(v.) The part of a bridle, usually of iron, which is inserted in the mouth of a horse, and having appendages to which the reins are fastened.
(v.) Fig.: Anything which curbs or restrains.
(v. t.) To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of.
() imp. & p. p. of Bite.
(v.) A part of anything, such as may be bitten off or taken into the mouth; a morsel; a bite. Hence: A small piece of anything; a little; a mite.
(v.) Somewhat; something, but not very great.
(v.) A tool for boring, of various forms and sizes, usually turned by means of a brace or bitstock. See Bitstock.
(v.) The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.
(v.) The cutting iron of a plane.
(v.) In the Southern and Southwestern States, a small silver coin (as the real) formerly current; commonly, one worth about 12 1/2 cents; also, the sum of 12 1/2 cents.
() 3d sing. pr. of Bid, for biddeth.
(imp.) of Bite
() of Bite
Example Sentences:
(1) So I am, of course, intrigued about the city’s newest tourist attraction: a hangover bar, open at weekends, in which sufferers can come in and have a bit of a lie down in soothingly subdued lighting, while sipping vitamin-enriched smoothies.
(2) He is a leader and helps manage the defence, while Pablo Armero can be a bit of a loose cannon but he is certainly a talented player.
(3) Just last week he said: "Maybe I'll be a bit more chilled about it this year.
(4) The tissues were derived from the three germ layers and were prevalently mature; only a bit of them was represented by embryonic mesenchymal tissue.
(5) In his biography, Tony Blair admits to having accumulated 70 at one point – "considered by some to be a bit of a constitutional outrage", he adds.
(6) When I told my friend Rob that I was coming to visit him in Rio, I suggested we try something a bit different to going to the beach every day and drinking caipirinhas until three in the morning.
(7) But I know the full story and it’s a bit different from what people see.” The full story is heavy on the extremes of emotion and as the man who took a stricken but much-loved club away from its community, Winkelman knows that his part is that of villain; the war of words will rumble on.
(8) Everyone gets a bit excited with the whole ‘youth’ thing but, at our clubs, the managers wouldn’t just play any old youngster.
(9) He would do the Telegraph crossword and, to be fair, would make intelligent conversation but he was a bit racist.
(10) When my form teacher said I’d worked well in every subject except geography, I made her change the bit that said I’d not tried to say, instead, that I was rubbish at it.
(11) I felt like he was a little bit inexperienced and the race got away from him a little bit at the third-last.
(12) It just seems a bit of a waste, I say, given that he's young and handsome and famous.
(13) Heat vegetable oil and a little bit of butter in a clean pan and fry the egg to your taste.
(14) Indeed, with the pageantry already knocked off the top of the news by reports from Old Trafford, the very idea of a cohesive coalition programme about anything other than cuts looks that bit harder to sustain.
(15) A bit like the old Lib Dems, perhaps: and indeed the Greens owe a big chunk of their surge to the exodus of voters from Clegg’s discredited rump.
(16) Rather than ruthlessly efficient, I have found them sweet and a bit hopeless."
(17) So that you know he's evil, he is dressed like a giant, bedraggled grey duckling, in a fur coat made up of bits of chewed-up wolf.
(18) Some offer a range, depending on whether you think you're a bit of a buff, and know a pinot meunier from a pinot noir and what prestige cuvée actually means or you just want to see a bit of the process and have a nice glass of bubbly at the end of it, before moving on to the next place – touring a pretty corner of France getting slowly, and delightfully, fizzled.
(19) If Carlsberg made adverts for football scouts ... Scott Murray Martial, who could potentially cost Manchester United £58.8m, had quite a bit to prove.
(20) It took a little bit of time to come up on the scoreboard, so I was a bit worried.
Brit
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Britt
Example Sentences:
(1) I usually use them as a rag with which to clean the toilet but I didn’t have anything else to wear today because I’m so fat.” While this exchange will sound baffling to outsiders, to Brits it actually sounds like this: “You like my dress?
(2) The Fed is also painting itself as one of the Good Guys in the Libor scandal, pointing out that it spotted the problems in 2008, and promptly tipped off the Brits.
(3) But will Brits elect a man who says he will never use the weapons we have?
(4) But here they come now, the extraordinary defenders of allegedly ordinary Brits, the voice of a resurgent people.
(5) "Then the European commission and the council will start looking like an ogre here, and what the Daily Mail says – which is not true now – about hostility to the Brits inside the institutions will start being true."
(6) The former Take That star – who has won more Brit awards than any other artist – took home his 16th award after more than 20 years in the business, saying: "I feel like it's my birthday, I feel special, it's lovely, whether people think it or not in my head I'm going, 'brilliant!'"
(7) In any case, the Brits are a notoriously lily-livered shower when it comes to workplace politics, too craven to strike – [note to non-British readers: we're a sorry servile bunch, we don't like it up us] - and as a result, poor John's failed coup has led to him becoming the most reviled union leader in British history, ahead of the excellent Bob Crow, the much misunderstood Arthur Scargill, and Gary Neville.
(8) The purpose of this study was to test the adrenoceptor interconversion hypothesis of Kunos and Nickerson (Brit.
(9) Ulbricht has denied his involvement in Silk Road, or that he was ever its administrator, but the prospect of a dragnet operation to bring in other dealers following his arrest will still make any of the nearly 960,000 registered users with the site – 30% of whom were in the US and Brits being the second biggest contingent – very nervous.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest EU referendum: Brexit for non-Brits Assuming that the UK votes to remain in the EU, the OECD expects growth to ease from 2.3% in 2015 to 1.7% this year, before recovering to 2% in 2017.
(11) We’re mostly Brits, with a sprinkling of Canadians, Dutch women and a guy from Dubai, and of mixed abilities; some have been surfing for years while others, like me, have barely stood up on a board before.
(12) ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) Maybe the Brits are just having us on.
(13) For the uninitiated, Menelik Watson, is a Brit in the Draft tonight.
(14) The Welch warbler does it and I believe that's all the bases covered: Bitta street cred with Dizzee, NME fodder with Kasabian, bitta Brit pop with JLS and prizes for the new wave of British female performers (Lily, Florence).
(15) Like many Brits involved in the process, Stevens is also a member of Cryonics UK , an organisation which describes itself as "Britain's volunteer standby assistance team", with its own ambulance and specialist equipment.
(16) (But could a native Brit make as many jokes as I have done over the years about Karl Lagerfeld on this newspaper’s fashion pages?
(17) The survey found 70% of Brits believe our present world is in decline, while 55% of respondents thought the bloom had gone off their own lives, and were dubious about the future.
(18) Most Brits voted against Thatcherism, but the Scots – like the northern English – voted more passionately against, and yet suffered some of the worst consequences.
(19) Her staff – a mix of Mexicans, Canadians and Brits – seem like adopted family, all almost falling over one other to keep us guests happy.
(20) After decades dreaming of life among olive trees and vineyards, these days for some reason, we Brits are now projecting our need for the existence of an earthly paradise northwards.