bit

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
美 /ˈbɪ̝t/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
  2. A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
  3. A rotary cutting tool, fitted to a drill, brace, or router, used to bore or drill holes or to remove material from the profile of the workpiece.
    — router bit
  4. The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.
  5. Applied to a various small units of currency and coins.; A coin of a specified value. UK,dated
    — a threepenny bit
  6. Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.
    — status bits on IRC
  7. Applied to a various small units of currency and coins.; A unit of currency worth one eighth of a dollar, originally of a Spanish dollar but later also US or Canadian; also, a coin with this value, in particular the silver Spanish real. Canada,US,historical
    — A quarter is two bits.
  8. A unit of measure for information entropy.
    — 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.
  9. A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC).
  10. Applied to a various small units of currency and coins.; A coin of a value similar but not equal to this, in particular the ‘short bit’, i.e. the ten-cent piece or dime. Canada,US,obsolete
    — 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”.
  11. Applied to a various small units of currency and coins.; A unit of currency and coin of the British West Indies worth six black dogs, originally equal to one-eighth of a Spanish dollar but later increasingly debased to one tenth, one eleventh, one twelfth, etc. historical
    — 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.
  12. Applied to a various small units of currency and coins.; A unit of currency of the Dutch West Indies in the early 20th century, worth one fifth of a cent. historical
  13. Applied to a various small units of currency and coins.; Synonym of microbitcoin.
  14. A small amount of something.
    — There were bits of paper all over the floor.
  15. Specifically, a small amount of time. informal
    — I'll be there in a bit; I need to take care of something first.
  16. A small fraction above a whole number. informal
    — The movie lasted for two and a bit hours.
  17. Fractions of a second. in-plural,informal
    — The 400 metres race was won in 47 seconds and bits.
  18. A portion of something.
    — I'd like a big bit of cake, please.
  19. 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!
  20. A replaceable tip for a hand tool or power tool, comprising the portion that drives a fastener.
    — Near-synonym: driver
  21. A prison sentence, especially a short one. slang
    — 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
  22. 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.
  23. A gag or put-on; a humorous conceit, especially when insistently presented as true. slang
    — Are you serious, or is this a bit?
  24. Ellipsis of bit part. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis
    — She acted her bit in the opening scene.
  25. The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.
  26. The cutting iron of a plane.
  27. The bevelled front edge of an axehead along which the cutting edge runs.
  28. A gag of a style similar to a bridle.
  29. A gun. Multicultural-London-English
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of (a horse). transitive
  2. simple past of bite form-of,past
    — Your dog bit me!
  3. past participle of bite, bitten archaic,form-of,informal,participle,past
    — I've been bit by your dog!
形容词 adj.
  1. Having been bitten. in-compounds,not-comparable
    — Even though he's bit, of course the zombies would still chase him.

词形变化

bits plural bits present,singular,third-person bitting participle,present bitted participle,past bitted past bits plural

词汇关系

下位词
hidden bit high-order bit least significant bit most significant bit qubit
衍生词
a bit a fair bit a little bit a little bit of bread and no cheese a lot of bit a wee bit behind the bit bergy bit bit and bit bit-banger bit between one's teeth bit-bucket bit bucket bit by bit bit-faker bitless bit lifter bitling bit of all right bit of alright bit of crumpet bit of fluff bit of homework bit of muslin bit of rough bit of skirt bit of stuff bit on the side bit part bit player bit role bits and bobs bits and pieces bit shank bitstock bittock bitty blind bit blown to bits boring bit brace and bit cannon bit canon bit centerbit centrebit centre-bit chafe at the bit champ at the bit chicken bit chomp at the bit commit to the bit curb bit curb-bit devil's bit dog's dangly bits do one's bit drag bit every bit every little bit helps fall to bits fippenny bit Forstner bit frogbit German bit gouge bit hair of the dog that bit one itty-bitty key bit lip bit little bit Liverpool bit long bit marbit masterbit modesty bit naughty bit nose bit not a bit not one bit not a bit of it picky bits pod bit quill bit quite a bit rearing bit rebit ring bit roller cone bit rollercone bit roller-cone bit rose bit sheep's-bit short bit sixpenny bit threepenny-bit threepenny bit tidbit Timbit time after bit tit bit tongue-lolling bit two-bit unbit wait-a-bit weather-bit dogbit 128-bit 16-bit 32-bit 64-bit 7-bit 8-bit ancilla bit bit array bitarray bit banging bit bashing bitboard bitcent bit-compressed bit-count integrity bit crusher bit decay bit-depth bit depth biter bitfield bitfilter bitflag bitflip bit interval bitlength bitline bit map bitmap bit-map bitmask bitness bit nibbler bit-paired bit plane bitplane bitpop bitrange bit rate bitrate bit rot bitrot bitscore bitset bit shift bit slice bitsquatting bitstate bitstream bitstring bit string bit stuffing bitter bit time BitTorrent bitvector bitwidth bitwise bucky bit fakebit gibibit great bit bucket in the sky high bit high order bit interbit kibibit killbit mebibit multibit parity bit pebibit quadbit quantum bit quettabit ronnabit sign bit sticky bit tebibit
相关词
bits ban nat qubit

词源

词源 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.
Cognates
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.
词源 2
See bite. Replaced a former strong past tense, seen in Middle English bot and Old English bāt.
词源 3
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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