bit

bit
I
n
1. restrainer, harness, halter, yoke, rein; curb, check, restraint, brake.
2. take the bit in or between one’s teeth
rebel, break with, break away, revolt; resist, defy, disobey.
v
3. hinder, impede, inhibit, curb; restrain, hold back, keep back, keep or hold in check, retard, hamper.
II
n
1. piece, cantle, slice, Brit. Dial. collop, rasher, Australian. skerrick; part, cut, share, section, segment, moiety; particle, moit, mote; division, subdivision, fraction, hair; shaving, paring, sliver, shive, splinter, flake, scale, fragment, shard; morsel, crumb, grain, granule; chunk, lump, hunk, gob; portion, dose, installment; snatch, scrap, remnant, shred, fritter; cutting, snip, snippet; tab, stub, stump, butt, tatter; taste, sample, mouthful, sip, sup.
2. trace, touch, hint, trifle, tinge, suggestion, suspicion, tincture, Archaic. spice, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; mite, speck, smidgen, Inf. smitch, iota, molecule, atom, jot, whit, tittle; dot, point, dab, fleck, speck; minimum, pittance, modicum, driblet; item, article, particular, detail.
3. second, minute, little while, blink of an eye, flash; Inf. before you know it.
4. bit by bit
by degrees, gradually, step by step, one step at a time; in time, slowly.

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