(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.
Sawtooth
Definition:
(n.) An arctic seal (Lobodon carcinophaga), having the molars serrated; -- called also crab-eating seal.
Example Sentences:
(1) A sawtooth-shaped pattern with both normal and abnormal IUT values was observed in 10% of these children.
(2) Additionally, five patients with chronic pain were studied by computed tomography of T-8 to T-12, with confirmation of the sawtooth shape of the dorsal epidural space.
(3) An all-inclusive four-day trek like the writer’s with Sawtooth Mountain Guides starts at $1,000pp.
(4) This deficit in cone responsiveness to light offset becomes increasingly subnormal as rods dark adapt and, when completely dark adapted, the ESS observer is nearly blind to 1 Hz rapid-off sawtooth waveforms.
(5) The propagating sawtooth waves contain a sharp bend, approximately 3 micron in length, made up of two opposing flexures followed by a straight helical segment approximately 23 micron long.
(6) The present study separately examined the influences of rod light and dark adaptation upon cone-mediated sensitivity to transient increases or decreases in illumination using sawtooth flicker with rapid-on (ramp-off) or rapid-off (ramp-on) waveforms.
(7) Because asymmetrical dosing creates irregular, sawtooth-like changes in plasma concentrations and a fall below a critical threshold level during the night, tolerance does not develop.
(8) It seemingly wants to be a slender cylinder, but contradicts itself with a sawtooth plan.
(9) The average wavelength is approximately 25 micron, and three to four sawtooth waves travel along the axostyle at one time.
(10) Peripheral invasion often manifested as spotty-nodular, sawtoothed-wavy and tumefied shape with medium signal intensity on T1-weighted images.
(11) Temporal contrast sensitivity was measured for mirror-image sawtooth (rapid-on and rapid-off) and sine waveforms for a 1.8 deg foveal target.
(12) But when the target points were embedded in the sawtooth surfaces their depths were systematically misperceived in a manner predicted by the incorrect depth interpretation of the background points.
(13) Temporal contrast sensitivity functions were measured for rapid-on and rapid-off sawtooths and for sine wave stimuli (for 2-26 Hz, mean retinal illuminance of 500 td, circular target of 1.8 deg, foveal).
(14) Mirror-image sawtooth waveforms (rapid-on and rapid-off) were used to test for differences in sensitivity to incremental and decremental stimuli.
(15) The "sawtooth" strategy gives little guidance as to which DMARD(s) should be chosen for initial treatment.
(16) For stimulus movements in a plane orthogonal to the congenital nystagmus, normal sawtooth optokinetic responses were exhibited by both groups.
(17) At 5 td, contrast sensitivity functions for sawtooth and sine waveforms, expressed in terms of the Fourier fundamental amplitude, are equivalent.
(18) Three different waveforms were used: sinusoidal, sawtooth (triangular), and square.
(19) Exposure to a large uniform field modulated in luminance by a sawtooth function, repeating between 1 and 5 times per second, raised the threshold for detection of a test stimulus of similar waveform by a factor of 2 to 4.5.
(20) 41.9, pI 5.5) accumulates linearly with time of day, resembling a sawtooth oscillator.