Found 4 items, similar to biting.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: bit
sedikit
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: bit
bingkah, colet, penggalan, secolek, sedikit
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: biting
biting
adj 1: capable of wounding;
“a barbed compliment”;
“a biting
aphorism”;
“pungent satire” [syn:
barbed,
nipping,
pungent,
mordacious]
2: causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used
especially of cold;
“bitter cold”;
“a biting wind” [syn:
bitter]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Biting
Bite
\Bite\ (b[imac]t), v. t. [imp.
Bit (b[i^]t); p. p.
Bitten (b[i^]t"t'n),
Bit; p. pr. & vb. n.
Biting.] [OE.
biten, AS. b[=i]tan; akin to D. bijten, OS. b[=i]tan, OHG.
b[=i]zan, G. beissen, Goth. beitan, Icel. b[=i]ta, Sw. bita,
Dan. bide, L. findere to cleave, Skr. bhid to cleave.
[root]87. Cf.
Fissure.]
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1. To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the
thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth;
as, to bite an apple; to bite a crust; the dog bit a man.
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Such smiling rogues as these,
Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwain. --Shak.
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2. To puncture, abrade, or sting with an organ (of some
insects) used in taking food.
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3. To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure,
in a literal or a figurative sense; as, pepper bites the
mouth.
“Frosts do bite the meads.” --Shak.
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4. To cheat; to trick; to take in. [Colloq.] --Pope.
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5. To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the
anchor bites the ground.
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The last screw of the rack having been turned so
often that its purchase crumbled, . . . it turned
and turned with nothing to bite. --Dickens.
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To bite the dust,
To bite the ground, to fall in the
agonies of death; as, he made his enemy bite the dust.
To bite in (Etching), to corrode or eat into metallic
plates by means of an acid.
To bite the thumb at (any one), formerly a mark of
contempt, designed to provoke a quarrel; to defy.
“Do you
bite your thumb at us?” --Shak.
To bite the tongue, to keep silence. --Shak.
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Biting
\Bit"ing\, a.
That bites; sharp; cutting; sarcastic; caustic.
“A biting
affliction.” “A biting jest.” --Shak.
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