What's the difference between byte and tidbit?

Byte


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Authors describe the classification of the malocclusion by Angle, and considerate one open byte case, may be caused by extrusion of first lower right molar, describing orthodontic treatment for his correction.
  • (2) The images are stored on the hard disk: each image requires 3M bytes, but it can be compressed down to 25:1 with no detail loss.
  • (3) Images were acquired in dynamic-byte mode, 128 X 128 matrix size, every one minute up to 40 minutes.
  • (4) The host computer sends a stream of bytes to the parallel port that specifies the configuration of the desired output pulses.
  • (5) For some, this visibility is empowering, but all it offers me is an unspoken pressure to give money, wear pink, have something specific and meaningful to say and a cause to champion, when I have no money, prefer neutrals and don’t have many thoughts I’m inclined to boil down to sound bytes.
  • (6) The word he repeatedly emphasized was “heart”, at times placing his hand over his chest while vowing to be the candidate who would go to bat for conservative causes even if he wasn’t able to sum it up in the ideal debate sound byte.
  • (7) A new computer memory using a laser beam to impress dimples on a standard credit card has been devised which contains about 2 million bytes (700 typed pages) and which has been formatted with software to permit access to a complete medical record which can be carried by the patient and updated at each encounter with the health care system.
  • (8) The encrypted text file is very small - just 211 bytes in size - but is large enough to contain, say, a couple of sentences.
  • (9) In the form presented here the routine converts incoming bytes into separate lines and saves these lines in a file.
  • (10) The amplified EMG signals were digitized using a sampling frequency of 50 samples per second, and numerical data was stored immediately on the hard disk (1 datum = 1 byte).
  • (11) He plans to look at streetlights in upcoming research: “Most of the products we take a look at are insecure; they have vulnerabilities and allow hackers to compromise them.” Many of the weaknesses are basic, he says: devices often don’t do adequate validation of the data being sent to them, failing to check whether malicious streams of information are being sent rather than legitimate bits and bytes determining their functions.
  • (12) Four hundred fifteen finger joints from 30 patients were evaluated for the presence of joint-space erosion, narrowing, and degenerative spurring on plain films, low-resolution digitized images (1024 x 840 bytes x 12 bit matrix), and high-resolution digitized images (2048 x 1680 bytes x 12 bit matrix).
  • (13) Data from 200 measurements is stored in a 2K byte RAM CMOS system.
  • (14) The file is written as a continuous byte stream, with no line or page formating.
  • (15) The large number of bytes being shifted by Netflix is a poor proxy for that detailed picture.
  • (16) Thousands of images have been transmitted to a site more than 15 miles away, with data rates exceeding 56,000 bits or 7,000 bytes (1 byte = 8 bits) per second with nearly perfect accuracy.
  • (17) TMG's other brands include Deltapoint, RAZSOR, 2nd Byte and Autotrade-mail.
  • (18) The data are transferred via RS-232C, and the each byte of data is received by MS-DOS BIOS call.
  • (19) In order to extend this method to images whose pixel values may vary from 8 bits per pixel to 16 bits per pixel, single byte coding is suggested.
  • (20) Lyme's disease (LD) is a multisystemic infection due to Borrelia Burgdorferi transmitted through the byte of a vector arthropod of the Ixodes genre.

Tidbit


Definition:

  • (n.) A delicate or tender piece of anything eatable; a delicious morsel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Unlike Indian officials, who have slipped anonymous tidbits and soundbites to the news agencies, RIM has remained tight-lipped about its negotiations.
  • (2) Cliches are often useful tidbits of wisdom imparted too often to have any remaining emotional impact: “live every day as though it is your last” being a prime example.
  • (3) But plenty of quirky facts and peculiar tidbits turned up as well.
  • (4) 4.32pm GMT Here’s a spicy tidbit: The CIA general counsel who filed the crimes report targeting Senate staff is himself a target of sorts of the Senate report on CIA torture.
  • (5) That's a new freedom – the idea that a story can have long segments and short segments and that you don't have to end each 42-minute segment with a tidbit of the next one because you know that people are going to be watching several in the row.
  • (6) It is not, fair to say, as it is billed: the reporter – Amy Chozick, on the paper's media business beat – calls up on the off-chance of a revealing interview and, failing that, settles for tidbits from Wendi's chatty friends: "Through a family spokesman, Mrs Murdoch declined to be interviewed for this article, as did other members of the Murdoch family.
  • (7) But it will provide buyers with tidbits from the film ahead of its release in December, and then reveal more features and personality after the film’s release.
  • (8) Benjy Sarlin has rounded up 10 tidbits the former governor has to choose from, including "Show us your plan!
  • (9) Here are some of the tidbits gleaned from our comprehensive look at the cables: • Between 2007 and 2009, annual cables were distributed to "encourage the use of agricultural biotechnology", directing US embassies to "pursue an active biotech agenda".
  • (10) This is why they fall upon any tidbit of information that might hint at "installed base" eagerly.
  • (11) 2.30pm: "Here's a tidbit for you," points out Neil Bennun.
  • (12) Frequently displaced, especially if distortion of the hollow point has occurred, this tidbit of trace evidence is worth recovering and analyzing.
  • (13) Though the peddlers of memoirs and mid-market newspapers have scavenged every last tidbit from this affair, sensible historians admit knowing little about it.
  • (14) Read the full report here , including this tidbit: Iran has yet to declare its hand about who should lead Iraq.
  • (15) This thunderous tidbit was actually the last gasp of an epic Warner Bros panel that featured plenty of surprises on Saturday morning.
  • (16) The media feeds us small bites of trivial matter, tidbits that don't really concern our lives and don't require thinking.
  • (17) But the splashy nature of that intrusion – a person or people using the online handle Guccifer 2.0 distributed tidbits from the breach to reporters – revealed a second intruder, codenamed Cozy Bear by ThreatConnect.
  • (18) 9.53pm BST The Atlantic's Jordan Weissmann picks out what he thinks is "the saddest paragraph" in all today's coverage of the government shutdown: But so far, nothing I've read about the government shutdown has been nearly as gut-wrenching as this tidbit from The Wall Street Journal (paywall): "At the National Institutes of Health, nearly three-quarters of the staff was furloughed.
  • (19) 9.03pm BST Cardinals 0 - Pirates 0, bottom of the 4th Behind the scenes tidbit: I've spent the last inning trying to find any workable photos to show some in-game action and then I realized that there hasn't been any in-game action.
  • (20) Their fourth release, Random Access Memories , is the most hysterically anticipated record in years: every tidbit disseminated online over the past two months has been scrutinised like a fragment of the true cross.

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