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To cut into something by clamping the teeth.transitive
- As soon as you bite that sandwich, you'll know how good it is.
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To hold something by clamping one's teeth.transitive
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To attack with the teeth.intransitive
- That dog is about to bite!
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To behave aggressively; to reject advances.intransitive
- If you see me, come and say hello. I don't bite.
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To take hold; to establish firm contact with.intransitive
- I needed snow chains to make the tires bite.
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To have significant effect, often negative.intransitive
- For homeowners with adjustable rate mortgages, rising interest will really bite.
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To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.intransitive
- Are the fish biting today?
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To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.figurativelyintransitive
- I've planted the story. Do you think they'll bite?
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To sting.intransitivetransitive
- These mosquitoes are really biting today!
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To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.intransitive
- It bites like pepper or mustard.
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The act of biting.countableuncountable
- […]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[…]
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The wound left behind after having been bitten.countableuncountable
- That snake bite really hurts!
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The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.countableuncountable
- After just one night in the jungle I was covered with mosquito bites.
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A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.countableuncountable
- There were only a few bites left on the plate.
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Something unpleasant.countableslanguncountable
- 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.
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An act of plagiarism.countableslanguncountable
- That song is a bite of my song!
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A small meal or snack.countableuncountable
- a bite to eat
- I'll have a quick bite to quiet my stomach until dinner.
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incisiveness, provocativeness, exactness.figurativelyuncountable
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Aggression.figurativelyuncountable
- Kathy Santen is full of bite as the bizarrely seduced Lady Anne, although her exaggerated diction is a bit too snappishly Shakespearean.
- In Tarabai’s text this exposure is direct, unusually blunt, full of bite and ridicule, and highly polemical.
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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.countableuncountable