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bite (BIGHT) (verb)
To cut, tear, or grip with or as if with the teeth: The nature film showed how the lion will bite and snarl while he is eating.
bite (BIGHT) (noun)
A stinging or smarting sensation: The negative comment made by the supervisor had a distinctive bite to it and made the employee unhappy.
byte (BIGHT) (noun)
In computer science, a unit of computer information that is equal to eight bits; a bit being a single unit of computer information that is represented as either 1 or 0: Calvin has a computer with a six gigabyte hard drive meaning that he has a unit of computer information equal to 1,073,741,824 bytes.
Wanda started to gnash her teeth and bite her thumb because she was so frustrated trying to understand the byte capacity of her new computer.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group B; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc.
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