bit
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English bitte, bite, from Old English bita (“bit; fragment; morsel”) and bite (“a bite; cut”), from Proto-Germanic *bitô and *bitiz; both from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split”). More at bite.
NounEdit
bit (plural bits)
- A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.
- A horse hates having a bit put in its mouth.
- A rotary cutting tool fitted to a drill, used to bore holes.
- (dated, Britain) A coin of a specified value.
- a threepenny bit
- (obsolete, Canada) A ten-cent piece, dime.
- 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, Chapter 10, [3]
- The smallest coin we had in Canada in early days was a dime, worth ten cents. The Indians called this coin "a Bit". Our next coin, double in buying power and in size, was a twenty-five cent piece and this the Indians called "Two Bits".
- 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, Chapter 10, [3]
- (now US) A unit of currency or coin in the Americas worth a fraction of a Spanish dollar; now specifically, an eighth of a US dollar.
- A quarter is two bits.
- 1789, Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative, vol. I, ch. 6:
- I trusted to the Lord to be with me; and at one of our trips to St. Eustatia, a Dutch island, I bought a glass tumbler with my half bit, and when I came to Montserrat I sold it for a bit, or sixpence.
- 1966, Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, New York: Bantam Books, published 1976, →ISBN, page 16:
- He left after shaking her down for four bits for carrying the bags.
- (historical, US) In the southern and southwestern states, a small silver coin (such as the real) formerly current; commonly, one worth about 12½ cents; also, the sum of 12½ cents.
- A small amount of something.
- There were bits of paper all over the floor.
- Does your leg still hurt? —Just a bit now.
- I've done my bit; I expect you to do yours.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, “The Beanspiller”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 186:
- ‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough! […] What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’
- (informal) Specifically, a small amount of time.
- I'll be there in a bit; I need to take care of something first.
- He was here just a bit ago, but it looks like he's stepped out.
- (in the plural, informal, sports) Fractions of a second.
- The 400 metres race was won in 47 seconds and bits.
- A portion of something.
- I'd like a big bit of cake, please.
- 2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist:
- Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. […] A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that. Developed as a tool to electronically combine the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale.
- Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree. See also a bit.
- Am I bored? Not a bit of it!
- T. Hook
- My young companion was a bit of a poet.
- (slang) A prison sentence, especially a short one.
- 1904, The Anamosa prison press, volume 7, Iowa. Colony of Detention at Anamosa:
- Had it not been for the influence of Mrs. Booth and Hope Hall I should still be grafting or doing a bit in some stir
- 1916, Thomas Mott Osborne. Warden, Sing Sing Prison, N. Y., “Prison Reform”, in The Journal of sociologic medicine, volume 17, page 407:
- Before doing that I am going to tell you what was the result of my own incarceration, because I presume it may not be a secret to you, that I have done a "bit" myself, not the "bit" which the prosecuting attorney was so anxious to have me do.
- 1994, Odie Hawkins, Lost Angeles, page 158:
- Chino didn't make me think of Dachau or that notorious joint in Angola, Louisiana, where a brother who had done a bit there told me how they used to cut the grass on the front lawn with their fingernails.
- 2001, Andrew H. Vachss, Pain management:
- Not counting the days—that's okay for a county-time slap, but it'll make you crazy if you've got years to go on a felony bit.
- An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc.
- His bit about video games was not nearly as entertaining as the other segments of his show.
- Short for bit part.
- She acted her bit in the opening scene.
- The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers[1].
- The cutting iron of a plane[2].
- The bevelled front edge of an axehead along which the cutting edge runs.
- (BDSM) A gag of a style similar to a bridle.
- (MLE) A gun.
- 2013 December 23, Stephen Reynolds; Stephen Reynolds, director, Vendetta, spoken by Jimmy Vickers (Danny Dyer), 46:53 from the start:
- JIMMY: I need to get my hands on some bits. If you’re still in the business. RONNIE (played by Nick Nevern): Oi! TROJAN (played by Jean-Paul Van Cauwelaert): Ronnie. {…} TROJAN: Now that is a SIG Sauer P226.
