(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.
Crossbite
Definition:
(n.) A deception; a cheat.
(b. t.) To deceive; to trick; to gull.
Example Sentences:
(1) African children had significantly fewer prevalences of distal bite, lateral crossbite and crowding than Finnish children did.
(2) Analysis of 20 cases of Class III malocclusion treated with the FR.III showed that correction of the anterior crossbite was effected by adjustment of incisor inclinations and backward rotation or repositioning the mandible accompanied by an increase in face height.
(3) By segmental chewing at the posterior crossbite region, 'Normal Type' and 'Concave Type' are lower and 'Crossover I Type', 'Crossover II Type' and 'Reverse Type' are higher in frequency in comparison with posterior crossbite side voluntary chewing.
(4) Therefore, it is important for us to recognize the findings described above when treating anterior crossbite in the mixed dentition.
(5) A mandibular lip-activated appliance was used to gain space among the incisors and mesial to the mandibular permanent first molars; a maxillary lip-activated appliance was used to correct an anterior crossbite by labial movement of the incisors; and a modified lip-activated appliance was used to expand maxillary molars buccally.
(6) Subjects were to chew soft gum; on each specified side, both at the posterior crossbite region and at another resion of the side.
(7) The crossbite usually results from bilateral maxillary constriction and is commonly associated with an occlusion guided lateral deviation of the mandible upon closing.
(8) Results showed no statistically significant difference between delivery method and TMJ problems, posterior crossbites, bruxism, or molar arch width.
(9) Of the children, aged 8-12 years, sixteen had unilateral crossbite.
(10) In Class I malocclusions, when the only complaint is the localized crossbite of a premolar, resulting from a mild shortage of space, correction can be simply undertaken.
(11) As a criterion an accurately measurable and reliable parameter, namely the crossbite relation, was opted for.
(12) In seven subjects with unilateral cleft lip and palate (UCLP), two subjects without cleft but with complete lingual crossbite, and two subjects with normal occlusion, tongue contact patterns against the hard palate, lingual surfaces of maxillary and mandibular teeth, and mandibular lingual mucosa during swallowing were analyzed three-dimensionally using electropalatography (EPG), before and after lateral expansion of the maxillary dental arch and after 3 months of retention.
(13) No increased frequency of anterior crossbite was found even after repeated periosteoplasty, nor was the maxillary dental-arch length unfavourably influenced.
(14) After 7 months of FR III treatment of an 11 year old Class III patient, the molar relationship and anterior crossbite were corrected.
(15) In the symphyseal inclination, the cleft group was significantly large, compared to that of the crossbite and Class I groups.
(16) Unilateral crossbites can also be treated this way, if a later Le-Fort-I-osteotomy is necessary to correct sagittal or vertical discrepancies.
(17) Further, considering an anterior crossbite as the sole indicator of an Angle Class III malocclusion is erroneous; an anterior crossbite may exist in other classes, and Angle Class III type 1 (edge-to-edge) is more prevalent than either Class III type 2 (normal anterior overbite) or type 3 (anterior crossbite).
(18) A higher proportion of malocclusion than normal, especially open bite and crossbite, was noticed before surgery.
(19) The occlusal disturbance may consist of either crossbite, open bite, maxillary rotation, or lack of proper dental intercuspation.
(20) In functional crossbite cases, there were some differences between right and left condylar position before treatment, but no differences after crossbite correction.