The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
A small meal or snack.
The wound left behind after having been bitten.
Something unpleasant.
The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
aggression
A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.
The act of biting.
A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
An act of plagiarism.
To attack with the teeth.
To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
To take or keep a firm hold.
To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
To sting.
To have significant effect, often negative.
To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.
To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
To plagiarize, to imitate.
To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
A bearing representing only one part of a rounded object.
A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them.
One of several parts of an organism, with similar structure, arranged in a chain; such as a vertebra, or a third of an insect's thorax.
The part of a circle between its circumference and a chord (usually other than the diameter).
A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.
An Ethernet bus.
Any of the pieces that constitute an order tree.
A discrete unit of speech: a consonant or a vowel.
The part of a sphere cut off by a plane.
A length of some object.
One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion.
A portion of an organ whose cells are derived from a single cell within the primordium from which the organ developed.
A portion of an itinerary: it may be a flight or train between two cities, or a car or hotel booked in a particular city.
A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program.
To divide into segments or sections.