bait
诱饵,饵料,饵,鱼饵
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Definitions
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- : food, or some substitute, used as a lure in fishing, trapping, etc.
- : a poisoned lure used in exterminating pests.
- : an allurement; enticement: Employees were lured with the bait of annual bonuses.
- : an object for pulling molten or liquefied material, as glass, from a vat or the like by adhesion.
- : South Midland and Southern U.S. a large or sufficient quantity or amount: He fetched a good bait of wood.an excessive quantity or amount.
- : British Slang. food.
- 1
- : to prepare with bait.
- : to entice by deception or trickery so as to entrap or destroy: using fake signal lights to bait the ships onto the rocks.
- : to attract, tempt, or captivate.
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Phrases
- bait and switch
- fish or cut bait
- jump at (the bait)
- rise to the bait
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Realizing he could do the same on a large scale, he found a farmer who was breeding insects for fish bait, and recruited him to help launch Ÿnsect.
There are the seafood buffets and bait shops, which give way to newfangled Starbucks.
Jumping worms are often sold as compost worms or fishing bait.
For a sub-30 percent shooter from three, he’s taken the bait too often.
Such baits would be especially helpful if they attract other types of locusts, too, like the desert species.
I hope that there is a trend away from the kind of “click-bait” type of essay that you often see on the Internet.
The gang does bait two officers with Noah, but another car comes tearing in and whisks them both away.
The shift in language and content is click-bait for the enterprising eBay-er.
In November, Maine voters will vote on whether to ban using dogs, traps, and bait to hunt black bears in the Pine Tree State.
Take, for example, these two Great Whites fighting over bait.
The moment the bait was touched, down would come the heavy timber—smash—on the tiger's head.
But what if I catch the fish by using a hired boat and a hired net, or by buying worms as bait from some one who has dug them?