(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.
Tanner
Definition:
(n.) One whose occupation is to tan hides, or convert them into leather by the use of tan.
Example Sentences:
(1) The police investigating the 1991 murder of the Oxford student Rachel McLean had a strong hunch that the killer was her boyfriend, John Tanner, another student.
(2) Included in the study was a measure of developmental age, assessed by using sex maturity ratings formalized by Tanner.
(3) The original said that Jo Tanner, the PR person now acting as press secretary for Andy Burnham, is the same Jo Tanner who worked on Boris Johnson's London mayoral bid.
(4) Systolic blood pressure for boys and girls showed an increase with a change from Tanner stage 2 to 3.
(5) The methods are used to fit the centiles for boys' weight and for boys' height velocity from Tanner, Whitehouse and Takaishi (1966).
(6) The objective of this study was to determine the utility of Indian Council of Medical Research's (ICMR) height percentile standards in comparison to Tanner's, in the evaluation of children with short stature.
(7) To this end, we sampled blood at 20-min intervals for 12 h overnight in 50 girls, 37 of whom had Turner's syndrome and 13 of whom were healthy Tanner stage I controls.
(8) The diabetic girls showed a slight delay of uterus development, which is adjusted, however, at the end of puberty (Tanner IV and V).
(9) In a study of absorption of iron from meals by preadolescent children (Tanner stage 1), we had noted that erythrocyte incorporation of the extrinsic iron label was somewhat greater by girls than by boys.
(10) Growth of their pelves in length as well as in width was similar to that found by Tanner.
(11) A retrospective cohort mortality study was conducted on 807 fur dyers, fur dressers (tanners), and fur service workers who were pensioned between 1952 and 1977 by the Fur, Leather and Machine Workers Union of New York City.
(12) Finally, it was found that the difference between bone age, as determined by the Tanner Whitehouse (TW2)-method, and chronological age was not significant and the adult height in all patients except two could be adequately predicted from bone age and height.
(13) All four groups of children exhibited different growth patterns from those of the NCHS and Tanner reference curves.
(14) The relationship between lower-extremity strength and flexibility and maturational status as measured by Tanner staging (TS) was assessed in 84 male high school athletes.
(15) The patient progressed from Tanner pubic hair and breast stage I to stage II during treatment, which was terminated due to an allergic reaction to GnRH.
(16) We studied 15 normal boys, 5 sexually developed (Tanner stages IV-V) and 10 sexually infantile, before and after chronic (1-month) administration of a selective micromicron-opiate-receptor antagonist (naltrexone).
(17) These data suggest that for a correct auxological evaluation it seems useful to compare children not only to Tanner's standards but to centiles derived from the same population.
(18) Subjects were 10 non-obese (14.6% fat) and 11 obese (32.3% fat) males matched for age (15-18 years), level of maturity (Tanner stages IV and V), lean body mass, and height.
(19) The McCanns' friend, Jane Tanner has said that at about 9.15pm she saw a man carrying a small child, walking away from apartment 5a.
(20) We evaluated basal somatomedin-C (SmC) levels in 98 subjects 2 to 16.6 years of age, with height less than 3rd centile (Tanner), and in 274 healthy controls 2 to 15.8 years, with height greater than 10th centile.