(v. t.) To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a crust; the dog bit a man.
(v. t.) To puncture, abrade, or sting with an organ (of some insects) used in taking food.
(v. t.) To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense; as, pepper bites the mouth.
(v. t.) To cheat; to trick; to take in.
(v. t.) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the anchor bites the ground.
(v. i.) To seize something forcibly with the teeth; to wound with the teeth; to have the habit of so doing; as, does the dog bite?
(v. i.) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent; as, it bites like pepper or mustard.
(v. i.) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
(v. i.) To take a bait into the mouth, as a fish does; hence, to take a tempting offer.
(v. i.) To take or keep a firm hold; as, the anchor bites.
(v.) The act of seizing with the teeth or mouth; the act of wounding or separating with the teeth or mouth; a seizure with the teeth or mouth, as of a bait; as, to give anything a hard bite.
(v.) The act of puncturing or abrading with an organ for taking food, as is done by some insects.
(v.) The wound made by biting; as, the pain of a dog's or snake's bite; the bite of a mosquito.
(v.) A morsel; as much as is taken at once by biting.
(v.) The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
(v.) A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
(v.) A sharper; one who cheats.
(v.) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some dental applications of the pressure measuring sheet, such as the measurement of biting pressure and balance during normal and unilateral biting, were examined.
(2) But do you know the thing that really bites?” he pointed to his home, which was not visible behind an overgrown hedge.
(3) Admission venom levels also correlated with the extent of local swelling and the occurrence of tissue necrosis at the site of the bite.
(4) The mosquitoes coming to bite in bedrooms were monitored with light traps set beside untreated bednets.
(5) The EMG silent periods (SP) produced in the open-close-clench cycle and jaw-jerk reflex were compared for duration before and after treatment with an occlusal bite splint.
(6) In Colchester, David Sherwood of Fenn Wright reported: "High tenant demand but increasingly tenants in rent arrears as the recession bites."
(7) To test the hypothesis that EAA agonists are involved in transmission of nociceptive information in the spinal cord, we tested the effect of various opioid, sigma and phencyclidine compounds on the action of NMDA in the tail-flick, hot-plate and biting and scratching nociceptive tests.
(8) The most reproducible instrument was the combination of Regisil, an elastic impression material, and a Rinn XCP bite block.
(9) Changes of mineral content in the approximal enamel of the teeth were determined in situ with quantitative bite-wing radiography.
(10) In contrast, large territories may reflect widespread motor-unit actions, advantageous in force development where fine movement control is less important, as in biting in the intercuspal position or opposing gravity.
(11) In the last 5 years, 29 children have been treated in our institution for snake bites, all with signs of envenomation.
(12) Forty patients with Crotalidae snake bites were evaluated and treated over a 7-year period.
(13) Considering the construction of the bite, beside the two usual procedures: a direct and indirect method with the different steps of the laboratory, we can realize a mixed one which all the advantages without the defects of both.
(14) The peak biting activity of the vector and peak appearance of microfilariae in the peripheral blood occurred at about 01.00 h, which accounts for the optimum infection of the vector population.
(15) The results of this study indicate that, with all other factors held constant, a patient's attrition score tends to: increase with age, increase with bite depth, decrease initially with overjet until a critical value and then increase, and be unaffected by sex, interincisal angle, U1 to NA angle, Angle classification, posterior or anterior cross bites.
(16) The charity Bite the Ballot , which persuaded hundreds of thousands to register before the last general election, is to set up “democracy cafes” in Starbucks branches, laying on experts to explain how to register and vote, and what the referendum is all about (Bite the Ballot does not take sides but merely encourages participation).
(17) Masticatory efficiency was measured by means of a spectrophotometer, using adenosine triphosphate (ATP) granules, the biting force and occlusal contact area.
(18) Wearing the bite plane mainly reduced activities of the temporal muscles.
