Usually means: Using teeth to cut food.
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General (34 matching dictionaries)
  1. bite: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bite, bite: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bite: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bite: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bite: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bite, bite: Wordnik
  7. bite: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bite: Wiktionary
  9. bite: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bite: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bite: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. BITE: Dictionary.com
  13. bite: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bite: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Bite (Altered Images album), Bite (Ned's Atomic Dustbin album), Bite (disambiguation), Bite (film), Bite (show), Bite, The Bite: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Bite: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bite: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bite: Rhymezone
  19. bite: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bite: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Bite, Bite: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. bite: Free Dictionary
  23. bite: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. bite: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. bite: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. bite: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. bite: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. bite: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bite: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Bite (medical), Bite (medicine), The Bite, bite: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Bite (medical), Bite (medicine), The Bite, bite: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. BITE: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. bite: Idioms

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. bite, bite, bite, bite, bite: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. The Bite: A Seattle Lexicon
  4. The Bite: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. bite: Golfer's Dictionary
  3. Bite: Sports Definitions

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  4. National Glass Association Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
verb:  (transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
verb:  (intransitive) To attack with the teeth.
verb:  (intransitive) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
verb:  (intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
verb:  (intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.
verb:  (intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
verb:  (intransitive, figurative) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
verb:  (intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.
verb:  (intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
verb:  (transitive, sometimes figurative) To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.
verb:  (intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
verb:  (intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold.
verb:  (transitive) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
verb:  (intransitive, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
verb:  (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
verb:  (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive, slang) To deceive or defraud; to take in.
noun:  The act of biting.
noun:  The wound left behind after having been bitten.
noun:  The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
noun:  A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
noun:  (slang) Something unpleasant.
noun:  (slang) An act of plagiarism.
noun:  A small meal or snack.
noun:  (figuratively, uncountable) Aggression.
noun:  The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
noun:  (colloquial, dated) A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
noun:  (colloquial, dated, slang) A sharper; one who cheats.
noun:  (printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
noun:  (slang) A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.
noun:  (television) Ellipsis of sound bite. [(journalism, television) An extract from a speech or interview used as edited into a news or other broadcast; an interview clip, especially seen as particularly expressive or pithy.]
noun:  Acronym of behavior, information, thoughts, emotions (“four aspects of people's lives that a cult attempts to control”). [(uncountable) Human conduct relative to social norms.]

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