bite

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 bīt

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of biting. countable,uncountable
    — […]I have knowne a very good Fiſher angle diligently four or ſix hours in a day, for three or four dayes together for a River Carp, and not have a bite[…]
  2. The wound left behind after having been bitten. countable,uncountable
    — That snake bite really hurts!
  3. The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting. countable,uncountable
    — After just one night in the jungle I was covered with mosquito bites.
  4. A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful. countable,uncountable
    — There were only a few bites left on the plate.
  5. Something unpleasant. countable,slang,uncountable
    — In February of this year, 9to5 was forced to lay off four of its paid staff, and began to feel the bite of its high-rent downtown office space.
  6. An act of plagiarism. countable,slang,uncountable
    — That song is a bite of my song!
  7. A small meal or snack. countable,uncountable
    — a bite to eat
  8. incisiveness, provocativeness, exactness. figuratively,uncountable
  9. Aggression. figuratively,uncountable
    — Kathy Santen is full of bite as the bizarrely seduced Lady Anne, although her exaggerated diction is a bit too snappishly Shakespearean.
  10. 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. countable,uncountable
  11. A cheat; a trick; a fraud. colloquial,countable,dated,uncountable
    — The baser methods of getting money by fraud and bite, by deceiving and overreaching.
  12. A sharper; one who cheats. colloquial,countable,dated,slang,uncountable
    — [I]t was conjectured, that Peregrine was a bite from the beginning, who had found credit on account of his effrontery and appearance, and impoſed himſelf upon the town as a young gentleman of fortune.
  13. 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. countable,uncountable
  14. A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money. countable,slang,uncountable
    — I know three Americans who are running a bar. The cops come in all the time for a bite.
  15. Ellipsis of sound bite. abbreviation,alt-of,countable,ellipsis,uncountable
    — 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.
  16. The turn that a spin bowler imparts to a pitch. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To cut into something by clamping the teeth. transitive
    — As soon as you bite that sandwich, you'll know how good it is.
  2. To hold something by clamping one's teeth. transitive
  3. To attack with the teeth. intransitive
    — That dog is about to bite!
  4. To behave aggressively; to reject advances. intransitive
    — If you see me, come and say hello. I don't bite.
  5. To take hold; to establish firm contact with. intransitive
    — I needed snow chains to make the tires bite.
  6. To have significant effect, often negative. intransitive
    — For homeowners with adjustable rate mortgages, rising interest will really bite.
  7. To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught. intransitive
    — Are the fish biting today?
  8. To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor. figuratively,intransitive
    — I've planted the story. Do you think they'll bite?
  9. To sting. intransitive,transitive
    — These mosquitoes are really biting today!
  10. To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent. intransitive
    — It bites like pepper or mustard.
  11. To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure. figuratively,sometimes,transitive
    — Pepper bites the mouth.
  12. To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing. intransitive
    — At the laſt it [wine] biteth like a ſerpent, and ſtingeth like ‖ an adder.
  13. To take or keep a firm hold. intransitive
    — The anchor bites.
  14. To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to. transitive
    — The anchor bites the ground.
  15. To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck. slang,stative
    — This music really bites.
  16. To perform oral sex on. Used in invective. informal,transitive,vulgar
    — You don't like that I sat on your car? Bite me.
  17. To plagiarize, to imitate. intransitive,slang
    — He always be biting my moves.
  18. To deceive or defraud; to take in. obsolete,slang,transitive

词形变化

bites present,singular,third-person biting participle,present bit past bitten participle,past bit participle,past bites plural

词汇关系

下位词
bite down
衍生词
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相关词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English biten, from Old English bītan (“bite”), from Proto-West Germanic *bītan, from Proto-Germanic *bītaną (“bite”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“split”).
Cognates include Saterland Frisian biete (“bite”), West Frisian bite (“bite”), Dutch bijten (“bite”), German Low German bieten (“bite”), German beißen, beissen (“bite”), Danish bide (“bite”), Swedish bita (“bite”), Norwegian Bokmål bite (“bite”), Norwegian Nynorsk bita (“bite”), Faroese and Icelandic bíta (“bite”), Gothic 𐌱𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (beitan, “bite”), Latin findō (“split”), Ancient Greek φείδομαι (pheídomai), Sanskrit भिद् (bhid, “break”).
词源 2
From Middle English biten, from Old English bītan (“bite”), from Proto-West Germanic *bītan, from Proto-Germanic *bītaną (“bite”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“split”).
Cognates include Saterland Frisian biete (“bite”), West Frisian bite (“bite”), Dutch bijten (“bite”), German Low German bieten (“bite”), German beißen, beissen (“bite”), Danish bide (“bite”), Swedish bita (“bite”), Norwegian Bokmål bite (“bite”), Norwegian Nynorsk bita (“bite”), Faroese and Icelandic bíta (“bite”), Gothic 𐌱𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (beitan, “bite”), Latin findō (“split”), Ancient Greek φείδομαι (pheídomai), Sanskrit भिद् (bhid, “break”).
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