(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.
Datum
Definition:
(n.) Something given or admitted; a fact or principle granted; that upon which an inference or an argument is based; -- used chiefly in the plural.
(n.) The quantities or relations which are assumed to be given in any problem.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the basis of the datum that the level of Zn-alpha 2-glycoprotein (Zn alpha 2gp) in human seminal plasma was about 6-times higher than that in adult serum, Zn alpha 2gp was purified from fresh human seminal plasma approx.
(2) This datum was more evident when the percentage of B cells was simultaneously determined in CSF and blood.
(3) Since neither parent showed signs of syringomyelia, this is considered to be a datum substantiating the dysembryogenetic theory of the syringomyelia syndrome.
(4) The causes of the osteoarthritis were not considered, but our study pointed out standing position as favourite datum.
(5) Datum point of the pulmonary I-washout curve was the mean end-tidal I concentration obtained 15 min before terminating I (cIAW).
(6) The results may be used as the "datum point" in assessment of the efficacy of newly-developed antitumor drugs.
(7) Based on these results, the two above mentioned points were designated as the datum points to be used when estimating the form of pulp cavities.
(8) Because of these, we conclude that, although the existence of calcifications is a meaningful datum, there are uncalcified retinoblastomas and calcifications in entities other than retinoblastoma.
(9) The disposable datums in France are schematicly described.
(10) The rate of fluorescence recovery due to transport of unbleached fluorophores into the observation region is the primary experimental datum.
(11) After 4 months from treatment a net improvement was observed in the clinical parameters studied: sputum (volume and purulence), cough and dyspnoea, but the most interesting datum was the total absence of recurrent episodes of infection, associated to the reduction in quantity of antibiotics, mucolytics and number of days of illness and with noticeable improvement in the quality of life of the patients.
(12) Such aberrant and psychotic behaviors provide a datum for curricula and clinical services.
(13) Those chromatographic methods which quantify several different cephalosporins are not desirable for pharmacokinetic datum interpretation, since accuracy and precision are usually compromised in order that many different drugs may be quantified in a single analysis.
(14) The amplified EMG signals were digitized using a sampling frequency of 50 samples per second, and numerical data was stored immediately on the hard disk (1 datum = 1 byte).
(15) ILBM is calculated from simple morphological datums (H = height and C = wrist circonference).
(16) The cumulative sum procedure introduced by Hurst (1950) involves subtraction of a control reference level from a series of datum points and adding the differences consecutively.
(17) Neither pyuria, microscopic bacteriuria, nor any single subjective or objective datum definitively predicted cystitis at the initial visit.
(18) Thus, for datum analysis, patients were separated into three ceftazidime dosage groups (denoted as range of milligrams per kilogram per dose): group 1, 22 to 44.5; group 2, 46.3 to 56.6; and group 3, 66.7 to 80.6.
(19) The mean deviation of the individual datum points from the overall mean values was also calculated for each study.
(20) This datum, when taken with the fact that hypoxanthine is never found to be a significant extent within the vesicles, suggests that the phosphorolytic cleavage of inosine occurs as a group translocation during the transport itself, so that hypoxanthine is released to the surrounding medium while the ribose-1-P accumulates intravesicularly.