Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word bite. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in bite.
Definitions and meaning of bite
bite
Etymology
From Middle Englishbiten, from Old Englishbītan(“bite”), from Proto-West Germanic*bītan, from Proto-Germanic*bītaną(“bite”), from Proto-Indo-European*bʰeyd-(“split”).
Cognates include Saterland Frisianbiete(“bite”), West Frisianbite(“bite”), Dutchbijten(“bite”), German Low Germanbieten(“bite”), Germanbeißen, beissen(“bite”), Danishbide(“bite”), Swedishbita(“bite”), Norwegian Bokmålbite(“bite”), Norwegian Nynorskbita(“bite”), Icelandicbíta(“bite”), Gothic𐌱𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽(beitan, “bite”), Latinfindō(“split”), Ancient Greekφείδομαι(pheídomai), Sanskritभिद्(bhid, “break”).
(transitive) To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
(transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
(intransitive) To attack with the teeth.
(intransitive) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
(intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
(intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.
(intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
(intransitive, figurative) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
(intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.
(intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
(transitive, sometimes figurative) To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.
(intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
(intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold.
(transitive) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
(intransitive, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
(transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
(intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.
(obsolete, transitive, slang) To deceive or defraud; to take in.
Hyponyms
bite down
Derived terms
Descendants
Sranan Tongo: beti
Translations
Noun
bite (countable and uncountable, pluralbites)
The act of biting.
The wound left behind after having been bitten.
The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
Synonym:sting
A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
(slang) Something unpleasant.
(slang) An act of plagiarism.
A small meal or snack.
(figuratively, uncountable) Aggression.
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.
(colloquial, dated) A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
(colloquial, dated, slang) A sharper; one who cheats.
(printing) 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.
(slang) A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.
(television)Ellipsis of sound bite.
Derived terms
Related terms
beetle
bit
Descendants
Sranan Tongo: beti
Translations
Anagrams
EBIT, Ebit, ebit, tebi-
Czech
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [ˈbɪtɛ]
Homophone: byte
Noun
bite
vocative singular of bit
French
Alternative forms
bitte
Etymology
From Old Norsebiti(“beam, girder”), from Proto-Germanic*bitô, from Proto-Indo-European*bʰeyd-(“to split”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /bit/
Noun
bitef (pluralbites)
(slang, vulgar) knob, cock, dick
Derived terms
Further reading
“bite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Garo
Etymology
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Noun
bite
fruit
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Englishbite.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈbajt/
Rhymes: -ajt
Noun
bitem (invariable)
(dentistry) split (dental device)
Khumi Chin
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /bi˩.te˧/
Adjective
bite
hot
Related terms
bi-üngte
References
K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin[2], Payap University, page 74
Latvian
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic*bitē (compare Lithuanianbitė), from Proto-Indo-European*bʰey-, *bʰī-. Cognate to Englishbee.
Noun
bitef (5th declension)
bee
Declension
Lithuanian
Noun
bitè
instrumental singular of bìtė(“bee”)
Noun
bìte
instrumental singular of bìtė(“bee”)
Murui Huitoto
Etymology
Cognates include Minica Huitotobite and Nüpode Huitotobitde.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [ˈbitɛ]
Hyphenation: bi‧te
Verb
bite
(intransitive) to come
Conjugation
Derived terms
References
Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)[3] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 36
Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.[4], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 76
Neapolitan
Noun
bite
plural of bita
North Frisian
Verb
bite
(Halligen), (Mooring) To bite.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norsebíta, from Proto-Germanic*bītaną, from Proto-Indo-European*bʰeyd-(“to split”).
Verb
bite (present tensebiter, past tensebetorbeit, past participlebitt, present participlebitende)
To bite.
Derived terms
bite i gresset
bitende(adjective)
Related terms
bitt(noun)
References
“bite” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
bite (present tensebit, past tensebeit, supinebite, past participlebiten, present participlebitande, imperativebit)
e-infinitive form of bita(in dialects with e-infinitive or split infinitive)
References
“bite” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic*biti.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈbi.te/
Noun
bitem
bite
Descendants
Middle English: bitte, bite(merged with descendant of Old Englishbita)
Scots: bit
English: bit
Polish
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈbi.tɛ/
Rhymes: -itɛ
Syllabification: bi‧te
Participle
bite
inflection of bity:
neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural
Turkish
Noun
bite
dative singular of bit
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisianbīta.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈbitə/
Verb
bite
To bite.
Inflection
Further reading
“bite (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011