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A BIT
I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
To a small degree; somewhat
Example:
a trifle smaller
Synonyms:
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Context examples:
I must ease them a bit, for I cannot afford to break the hearts of my cattle.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Tarry a bit! tarry a bit, mon gar.!” quoth Aylward, and turning round the shield he showed a round clear hole in the wood at the back of it.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Lakeland Terrier is a solid, squarely proportioned dog similar to the Welsh Terrier, but a bit smaller.
(Lakeland Terrier, NCI Thesaurus)
The long hair is flat and a bit wavy.
(English Setter, NCI Thesaurus)
Besides, added the dog, I should not be the worse for a bone or two, or a bit of meat.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
"Not a bit of it," answered the Lion.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
“It’s a bit like film photography,” explained graduate student researcher Daniel Oran.
(Researchers Use Laser to Shrink Objects to Nanoscale, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Spin makes electrons behave a bit like tiny bar magnets and point a certain way.
(‘Magnetic graphene’ switches between insulator and conductor, University of Cambridge)
Nearest the black hole, the gas orbits at close to the speed of light, while the outer portions spin a bit more slowly.
(NASA Visualization Shows a Black Hole’s Warped World, NASA)
We'll talk a bit more about this later, let's watch the report.
(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)
