biteとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: bīt, IPA^(key): /baɪt/
• (Canada, regional 米国発音) IPA^(key): /bʌɪt/
• 韻: -aɪt
• 異形同音異義語: bight, by't, byte

動詞

bite (third-person singular simple present bites, present participle biting, simple past bit, past participle bitten or (まれに) bit)

1. (transitive) To cut into something by clamping the teeth.

   As soon as you bite that sandwich, you'll know how good it is.

2. (transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
3. (intransitive) To attack with the teeth.

   That dog is about to bite!

4. (intransitive) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.

   If you see me, come and say hello. I don't bite.

5. (intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.

   I needed snow chains to make the tires bite.

6. (intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.

   For homeowners with adjustable rate mortgages, rising interest will really bite.

7. (intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.

   Are the fish biting today?

8. (intransitive, figuratively) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.

   I've planted the story. Do you think they'll bite?

9. (intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.

   These mosquitoes are really biting today!

10. (intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.

    It bites like pepper or mustard.

11. (transitive, sometimes figuratively) To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.

    Pepper bites the mouth.

    • c. 1590–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene ii]:

      Frosts do bite the meads.

12. (intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Proverbs 23:32, column 1:

      At the laſt it [wine] biteth like a ſerpent, and ſtingeth like ‖ an adder.

13. (intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold.

    The anchor bites.

14. (transitive) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.

    The anchor bites the ground.

    • 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, book I (Recalled to Life), London: Chapman and Hall, […], OCLC 906152507, page 23:

      The last screw of the rack having been turned so often that its purchase crumbled, […] it turned and turned with nothing to bite.

15. (intransitive, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.

    This music really bites.

16. (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.

    You don't like that I sat on your car? Bite me.

17. (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.

    He always be biting my moves.

18. (obsolete) To deceive or defraud; to take in.

下位語

• bite down

派生語

• backbite
• biter
• biting

関連する語

名詞

bite (複数形 bites)

1. The act of biting.
   • 1653, Iz[aak] Wa[lton], The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, […], London: […] T. Maxey for Rich[ard] Marriot, […], OCLC 1097101645:

     I have known a very good fisher angle diligently four or six hours in a day, for three or four days together, for a River Carp, and not have a bite.

2. The wound left behind after having been bitten.

   That snake bite really hurts!

3. The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.

   After just one night in the jungle I was covered with mosquito bites.

4. A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.

   There were only a few bites left on the plate.

5. (slang) Something unpleasant.

   That's really a bite!

6. (slang) An act of plagiarism.

   That song is a bite of my song!

7. A small meal or snack.

   I'll have a quick bite to quiet my stomach until dinner.

8. (figuratively) aggression
   • 2011 March 2, Saj Chowdhury, “Man City 3 - 0 Aston Villa”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     City scored the goals but periods of ball possession were shared - the difference being Villa lacked bite in the opposition final third.

9. 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.
10. (colloquial, dated) A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
    • 1725, Thomas Gordon, The Humorist

      The baser methods of getting money by fraud and bite, by deceiving and overreaching.

11. (colloquial, dated, slang) A sharper; one who cheats.
    • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. IV, ch. 106:

      [I]t was conjectured, that Peregrine was a bite from the beginning, who had found credit on account of his effrontery and appearance, and imposed himself upon the town as a young gentleman of fortune.

12. (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.
13. (slang) A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.
    • 1951, William S. Burroughs, in Harris (ed.), Letters 1945–59, Penguin 2009, p. 92:

      I know three Americans who are running a bar. The cops come in all the time for a bite.

同意語

• (act of biting):
• (wound left behind after having been bitten):
• (swelling caused by an insect's mouthparts または sting): sting
• (piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting): mouthful
• (スラング: something unpleasant):
• (スラング: act of plagiarism):
• (small meal または snack): snack
• (比喩的に: aggression):

派生語

関連する語

• beetle
• bit

アナグラム

• EBIT, ebit, tebi-