bit: Meaning and Definition of

bit

1. a removable drilling or boring tool for use in a brace, drill press, or the like.
2. a removable boring head used on certain kinds of drills, as a rock drill.
3. a device for drilling oil wells or the like, consisting of a horizontally rotating blade or an assembly of rotating toothed wheels.
2. the mouthpiece of a bridle, having fittings at each end to which the reins are fastened. See illus. under
3. anything that curbs or restrains.
4. the blade or iron of a carpenter's plane.
5. the cutting part of an ax or hatchet.
6. the wide portion at the end of an ordinary key that moves the bolt.
7. to cast off control; willfully go one's own way: He took the bit in his teeth and acted against his parents' wishes.

1. to put a bit in the mouth of (a horse).
2. to curb or restrain with, or as with, a bit.
3. to grind a bit on (a key).

bit

1. a small piece or quantity of anything: a bit of string.
2. a short time: Wait a bit.
3. an amount equivalent to 12 U.S. cents (used only in even multiples): two bits; six bits.
4. an act, performance, or routine: She's doing the Camille bit, pretending to be near collapse.
5. a stereotypic or habitual set of behaviors, attitudes, or styles associated with an individual, role, situation, etc.: the whole Wall Street bit.
6. Also calleda very small role, as in a play or motion picture, containing few or no lines. Cf. walk-on (def. 1).
7. any small coin: a threepenny bit.
8. a Spanish or Mexican silver real worth 12 cents, formerly current in parts of the U.S.
9. rather or somewhat; a little: a bit sleepy.
10. somewhat overdone or beyond tolerability.
11. by degrees; gradually: Having saved money bit by bit, they now had enough to buy the land.
12. to contribute one's share to an effort: They all did their bit during the war.
13. quite; just: every bit as good.

bit

1. Also calleda single, basic unit of information, used in connection with computers and information theory.
2. baud.

bit

1. pt. and a pp. of

B.I.T.

1. Bachelor of Industrial Technology.