bit.
bit, smallest unit of storage
Meaning & usage
bit, smallest unit of storage
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from English bit (“binary digit”).
bit an excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc.
bit a gag or put-on; a humorous conceit, especially when insistently presented as true
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from English bit, 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 *bʰeyd- (“to split”).
common beet, beetroot, sugar beet, and chard (Beta vulgaris)
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Dutch biet, from Middle Dutch bete, from Latin bēta.
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