Definizione monolingua

bit

bit

1. Simple past of bite.

   Your dog bit me!

bit (plural bits)

1. A piece of metal placed in a horses mouth and connected to reins to direct the animal.

   Horses hate having bits put in their mouth.

2. A rotary cutting tool fitted to a drill, used to make holes.
3. (US) An eighth of a dollar. Note that there is no coin minted worth 12.5 cents. (When this term first came into use, the Spanish 8 reales coin was widely used as a dollar equivalent, and thus the 1 real coin was equivalent to 12.5 cents.)

   A quarter is two bits.

4. (dated, UK) A coin of a specified value. (Also used for a nine-pence coin in the British Caribbean.)

   A threepenny bit.

5. A small amount of something.

   There were bits of paper all over the floor.

   Does your leg still hurt? / Just a bit now.

6. Specifically, a small amount of time.

   Ill be there in a bit, I need to take care of something first.

   He was here just a bit ago, but it looks like hes stepped out.

7. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought): A portion of something.

   Id like a big bit of cake, please.

8. (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”, 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 didnt 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—thats okay for a county-time slap, but itll make you crazy if youve got years to go on a felony bit.

9. An excerpt of material from a composition or show.

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

bit (not comparable)

1. To a small extent; in a small amount (usually with ""a"").

   Thats a bit too sweet.

Definizione dizionario bit

	bit
	Unità di misura di informazioni; la quantità di informazioni in un sistema che ha due stati equi.
	A unit of measurement of information; the amount of information in a system having two equiprobable states.
	A data type that stores either a 1 or 0 value. Integer values other than 1 or 0 are accepted, but they are always interpreted as 1.

	morso
	metal in horse's mouth
	Oggetto messo nella bocca del cavallo che serve a guidarlo.
	Mouthpiece to assist the guiding of a horse.

	poca
	small piece

	poco
	small piece

pezzo

	boccone
	Piccola quantità di cibo solido.
	A small amount of solid food; a mouthful.

	freno
	metal in horse's mouth

	pezzetto
	Un piccolo frammento di qualcosa che si é staccato dal resto.
	A small fragment of something broken off from the whole.

attimo

brano

briciolo

cifra binaria

momento

parte

punta

un pò

Altri significati:

(information theory, cryptography) Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.

(The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought): A portion of something.

(slang) A prison sentence.

rotary cutting tool

eighth of a dollar

(dated, UK) A coin of a specified value. (Also used for a nine-pence coin in the British Caribbean.)

An excerpt of material from a composition or show.

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

A small amount of something.

(US) An eighth of a dollar. Note that there is no coin minted worth 12.5 cents. (When this term first came into use, the Spanish 8 reales coin was widely used as a dollar equivalent, and thus the 1 real coin was equivalent to 12.5 cents.)

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

Simple past of bite.

(mathematics, computing) A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.

bit (i.e. attached to a bridle)

Specifically, a small amount of time.

(not) an iota of

(a) bit

datum that may take on one of exactly two values

smallest unit of storage

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

To a small extent; in a small amount (usually with "a").

binary digit

portion