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Our View: Playing Napoli as a DH for a bit is a smart move as it will not only help his recovering shoulder but it could keep his legs a bit fresher heading into the season.

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  1. noun A small portion, degree, or amount: a bit of lint; a bit of luck.
  2. noun A brief amount of time; a moment: Wait a bit.
  3. noun A short scene or episode in a theatrical performance.
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  • Note to young writers: NEVER guarantee a bit will be a classic.
  • Downstream a bit was the submarine building shipyard, a huge plant, one of the largest in the world Upstream was a large naval wharf. —  050 - The Terror In The Navy
  • Hanging back a bit was a sturdy fellow who looked like Iddibal, the most helpful of the fighters I had talked to that morning. —  Two For The Lions
  • Having to "jailbreak" my phone just so I can customize it a bit is already dumb enough. —  Journerdism | Will Sullivan's Stompin' ground for journalists and nerds.
  • Our View: Playing Napoli as a DH for a bit is a smart move as it will not only help his recovering shoulder but it could keep his legs a bit fresher heading into the season. —  Fanball Fantasy Football News - Newsbreakers
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piece ·  scrap ·  fragment ·  chunk ·  pile ·  strip ·  layer ·  quantity ·  bundle ·  portion ·  smell ·  sheet

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bit:   bites ·  bite ·  biting ·  bitten
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  1. Middle English bite, morsel, from Old English bita; see bheid- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English bite, from Old English, act of biting; see bheid- in Indo-European roots.
  3. Blend of b(inary) and (dig)it.

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  1. Also in some senses occasionally bitt; early modern English bit, bitt, bitte, bytte, from Middle English byt, byte, bite, from Anglo-Saxon bite (= OFries. biti, bite, bit = Old Saxon biti = Middle Dutch bete, Dutch beet = Low German bet = Old High German Middle High German biz, German biss, strong masculine, = Icelandic bit = Swedish bett = Danish bid, neuter), a bite, act of biting, from bītan (past participle biten), bite: see bite. In Middle English and modern English (as well as in some other languages) confused in spelling and sense with bit, which is from the same verb, but with an orig. different formative. In the general sense, now represented by bite, n., directly from the modern verb: see bite, n. The concrete senses are later, and are expressed in part by forms with other suffixes: cf. Middle English bitte, bytte, bytt = Middle Low German bete, bet, bitte, bit, Low German bit, neuter, = Swedish bett, neuter, bridle-bit, = German gebiss, neuter, bridle-bit (= Anglo-Saxon gebit, biting); cf. Icelandic bitill, bridle-bit; Anglo-Saxon gebǣtel, bridle-bit, from Anglo-Saxon bǣtan, gebǣtan, bit, curb: see bait, and cf. bitt. The other concrete senses are recent.
  2. from bit, n.
  3. from Middle English bite, a bit, morsel, from Anglo-Saxon bita, a bit, piece bitten off (= OFries. bita = Dutch beet, a morsel, beetje, a small portion, = Middle Low German bete, bet, Low German beten = Old High German bizzo, Middle High German bizze, German bisse, bissen = Icelandic biti = Swedish bit = Danish bid, a morsel), weak masculine, from bītan (past participle biten), bite: see bite, v., bite, n., and bit, with which bit has been in part confused.
 

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