Meaning

• To cut into something by clamping the teeth.

  "As soon as you bite that sandwich, you'll know how good it is."

• To hold something by clamping one's teeth.

• To attack with the teeth.

  "That dog is about to bite!"

• To behave aggressively; to reject advances.

  "If you see me, come and say hello. I don't bite."

• To take hold; to establish firm contact with.

  "I needed snow chains to make the tires bite."

• To have significant effect, often negative.

  "For homeowners with adjustable rate mortgages, rising interest will really bite."

• (of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.

  "Are the fish biting today?"

• To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.

  "I've planted the story. Do you think they'll bite?"

• (of an insect) To sting.

  "These mosquitoes are really biting today!"

• To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.

  "It bites like pepper or mustard."

• (sometimes figurative) To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.

  "Pepper bites the mouth."

• To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.

• To take or keep a firm hold.

  "The anchor bites."

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

  "The anchor bites the ground."

• To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.

  "This music really bites."

• To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.

  "You don't like that I sat on your car? Bite me."

• To plagiarize, to imitate.

  "He always be biting my moves."

• To deceive or defraud; to take in.

Meaning

• An instance of something being bitten.

Meaning

• Causing a stinging sensation.

  "a biting wind"

• Cutting or incisive.

  "a biting criticism"

• Tending to bite.

  "a biting insect"