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English
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Pronunciation
- enPR: bĭt, IPA(key): /bɪt/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪt
Etymology 1
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.
Cognate with West Frisian bit, Saterland Frisian Bit, Dutch bit, German Low German Beet, Biet, German Biss and Bissen, Danish bid, Swedish bit, Icelandic biti.
Noun
bit (plural bits)
- A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.
- A horse hates having a bit put in its mouth.
- A rotary cutting tool fitted to a drill, used to bore holes.
- (dated, Britain) A coin of a specified value.
- a threepenny bit
- (obsolete, Canada) A ten-cent piece, dime.
- 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, Chapter 10,
- The smallest coin we had in Canada in early days was a dime, worth ten cents. The Indians called this coin "a Bit". Our next coin, double in buying power and in size, was a twenty-five cent piece and this the Indians called "Two Bits".
- 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, Chapter 10,
- (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.
- A quarter is two bits.
- 1789, Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative, vol. I, ch. 6:
- I trusted to the Lord to be with me; and at one of our trips to St. Eustatia, a Dutch island, I bought a glass tumbler with my half bit, and when I came to Montserrat I sold it for a bit, or sixpence.
- 1966, Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, New York: Bantam Books, published 1976, →ISBN, page 16:
- He left after shaking her down for four bits for carrying the bags.
- (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.
- A small amount of something.
- There were bits of paper all over the floor.
- Does your leg still hurt? —Just a bit now.
- I've done my bit; I expect you to do yours.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, “The Beanspiller”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, OCLC 483591931, page 186:
- ‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough! […] What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’
- (informal) Specifically, a small amount of time.
- I'll be there in a bit; I need to take care of something first.
- He was here just a bit ago, but it looks like he's stepped out.
- (in the plural, informal, sports) Fractions of a second.
- The 400 metres race was won in 47 seconds and bits.
- A portion of something.
- I'd like a big bit of cake, please.
- 2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist:
- Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. […] A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that. Developed as a tool to electronically combine the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale.
- Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree. See also a bit.
- Am I bored? Not a bit of it!
- T. Hook
- My young companion was a bit of a poet.
- (slang) A prison sentence, especially a short one.
- 1904, The Anamosa prison press, volume 7, Iowa. Colony of Detention at Anamosa:
- Had it not been for the influence of Mrs. Booth and Hope Hall I should still be grafting or doing a bit in some stir
- 1916, Thomas Mott Osborne. Warden, Sing Sing Prison, N. Y., “Prison Reform”, in The Journal of sociologic medicine, volume 17, page 407:
- Before doing that I am going to tell you what was the result of my own incarceration, because I presume it may not be a secret to you, that I have done a "bit" myself, not the "bit" which the prosecuting attorney was so anxious to have me do.
- 1994, Odie Hawkins, Lost Angeles, page 158:
- Chino didn't make me think of Dachau or that notorious joint in Angola, Louisiana, where a brother who had done a bit there told me how they used to cut the grass on the front lawn with their fingernails.
- 2001, Andrew H. Vachss, Pain management:
- Not counting the days—that's okay for a county-time slap, but it'll make you crazy if you've got years to go on a felony bit.
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- An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc.
- His bit about video games was not nearly as entertaining as the other segments of his show.
- Short for bit part.
- She acted her bit in the opening scene.
- The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers[1].
- The cutting iron of a plane[2].
- The bevelled front edge of an axehead along which the cutting edge runs.
- (BDSM) A gag of a style similar to a bridle.
- (MLE) A gun.
- 2013 December 23, Stephen Reynolds; Stephen Reynolds, director, Vendetta, spoken by Jimmy Vickers (Danny Dyer), 46:53 from the start:
- JIMMY: I need to get my hands on some bits. If you’re still in the business. RONNIE (played by Nick Nevern): Oi! TROJAN (played by Jean-Paul Van Cauwelaert): Ronnie. {…} TROJAN: Now that is a SIG Sauer P226.
