Bit

A horse hates having a bit put in its mouth.

chamfering bit

a threepenny bit

A quarter is two bits.

He left after shaking her down for four bits for carrying the bags.

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”.

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.

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?’

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.

Am I bored? Not a bit of it!

My young companion was a bit of a poet.

Near-synonym: driver

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Your dog bit me!

I've been bit by your dog!

Even though he's bit, of course the zombies would still chase him.

Fortunately, someone who gets skeeter-bit this much may develop an immunity to the skeeter's saliva

Only the year before, the conjure man had brought in the Jackson County madstone, from way over in Illinois, for a white peddler that had been dog-bit, and the man went ahead and died just the same

He will not — he'll tell you not to be loco, climbing up trees late at night when you'll get bug-bit to death plus you can't see anything

status bits on IRC

permission bits in a file system

The researchers found that the original texts spanned a variety of entropy values in different languages, reflecting differences in grammar and structure. But strangely, the difference in entropy between the original, ordered text and the randomly scrambled text was constant across languages. This difference is a way to measure the amount of information encoded in word order, Montemurro says. The amount of information lost when they scrambled the text was about 3.5 bits per word.