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nibble
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Word definitions for nibble in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
nibble \nib"ble\, n. A small or cautious bite. Hence: (Fig.) An expression of interest, often tentative, as at the beginning of a sale or negotiation process.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB away ▪ But on flexible, bending, shifting Hsu Fu the canvas had been nibbled away in less than twenty-four hours. ▪ She still did lip service to the old ways, while herself nibbling away at forbidden fruit. ▪ One ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In computing , a nibble (often nybble or nyble to match the vowels of byte ) is a four- bit aggregation, or half an octet . It is also known as half-byte or tetrade . In a networking or telecommunication context, the nibble is often called a semi-octet ...
Usage examples of nibble.
British troops began to nibble at the point of the salient on the Ancre which had been created by the battle of the Somme.
She let Booger Bear nibble from her hand as she ate, which the cat liked to do, and something that had always given Amelia fits.
Mattie nibbled her canapé and unconsciously began tapping the toe of her black leather pump.
Down went the motherless babies as four ruthless hands pulled apart their cosey nest, and there, among the nibbled fragments, appeared enough finely printed, greenish paper, to piece out parts of two bank bills.
These repetitions betray the movements of the keyword beneath the surface of the cryptogram just as the ducking of a fishing cork tells of a nibble.
Cole Haan loafers, and tortoiseshell specs they love to take off and nibble the arm of, plus always a uniform self-seriousness that reminds you of every overachieving dweeb you ever wanted to kick the ass of in school.
Eugenie Fonda felt a disquieting nibble of guilt, so she hastily unloaded both barrels.
Sir Timothy offered her a glass of port, which she declined, saying, however, that she was very content to nibble a fondant while he lingered over his wine.
He nibbles on the salad nicoise, he polishes off the galantine, and he uncurls the spiral pears!
Glaukus the fisherman, nibbling the herbs beside the sea and turning green with immortality, gives us fables out of Herodotus, gives us the Uttarakurus and the Jambu tree, dangles a hundred gleaming myths before our bedazzled ears, so that we want to cry out, Here!
The flame ran along the lines of joinery in the stonework, nibbling at block edges, making them drip turgidly down the walls.
Rhythm concluded as she nibbled on assorted mints from a mint julep tree: hot pepper mints, delightful compli mints, and pointed spear mints.
She would wait here for him, of course, sipping mint juleps and nibbling on bonbons.
The galleys nibbled hard at the coasts of Kennedy lands, raiding, looting, burning, killing, raping, destroying standing crops, and slaying all kine they did not bear away.
Harry has his little vegetable garden in imitation of the one his parents had in the back yard on Jackson Road, all he grows is lettuce and carrots and kohlrabi, he does love to nibble.