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Synonyms
- (coin): coin, piece
- (small piece): morsel (of food), piece, scrap
- (portion): portion, share, segment
- (horse equipment): snaffle, pelham, kimberwicke
- (prison sentence): bid
Derived terms
- a bit
- a fair bit
- a little bit
- a little bit of bread and no cheese
- a lot of bit
- behind the bit
- bergy bit
- bit and bit
- bit array
- bit-banger
- bit banging
- bit between one's teeth
- bit bucket
- bit-bucket
- bit by bit
- bit-compressed
- bit-count integrity
- bit crusher
- bit decay
- bit depth
- bit interval
- bit lifter
- bit-map
- bit map
- bit nibbler
- bit of all right
- bit of alright
- bit of crumpet
- bit of fluff
- bit of muslin
- bit of rough
- bit of skirt
- bit of stuff
- bit on the side
- bit part
- bit plane
- bit player
- bit rate
- bit role
- bit rot
- bits and bobs
- bits and pieces
- bit shank
- bit shift
- bit slice
- bit string
- bit stuffing
- bitty
- blind bit
- blown to bits
- brace and bit
- bucky bit
- cannon bit
- canon bit
- centre-bit
- chafe at the bit
- champ at the bit
- chicken bit
- chomp at the bit
- curb-bit
- curb bit
- devil's bit
- do one's bit
- drag bit
- every bit
- every little bit helps
- fall to bits
- fippenny bit
- Forstner bit
- German bit
- gouge bit
- hair of the dog that bit one
- high bit
- high order bit
- itty-bitty
- key bit
- lip bit
- long bit
- modesty bit
- naughty bit
- nose bit
- not a bit, not one bit
- not a bit of it
- parity bit
- pod bit
- quantum bit
- quill bit
- quite a bit
- rearing bit
- roller cone bit
- rollercone bit
- roller-cone bit
- rose bit
- sheep's-bit
- short bit
- sign bit
- sticky bit
- the biter bit
- threepenny bit
- threepenny-bit
- tit bit
- tongue-lolling bit
- two-bit
- wait-a-bit
- weather-bit
Related terms
- bits (“genitals”)
Translations
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Verb
bit (third-person singular simple present bits, present participle bitting, simple past and past participle bitted)
- (transitive) To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of (a horse).
References
- 1874, Edward H. Knight, American Mechanical Dictionary
- 1874, Edward H. Knight, American Mechanical Dictionary
Etymology 2
See bite
Verb
bit
- simple past tense of bite
- Your dog bit me!
- (informal in US, archaic in UK) past participle of bite, bitten
- I have been bit by your dog!
Adjective
bit (not comparable)
- (chiefly in combination) Having been bitten.
- Even though he's bit, of course the zombies would still chase him.
- 1984, 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
- 1992, 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
- 1998, 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
Etymology 3
Coined by John Tukey in 1946 as an abbreviation of binary digit, probably influenced by connotations of “small portion”.[1][2] First used in print 1948 by Claude Shannon.[3] Compare byte and nybble, with similar food associations.
Noun
bit (plural bits)
- (mathematics, computing) A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
- (computing) The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.
- Synonym: b
- (information theory, cryptography) Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.
- status bits on IRC
- permission bits in a file system
- (information theory) A unit of measure for information entropy.
- 2011 May 17, Lisa Grossman, “Entropy Is Universal Rule of Language”, in Wired Science, retrieved 2012-09-26:
- The researchers found that the original texts spanned a variety of entropy values in different languages, reflecting differences in grammar and structure.
But strangely, the difference in entropy between the original, ordered text and the randomly scrambled text was constant across languages. This difference is a way to measure the amount of information encoded in word order, Montemurro says. The amount of information lost when they scrambled the text was about 3.5 bits per word.
- The researchers found that the original texts spanned a variety of entropy values in different languages, reflecting differences in grammar and structure.
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- A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC).