(19) Flank marks, attacks, bites, and retreats were scored over a 15 min test period during which steroid-injected animals were paired in a neutral arena with vehicle-injected conspecifics.
(20) African children had significantly fewer prevalences of distal bite, lateral crossbite and crowding than Finnish children did.
Chomp
Definition:
(v. i.) To chew loudly and greedily; to champ.
Example Sentences:
(1) The mood is fantastic: upbeat, from a crowd of older locals reliving their youth to cool young thangs attracted by Margate’s burgeoning reputation as Dalston-sur-Mer; fiftysomething men in braces and Harringtons, candy-floss-chomping teens… People are picnicking on the fake lawn beside the hair and beauty caravan, children gyrating newly bought hula-hoops to the strains of I’ve Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts.
(2) When a lost boy meets a rusty child who teaches him to chomp iron bars, or a disgruntled crowd is distracted by beancurd fritters, Mo insists that everything lags behind the belly.
(3) Citizens of a militaristic empire are inexorably trained to adopt the mentality of their armies: just listen to Good Progressive Obama defenders swagger around like they're decorated, cigar-chomping combat veterans spouting phrases like "war is hell" and "collateral damage" to justify all of this.
(4) ) I would rather drink Bud (another St Louis product) than chomp on antacids.... looks like I need to hit the fridge for suds St Louis, purveyor of beer, ribs and Rolaids.
(5) Acute clinical signs were hypersalivation, mouth chomping, diarrhea, muscle fasciculations, tremors, hyperexcitability, convulsions, coma and death.
(6) In the film he was a proper cigar-chomping, braces, growling, feet-on-the-desk kind of editor.
(7) Brunel might have chomped on several cigars before getting the point, and yet I think he would have loved it.
(8) Snus is unlike either snuff, which is sniffed, or chewing tobacco, which releases nicotine only when chomped on.
(9) Led by larger-than-life characters such as the cigar-chomping Cayne and amateur magician Alan "Ace" Greenberg, Bear has long cultivated an image as a maverick firm with a particularly risk-driven style.
(10) When Louis returns later in the programme, Caspar has chomped up Nancy's leg and been despatched to doggy Broadmoor in the sky.
(11) As we prepare lunch, I find myself chomping away at a celery stick.
(12) Budding author #rioferdinand may soon be spending more time on his novels as it emerges he could be on his way out of Queens Park Rangers six months after joining the west London club, news that will no doubt be greeted with glee by the literary world, where they are chomping at the bit to see what this new Franzen, this heir to Mantel, comes up with next.
(13) Surely there are women leaving both leadership programmes chomping at the bit and ready to lead in any and all sectors?
(14) His chomp on Branislav Ivanovic’s forearm while playing for Liverpool against Chelsea at Anfield in April 2013 earned him a 10-game suspension.
(15) The ONS said that in 2000 the UK chomped and burned its way through 188m tonnes of crops, fish and wood, compared with 172.5m in 2013, the last year for which figures are available.
(16) Are you really the caricature of the cigar-chomping, Foghorn Leghorn of Australian politics , where you’re saying that poor people don’t drive cars?” Shorten said in Perth.
(17) Polish firm Playsoft has beaten its rivals to the punch – or, indeed, the chomp – by developing a mobile game called Suarez Soccer Bite.
(18) But there is no such obvious defence for chomping down on an opponent’s shoulder.
(19) Yang Guang, the male of the pair currently engaging the gawping hordes, was sitting underneath his tree chomping on bamboo shoots.
(20) Why, there are loyal viewers clamouring right now for another episode in which detective sergeant Ronnie Brooks (Bradley Walsh) stands over a corpse, chomping on a pulled pork baguette with apple sauce, boo-hooing about his divorce, while hunky Lee Adama from Battlestar Galactica (Jamie Bamber playing detective Matt Devlin) questions all the suspects in scenes lasting no more than 46 seconds, in dialogue reminiscent of the kids' board game Guess Who?