SynonymsEdit
- (coin): coin, piece
- (small piece): morsel (of food), piece, scrap
- (portion): portion, share, segment
- (horse equipment): snaffle, pelham, kimberwicke
- (prison sentence): bid
Derived termsEdit
- a bit
- a fair bit
- a little bit
- a little bit of bread and no cheese
- a lot of bit
- behind the bit
- bergy bit
- bit and bit
- bit array
- bit banging
- bit between one's teeth
- bit bucket
- bit by bit
- bit crusher
- bit decay
- bit depth
- bit interval
- bit lifter
- bit map
- bit nibbler
- bit of all right
- bit of alright
- bit of crumpet
- bit of fluff
- bit of muslin
- bit of rough
- bit of skirt
- bit of stuff
- bit on the side
- bit part
- bit plane
- bit player
- bit rate
- bit role
- bit rot
- bit shank
- bit shift
- bit slice
- bit string
- bit stuffing
- bit-banger
- bit-bucket
- bit-compressed
- bit-count integrity
- bit-map
- bits and bobs
- bits and pieces
- bitty
- blind bit
- blown to bits
- brace and bit
- bucky bit
- cannon bit
- canon bit
- centre-bit
- chafe at the bit
- champ at the bit
- chicken bit
- chomp at the bit
- curb bit
- curb-bit
- devil's bit
- do one's bit
- drag bit
- every bit
- every little bit helps
- fall to bits
- fippenny bit
- Forstner bit
- German bit
- gouge bit
- hair of the dog that bit one
- high bit
- high order bit
- itty-bitty
- key bit
- lip bit
- long bit
- modesty bit
- naughty bit
- nose bit
- not a bit of it
- not a bit, not one bit
- parity bit
- pod bit
- quantum bit
- quill bit
- quite a bit
- rearing bit
- roller cone bit
- roller-cone bit
- rollercone bit
- rose bit
- sheep's-bit
- short bit
- sign bit
- sticky bit
- the biter bit
- threepenny bit
- threepenny-bit
- tit bit
- tongue-lolling bit
- two-bit
- wait-a-bit
- weather-bit
Related termsEdit
- bits (“genitals”)
TranslationsEdit
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VerbEdit
bit (third-person singular simple present bits, present participle bitting, simple past and past participle bitted)
- (transitive) To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of (a horse).
ReferencesEdit
- ^ 1874, Edward H. Knight, American Mechanical Dictionary
- ^ 1874, Edward H. Knight, American Mechanical Dictionary
Etymology 2Edit
See bite
VerbEdit
bit
- simple past tense of bite
- Your dog bit me!
- (informal in US, archaic in UK) past participle of bite, bitten
- I have been bit by your dog!
AdjectiveEdit
bit (not comparable)
- (chiefly in combination) Having been bitten.
- Even though he's bit, of course the zombies would still chase him.
- 1984, Field & Stream, volume 89, number July, page 24:
- Fortunately, someone who gets skeeter-bit this much may develop an immunity to the skeeter's saliva
- 1992, Robert Lewis Taylor, The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters:
- Only the year before, the conjure man had brought in the Jackson County madstone, from way over in Illinois, for a white peddler that had been dog-bit, and the man went ahead and died just the same
- 1998, Adele Griffin, Rainy Season, page 121:
- He will not — he'll tell you not to be loco, climbing up trees late at night when you'll get bug-bit to death plus you can't see anything
Etymology 3Edit
Coined by John Tukey in 1946 as an abbreviation of binary digit, probably influenced by connotations of “small portion”.[1][2] First used in print 1948 by Claude Shannon.[3] Compare byte and nybble, with similar food associations.
NounEdit
bit (plural bits)
- (mathematics, computing) A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
- (computing) The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.
- Synonym: b
- (information theory, cryptography) Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.
- status bits on IRC
- permission bits in a file system
- (information theory) A unit of measure for information entropy.
- 2011 May 17, Lisa Grossman, “Entropy Is Universal Rule of Language”, in Wired Science[4], retrieved 2012-09-26:
- The researchers found that the original texts spanned a variety of entropy values in different languages, reflecting differences in grammar and structure.
But strangely, the difference in entropy between the original, ordered text and the randomly scrambled text was constant across languages. This difference is a way to measure the amount of information encoded in word order, Montemurro says. The amount of information lost when they scrambled the text was about 3.5 bits per word.
- The researchers found that the original texts spanned a variety of entropy values in different languages, reflecting differences in grammar and structure.
- A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC).
HyponymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
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See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ “Six Receive Honorary Degrees at Princeton Commencement”, in (please provide the title of the work)[1], (please provide a date or year), archived from the original on 2002-02-09
- ^ (please provide the title of the work)[2], accessed 23 March 2007, archived from the original on 2007-03-03
- ^ Claude Shannon (July 1948), “A Mathematical Theory of Communication”, in The Bell System Technical Journal,
AnagramsEdit
AzerbaijaniEdit
Cyrillic | бит | |
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Perso-Arabic | بیت |
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Turkic *bït (“louse”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bit (definite accusative biti, plural bitlər)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of bit | ||||||||
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nominative | bit |
bitlər | ||||||
definite accusative | biti |
bitləri | ||||||
dative | bitə |
bitlərə | ||||||
locative | bitdə |
bitlərdə | ||||||
ablative | bitdən |
bitlərdən | ||||||
definite genitive | bitin |
bitlərin |
CatalanEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bit m (plural bits)
CzechEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Borrowed from English bit, from binary digit.
NounEdit
bit m
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
VerbEdit
bit
Further readingEdit
DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Ablaut of bijten.
NounEdit
bit n (plural bitten, diminutive bitje n)
- bit (for a working animal)
- bit (rotary cutting tool)
- mouthguard
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
bit m (plural bits, diminutive bitje n)
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From English.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bit m (plural bits)
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “bit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
HungarianEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bit (plural bitek)
DeclensionEdit
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | bit | bitek |
accusative | bitet | biteket |
dative | bitnek | biteknek |
instrumental | bittel | bitekkel |
causal-final | bitért | bitekért |
translative | bitté | bitekké |
terminative | bitig | bitekig |
essive-formal | bitként | bitekként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | bitben | bitekben |
superessive | biten | biteken |
adessive | bitnél | biteknél |
illative | bitbe | bitekbe |
sublative | bitre | bitekre |
allative | bithez | bitekhez |
elative | bitből | bitekből |
delative | bitről | bitekről |
ablative | bittől | bitektől |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
bité | biteké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
bitéi | bitekéi |
Possessive forms of bit | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | bitem | bitjeim |
2nd person sing. | bited | bitjeid |
3rd person sing. | bitje | bitjei |
1st person plural | bitünk | bitjeink |
2nd person plural | bitetek | bitjeitek |
3rd person plural | bitjük | bitjeik |
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
IndonesianEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From English bit (“binary digit”), from Middle English bitte, bite, from Old English bita (“bit; fragment; morsel”) and bite (“a bite; cut”), from Proto-Germanic *bitô and *bitiz; both from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split”).
NounEdit
bit (first-person possessive bitku, second-person possessive bitmu, third-person possessive bitnya)
Etymology 2Edit
From Dutch biet, from Middle Dutch bete, from Latin bēta.
NounEdit
bit (first-person possessive bitku, second-person possessive bitmu, third-person possessive bitnya)
- Beta vulgaris, common beet, beetroot, sugar beet, and chard.
Further readingEdit
- “bit” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
LashiEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bit
ReferencesEdit
- Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid[5], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)
Lower SorbianEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
bit
Nigerian PidginEdit
EtymologyEdit
VerbEdit
bit
Norwegian BokmålEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
bit m (definite singular biten, indefinite plural biter, definite plural bitene)
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From English bit (binary digit).
NounEdit
bit m (definite singular biten, indefinite plural bit or biter, definite plural bitene)
- a bit (binary digit)
ReferencesEdit
- “bit” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Norse.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bit m (definite singular biten, indefinite plural bitar, definite plural bitane)
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From English bit (binary digit).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bit m (definite singular biten, indefinite plural bit or bitar, definit plural bitane)
- a bit (binary digit)
Etymology 3Edit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bit n (definite singular bitet, indefinite plural bit, definite plural bita)
Etymology 4Edit
From the first person singular present indicative of Old Norse bíta, and from the second person singular imperative Old Norse bíta.
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
bit
- inflection of bite:
ReferencesEdit
- “bit” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old IrishEdit
VerbEdit
bit
PolishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
bit m inan
- (mathematics, computing) bit (binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0)
- bit informacji ― a bit of information
- bit po bicie ― bit by bit
DeclensionEdit
The genitive singular form bita is overall less common.
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
bit m inan
- beat (instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music)
- (music) beat (rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians)
DeclensionEdit
Alternative formsEdit
Etymology 3Edit
Borrowed from English drill bit.
NounEdit
bit m inan
DeclensionEdit
Etymology 4Edit
Borrowed from English big beat.