Hyponyms
- hidden bit
- high-order bit
- least significant bit
- most significant bit
- qubit
Derived terms
- 128-bit
- 16-bit
- 32-bit
- 64-bit
- 7-bit
- 8-bit
- bit-depth
- biter
- bitstream
- bitwise
Translations
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See also
- ban, nat, qubit
References
- “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
- (please provide the title of the work), accessed 23 March 2007, archived from the original on 2007-03-03
- Claude Shannon (July 1948), “A Mathematical Theory of Communication”, in The Bell System Technical Journal, DOI:
Anagrams
- Bti, ITB, TBI, TiB, tib
Azerbaijani
Cyrillic | бит | |
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Perso-Arabic | بیت |
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *bït (“louse”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [bit]
Audio (Baku) (file)
Noun
bit (definite accusative biti, plural bitlər)
- louse
Declension
Declension of bit | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
nominative | bit | bitlər | ||||||
definite accusative | biti | bitləri | ||||||
dative | bitə | bitlərə | ||||||
locative | bitdə | bitlərdə | ||||||
ablative | bitdən | bitlərdən | ||||||
definite genitive | bitin | bitlərin |
Possessive forms of bit | ||||||||
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nominative | ||||||||
singular | plural | |||||||
mənim (“my”) | bitim | bitlərim | ||||||
sənin (“your”) | bitin | bitlərin | ||||||
onun (“his/her/its”) | biti | bitləri | ||||||
bizim (“our”) | bitimiz | bitlərimiz | ||||||
sizin (“your”) | bitiniz | bitləriniz | ||||||
onların (“their”) | biti or bitləri | bitləri | ||||||
accusative | ||||||||
singular | plural | |||||||
mənim (“my”) | bitimi | bitlərimi | ||||||
sənin (“your”) | bitini | bitlərini | ||||||
onun (“his/her/its”) | bitini | bitlərini | ||||||
bizim (“our”) | bitimizi | bitlərimizi | ||||||
sizin (“your”) | bitinizi | bitlərinizi | ||||||
onların (“their”) | bitini or bitlərini | bitlərini | ||||||
dative | ||||||||
singular | plural | |||||||
mənim (“my”) | bitimə | bitlərimə | ||||||
sənin (“your”) | bitinə | bitlərinə | ||||||
onun (“his/her/its”) | bitinə | bitlərinə | ||||||
bizim (“our”) | bitimizə | bitlərimizə | ||||||
sizin (“your”) | bitinizə | bitlərinizə | ||||||
onların (“their”) | bitinə or bitlərinə | bitlərinə | ||||||
locative | ||||||||
singular | plural | |||||||
mənim (“my”) | bitimdə | bitlərimdə | ||||||
sənin (“your”) | bitində | bitlərində | ||||||
onun (“his/her/its”) | bitində | bitlərində | ||||||
bizim (“our”) | bitimizdə | bitlərimizdə | ||||||
sizin (“your”) | bitinizdə | bitlərinizdə | ||||||
onların (“their”) | bitində or bitlərində | bitlərində | ||||||
ablative | ||||||||
singular | plural | |||||||
mənim (“my”) | bitimdən | bitlərimdən | ||||||
sənin (“your”) | bitindən | bitlərindən | ||||||
onun (“his/her/its”) | bitindən | bitlərindən | ||||||
bizim (“our”) | bitimizdən | bitlərimizdən | ||||||
sizin (“your”) | bitinizdən | bitlərinizdən | ||||||
onların (“their”) | bitindən or bitlərindən | bitlərindən | ||||||
genitive | ||||||||
singular | plural | |||||||
mənim (“my”) | bitimin | bitlərimin | ||||||
sənin (“your”) | bitinin | bitlərinin | ||||||
onun (“his/her/its”) | bitinin | bitlərinin | ||||||
bizim (“our”) | bitimizin | bitlərimizin | ||||||
sizin (“your”) | bitinizin | bitlərinizin | ||||||
onların (“their”) | bitinin or bitlərinin | bitlərinin |
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈbit/
- Rhymes: -it
Noun
bit m (plural bits)
- (computing) bit
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈbɪt]
audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɪt
- Homophone: byt
Etymology 1
From English bit, from binary digit.
