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      "etymologies": [
        "From Middle English bitte, bite, from Old English bita (“bit; fragment; morsel”) and bite (“a bite; cut”), from Proto-Germanic *bitô and *bitiz; both from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split”). More at bite.\n\n\ncognates\n\nCognate with West Frisian bit, Saterland Frisian Bit, Dutch bit, German Low German Beet, Biet, German Biss and Bissen, Danish bid, Swedish bit, Icelandic biti.",
        "See bite",
        "Coined by John Tukey in 1946 as an abbreviation of binary digit, probably influenced by connotations of “small portion”. First used in print 1948 by Claude Shannon. Compare byte and nybble, with similar food associations."
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              "mean": "A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.\nA horse hates having a bit put in its mouth."
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              "mean": "A rotary cutting tool fitted to a drill, used to bore holes."
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              "mean": "(dated, Britain) A coin of a specified value.\na threepenny bit"
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              "mean": "(obsolete, Canada) A ten-cent piece, dime."
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              "mean": "(now US) A unit of currency or coin in the Americas worth a fraction of a Spanish dollar; now specifically, an eighth of a US dollar.\nA quarter is two bits."
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              "mean": "(historical, US) In the southern and southwestern states, a small silver coin (such as the real) formerly current; commonly, one worth about 12½ cents; also, the sum of 12½ cents."
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              "mean": "A small amount of something.\nThere were bits of paper all over the floor.\nDoes your leg still hurt? —Just a bit now.\nI've done my bit; I expect you to do yours."
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              "mean": "(informal) Specifically, a small amount of time.\nI'll be there in a bit; I need to take care of something first.\nHe was here just a bit ago, but it looks like he's stepped out."
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              "mean": "(in the plural, informal, sports) Fractions of a second.\nThe 400 metres race was won in 47 seconds and bits."
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              "mean": "A portion of something.\nI'd like a big bit of cake, please."
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            {
              "mean": "Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree. See also a bit.\nAm I bored? Not a bit of it!"
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            {
              "mean": "(slang) A prison sentence, especially a short one."
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            {
              "mean": "An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc.\nHis bit about video games was not nearly as entertaining as the other segments of his show."
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            {
              "mean": "Short for bit part.\nShe acted her bit in the opening scene."
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            {
              "mean": "The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers."
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            {
              "mean": "The cutting iron of a plane."
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            {
              "mean": "The bevelled front edge of an axehead along which the cutting edge runs."
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            {
              "mean": "(BDSM) A gag of a style similar to a bridle."
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            {
              "mean": "(MLE) A gun."
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          "name": "Verb",
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            {
              "mean": "(transitive) To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of (a horse)."
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              "mean": "^  1874, Edward H. Knight, American Mechanical Dictionary\n\n ^  1874, Edward H. Knight, American Mechanical Dictionary"
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              "mean": "simple past tense of bite\nYour dog bit me!"
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              "mean": "(informal in US, archaic in UK) past participle of bite, bitten\nI have been bit by your dog!"
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          "name": "Adjective",
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              "mean": "(chiefly in combination) Having been bitten.\nEven though he's bit, of course the zombies would still chase him.\n1984,  Field & Stream, volume 89, number July, page 24:Fortunately, someone who gets skeeter-bit this much may develop an immunity to the skeeter's saliva\n1992,  Robert Lewis Taylor,  The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters:Only the year before, the conjure man had brought in the Jackson County madstone, from way over in Illinois, for a white peddler that had been dog-bit, and the man went ahead and died just the same\n1998,  Adele Griffin,  Rainy Season, page 121:He will not — he'll tell you not to be loco, climbing up trees late at night when you'll get bug-bit to death plus you can't see anything"
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              "mean": "(mathematics, computing) A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0."
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              "mean": "(computing) The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.\nSynonym: b"
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              "mean": "(information theory, cryptography) Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.\nstatus bits on IRC\npermission bits in a file system"
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            {
              "mean": "(information theory) A unit of measure for information entropy."
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            {
              "mean": "A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC)."
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              "mean": "^  “Six Receive Honorary Degrees at Princeton Commencement”, in(please provide the title of the work), (please provide a date or year), archived from the original on 2002-02-09\n\n ^  (please provide the title of the work), accessed 23 March 2007, archived from the original on 2007-03-03\n\n ^  Claude Shannon(July 1948),“A Mathematical Theory of Communication”, inThe Bell System Technical Journal, →DOI"
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