bit
位,位数,比特,位元
Related Words
Definitions
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- : Machinery. a removable drilling or boring tool for use in a brace, drill press, or the like.a removable boring head used on certain kinds of drills, as a rock drill.a device for drilling oil wells or the like, consisting of a horizontally rotating blade or an assembly of rotating toothed wheels.
- : the mouthpiece of a bridle, having fittings at each end to which the reins are fastened.
- : anything that curbs or restrains.
- : the blade or iron of a carpenter's plane.
- : the cutting part of an ax or hatchet.
- : the wide portion at the end of an ordinary key that moves the bolt.
- 1
bit·ted, bit·ting.
- : to put a bit in the mouth of.
- : to curb or restrain with, or as with, a bit.
- : to grind a bit on.
Phrases
- bit by bit
- bite off more than one can chew
- bite one's nails
- bite one's tongue
- bite someone's head off
- bite the bullet
- bite the dust
- bite the hand that feeds you
- a bit
- champ at the bit
- do one's bit
- every bit
- not a bit
- quite a bit
- take the bit in one's mouth
- two bits
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
This one is perhaps a bit too complex to capture in a sentence or two, so see our previous coverage of NDB here.
As a result, the waves travel a bit faster when the water is warmer.
She is juggling a lot and is plowing through, but wants to take care of herself naturally and sometimes a bit indulgently.
Elsewhere, the software feels a bit zippier than on the Series 5, thanks to Apple’s improved S6 processor chip.
At the time of the 1790 census, Virginia had a bit less than 13 times the population of Delaware.
In a bit of foreshadowing, he repeated that opinion in November.
Even the hot Jewish women I mentioned above did something a bit more “intellectual” than pageantry: acting.
His peers remember him as a bright man who spoke softly and occasionally came across as a bit shy.
She narrowed her eyes, bit her lip as if to chew over the question, and whisked some stray blond hairs away from her face.
It reminded me a bit of an alternative take on The Wolf of Wall Street—through the Toni and Candace lens.
After a bit of waiting, Mac decided that the smoke was floating from a certain direction, and we began to edge carefully that way.
The sudden pall of darkness in this strange house of mystery was just a tiny awesome.