Noun
bit m
- (computing) bit
Declension
singular | plural | |
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nominative | bit | bity |
genitive | bitu | bitů |
dative | bitu | bitům |
accusative | bit | bity |
vocative | bite | bity |
locative | bitu | bitech |
instrumental | bitem | bity |
Derived terms
- bitový
- osmibitový
- šestnáctibitový
- kilobit
- megabit
- gigabit
- terabit
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
bit
- masculine singular passive participle of bít
Further reading
- bit in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
- bit in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
- bit in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɪt/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: bit
- Rhymes: -ɪt
Etymology 1
Ablaut of bijten.
Noun
bit n (plural bitten, diminutive bitje n)
- bit (for a working animal)
- bit (rotary cutting tool)
- mouthguard
Etymology 2
From English bit.
Noun
bit m (plural bits, diminutive bitje n)
- bit (binary digit)
- bit (unit of storage)
- bit (datum with two possible values)
French
Etymology
From English.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bit/
Audio (file)
Noun
bit m (plural bits)
- (computing) bit
Derived terms
- bit le moins significatif
- bit le plus significatif
Further reading
- “bit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Hungarian
Etymology
From English bit.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈbit]
- Hyphenation: bit
- Rhymes: -it
Noun
bit (plural bitek)
- (computing) bit (binary digit)
Declension
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | bit | bitek |
accusative | bitet | biteket |
dative | bitnek | biteknek |
instrumental | bittel | bitekkel |
causal-final | bitért | bitekért |
translative | bitté | bitekké |
terminative | bitig | bitekig |
essive-formal | bitként | bitekként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | bitben | bitekben |
superessive | biten | biteken |
adessive | bitnél | biteknél |
illative | bitbe | bitekbe |
sublative | bitre | bitekre |
allative | bithez | bitekhez |
elative | bitből | bitekből |
delative | bitről | bitekről |
ablative | bittől | bitektől |
non-attributive possessive - singular | bité | biteké |
non-attributive possessive - plural | bitéi | bitekéi |
Possessive forms of bit | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | bitem | bitjeim |
2nd person sing. | bited | bitjeid |
3rd person sing. | bitje | bitjei |
1st person plural | bitünk | bitjeink |
2nd person plural | bitetek | bitjeitek |
3rd person plural | bitjük | bitjeik |
Derived terms
- jelzőbit
References
- Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
Indonesian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈbɪt]
- Hyphenation: bit
Etymology 1
From English bit (“binary digit”), 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”).
Noun
bit (first-person possessive bitku, second-person possessive bitmu, third-person possessive bitnya)
- (computing) bit, smallest unit of storage.
Etymology 2
From Dutch biet, from Middle Dutch bete, from Latin bēta.
Noun
bit (first-person possessive bitku, second-person possessive bitmu, third-person possessive bitnya)
- Beta vulgaris, common beet, beetroot, sugar beet, and chard.
Further reading
- “bit” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Lashi
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bit/
Noun
bit
- sun
References
- Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid, Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bʲit/
Verb
bit
- supine of biś
Nigerian Pidgin
Etymology
From English beat.
Verb
bit
- beat
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From Old Norse biti.
Noun
bit m (definite singular biten, indefinite plural biter, definite plural bitene)
- a bit, piece (of something)
- a bite, mouthful (of food)
Derived terms
- isbit
- smakebit
Etymology 2
From English bit (binary digit).
Noun
bit m (definite singular biten, indefinite plural bit or biter, definite plural bitene)
- a bit (binary digit)
References
- “bit” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From Old Norse.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /biːt/
Noun
bit m (definite singular biten, indefinite plural bitar, definite plural bitane)
- a bit, piece (of something)
Derived terms
- isbit
- smakebit
Etymology 2
From English bit (binary digit).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɪtː/
Noun
bit m (definite singular biten, indefinite plural bit or bitar, definit plural bitane)
- a bit (binary digit)
Etymology 3
From Old Norse bit.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /biːt/
Noun
bit n (definite singular bitet, indefinite plural bit, definite plural bita)
- a bite (e.g. insect bite, dog bite)
- a bite, mouthful (of food)
Etymology 4
From the first person singular present indicative of Old Norse bíta, and from the second person singular imperative Old Norse bíta.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /biːt/
Verb
bit
- inflection of bite:
- present
- imperative
References
- “bit” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Irish
Verb
bit
- third-person plural future of is
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bit/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -it
- Syllabification: bit
- Homophone: bid
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English bit.
