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speck
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sp?k/
- Homophone: spec
- Rhymes: -?k
Etymology 1
From Middle English spekke, from Old English specca (“small spot, stain”). Cognate with Low German spaken (“to spot with wet”).
Noun
speck (plural specks)
- A tiny spot, especially of dirt etc.
- A very small thing; a particle; a whit.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:modicum
- a. 1864, Walter Savage Landor, quoted in 1971, Ernest Dilworth, Walter Savage Landor, Twayne Publishers, page 88,
- Onward, and many bright specks bubble up along the blue Aegean; islands, every one of which, if the songs and stories of the pilots are true, is the monument of a greater man than I am.
- (zoology) A small etheostomoid fish, Etheostoma stigmaeum, common in the eastern United States.
Translations
Verb
speck (third-person singular simple present specks, present participle specking, simple past and past participle specked)
- (transitive) To mark with specks; to speckle.
- paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1991, Stephen Orgel, Jonathan Goldberg (editors), The Major Works, 2003, paperback, page 534,
- Each flower of slender stalk, whose head though gay / Carnation, purple, azure, or specked with gold, / Hung drooping unsustained,
Etymology 2
From earlier specke, spycke (probably reinforced by Dutch spek, German Speck), from Middle English spik, spyk, spike, spich, from Old English spic (“bacon; lard; fat”), from Proto-Germanic *spikk?, *spik? (“bacon”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Späk, Dutch spek, German Speck, Icelandic spik.
Noun
speck (uncountable)
- Fat; lard; fat meat.
- (uncountable) A juniper-flavoured ham originally from Tyrol.
- The blubber of whales or other marine mammals.
- The fat of the hippopotamus.
Translations
Anagrams
- pecks
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from German Speck, from Middle High German spec, from Old High German spek, from Proto-Germanic *spik? (“bacon”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sp?k/
- Hyphenation: spèck
Noun
speck m (invariable)
- speck (type of ham)
- Hypernym: salume
Further reading
- Speck Alto Adige on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
References
- speck in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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bit
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: b?t, IPA(key): /b?t/
- Rhymes: -?t
Etymology 1
From Middle English bitte, bite, from Old English bita (“bit; fragment; morsel”) and bite (“a bite; cut”), from Proto-Germanic *bitô and *bitiz; both from Proto-Indo-European *b?eyd- (“to split”).
Cognate with West Frisian bit, Saterland Frisian Bit, Dutch bit, German Low German Beet, Biet, German Biss and Bissen, Danish bid, Swedish bit, Icelandic biti.
Noun
bit (plural bits)
- A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.
- A rotary cutting tool fitted to a drill, used to bore holes.
- (dated, Britain) A coin of a specified value.
- (obsolete, Canada) A ten-cent piece, dime.
- 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, Chapter 10, [3]
- 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".
- 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, Chapter 10, [3]
- (now US) A unit of currency or coin in the Americas worth a fraction of a Spanish dollar; now specifically, an eighth of a US dollar.
- 1789, Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative, vol. I, ch. 6:
- 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.
- 1789, Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative, vol. I, ch. 6:
- (historical, US) 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.
- A small amount of something.
- (informal) Specifically, a small amount of time.
- (in the plural, informal, sports) Fractions of a second.
- A portion of something.
- Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree. See also a bit.
- T. Hook
- My young companion was a bit of a poet.
- T. Hook
- (slang) A prison sentence, especially a short one.
- An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc.
- Short for bit part.
- The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
- The cutting iron of a plane.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
- The bevelled front edge of an axehead along which the cutting edge runs.
Synonyms
- (coin): coin, piece
- (small piece): morsel (of food), piece, scrap
- (portion): portion, share, segment
- (horse equipment): snaffle, pelham, kimberwicke
- (prison sentence): bid
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
bit (third-person singular simple present bits, present participle bitting, simple past and past participle bitted)
- (transitive) To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of (a horse).
Etymology 2
See bite
Verb
bit
- simple past tense of bite
- Your dog bit me!
- (informal in US, archaic in Britain) past participle of bite, bitten
- I have been bit by your dog!
Adjective
bit (not comparable)
- (colloquial) bitten.
- (only in combination) Having been bitten.
Etymology 3
Coined by John Tukey in 1946 as an abbreviation of binary digit, probably influenced by connotations of “small portion”. First used in print 1948 by Claude Shannon. Compare byte and nybble.
Noun
bit (plural bits)
- (mathematics, computing) A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
- (computing) The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.
- Synonym: b
- (information theory, cryptography) Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.
- (information theory) A unit of measure for information entropy.
- 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.
- The researchers found that the original texts spanned a variety of entropy values in different languages, reflecting differences in grammar and structure.
- A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC).
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- ban, nat, qubit
References
Anagrams
- Bti, ITB, TBI, TiB, tib
Azerbaijani
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *bït (“louse”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [bit]
Noun
bit (definite accusative biti, plural bitl?r)
- louse
Declension
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?bit/
- Rhymes: -it
Noun
bit m (plural bits)
- (computing) bit
Czech
Etymology
From English bit, from binary digit.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?b?t]
- Rhymes: -?t
Noun
bit m
- (computing) bit
Declension
Derived terms
- bitový
- osmibitový
- šestnáctibitový
- kilobit
- megabit
- gigabit
- terabit
Further reading
- bit in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
- bit in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
- bit in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?t/
- Hyphenation: bit
- Rhymes: -?t
Etymology 1
Ablaut of bijten.
Noun
bit n (plural bitten, diminutive bitje n)
- bit (for a working animal)
- bit (rotary cutting tool)
- mouthguard
Etymology 2
From English bit.
