From en.wiktionary.org:
[BITE]
** English
[bite (disambiguation)]
*** Etymology
[en] From [en], from [en], from [en], from [en], from [en].
Cognates include [stq], [fy], [nl], [nds-de], [de], [de], [da], [sv], [nb],
[nn], [is], [got], [la], [grc], [sa].
*** Pronunciation
- [bīt] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Verb
[bites]
1. [en] To cut into something by clamp ing the teeth .
2. [en] To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
3. [en] To attack with the teeth.
4. [en] To behave aggressive ly; to reject advance s.
5. [en] To take hold ; to establish firm contact with.
6. [en] To have significant effect , often negative .
7. [en] To bite a bait ed hook or other lure and thus be caught .
8. [en] To accept something offer ed, often secret ly or deceptive ly, to cause some action by the acceptor .
9. [en] To sting .
10. [en] To cause a smart ing sensation ; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent .
11. [en] To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure .
12. * [V]
13. [en] To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish ; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
14. * [Proverbs]
15. [en] To take or keep a firm hold .
16. [en] To take hold of; to hold fast ; to adhere to.
17. * [Fire Rises]
18. [en] To lack quality ; to be worthy of derision ; to suck .
19. [en] To perform oral sex on. [Used in invective] .
20. [en] To plagiarize , to imitate .
21. [en] To deceive or defraud ; to take in . < !--ref: Hotten's slang dict.-->
**** Hyponyms
- [en]
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Related terms
- [en]
**** Descendants
- [srn]
- [pt]
**** Translations
[cut into by clamping the teeth] {{multitrans|data=
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Aleut: [ale]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Aromanian: [rup] , [rup]
- Asturian: [ast] , [ast]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Balinese: [ban]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Breton: [br]
- Buginese: [bug]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Buryat: [bua]
- Carpathian Rusyn: [rue]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Cherokee: [chr]
- Chinese:
- Cornish: [kw] , [kw]
- Corsican: [co] , [co]
- Crimean Tatar: [crh]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Dalmatian: [dlm] , [dlm]
- Danish: [da]
- Dolgan: [dlg]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Egyptian: [pzḥ]
- Enwang: [enw]
- Erzya: [myv]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Friulian: [fur]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de]
- Gothic: [got]
- Greek: [el]
- Guaraní: [gn]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Hunsrik: [hrx]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Interlingua: [ia]
- Istriot: [ist]
- Istro-Romanian: [ruo]
- Italian: [it]
- Ivatan: [ivv]
- Japanese: [ja] (also spelled: [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Javanese: [jv]
- Kaingang: [kgp]
- Kapampangan: [pam]
- Karelian: [krl] , [krl]
- Kashubian: [csb]
- Khmer: [km]
- Komi-Permyak: [koi]
- Komi-Zyrian: [kpv] , [kpv]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky] , [ky] , [ky] , [ky] , [ky] , [ky] , [ky] , [ky]
- Ladin: [lld]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latgalian: [ltg]
- Latin: [la] , [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Ligurian: [lij]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Livvi: [olo] , [olo]
- Lombard: [lmo]
- Lombardic: [lng]
- Low German: [nds]
- Lower Sorbian: [dsb]
- Ludian: [lud]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Makasar: [mak]
- Malagasy: [mg]
- Malay: [ms]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Manchu: [mnc]
- Mansaka: [msk]
- Maori: [mi]
- Megleno-Romanian: [ruq]
- Mirandese: [mwl]
- Moksha: [mdf]
- Mongolian: [mn] , [mn] , [mn]
- Nanai: [gld]
- Nepali: [ne]
- North Frisian:
- Norwegian: [no]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Odia: [or]
- Old Church Slavonic: [cu]
- Old English: [ang]
- Old Frisian: [ofs]
- Old Javanese: [kaw]
- Old Norse: [non]
- Old Saxon: [osx]
- Oromo: [om]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Persian: [fa]
- Piedmontese: [pms]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Quechua: [qu] , [qu] , [qu]
- Rapa Nui: [rap]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Romansch: [rm]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sicilian: [scn]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Somali: [so]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Sranan Tongo: [srn]
- Sundanese: [su]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tajik: [tg]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Tausug: [tsg]
- Telugu: [te]
- Tetum: [tet]
- Thai: [th]
- Tibetan: [bo]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Tuvan: [tyv]