Noun
bit m inan
- (mathematics, computing) bit (binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0)
- bit informacji ― a bit of information
- bit po bicie ― bit by bit
Declension
singular | plural | |
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nominative | bit | bity |
genitive | bit/bita | bitów |
dative | bitowi | bitom |
accusative | bit | bity |
instrumental | bitem | bitami |
locative | bicie | bitach |
vocative | bicie | bity |
The genitive singular form bita is overall less common.
Derived terms
- bitowy
Related terms
- bitmapowy
- bitmapa
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English beat.
Noun
bit m inan
- beat (instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music)
- (music) beat (rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians)
Declension
singular | plural | |
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nominative | bit | bity |
genitive | bitu | bitów |
dative | bitowi | bitom |
accusative | bit | bity |
instrumental | bitem | bitami |
locative | bicie | bitach |
vocative | bicie | bity |
Alternative forms
- beat
Etymology 3
Borrowed from English drill bit.
Noun
bit m inan
- drill bit
Declension
singular | plural | |
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nominative | bit | bity |
genitive | bitu | bitów |
dative | bitowi | bitom |
accusative | bit | bity |
instrumental | bitem | bitami |
locative | bicie | bitach |
vocative | bicie | bity |
Etymology 4
Borrowed from English big beat.
Alternative forms
- beat
Noun
bit m inan
- big beat (form of pop music having distorted breakbeats at a moderate tempo)
- Synonym: big-beat
- polski bit ― Polish big beat
Declension
singular | |
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nominative | bit |
genitive | bitu |
dative | bitowi |
accusative | bit |
instrumental | bitem |
locative | bicie |
vocative | bicie |
Further reading
- bit in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- bit in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English bit.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbi.t͡ʃi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbi.te/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈbi.t(ɨ)/
Noun
bit m (plural bits)
- (mathematics, computing) bit (binary digit)
Synonyms
- Abbreviations: b
Coordinate terms
- Multiples: kilobit, megabit, gigabit, terabit, petabit, exabit, zettabit, yottabit
Related terms
- byte (unit equivalent to 8 bits)
Romanian
Etymology
From English bit or French bit.
Noun
bit m (plural biți)
- (computing) bit
Declension
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) bit | bitul | (niște) biți | biții |
genitive/dative | (unui) bit | bitului | (unor) biți | biților |
vocative | bitule | biților |
Saterland Frisian
Etymology
Related to German bis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɪt/
- Hyphenation: bit
- Rhymes: -ɪt
Conjunction
bit
- until
Preposition
bit
- until, to
Derived terms
- bit tou
References
- Marron C. Fort (2015), “bit”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN
Scots
Adjective
bit
- Little.
- 1889, Jessup Whitehead, The Steward's Handbook and Guide to Party Catering (page 439)
- A bit wee lambie
- 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
- He laid a hundred guineas with the laird of Slofferfield that he would drive four horses through the Slofferfield loch, and in the prank he had his bit chariot dung to pieces and a good mare killed.
- 1889, Jessup Whitehead, The Steward's Handbook and Guide to Party Catering (page 439)
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology 1
From bȉti (“to be”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bîːt/
Noun
bȋt f (Cyrillic spelling би̑т)
- essence
- point, meaning
Declension
singular | plural | |
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nominative | bȋt | biti |
genitive | biti | bítī |
dative | biti | bitima |
accusative | bit | biti |
vocative | biti | biti |
locative | biti | bitima |
instrumental | biti | bitima |
Etymology 2
From English bit.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bît/
Noun
bȉt m (Cyrillic spelling би̏т)
- (computing) bit
Declension
singular | plural | |
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nominative | bȉt | bìtovi |
genitive | bita | bitova |
dative | bitu | bitovima |
accusative | bit | bitove |
vocative | bite | bitovi |
locative | bitu | bitovima |
instrumental | bitom | bitovima |
Slavomolisano
Etymology
From Serbo-Croatian biti, from Proto-Slavic *byti, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *bū́ˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-.
