bite

verb18

1. •
   to close the top and bottom teeth hard on something, so that they cut into it

   • As soon as you bite that sandwich, you'll know how good it is.
2. •
   To attack with the teeth.

   • That dog is about to bite!
3. •
   To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.

   • Are the fish biting today?
4. •
   (figurative) 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?
5. •
   To have significant effect, often negative.

   • For homeowners with adjustable rate mortgages, rising interest will really bite.
6. •
   To sting.

   • These mosquitoes are really biting today!
7. •
   To behave aggressively; to reject advances.

   • If you see me, come and say hello. I don't bite.
8. •
   To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.

   • It bites like pepper or mustard.
9. •
   To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.

   • At the last it [wine] biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like ‖ an adder. — 1611
10. •
    (figurative) To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.

    • Pepper bites the mouth.
11. •
    To take hold; to establish firm contact with.

    • I needed snow chains to make the tires bite.
12. •
    To take or keep a firm hold.

    • The anchor bites.
13. •
    To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.

    • The anchor bites the ground.
14. •
    To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
15. •
    (informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.

    • You don't like that I sat on your car? Bite me.
16. •
    (slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.

    • This music really bites.
17. •
    (slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.

    • He always be biting my moves.
18. •
    (slang, no longer used) To deceive or defraud; to take in.

noun16

1. •
   The act of biting.

   • […]I have knowne a very good Fisher angle diligently four or six hours in a day, for three or four dayes together for a River Carp, and not have a bite[…] — 1653
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 small meal or snack.

   • I'll have a quick bite to quiet my stomach until dinner.
5. •
   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.
6. •
   (figurative) incisiveness, provocativeness, exactness.
7. •
   (figurative) Aggression.

   • Kathy Santen is full of bite as the bizarrely seduced Lady Anne, although her exaggerated diction is a bit too snappishly Shakespearean. — 1996
8. •
   Something unpleasant.

   • In February of this year, 9to5 was forced to lay off four of its paid staff, and began to feel the bite of its high-rent downtown office space. — 1985
9. •
   Ellipsis of sound bite.

   • cold open: Starting a TV newscast with video or a bite from the lead story rather than starting with the anchor or the standard show open. — 2015
10. •
    (slang) An act of plagiarism.

    • That song is a bite of my song!
11. •
    The turn that a spin bowler imparts to a pitch.
12. •
    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.
13. •
    (slang) A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.

    • I know three Americans who are running a bar. The cops come in all the time for a bite. — 1993
14. •
    (informal, old-fashioned) A cheat; a trick; a fraud.

    • The baser methods of getting money by fraud and bite, by deceiving and overreaching. — 1725
15. •
    (informal, slang) A sharper; one who cheats.

    • [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. — 1751
16. •
    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.

noun1

1. •
   Acronym of behavior, information, thoughts, emotions (“four aspects of people's lives that a cult attempts to control”).