bit – English noun declension

English noun forms of bit

Noun: bit
Singularbit
Pluralbits

Sample Sentences

  • A horse hates having a bit put in its mouth.
  • router bit
  • chamfering bit
  • a threepenny bit
  • A quarter is two bits.
  • He left after shaking her down for four bits for carrying the bags. [1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 16:]
  • The smallest coin we had in Canada in early days was a dime, worth ten cents. The Indians called this coin “a Bit”. Our next coin, double in buying power and in size, was a twenty-five cent piece and this the Indians called “Two Bits”. [1941, Emily Carr, chapter 10, in Klee Wyck:]
  • I trusted to the Lord to be with me; and at one of our trips to St. Eustatia, a Dutch island, I bought a glass tumbler with my half bit, and when I came to Montserrat I sold it for a bit, or sixpence. [1789, Olaudah Equiano, chapter 6, in The Interesting Narrative, volume I:]
  • 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.
  • ‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough! […] What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’ [1963, Margery Allingham, “The Beanspiller”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 186:]
  • "I suppose my first objective was to try and help a department, which was very much civil servants who are rotating around on a regular basis, to try and understand public transport a wee bit better and try and understand what was required to run a bus and rail network," muses Conway. [2026 March 18, Chris Conway talks to Andy Comfort, “The RAIL Interview”, in RAIL, page 32:]
  • 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.
  • The movie lasted for two and a bit hours.
  • The 400 metres race was won in 47 seconds and bits.
  • I'd like a big bit of cake, please.
  • Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.[…]A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that. Developed as a tool to electronically combine the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale. [2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist:]
  • Am I bored? Not a bit of it!
  • My young companion was a bit of a poet. [1835, Theodore Hook, Gilbert Gurney:]
  • Near-synonym: driver
  • driver bit
  • 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 [1904, The Anamosa prison press, volume 7, Iowa. Colony of Detention at Anamosa:]
  • 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. [1916, Thomas Mott Osborne. Warden, Sing Sing Prison, N. Y., “Prison Reform”, in The Journal of sociologic medicine, volume 17, page 407:]
  • 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. [1994, Odie Hawkins, Lost Angeles, page 158:]
  • 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. [2001, Andrew H. Vachss, Pain management:]
  • His bit about video games was not nearly as entertaining as the other segments of his show.
  • Are you serious, or is this a bit?
  • Also, I'm bi. I like dudes! ...That's weird to say. Everything I say feels like a bit now, god dammit. [2024 March 1, F1NN5TER, 3:36 from the start, in Coming Out, archived from the original on 14 May 2024:]
  • She acted her bit in the opening scene.
  • Jimmy: I need to get my hands on some bits. If you’re still in the business.
  • Ronnie (played by Nick Nevern): Oi!
  • Trojan (played by Jean-Paul Van Cauwelaert): Ronnie.
  • […]
  • Trojan: Now that is a SIG Sauer P226. [2013 December 23, Stephen Reynolds, 46:53 from the start, in Stephen Reynolds, director, Vendetta (film), spoken by Jimmy Vickers (Danny Dyer):]

Etymology

1. From Middle English bitte, bite, from Old English bita (“bit; fragment; morsel”) and bite (“a bite; cut”), from Proto-Germanic *bitô and *bitiz; both from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split”). More at bite.
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with West Frisian bit, Saterland Frisian Bit, Dutch bit, German Low German Beet, Biet, German Biss and Bissen, Danish bid, Swedish bit, Icelandic biti. See: Middle English Nouns 'bitte', Old English Nouns 'bita', Dutch Nouns 'bit', German Nouns 'Biss', Danish Nouns 'bid', Swedish Nouns 'bit', Icelandic Nouns 'biti'.

Verbs referencing "bit"

Czech Nouns bit, Hungarian Nouns bit, Italian Nouns bit, Romanian Nouns bit, German Nouns Bit, Dutch Nouns beetje, Finnish Nouns bitti, Russian Nouns бит.