Bid vs. Bit

Bidverb

(transitive) To issue a command; to tell.

Bidverb

(transitive) To invite; to summon.

Bidverb

(transitive) To utter a greeting or salutation.

Bidverb

(intransitive) To make an offer to pay or accept a certain price.

Bidverb

(transitive) To offer as a price.

Bidverb

(intransitive) To make an attempt.

Bidverb

To announce (one's goal), before starting play.

Bidverb

(obsolete) To proclaim (a bede, prayer); to pray.

Bidnoun

An offer at an auction, or to carry out a piece of work.

Bidnoun

(ultimate frisbee) A (failed) attempt to receive or intercept a pass.

Bidnoun

An attempt, effort, or pursuit (of a goal).

Bidverb

To make an offer of; to propose. Specifically : To offer to pay ( a certain price, as for a thing put up at auction), or to take (a certain price, as for work to be done under a contract).

Bidverb

To offer in words; to declare, as a wish, a greeting, a threat, or defiance, etc.; as, to bid one welcome; to bid good morning, farewell, etc.

Bidverb

To proclaim; to declare publicly; to make known.

Bidverb

To order; to direct; to enjoin; to command.

Bidverb

To invite; to call in; to request to come.

Bidverb

To pray.

Bidverb

To make a bid; to state what one will pay or take.

Bid

imp. & p. p. of Bid.

Bidnoun

An offer of a price, especially at auctions; a statement of a sum which one will give for something to be received, or will take for something to be done or furnished; that which is offered.

Bidnoun

an authoritative direction or instruction to do something

Bidnoun

an attempt to get something;

Bidnoun

a formal proposal to buy at a specified price

Bidnoun

(bridge) the number of tricks a bridge player is willing to contract to make

Bidverb

propose a payment;

Bidverb

invoke upon;

Bidverb

ask for or request earnestly;

Bidverb

make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands;

Bidverb

make a serious effort to attain something;

Bidverb

ask someone in a friendly way to do something

Bitnoun

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

Bitnoun

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

Bitnoun

A coin of a specified value. (Also formerly used for a nine-pence coin in the British Caribbean, and a fourpenny piece, or groat, in the British West Indies.)

Bitnoun

A ten-cent piece, dime.

Bitnoun

(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.)

Bitnoun

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.

Bitnoun

A small amount of something.

Bitnoun

(informal) Specifically, a small amount of time.

Bitnoun

A portion of something.

Bitnoun

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

Bitnoun

(slang) A prison sentence, especially a short one.

Bitnoun

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

Bitnoun

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

Bitnoun

The cutting iron of a plane.

Bitnoun

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

Bitnoun

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

Bitnoun

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

Bitnoun

(information theory) A unit of measure for information entropy.

Bitnoun

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

Bitadverb

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

Bitverb

(transitive) To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of (a horse).

Bitverb

, bitten

Bitadjective

(colloquial) bitten.

Bitadjective

(only in combination) Having been bitten.

Bitnoun

The part of a bridle, usually of iron, which is inserted in the mouth of a horse, and having appendages to which the reins are fastened.

Bitnoun

Fig.: Anything which curbs or restrains.

Bitnoun

In the British West Indies, a fourpenny piece, or groat.

Bitnoun

A part of anything, such as may be bitten off or taken into the mouth; a morsel; a bite. Hence: A small piece of anything; a little; a mite.

Bitnoun

Somewhat; something, but not very great.

Bitnoun

A tool for boring, of various forms and sizes, usually turned by means of a brace or bitstock. See Bitstock.

Bitnoun

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

Bitnoun

The cutting iron of a plane.

Bitnoun

In the Southern and Southwestern States, a small silver coin (as the real) formerly current; commonly, one worth about 12 1/2 cents; also, the sum of 12 1/2 cents.

Bitverb

To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of.

Bit

imp. & p. p. of Bite.

Bit

the smallest unit of information, equivalent to a choice between two alternatives, as yes or no; on or off.

Bit

the physical representation of a bit of information in a computer memory or a data storage medium. Within a computer circuit a bit may be represented by the state of a current or an electrical charge; in a magnetic storage medium it may be represented by the direction of magnetization; on a punched card or on paper tape it may be represented by the presence or absence of a hole at a particular point on the card or tape.

Bit

3d sing. pr. of Bid, for biddeth.

Bitnoun

a small quantity;

Bitnoun

a small fragment of something broken off from the whole;

Bitnoun

an indefinitely short time;

Bitnoun

an instance of some kind;

Bitnoun

piece of metal held in horse's mouth by reins and used to control the horse while riding;

Bitnoun

a unit of measurement of information (from Binary + digIT); the amount of information in a system having two equiprobable states;

Bitnoun

a small amount of solid food; a mouthful;

Bitnoun

a small fragment;

Bitnoun

a short theatrical performance that is part of a longer program;

Bitnoun

the cutting part of a drill; usually pointed and threaded and is replaceable in a brace or bitstock or drill press;

Bitnoun

a small piece, part, or quantity of something

Bitnoun

a short time or distance

Bitnoun

a fairly large amount

Bitnoun

a set of actions or ideas associated with a specific group or activity

Bitnoun

a girl or young woman

Bitnoun

a person's genitals

Bitnoun

a unit of 12 1/2 cents (used only in even multiples).

Bitnoun

a mouthpiece, typically made of metal, which is attached to a bridle and used to control a horse.

Bitnoun

a tool or piece for boring or drilling

Bitnoun

the cutting or gripping part of a plane, pincers, or other tool.

Bitnoun

the part of a key that engages with the lock lever.

Bitnoun

the copper head of a soldering iron.

Bitnoun

a unit of information expressed as either a 0 or 1 in binary notation.

Bitverb

put a bit into the mouth of (a horse).

Bitverb

restrain

Bit

The bit is the most basic unit of information in computing and digital communications. The name is a contraction of binary digit.