{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "baɪt" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/bite.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/bite.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English biten, from Old English bītan (“bite”), from Proto-West Germanic *bītan, from Proto-Germanic *bītaną (“bite”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“split”). \nCognates include Saterland Frisian biete (“bite”), West Frisian bite (“bite”), Dutch bijten (“bite”), German Low German bieten (“bite”), German beißen, beissen (“bite”), Danish bide (“bite”), Swedish bita (“bite”), Norwegian Bokmål bite (“bite”), Norwegian Nynorsk bita (“bite”), Icelandic bíta (“bite”), Gothic 𐌱𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (beitan, “bite”), Latin findō (“split”), Ancient Greek φείδομαι (pheídomai), Sanskrit भिद् (bhid, “break”)." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To cut into something by clamping the teeth.\nAs soon as you bite that sandwich, you'll know how good it is." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To attack with the teeth.\nThat dog is about to bite!" }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.\nIf you see me, come and say hello. I don't bite." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.\nI needed snow chains to make the tires bite." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.\nFor homeowners with adjustable rate mortgages, rising interest will really bite." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.\nAre the fish biting today?" }, { "mean": "(intransitive, figurative) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.\nI've planted the story. Do you think they'll bite?" }, { "mean": "(intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.\nThese mosquitoes are really biting today!" }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.\nIt bites like pepper or mustard." }, { "mean": "(transitive, sometimes figurative) To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.\nPepper bites the mouth.\nc. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 229, column 1: froſts doe bite the Meads" }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.\n1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Proverbs 23:32, column 1:At the laſt it biteth like a ſerpent, and ſtingeth like ‖ an adder." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold.\nThe anchor bites." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.\nThe anchor bites the ground.\n1859, Charles Dickens, “Fire Rises”, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, , →OCLC, book II (The Golden Thread), page 152: the last screw of the rack having been turned so often that its purchase crumbled, and it now turned and turned with nothing to bite" }, { "mean": "(intransitive, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.\nThis music really bites." }, { "mean": "(transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.\nYou don't like that I sat on your car? Bite me." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.\nHe always be biting my moves." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) To deceive or defraud; to take in." } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "The act of biting.\n1653, Iz Wa, chapter VIII, in The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, , London: T. Maxey for Rich Marriot, , →OCLC; reprinted as The Compleat Angler (Homo Ludens; 6), Nieuwkoop, South Holland, Netherlands: Miland Publishers, 1969, →ISBN: 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" }, { "mean": "The wound left behind after having been bitten.\nThat snake bite really hurts!" }, { "mean": "The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.\nAfter just one night in the jungle I was covered with mosquito bites." }, { "mean": "A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.\nThere were only a few bites left on the plate." }, { "mean": "(slang) Something unpleasant.\nThat's really a bite!" }, { "mean": "(slang) An act of plagiarism.\nThat song is a bite of my song!" }, { "mean": "A small meal or snack.\nI'll have a quick bite to quiet my stomach until dinner." }, { "mean": "(figuratively) aggression\n2011 March 2, Saj Chowdhury, “Man City 3 - 0 Aston Villa”, in BBC‎:City scored the goals but periods of ball possession were shared - the difference being Villa lacked bite in the opposition final third." }, { "mean": "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." }, { "mean": "(colloquial, dated) A cheat; a trick; a fraud.\n1725, Thomas Gordon, The Humorist\nThe baser methods of getting money by fraud and bite, by deceiving and overreaching." }, { "mean": "(colloquial, dated, slang) A sharper; one who cheats.\n1751, Smollett, “Pickle Seems Tolerably Well Reconciled to His Cage; ”, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle , volume IV, London: Harrison and Co., , published 1781, →OCLC, page 385, column 1:t was conjectured, that Peregrine was a bite from the beginning, who had found credit on account of his effrontery and appearance, and impoſed himſelf upon the town as a young gentleman of fortune." }, { "mean": "(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." }, { "mean": "(slang) A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.\n1951, William S. Burroughs, in Harris (ed.), Letters 1945–59, Penguin 2009, p. 92:\nI know three Americans who are running a bar. The cops come in all the time for a bite." }, { "mean": "(television) Short for sound bite.\n2015, Robert A. Papper, Broadcast News and Writing Stylebook\ncold open: Starting a TV newscast with video or a bite from the lead story rather than starting with the anchor or the standard show open." } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }