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单词 every bit
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bit1 /bit/

noun
  1. A bite, morsel
  2. A small piece, a little
  3. A coin
  4. 121/2 cents (N American) (used only in two bits, four bits or six bits, ie a quarter, a half or three-quarters of a dollar)
  5. The smallest degree
  6. A brief space of time
  7. A small tool for boring (see brace)
  8. The boring-piece of a drilling machine
  9. The cutting or biting part of various tools
  10. The part of the bridle that the horse holds in its mouth
  11. The part of a key that engages the lever of the lock
  12. Used with the effect of a diminutive, as in a bit of a laddie, a bit laddie (dialect, esp Scot)
  13. A girl, young woman (informal)
  14. An (area of) activity, an act, a role (slang)
transitive verb (bittˈing; bittˈed)
  1. To put the bit in the mouth of
  2. To curb or restrain
ORIGIN: From bite

bitˈless adjective

Without a bit

bitˈsy adjective (informal)

Prettily small

bittˈie noun (Scot)

A small piece, short distance, or short time

bittˈock noun (Scot)

A little bit

bittˈy adjective

  1. Scrappy, disjointed, made up of odds and ends
  2. Not forming an artistic whole

bitˈ-part noun

A small part in acting

bit player noun

An actor who plays bit-parts

a bit or a bit of

Somewhat, rather, as in a bit of a fool, a bit stupid

a bit of all right (slang)

A person or thing highly approved of

a bit off (informal)

In bad taste

a bit on the side (slang)

(one's partner in) extramarital sexual relations

bit by bit

  1. Piecemeal
  2. Gradually

bits and bobs or bits and pieces

Odds and ends

champ at the bit

To be impatient to act

do one's bit

To do one's due share

every bit

Just as much

not a bit or not a bit of it

Not at all

off the bit

On a loose rein

on the bit

On a tight rein

take (or get) the bit in (or between) one's teeth

  1. To throw off control
  2. To take up or have a tenacious or keen interest (in) or occupation (with something)

to bits

  1. (to fall, etc) apart
  2. Very much (informal)

every /evˈri/

adjective
  1. Each of a number or collection, all taken separately
  2. The best possible (eg every chance of winning)
ORIGIN: OE ǣfre ever, and ǣlc each

evˈerybody or evˈeryone pronoun

Every person

evˈeryday adjective

  1. Of or happening every day, daily
  2. Common or usual
  3. (esp of clothes) relating to or appropriate for weekdays, not Sunday

evˈerydayness noun

Evˈeryman noun

  1. (also without cap) the hero of an old morality play, representing mankind
  2. Everybody or anybody

evˈeryplace adverb (US)

Everywhere

evˈerything pronoun

  1. All things taken singly
  2. All
  3. The most important thing (eg money isn't everything)

evˈeryway adverb

In every way or respect

evˈerywhen, evˈerywhence or evˈerywhither adverb (all rare).

evˈerywhere adverb

In or to every place

every bit or whit

  1. The whole, all of it
  2. Quite or entirely

every here and there

All over, in various places

every last

(emphatically) every

every man Jack or every mother's son

Everyone without exception

every now and then or every now and again

At intervals, periodically

every other

Every second or alternate

every so often

At intervals or periodically

every which way (US)

  1. In every direction or by every method
  2. In disorder

have everything (informal)

To be well-endowed with possessions, attractiveness, etc

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