough, time is up), chvilka (short while, tick, while). (various references)

Danish

stykke (lump, piece, spare part). (various references)

Dutch

beting, beetje. (various references)

Esperanto

bloketo, bito, pinĉpreno, peco (lump, piece). (various references)

Faeroese

stubbi (lump, piece), petti (lump, piece), moli (lump, piece). (various references)

Farsi 

پاره (Fragment, Scrap, Shred), لقمه (Morsel, Snap), لجام (Line, Rein), تیغه رنده , تکه (Dab, Fragment, Glimmer, Gob, Goblet, Item, Loaf, Lot, Lump, Morsel, Nub, Pane, Patch, Portion, Scrap, Shiver, Shred, Slab, Slice, Smidgen, Whit), سرمته , ذره (Ace, Corpuscle, Dust, Grain, Iota, Jot, Nip, Particle, Scruple, Shred, Speck, Vestige, Whit), خرده (Bittock, Crumb, Debris, Fragment, Glimmer, Grain, Jot, Nip, Particle, Shred, Small, Vestige, Weeny, Whit), ریزه (Chip, Midget, Mince, Particle, Shiver, Teeny), دهنه (Gap, Jet, Line, Muzzle). (various references)

Finnish

pala (cut chunk, lump, piece, tablet). (various references)

French

pièce, peu (little bit), morceau (bite), fragment, bit (binary digit). (various references)

Galician

pouco (little). (various references)

German

bit (binary digit), stück (baggage, bar, cake, cob, fragment, head, hunk, item, length, lump, part, passage, peace, piece, play, plot, portion, segment, share, shtick, slice, slips, snatch, snip, stick, stretch, track, wedge), gebiss (dentures, fangs, set of teeth, teeth), bisschen (drop). (various references)

Greek 

κομμάτι (dollop, gobbet, item, piece, sheet, snipping), στόμιο χαλιναριού, μικρό τεμάχιο, χαλιναγωγώ (bridle, curb, rein), φίμωτρο (gag, muzzle), αόρ. του bit, αιχμή εργαλείου (stick), τρυπάνι (auger, brace and bit, drill, gimlet), δυάδικο ψηφίο (binary digit), δυαδικό ψηφίο (binary digit), ψίχουλο (crumb). (various references)

Guarani

rokemíta (we shall sleep a little bit), roipotami (we want a little bit), roguatami (we walk a little bit), michimínte (only a little bit), mboyvemi (a little bit before), mbeguemive (a little bit more slowly), jahami (we shall go a little bit), jahamíkena (let's go alittle bit), amba'apomi (I work a little bit), añe'êkuaa (I speak only a little bit), ñasêmína (let's leave a little bit). (various references)

Hebrew 

מקדח (auger, borer, drill, miser), קורטוב (dash, iota, modicum, pinch, shade, smack, spot, taste, touch, trace), חוד (barb, edge, nib, nose, pinpoint, point, sharpness, tip, tooth). (various references)

Hungarian

zabla (curb, snaffle, snaffle bit), fúró (auger, boring bit, drill, drilling, piercing), darab (Cantle, head, parcel, piece, portion, slab, slice, slug, snip). (various references)

Indonesian

bingkah, sedikit (breath, dash, dribblet, exiguous, little), secolek (a pinch, gab, pat), penggalan, colet. (various references)

Italian

pezzo (chunk, gobbets, hunk, length, lump, part, piece, play, portion, ration, scrap, section, slab, slice, smack, smacker, snap, snatch, stump). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

轡 , ビタミン剤 (big, big band, big bang, Big Ben, big business, big card, Big Egg, big event, big science, big screen, bitmap, BITNET, important news, vitamin pills, Vitarice). (various references)

Japanese Katakana