bite vs shoehorn

bite

verb
  • To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to. 

  • 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; 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. 

noun
  • 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. 

  • 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 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. 

shoehorn

verb
  • To force (something) into (a tight space); to squeeze (something) into (a schedule, etc); to exert great effort to insert or include (something); to include (something) despite potent reasons not to. 

  • To use a shoehorn. 

  • To force some current event into alignment with some (usually unconnected) agenda, especially when it is fallacious. 

noun
  • A smooth tool that assists in putting the foot into a shoe, by sliding the heel in after the toe is in place. This reduces discomfort and damage to the back of the shoe. By slipping it into the back of the shoe behind the heel, the user prevents the heel from squashing down the back of the shoe and causing difficulty; instead the heel slides down the smooth shoehorn, which then comes out easily once the foot is in place. 

  • Anything by which a transaction is facilitated; a medium. 

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