bite
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Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
As soon as you bite that sandwich, you'll know how good it is.
- 2.
(transitive)To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
- 3.
(intransitive)To attack with the teeth.
That dog is about to bite!
- 4.
(intransitive)(intransitive, chiefly in the negative) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
If you see me, come and say hello. I don't bite.
- 5.
(intransitive)To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
I needed snow chains to make the tires bite.
- 6.
(intransitive)To have significant effect, often negative.
For homeowners with adjustable rate mortgages, rising interest will really bite.
- 7.
(intransitive)(intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
Are the fish biting today?
- 8.
(figuratively, intransitive)(intransitive, figurative) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
I've planted the story. Do you think they'll bite?
- 9.
(intransitive, transitive)(intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.
These mosquitoes are really biting today!
- 10.
(intransitive)To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
It bites like pepper or mustard.
- 11.
(figuratively, sometimes, transitive)(transitive, sometimes figurative) To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.
Pepper bites the mouth.
- 12.
(intransitive)To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(countable, uncountable)The act of biting.
- 2.
(countable, uncountable)The wound left behind after having been bitten.
That snake bite really hurts!
- 3.
(countable, uncountable)The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
After just one night in the jungle I was covered with mosquito bites.
Đồng nghĩa: sting
- 4.
(countable, uncountable)A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
There were only a few bites left on the plate.
- 5.
(countable, slang, uncountable)Something unpleasant.
- 6.
(countable, slang, uncountable)An act of plagiarism.
That song is a bite of my song!
- 7.
(countable, uncountable)A small meal or snack.
a bite to eat
I'll have a quick bite to quiet my stomach until dinner.
- 8.
(figuratively, uncountable)incisiveness, provocativeness, exactness.
- 9.
(figuratively, uncountable)Aggression.
- 10.
(countable, uncountable)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.
- 11.
(colloquial, countable, dated, uncountable)A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
- 12.
(colloquial, countable, dated, slang, uncountable)A sharper; one who cheats.
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From Middle English biten, from Old English bītan (bite), from *bītan, from Proto-Germanic *bītaną (bite), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (split).