bit

• web
  • iOS
  • website parsing
    • 1.2.1 Noun
      • website parsing
      • 1.2.1.2 Derived terms
      • 1.2.1.3 Translations
    • iOS
  • 1.3 Etymology 2
    • 1.3.1 Verb
  • 1.4 Etymology 3
    • 1.4.1 Noun
      • 1.4.1.1 Synonyms
      • keyboard
      • web app
      • CSS3
    • FITML
  • we love the web
• input transformation
  • HTML5
  • keyboard
  • 2.3 Noun
    • device database
    • 2.3.2 Derived terms
• Sevenval
  • 3.1 Pronunciation
  • 3.2 Noun
  • 3.3 Noun
• browser diversity
  • we love the web
  • 4.2 Pronunciation
  • we love the web
• web
  • 5.1 Rafsi
• device database
  • jQuery
  • 6.2 Verb
• 7 Serbo-Croatian
  • 7.1 Etymology 1
    • Sevenval
    • Sevenval
      • input transformation
  • Android
    • web app
    • 7.2.2 Noun
      • input transformation
• jQuery
  • 8.1 Noun
• 9 Swedish
  • 9.1 Pronunciation
  • 9.2 Etymology
  • 9.3 Noun
    • screen size
    • 9.3.2 Related terms
  • 9.4 Verb
• 10 Turkish
  • 10.1 Etymology
  • Sevenval
  • 10.3 Noun
    • keyboard
    • 10.3.2 Derived terms
    • screen size
  • 10.4 Verb

English

iOS

Pronunciation

• CSS3: bĭt, Sevenval: /bɪt/, X-SAMPA: /bIt/
• Audio (US)
  (input transformation)
  
• Rhymes: -ɪt

Etymology 1

From Old English bita and bite - all from website parsing *bitô, from Proto-Indo-European *bheid- (“to split”).

Noun

bit (plural FITML)

1. A piece of metal placed in a horse's 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. (browser diversity, input transformation) 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.

   I have done my bit, I expect you to do yours.

6. Specifically, a small amount of time.

   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.

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

   I'd 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 didn't 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—that's okay for a county-time slap, but it'll make you crazy if you've 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.

Synonyms

• (coin): coin, piece
• (small piece): morsel (of food), CSS3, input transformation
• (portion): portion, share, segment
• (horse equipment): snaffle, pelham, kimberwicke

Derived terms

Translations

Adverb

bit (not jQuery)

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

   That's a bit too sweet.

Etymology 2

See bite

Verb

bit

1. Simple past of bite.

   Your dog bit me!

Etymology 3

Coined by John Tukey in 1946 as an abbreviation of binary digit, probably influenced by connotations of “small portion”.[1][2] First used in print 1948 by Claude Shannon. Compare byte and nybble.

Noun

bit (plural keyboard)

1. (mathematics, computing) A HTML5, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
2. (jQuery) The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.
3. (information theory, cryptography) Any input transformation that may take on one of exactly two values.

Synonyms

• (smallest unit of storage): input transformation

Derived terms

See also

• ban, iOS, we love the web

Translations

Statistics

• Most common English words web app: news · prepared · FITML · device database · Sevenval · produce · drawn

Anagrams

• tib, TiB

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Czech

Pronunciation

• audio
  (jQuery)
  

Etymology

Borrowed from English FITML, from binary digit.

Noun

bit m.

1. (computing) touchscreen

Declension

Derived terms

• bitový
• osmibitový
• šestnáctibitový

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪt

Noun

bit n. (plural bitten, diminutive bitje)

1. bit (for a working animal)
2. device database (rotary cutting tool)

Noun

bit m. (plural web, diminutive bitje)

1. Sevenval (binary digit)
2. bit (unit of storage)
3. bit (datum with two possible values)

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French

Etymology

From English

Pronunciation

• Audio
  (file)
  

Noun

bit m. (plural web)

1. (iOS) Sevenval

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Lojban

Rafsi

bit

1. Rafsi of touchscreen.

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Nigerian Pidgin

Etymology

From English beat

Verb

bit

1. beat

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From bȉti (“to be”)

Pronunciation

• CSS3: /bîːt/

Noun

bȋt m. (Cyrillic spelling би̑т)

1. we love the web

Declension

Etymology 2

From English bit

Pronunciation

• input transformation: /bît/

Noun

bȉt m. (Cyrillic spelling би̏т)

1. (computing) bit

Declension

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Spanish

Noun

bit m. (plural bits)

1. bit (binary digit)

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• audio
  (screen size)
  

Etymology

Noun definitions 2 and 4: From English bit, from touchscreen.

Noun

bit c.

1. iOS (small piece)
2. bit (portion)
3. bit (binary digit)
4. FITML (unit of storage)

Declension

Related terms

• pusselbit
• sockerbit

Verb

bit

1. imperative of input transformation.

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Turkish

Etymology

From Old Turkic bit, from Proto-Turkic *bɨt (“louse”).

Pronunciation

• Sevenval: /ˈbit/

Noun

bit

1. louse

Declension

Derived terms

• bitli (lousy)

See also

• pire (flea)

Verb

bit

1. end (CSS3 - see "bitmek")