Explore Bit through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like fragment or case. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Bit in a sentence
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Bit meaning
- A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.
- A rotary cutting tool, fitted to a drill, brace, or router, used to bore or drill holes or to remove material from the profile of the workpiece.
- Applied to a various small units of currency and coins.
Synonyms of Bit
Using Bit
- The main meaning on this page is: A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal. | A rotary cutting tool, fitted to a drill, brace, or router, used to bore or drill holes or to remove material from the profile of the workpiece. | Applied to a various small units of currency and coins.
- Useful related words include: fragment, case, piece, time.
- In the example corpus, bit often appears in combinations such as: little bit, bit of, bit more.
Context around Bit
- Average sentence length in these examples: 34.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 13 start, 7 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Bit
- In this selection, "bit" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 34.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, little, carry, two, errors, machines and sequence stand out and add context to how "bit" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a little bit, all two bit errors but, bit lower, little bit and bit error. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "bit" sits close to words such as worth, production and church, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with bit
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The eight's bit is followed by the four's bit, then the two's bit, then the one's bit. (21 words)
Sometimes I'll do a character, that's maybe a bit younger or a bit bossy, and that's kind of how I was a little bit. (27 words)
In addition, there is an 8 x 8-bit multiply (A x B), with full 16-bit result, and Fractional/Integer 16-bit by 16-bit Divide instructions. (28 words)
And then we actually leased quite a bit in the last 12 months that we now can hire and turn that equipment back to the lessor is and ratchet down a little bit of across our network there which will help the cost structure a little bit. (47 words)
If we increase the number of times we duplicate each bit to four, we can detect all two-bit errors but cannot correct them (the votes "tie"); at five repetitions, we can correct all two-bit errors, but not all three-bit errors. (43 words)
She added: "I just wanted to give them a little bit of peace, a little bit of rest at this awful time, even if they are not struggling financially, I know that any help will just take a little bit of pressure off. (43 words)
Example sentences (20)
The jump from 8-bit machines to 16-bit machines to 32-bit machines made a noticeable difference in performance, so consoles from certain generations are frequently referred to as 8-bit or 16-bit consoles.
SLC (Single-Level Cell/1-bit) is fastest, MLC (Multi-Level Cell/2-bit) is next, TLC (Triple-Level Cell/3-bit) is slower, and QLC (Quad-Level Cell/4-bit is slowest.
Bit-sequence-independence allows only line codes that have the same number of transitions per bit, otherwise, the line code is dependent on the bit sequence and, therefore, bit-sequence dependent.
CPUs might have other modes similar to protected mode as well, such as the virtual modes in order to emulate older processor types, such as 16-bit processors on a 32-bit one, or 32-bit processors on a 64-bit one.
If we increase the number of times we duplicate each bit to four, we can detect all two-bit errors but cannot correct them (the votes "tie"); at five repetitions, we can correct all two-bit errors, but not all three-bit errors.
In addition, there is an 8 x 8-bit multiply (A x B), with full 16-bit result, and Fractional/Integer 16-bit by 16-bit Divide instructions.
In assembly language, these options were specified by adding a letter to the opcode: 'O' — set the carry bit; 'Z' — clear the carry bit, 'C' — complement the carry bit, nothing — leave the carry bit alone.
In the case of 16-bit applications, the two applications cannot be executed simultaneously on a 16-bit platform, or in the same 16-bit virtual machine under a 32-bit operating system.
It provides arithmetic and logic operations on 64-bit integer numbers (the software may choose to instead perform two 32-bit, four 16-bit or eight 8-bit operations in a single instruction).
Programmers may also incorrectly assume that a pointer can be converted to an integer without loss of information, which may work on (some) 32-bit computers, but fail on 64-bit computers with 64-bit pointers and 32-bit integers.
Since most such codes correct only bit-flips, but not bit-insertions or bit-deletions, the Hamming distance metric is the appropriate way to measure the number of bit errors.
The eight's bit is followed by the four's bit, then the two's bit, then the one's bit.
Thus the 32-bit integer Integer and 32-bit floating-point Float objects can simply use the value directly; whereas the 64-bit integer Long and 64-bit floating-point Double cannot use this method.
And then we actually leased quite a bit in the last 12 months that we now can hire and turn that equipment back to the lessor is and ratchet down a little bit of across our network there which will help the cost structure a little bit.
My feeling was a bit we enjoyed our dominance a bit too much and lacked a bit the last two or three per cent to be really on it and focus in order to bury this game at half time.
She added: "I just wanted to give them a little bit of peace, a little bit of rest at this awful time, even if they are not struggling financially, I know that any help will just take a little bit of pressure off.
So you often get a little bit of a disconnect, sometimes the next quarter's a little bit higher than the backlog, sometimes it's a little bit lower.
A relative of one of the hostages said he had seen both freed men following their rescue and found them “a bit frail, a bit thin, a bit pale” but overall in good condition.
A voice that says: “How well you look,” helps me walk a bit steadier (without tipping over), and stand a bit straighter, perhaps feeling the pain a bit less.
Sometimes I'll do a character, that's maybe a bit younger or a bit bossy, and that's kind of how I was a little bit.
Phrases with bit
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with bit
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- little bit 91×
- bit of 81×
- bit more 28×
- bit by 16×
- by bit 14×
- was bit 9×
- and bit 9×
- bit and 9×
- is bit 8×
- quite bit 7×