Noun
bit m (plural bits, diminutive bitje n)
- bit (binary digit)
- bit (unit of storage)
- bit (datum with two possible values)
French
Etymology
From English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bit/
Noun
bit m (plural bits)
- (computing) bit
Derived terms
- bit le moins significatif
- bit le plus significatif
Further reading
- “bit” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Hungarian
Etymology
From English bit.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?bit]
- Hyphenation: bit
- Rhymes: -it
Noun
bit (plural bitek)
- (computing) bit (binary digit)
Declension
Derived terms
- jelz?bit
References
Indonesian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?b?t]
- Hyphenation: bit
Etymology 1
From English bit (“binary digit”).
Noun
bit (first-person possessive bitku, second-person possessive bitmu, third-person possessive bitnya)
- (computing) bit, smallest unit of storage.
Etymology 2
From Dutch biet (“binary digit”).
Noun
bit (first-person possessive bitku, second-person possessive bitmu, third-person possessive bitnya)
- Beta vulgaris, common beet, beetroot, sugar beet, and chard.
Further reading
- “bit” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Lashi
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bit/
Noun
bit
- sun
References
- Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid?[6], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?it/
Verb
bit
- supine of bi?
Nigerian Pidgin
Etymology
From English beat.
Verb
bit
- beat
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From Old Norse biti
Noun
bit m (definite singular biten, indefinite plural biter, definite plural bitene)
- a bit, piece (of something)
- a bite, mouthful (of food)
Derived terms
- isbit
- smakebit
Etymology 2
From English bit (binary digit)
Noun
bit m (definite singular biten, indefinite plural bit or biter, definite plural bitene)
- a bit (binary digit)
References
- “bit” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From Old Norse
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bi?t/
Noun
bit m (definite singular biten, indefinite plural bitar, definite plural bitane)
- a bit, piece (of something)
Derived terms
- isbit
- smakebit
Etymology 2
From English bit (binary digit)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?t?/
Noun
bit m (definite singular biten, indefinite plural bit or bitar, definit plural bitane)
- a bit (binary digit)
Etymology 3
From Old Norse bit
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bi?t/
Noun
bit n (definite singular bitet, indefinite plural bit, definite plural bita)
- a bite (e.g. insect bite, dog bite)
- a bite, mouthful (of food)
Etymology 4
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bi?t/
Verb
bit
- inflection of bite:
- present
- imperative
References
- “bit” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Irish
Verb
bit
- third-person plural future of is
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English bit.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bit??(i)/, /?bit(i)/
Noun
bit m (plural bits)
- (mathematics, computing) bit (binary digit)
Synonyms
- Abbreviations: b
Coordinate terms
- Multiples: kilobit, megabit, gigabit, terabit, petabit, exabit, zettabit, yottabit
Related terms
- byte (unit equivalent to 8 bits)
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology 1
From b?ti (“to be”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bî?t/
Noun
b?t f (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- essence
- point, meaning
Declension
Etymology 2
From English bit
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bît/
Noun
b?t m (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- (computing) bit
Declension
Slavomolisano
Etymology
From Serbo-Croatian biti, from Proto-Slavic *byti, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *b???tei, from Proto-Indo-European *b?uH-.
Verb
bit pf or impf
- to be
References
- Walter Breu and Giovanni Piccoli (2000), Dizionario croato molisano di Acquaviva Collecroce: Dizionario plurilingue della lingua slava della minoranza di provenienza dalmata di Acquaviva Collecroce in Provincia di Campobasso (Parte grammaticale)., pp. 409–412
Spanish
Etymology
From English bit.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bit/, [?bit?]
Noun
bit m (plural bits)
- bit (binary digit)
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse biti, noun definitions 2 and 4: From English bit, from binary digit.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bi?t/ (1–4)
- IPA(key): /b?t/ (3–4)
Noun
bit c
- bit (small piece)
- bit (portion)
- bit (binary digit)
- bit (unit of storage)
- bit (piece of music)
Declension
Related terms
- pusselbit
- sockerbit
Verb
bit
- imperative of bita.
Turkish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bit/
Etymology 1
From Ottoman Turkish ????, ???, from Proto-Turkic *bït (“louse”).
Noun
bit (definite accusative biti, plural bitler)
- (zoology) louse
Declension
Derived terms
- bit yeni?i (fishy)
- bitli (lousy)
See also
- pire (flea)
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English bit, abbreviation of binary digit.
Noun
bit (definite accusative biti, plural bitler)
- (computing) bit
Declension
Etymology 3
Verb
bit
- second-person singular imperative of bitmek
Turkmen
Etymology
From Old Turkic bit? (bit), from Proto-Turkic *b?t (“louse”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bit?/
Noun
bit (definite accusative bidi, plural bitler)
- (zoology) louse
Declension
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
- (Hà N?i) IPA(key): [??it???]
- (Hu?) IPA(key): [??it???]
- (H? Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [???t???]
Noun
bit
- (computing) bit
Zhuang
Pronunciation
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /pit?/
- Tone numbers: bit7
- Hyphenation: bit
Etymology 1
From Proto-Tai *pit? (“duck”). Cognate with Thai ???? (bpèt), Lao ???? (pet), Lü ??? (?ed), Tai Dam ????, Shan ????? (pét), Ahom ???????????????? (pit), Bouyei bidt, Saek ????. Compare Old Chinese ? (OC *p?id).
Noun
bit (classifier duz, Sawndip form ?, old orthography bit)
- duck
Derived terms
- roegbit
Etymology 2
From Chinese ? (MC p?i?t?).
Noun
bit (classifier gaiq, Sawndip form ????, old orthography bit)
- pen; pencil; writing implement
Classifier
bit (old orthography bit)
- Classifier for sums of money and deals.
Etymology 3
From Chinese ? (MC p?i?t?).
Classifier
bit (old orthography bit)
- Classifier for cloth: bolt of
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