Verb
bit pf or impf
- to be
References
- Walter Breu and Giovanni Piccoli (2000), Dizionario croato molisano di Acquaviva Collecroce: Dizionario plurilingue della lingua slava della minoranza di provenienza dalmata di Acquaviva Collecroce in Provincia di Campobasso (Parte grammaticale)., pp. 409–412
Spanish
Etymology
From English bit.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbit/ [ˈbit̪]
- Rhymes: -it
- Syllabification: bit
Noun
bit m (plural bits)
- bit (binary digit)
Further reading
- “bit”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse biti, noun definitions 2 and 4: From English bit, from binary digit.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /biːt/ (1–4)
- IPA(key): /bɪt/ (3–4)
audio (file)
Noun
bit c
- bit, a piece (small piece)
- bit (portion)
- bit (binary digit)
- bit (unit of storage)
- bit, a tune (piece of music)
Declension
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Nominative | bit | biten | bitar | bitarna |
Genitive | bits | bitens | bitars | bitarnas |
Derived terms
- bitsocker (“sugar in the form of sugar cubes, lump sugar”)
- pusselbit (“puzzle piece”)
- sockerbit (“sugar cube”)
Verb
bit
- imperative of bita.
Turkish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbit/
Etymology 1
From Ottoman Turkish بیت, بت, from Proto-Turkic *bït (“louse”).
Noun
bit (definite accusative biti, plural bitler)
- (zoology) louse
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Nominative | bit | bitler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | biti | bitleri | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- bit yeniği (fishy)
- bitli (lousy)
See also
- pire (flea)
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English bit, abbreviation of binary digit.
Noun
bit (definite accusative biti, plural bitler)
- (computing) bit
Declension
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Verb
bit
- second-person singular imperative of bitmek
Turkmen
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *bït (“louse”). Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (bit), Turkish bit (“louse”), etc.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bit̪/
Noun
bit (definite accusative bidi, plural bitler)
- (zoology) louse
Declension
singular | plural | |
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nominative | bit | bitler |
accusative | bidi | bitleri |
genitive | bidiň | bitleriň |
dative | bide | bitlere |
locative | bitde | bitlerde |
ablative | bitden | bitlerden |
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɓit̚˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɓit̚˧˧]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ʔɓɨt̚˧˧]
Audio (Ho Chi Minh City) (file)
Noun
bit
- (computing) bit
Zhuang
Pronunciation
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /pit˥/
- Tone numbers: bit7
- Hyphenation: bit
Etymology 1
From Proto-Tai *pitᴰ (“duck”). Cognate with Thai เป็ด (bpèt), Lao ເປັດ (pet), Lü ᦵᦔᧆ (ṗed), Tai Dam ꪹꪜꪸꪒ, Shan ပဵတ်း (páet), Ahom 𑜆𑜢𑜄𑜫 (pit), Bouyei bidt, Saek ปิ๊ด. Compare Old Chinese 鴄 (OC *pʰid).
Noun
bit (classifier duz, Sawndip forms 鴓 or 𱈶 or ⿰品鳥, 1957–1982 spelling bit)
- duck
Derived terms
- roegbit
Etymology 2
From Chinese 筆 (MC pˠiɪt̚).
Noun
bit (classifier gaiq, Sawndip forms 𣭈 or 𰚎, 1957–1982 spelling bit)
- pen; pencil; writing implement
Classifier
bit (1957–1982 spelling bit)
- Classifier for sums of money and deals.
Etymology 3
From Chinese 匹 (MC pʰiɪt̚).
Classifier
bit (1957–1982 spelling bit)
- Classifier for cloth: bolt of