Word Finder - bits

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A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.

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A horse hates having a bit put in its mouth.

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A rotary cutting tool fitted to a drill, used to bore holes.

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A coin of a specified value.

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a threepenny bit

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A ten-cent piece, dime.

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A unit of currency or coin in the Americas worth a fraction of a Spanish dollar; now specifically, an eighth of a US dollar.

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A quarter is two bits.

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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.

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A small amount of something.

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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.

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Specifically, a small amount of time.

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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.

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(plural) Fractions of a second.

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The 400 metres race was won in 47 seconds and bits.

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A portion of something.

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I'd like a big bit of cake, please.

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Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree. See also a bit.

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Am I bored? Not a bit of it!

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A prison sentence, especially a short one.

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An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc.

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His bit about video games was not nearly as entertaining as the other segments of his show.

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A small part or role, sometimes with spoken lines, in a theatrical performance.

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She acted her bit in the opening scene.

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The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.

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The cutting iron of a plane.

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The bevelled front edge of an axehead along which the cutting edge runs.

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A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.

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The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.

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Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.

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permission bits in a file system

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A unit of measure for information entropy.

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A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC).

It was bits and pieces of a telephone conversation with a mystery person.

The backup video player pondered it and then spewed bits of tape about and gave up even more finally.

Thus, locks are a specialty at Wolverhampton and Willenhall, and keys at Wednesfield; horses' bits, harness-fittings and saddlery at Walsall and Bloxwich, anchors and cables at Tipton, glass at Smethwick, and nails and chains at Cradley.

You make a pond aerator with bits lying around the garage.

Six rather sexy bits of chocolate that melt in the mouth.

We also saw a stingray which came up for bits of fish.

It's safer for kids too because toughened glass shatters into tiny bits.

One way of doing this was to make a homogenous trellis constrained code by forcing the parity bits to be identical.

May 7th Put together various kernel bits then decided I needed a distraction.

To the Layman, this argument seems of dubious veracity because there have not been any cases of bits falling off.

It could be mutton with tomatoes, onions and red-wine vinegar, or bits of duck with ginger, star anise and soy.

When built in the neighbourhood of towns the nest is somewhat slovenly and untidy, being often composed of bits of dirty straw, pieces of paper and blackened moss; in one instance, near Glasgow, the author of the Birds of the West of Scotland found several postage-stamps thus employed.

The most important products are saddlery and leather-work, horses' bits and all metal harness fittings; there are iron and brass foundries, and locks, keys, bolts and other hardware are made, both in Walsall and at Bloxwich, a large industrial suburb.

This latter work consists of articles most of which were originally published in the Athenaeum, describing the various attempts which have been made to invent a perpetual motion, to square the circle, or to trisect the angle; but De Morgan took the opportunity to include many curious bits gathered from his extensive reading, so that the Budget, as reprinted by his widow (1872), with much additional matter prepared by himself, forms a remarkable collection of scientific ana.

Do n't strain out the small fleshy pulpy bits - leave these in and drink them up too !

Put the raisins into a jar with the walnut bits.

It is for these cryptic and often flatulent bits of ' thinking ' that the book was so badly received when it first appeared.

Like a dream, you usually only remember the best bits; recollecting those memories that are most poignant.

Curb bits are also used to achieve " vertical flexion " in highly trained dressage or reining horses.

The amount of detail he 's poured into every detail of bits like an 1899 outdoor skating rink is amazing.

There are also old bits of torpedo scattered around from the lakes past.

Jolen sighs softly - Jolen rises fluidly, dropping random bits of his armor.

Even my husband had not heard the whole tale, only bits gleaned from snatches of conversation.

In fact, I often find myself wanting to snip little bits out of episodes !

Thats all the soppy stuff out of the way, now lets get down to the good bits.

Other bits and bobs A hydrometer is a good piece of kit to have to measure the specific gravity of the biodiesel.

For whatever reason, I really miss the little splashy cymbal bits live.

Remember, do n't go near these books if you 're squeamish, because this really is science with the squishy bits left in !

Or, to be more precise, all the bad bits of every third-person stealth game that 's ever been released.

To miss the debris under the railroad bridges, you have to get near to these sticky out bits of rail line.

Smaller pieces also rot quicker and you do n't get long stringy woody bits in the final compost mixture.

For temporary relief, use sugarless candy or gum, melt bits of ice in your mouth, or use a saliva substitute.

I look at their brochures and I think they see design as more knobs and swirly bits.

And whoever 's doing the talky bits has a great line in patter.

The end-user does n't have to worry about the techie bits, they have simply paid their £ 2.50 to view the film.

Do n't look at the floor, there 's no threepenny bits there \m we still made mistakes.

There are bits of him tinkering around, which could be used.

Might be odd tit bits there for you to use.

It 's safer for kids too because toughened glass shatters into tiny bits.

My stocking records gone and just thousands of bits of paper for me to troll back through if I need to find something !

I 'm sure I'll keep coming back over the next few days and tweaking bits here and there.

When wanted to alter anything, we just fired up a debugger and twiddled the bits.

Wet cement is tamped down with old bits of wood and the result - an uneven, unsightly mess.

I made venison burgers with added bits - tomatoes, apple, onion.

Its skin is flaking or peeling and appears to have a whitish color in bits.

The world is like a very detailed drawing, and no matter how closely you look, there are more wiggly bits to see.

No-one except wooden boatbuilders wants curved wood, so every time a tree is cut down the wonky bits get chopped up for firewood.

One of the good bits is a RealPlayer 9 RPM, something I have been unable to find in any apt or yum repository.

Putting together bits and pieces of information will help you get a better picture of their likes and dislikes.

It depends on how fast your computer processes information in bits per second to its CPU (the brain of the computer).