bite

verb · nounA1

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verb
V_es/s
bites
V_ing/Gerund
biting
V_ed/pp
bitbitten
  1. 1.

    (transitive)To cut into something by clamping the teeth.

    As soon as you bite that sandwich, you'll know how good it is.

  2. 2.

    (transitive)To hold something by clamping one's teeth.

  3. 3.

    (intransitive)To attack with the teeth.

    That dog is about to bite!

  4. 4.

    (intransitive)(intransitive, chiefly in the negative) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.

    If you see me, come and say hello. I don't bite.

  5. 5.

    (intransitive)To take hold; to establish firm contact with.

    I needed snow chains to make the tires bite.

  6. 6.

    (intransitive)To have significant effect, often negative.

    For homeowners with adjustable rate mortgages, rising interest will really bite.

  7. 7.

    (intransitive)(intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.

    Are the fish biting today?

  8. 8.

    (figuratively, intransitive)(intransitive, figurative) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.

    I've planted the story. Do you think they'll bite?

  9. 9.

    (intransitive, transitive)(intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.

    These mosquitoes are really biting today!

  10. 10.

    (intransitive)To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.

    It bites like pepper or mustard.

  11. 11.

    (figuratively, sometimes, transitive)(transitive, sometimes figurative) To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.

    Pepper bites the mouth.

  12. 12.

    (intransitive)To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.

Danh từ

noun
Plural noun:
bites
  1. 1.

    (countable, uncountable)The act of biting.

  2. 2.

    (countable, uncountable)The wound left behind after having been bitten.

    That snake bite really hurts!

  3. 3.

    (countable, uncountable)The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.

    After just one night in the jungle I was covered with mosquito bites.

    Đồng nghĩa: sting

  4. 4.

    (countable, uncountable)A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.

    There were only a few bites left on the plate.

  5. 5.

    (countable, slang, uncountable)Something unpleasant.

  6. 6.

    (countable, slang, uncountable)An act of plagiarism.

    That song is a bite of my song!

  7. 7.

    (countable, uncountable)A small meal or snack.

    a bite to eat

    I'll have a quick bite to quiet my stomach until dinner.

  8. 8.

    (figuratively, uncountable)incisiveness, provocativeness, exactness.

  9. 9.

    (figuratively, uncountable)Aggression.

  10. 10.

    (countable, uncountable)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.

  11. 11.

    (colloquial, countable, dated, uncountable)A cheat; a trick; a fraud.

  12. 12.

    (colloquial, countable, dated, slang, uncountable)A sharper; one who cheats.

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From Middle English biten, from Old English bītan (bite), from *bītan, from Proto-Germanic *bītaną (bite), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (split).

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