bite: translation
•Roman•
I.•/Roman•
noun
1 act of biting/amount of food
VERB + BITE
▪ have, swallow, take
PREPOSITION
▪ between bites
▪ She tried to talk between bites.
▪ bite from
▪ I took a bite from the apple.
▪ bite of
▪ Can I have a bite of your sandwich?
▪ bite out of
▪ She took a bite out of the slab of cake.
2 of an insect/animal
ADJECTIVE
▪ dog, insect, mosquito, snake, etc.
▪ nasty
VERB + BITE
▪ get
▪ I got a lot of mosquito bites last night.
BITE + NOUN
▪ mark
PREPOSITION
▪ bite from
▪ a bite from a poisonous snake
3 small amount to eat
ADJECTIVE
▪ quick
VERB + BITE
▪ grab, have
▪ We managed to grab a bite at the airport.
PREPOSITION
▪ bite of
PHRASES
▪ a bite to eat
▪ We'll have a bite to eat in town.
•Roman•
II.•/Roman•
verb
1 use your teeth
ADVERB
▪ badly
▪ Their cat was badly bitten by a dog.
▪ off
▪ He bit off a chunk of bread.
PREPOSITION
▪ at
▪ He bit at his lower lip.
▪ down on
▪ She bit down on her bottom lip.
▪ into
▪ She bit into the apple.
▪ through
▪ The dog had bitten right through its rope.
PHRASES
▪ bite sth in half, bite sth in two
2 have an effect
ADVERB
▪ deep, hard
▪ As the recession bites harder, many small companies are going bankrupt.
VERB + BITE
▪ begin to, start to
▪ After two cold months, the coal shortage was beginning to bite.
Bite is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑bug, ↑cat, ↑dog, ↑fish, ↑flea, ↑insect, ↑mosquito, ↑shark, ↑snake, ↑spider, ↑tooth
Bite is used with these nouns as the object: ↑fingernail, ↑lip, ↑nail, ↑tongue