(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.
Octet
Definition:
(n.) A composition for eight parts, usually for eight solo instruments or voices.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the piece I'd nominate is the first movement of Mendelssohn's Octet.
(2) The string octet that accompanied him then had provided a safety net of sorts.
(3) The genetic code doublets can be divided into two octets of completely degenerate and ambiguous coding dinucleotides.
(4) With these coordinates a successful topological classification of the crystal structures of octet and suboctet binary compounds is obtained, and a clear delineation of the structural classes portraying chemical periodicity is found.
(5) An EPR spectrum of the enzyme as isolated reveals a signal corresponding to high spin Co(II) at temperatures below 20 K. The signal appears as a partially resolved 59Co octet centered at an apparent g value of 7.
(6) Rosie Swash Mendelssohn's Octet I cry all the time at music.
(7) This program is compatible with any IBM PC microcomputer and includes a hard disk of 10 or 20 mega-octets.
(8) The conventionally stained somatic chromosomes of O. americanus can be arranged into sets of four similar chromosomes (quartets); those of C. ornata, into sets of eight similar chromosomes (octets).
(9) These two octets have the algebraic property of lying on continuously connected planes on the group graph (a tesseract) of the Cartesian product of two Klein 4-groups of nucleotide exchange operators.
(10) These structural heterogeneities within the quartets and octets are interpreted as a "diploidization" of the polyploid karyotypes.
(11) The ability of the mutated HlyA molecules to initiate membrane translocation and be secreted required the presence of the C terminus and, to a degree, the repeated amino acid octets.
(12) A string octet was duly summoned to the studio, in the process astrally chauffeuring Kirby 36 years back to Cambridge, where these arrangements were last performed: 'You know sometimes, when you catch a smell from long ago, and it knocks you for six?
(13) In analogy, some octets of C. ornata can be subdivided into two quartets of chromosomes with homologous bands.
(14) In this adduct, the greater than N:B bond is coordinate, involving the free electron pair of nitrogen, thereby satisfying the octet rule for the second electron shell of boron (Group IIIA).
(15) The two octets of coding doublets have the further algebraic property that the product of their internal exchange operators naturally divide into two exactly equivalent sets.