- Ugaritic: [uga]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Upper Sorbian: [hsb]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Venetan: [vec]
- Veps: [vep] , [vep]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Volapük: [vo]
- Võro: [vro] , [vro]
- Votic: [vot] , [vot]
- Welsh: [cy] , [cy] [North]
- West Frisian: [fy]
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: [mbb]
- White Hmong: [mww]
- Yakut: [sah]
- Yiddish: [yi]
- Yurok: [yur] , [yur]
- Zealandic: [zea]
- Zhuang: [za]
- Zulu: [zu]
- ǃKung: [khi-kun]
[trans-bottom]
[hold something by clamping one’s teeth]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Assamese: [as]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- Greek: [el]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khmer: [km] , [km]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Mongolian: [mn] , [mn] , [mn]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Sundanese: [su]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tajik: [tg]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Yurok: [yur]
[trans-bottom]
[attack with the teeth]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Assamese: [as] , [as]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Breton: [br]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Cornish: [kw]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko]
- Lithuanian: [lt] , [lt] , [lt]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Maori: [mi] [as lice]
- Mongolian: [mn] , [mn]
- North Frisian: [frr] [Sylt]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Quechua: [qu] , [qu] , [qu]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Telugu: [te]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Welsh: [cy] , [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[take hold]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Korean: [ko]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Tamil: [ta]
[trans-bottom]
[bite a baited hook or other lure]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Italian: [it]
- Korean: [ko]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tamil: [ta]
[trans-bottom]
[fall for a deception]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- Greek: [el]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[sting]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg] , [bg]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Egyptian: [pzḥ]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Italian: [it]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Latin: [la]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Mongolian: [mn] , [mn]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk] , [sk]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Telugu: [te]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Interlingua: [as of snakes] [ia]
- Romanian: (4) [ro]
- Tupinambá: [tpn]
}} [trans-bottom]
*** Noun
[bite] [~]
1. The act of biting .
2. * [chapter=VIII]
3. * [en]
4. [en] The wound left behind after having been bitten .
5. The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect 's mouthpart s or sting .
6. A piece of food of a size that would be produce d by biting ; a mouthful .
7. * [en]
8. [en] Something unpleasant .
9. * [en]
10. [en] An act of plagiarism .
11. A small meal or snack .
12. * {{ quote-av | en | year=1988 | actor= [Leslie Nielsen] | role= [Frank Drebin]
|title={{w|The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!|The Naked Gun: From
the Files of Police Squad! }}|text=Wilma, I promise you one thing. Whatever
scum is behind this, not a single cop on this police force will have a
minute's rest until he's behind bars. Now let's grab a BITE to eat.}}
1. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=July 21 2023 | author=Billie Schwab Dunn | titleurl=https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/i-tried-wetherspoons-food-first-30518473 | title=I Tried Wetherspoons Food for the First Time-I Feared I'd Get Scurvy... | journal=w:Daily Star
|passage=Would I take someone here for a first date? No. Would I go here for
a cheap BITE? Also no...}}
1. [en] incisiveness , provocativeness , exactness .
2. [en] Aggression .
3. * [en]
4. * [en]
5. * [en]
6. The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lift ed, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
7. [en] A cheat ; a trick ; a fraud .
8. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1725 | author=Thomas Gordon | title=The Humorist
|passage=The baser methods of getting money by fraud and BITE, by deceiving
and overreaching.}}
1. [en] A sharper ; one who cheat s.
2. * [volume=IV]
3. * {{ quote-journal | en | year=1828 | journal=The Newcastle Magazine | volume=7 | page=85
|passage=So he went home cursing the Yorkshire BITES, and swearing there was
no living among them [...]}}
1. [en] 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 .
2. [en] A cut , a proportion of profit s; an amount of money .
3. * [page=92]
4. [en] [en] .
5. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2015 | author=Robert A. Papper | title=Broadcast News and Writing Stylebook
|passage=cold open: Starting a TV newscast with video or a BITE from the lead
story rather than starting with the anchor or the standard show open.}}
1. [en] The turn that a spin bowler impart s to a pitch .
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Related terms
- [en]
- [en]
**** Descendants
- [srn]
**** Translations
[act of biting] {{multitrans|data=
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Hebrew: [he] [biting food] , [he] [biting skin]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Korean: [ko]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] [Brazil]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
- Sranan Tongo: [srn]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[wound left behind after having been bitten]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Maori: [mi]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] [Brazil]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Tocharian B: [txb]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
[trans-bottom]
[swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Arabic:
- Chinese:
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it] , [it]
- Latin: [la]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Norwegian: [no] , [no]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[mouthful]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Arabic:
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Gujarati: [gu]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Italian: [it]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Norwegian: [no] , [no] , [no]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Punjabi: [pa]
- Quechua: [qu]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Sicilian: [scn]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Urdu: [ur]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Interlingua: [ia] , [as of snakes] [ia]
- Telugu: [te] , [te]
- Tupinambá: [t-] [tpn]
}} [trans-bottom]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en] [en]
** Czech
*** Pronunciation
- [cs-IPA]
- [cs]
*** Noun
[cs]
1. [cs]
** French
*** Alternative forms
- [fr]
*** Etymology
From [fr], from [fr], from [fr].
*** Pronunciation
- [fr-IPA]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
*** Noun
[f]
1. [fr] knob , cock , dick
2. * [fr]
3. * [fr]
4. * [fr]
**** Derived terms
{{col4|fr |garage à bites |penser avec sa bite |petite bite |teub }}
*** Further reading
- [R:fr:TLFi]
[fr]
** Garo
*** Etymology
[grt]
*** Noun
[grt]
1. fruit
[grt]
** Italian
*** Etymology
[it].
*** Pronunciation
[bàit]
*** Noun
[m]
1. [it] split (dental device)
** Khumi Chin
*** Pronunciation
- [cnk]
*** Adjective
[cnk]
1. hot
**** Related terms
- [cnk]
*** References
- [page=74]
** Latvian
*** Etymology
From [lv] (compare [lt]), from [lv], [ine-pro]. Cognate to [en].
*** Noun
[f]
1. bee
**** Declension
[bi]
[lv]
** Lithuanian
*** Noun
[lt]
1. [lt]
*** Noun
[lt]
1. [lt]
** Middle English
*** Verb
[enm]
1. [enm]
** Murui Huitoto
*** Etymology
Cognates include [hto] and [hux].
*** Pronunciation
- [huu-IPA]
- [huu]
*** Verb
[huu]
1. [huu] to come
**** Conjugation
[huu-conj]
**** Derived terms
{{col4|huu |biya}}
*** References
- [page=36]
- [page=76]
** Neapolitan
*** Noun
[nap]
1. [nap]
** North Frisian
*** Alternative forms
- [frr]
- [frr]
*** Etymology
[frr] From [frr], from [frr].
*** Pronunciation
- [frr]
*** Verb
[frr]
1. [frr] to [en]
**** Conjugation
[inf_2=biten]
** Norwegian Bokmål
*** Etymology
[nb] From [nb], from [nb], from [nb].
*** Verb
[nb]
1. To [en] .
**** Derived terms
- [nb]
- [nb] [adjective]
**** Related terms
- [nb] [noun]
*** References
- [R:The Bokmål Dictionary]
[nb]
** Norwegian Nynorsk
*** Verb
[nn]
1. [split=1]
*** References
- [R:The Nynorsk Dictionary]
** Old English
*** Etymology
[ang] From [ang].
*** Pronunciation
- [bi+te]
*** Noun
[m]
1. [en]
**** Descendants
- [enm] [merged with descendant of [ang]]
- [sco]
- [en]
** Polish
*** Pronunciation
[pl-pr]
*** Participle
[pl]
1. [pl]
** Turkish
*** Noun
[tr]
1. [tr]
** West Frisian
*** Etymology
[fy] From [fy].
*** Pronunciation
- [fy]
*** Verb
[fy]
1. To [en] .
**** Inflection
[class=1]
**** Further reading
- [8750]