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Bite can be a noun or a verb.

bite used as a noun:

  1. The act of biting.
  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. Something unpleasant.
    "That's really a bite!"
  6. 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."

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

bite used as a verb:

  1. To cut off a piece by clamping the teeth.
    "As soon as you bite that sandwich, you'll know how good it is."
  2. To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
  3. To attack with the teeth.
    "That dog is about to bite!"
  4. To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
    "I needed snow chains to make the tires bite."
  5. To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
    "Are the fish biting today?"
  6. To fall for a deception.
    "I've planted the story. Do you think they'll bite?"
  7. To sting.
    "These mosquitoes are really biting today!"
  8. To lack quality; to be worthy of derision.
    "This music really bites."
  9. To plagiarize.
    "He's biting my style."

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

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What type of word is bite?

As detailed above, 'bite' can be a noun or a verb. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Noun usage: That snake bite really hurts!
  2. Noun usage: After just one night in the jungle I was covered with mosquito bites.
  3. Noun usage: There were only a few bites left on the plate.
  4. Noun usage: That's really a bite!
  5. Noun usage: That song is a bite of my song!
  6. Noun usage: I'll have a quick bite to quiet my stomach until dinner.
  7. Verb usage: As soon as you bite that sandwich, you'll know how good it is.
  8. Verb usage: That dog is about to bite!
  9. Verb usage: I needed snow chains to make the tires bite.
  10. Verb usage: Are the fish biting today?
  11. Verb usage: I've planted the story. Do you think they'll bite?
  12. Verb usage: These mosquitoes are really biting today!
  13. Verb usage: This music really bites.
  14. Verb usage: He's biting my style.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of bite are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of bite, and guess at its most common usage.

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The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

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Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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