Alternative formsEdit
NounEdit
bit m inan
- big beat (form of pop music having distorted breakbeats at a moderate tempo)
- Synonym: big-beat
- polski bit ― Polish big beat
DeclensionEdit
Further readingEdit
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
Unadapted borrowing from English bit.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bit m (plural bits)
- (mathematics, computing) bit (binary digit)
SynonymsEdit
- Abbreviations: b
Coordinate termsEdit
Related termsEdit
- byte (unit equivalent to 8 bits)
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From English bit or French bit.
NounEdit
bit m (plural biți)
DeclensionEdit
Saterland FrisianEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
ConjunctionEdit
bit
PrepositionEdit
bit
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
ScotsEdit
AdjectiveEdit
bit
- Little.
- 1889, Jessup Whitehead, The Steward's Handbook and Guide to Party Catering (page 439)
- A bit wee lambie
- 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
- He laid a hundred guineas with the laird of Slofferfield that he would drive four horses through the Slofferfield loch, and in the prank he had his bit chariot dung to pieces and a good mare killed.
- 1889, Jessup Whitehead, The Steward's Handbook and Guide to Party Catering (page 439)
Serbo-CroatianEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From bȉti (“to be”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bȋt f (Cyrillic spelling би̑т)
DeclensionEdit
Etymology 2Edit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bȉt m (Cyrillic spelling би̏т)
DeclensionEdit
SlavomolisanoEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Serbo-Croatian biti, from Proto-Slavic *byti, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *bū́ˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-.
VerbEdit
bit pf or impf
- to be
ReferencesEdit
- Walter Breu and Giovanni Piccoli (2000), Dizionario croato molisano di Acquaviva Collecroce: Dizionario plurilingue della lingua slava della minoranza di provenienza dalmata di Acquaviva Collecroce in Provincia di Campobasso (Parte grammaticale)., pp. 409–412
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bit m (plural bits)
- bit (binary digit)
Further readingEdit
- “bit”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
SwedishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Norse biti, noun definitions 2 and 4: From English bit, from binary digit.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bit c
- bit, a piece (small piece)
- bit (portion)
- bit (binary digit)
- bit (unit of storage)
- bit, a tune (piece of music)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of bit | ||||
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Nominative | bit | biten | bitar | bitarna |
Genitive | bits | bitens | bitars | bitarnas |
Derived termsEdit
- bitsocker (“sugar in the form of sugar cubes, lump sugar”)
- pusselbit (“puzzle piece”)
- sockerbit (“sugar cube”)
VerbEdit
bit
- imperative of bita.
TurkishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Ottoman Turkish بیت, بت, from Proto-Turkic *bït (“louse”).
NounEdit
bit (definite accusative biti, plural bitler)
DeclensionEdit
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Derived termsEdit
- bit yeniği (fishy)
- bitli (lousy)
See alsoEdit
- pire (flea)
Etymology 2Edit
Borrowed from English bit, abbreviation of binary digit.
NounEdit
bit (definite accusative biti, plural bitler)
DeclensionEdit
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Nominative | bit | bitler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | biti | bitleri | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dative | bite | bitlere | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | bitte | bitlerde | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ablative | bitten | bitlerden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | bitin | bitlerin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Etymology 3Edit
VerbEdit
bit
TurkmenEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Turkic *bït (“louse”). Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (bit), Turkish bit (“louse”), etc.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bit (definite accusative bidi, plural bitler)
DeclensionEdit
VietnameseEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɓit̚˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɓit̚˧˧]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ʔɓɨt̚˧˧]
Audio (Ho Chi Minh City) (file)
NounEdit
bit
ZhuangEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /pit˥/
- Tone numbers: bit7
- Hyphenation: bit
Etymology 1Edit
From Proto-Tai *pitᴰ (“duck”). Cognate with Thai เป็ด (bpèt), Lao ເປັດ (pet), Lü ᦵᦔᧆ (ṗed), Tai Dam ꪹꪜꪸꪒ, Shan ပဵတ်း (páet), Ahom 𑜆𑜢𑜄𑜫 (pit), Bouyei bidt, Saek ปิ๊ด. Compare Old Chinese 鴄 (OC *pʰid).
NounEdit
bit (classifier duz, Sawndip forms 鴓 or 𱈶 or ⿰品鳥, 1957–1982 spelling bit)
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
bit (classifier gaiq, Sawndip forms 𣭈 or 𰚎, 1957–1982 spelling bit)
ClassifierEdit
bit (1957–1982 spelling bit)
- Classifier for sums of money and deals.
Etymology 3Edit
ClassifierEdit
bit (1957–1982 spelling bit)
- Classifier for cloth: bolt of