(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.
Lick
Definition:
(v. t.) To draw or pass the tongue over; as, a dog licks his master's hand.
(v. t.) To lap; to take in with the tongue; as, a dog or cat licks milk.
(v.) A stroke of the tongue in licking.
(v.) A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue, or of something which acts like a tongue; as, to put on colors with a lick of the brush. Also, a small quantity of any substance so applied.
(v.) A place where salt is found on the surface of the earth, to which wild animals resort to lick it up; -- often, but not always, near salt springs.
(v. t.) To strike with repeated blows for punishment; to flog; to whip or conquer, as in a pugilistic encounter.
(n.) A slap; a quick stroke.
Example Sentences:
(1) He's finding solace, fleeting and fragmentary, and every springy guitar lick is its own benediction," Chinen wrote.
(2) the does had been grazing on lucerne from the time of mating and received a free-choice lick, which included iodine.
(3) Southampton, with injuries and defeats to consider, were left licking their wounds.
(4) Combined treatment with quinpirole and a D-1 agonist was followed by dose-dependent licking and occasional biting behaviour.
(5) injection of phenylbenzoquinone, (6) forepaw licking and jump latencies on a hot plate.
(6) The spindle units were classified into 4 types: 5 units showed rhythmical activity related only to the jaw opening phase during both licking and chewing, 8 units discharged at jaw opening phase during licking, but both at jaw opening and jaw closing phases during eating, 2 units increased phasic activity at jaw opening phase during licking, but increased tonically independent of jaw movements during eating, and the remaining 3 units responded only at jaw closing phase both in licking and eating behavior.
(7) Electrical stimulation of the hypothalamic centres through implanted electrodes has shown that the amplitude of evoked responses and the impairment of licking increases, in proportion to the delay between lick onset and stimulus application.
(8) It has been shown that under all types of stimulation the latent periods (LP) of nociceptive reactions of paw licking and tail flick were significantly increased, as compared to baseline level, thus suggesting suppression of the pain sensitivity.
(9) The time to hand over the reins came and went, Keating challenged and lost, before heading to the backbench to lick his wounds and shore up the factional numbers needed for a successful spill.
(10) A video from the zoo showed Juxiao sitting in the corner of a room as she delivered her cubs for four hours and licking them after they were born.
(11) Of course, a finer measurement of movements, such as lick rate, may reveal a significant difference that would correlate with the metabolic change.
(12) They were trained to respond on a tongue-operated solenoid-driven drinking device that delivered 0.005 ml of a glucose and saccharin solution (G + S) per lick.
(13) licking, scratching, grooming, head and limb movements), a reaction termed immobility.
(14) In contrast, after weaning they showed a significant increment in the duration of face-washing, head-washing, fur licking and body-scratching.
(15) In high doses all compounds reduced the licking activity, but a low dose of APEC (1 microM) injected together with the formalin solution had an algesic effect.
(16) The selection for licking in males had no discernible effect on female sexual activity.
(17) Apomorphine-induced gnawing and licking but not sniffing were attenuated in rats with GP lesions.
(18) In control rats, SKF 38393 enhanced the stereotyped responses induced by quinpirole, converting lower-level stereotypies (sniffing and rearing) to more intense oral behaviors (licking and gnawing).
(19) And where, as a general rule, do we stand on licking sticks?
(20) The time spent licking the bottles during water omission and the time spent drinking during a subsequent 5-min drinking session (water available) were recorded.