Definition of "bite" in Anglais

verb

(transitive) To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
- As soon as you bite that sandwich, you'll know how good it is.
(transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
(intransitive) To attack with the teeth.
- That dog is about to bite!
(intransitive, chiefly in the negative) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
- If you see me, come and say hello. I don't bite.
(intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
- I needed snow chains to make the tires bite.
(intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.
- For homeowners with adjustable rate mortgages, rising interest will really bite.
(intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
- Are the fish biting today?
(intransitive, figurative) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
- I've planted the story. Do you think they'll bite?
(intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.
- These mosquitoes are really biting today!
(intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
- It bites like pepper or mustard.
(transitive, sometimes figurative) To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.
- Pepper bites the mouth.
(intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
(intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold.
- The anchor bites.
(transitive) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
- The anchor bites the ground.
(stative, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
- This music really bites.
(transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
- You don't like that I sat on your car? Bite me.
(intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.
- He always be biting my moves.
(obsolete, transitive, slang) To deceive or defraud; to take in.

noun

The act of biting.
The wound left behind after having been bitten.
- That snake bite really hurts!
The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
- After just one night in the jungle I was covered with mosquito bites.
A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
- There were only a few bites left on the plate.
(slang) Something unpleasant.
(slang) An act of plagiarism.
- That song is a bite of my song!
A small meal or snack.
- a bite to eat
- I'll have a quick bite to quiet my stomach until dinner.
(figuratively, uncountable) incisiveness, provocativeness, exactness.
(figuratively, uncountable) Aggression.
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.
(colloquial, dated) A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
(colloquial, dated, slang) A sharper; one who cheats.
(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.
(slang) A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.
(television) Ellipsis of sound bite.
(cricket) The turn that a spin bowler imparts to a pitch.