Crossword clues for tidbit
tidbit
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tidbit \Tid"bit`\, n. [Tid + bit.] A delicate or tender piece of anything eatable; a delicious morsel. [Written also titbit.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
alt. 1 A tasty morsel (of food, gossip etc.) 2 (context computing informal English) A quarter of a byte (Half of a nybble; two bits). n. 1 A tasty morsel (of food, gossip etc.) 2 (context computing informal English) A quarter of a byte (Half of a nybble; two bits).
WordNet
n. a small tasty bit of food [syn: choice morsel, titbit]
Wikipedia
'''Tidbit '''is a Boston area startup company founded by MIT students to use web based distributed computing to mine bitcoins. In December 2013, shortly after its formation, the company was served a subpoena by the Attorney General of New Jersey under the state's consumer fraud protection act. After consulting the MIT administration the company was referred to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which is representing the company in its effort opposing the subpoena.
In February 2014 MIT faculty members Hal Abelson, Ethan Zuckerman, and graduate student Nathan Matias published a letter calling on MIT to do more to protect the students, as legal risk jeopardized MIT's institutional mission in “training young people to imagine, create, and disseminate projects that expand the possibilities of technology.” MIT President Rafael Reif then wrote an email to the MIT community, stating that Tidbit had "the full and enthusiastic support of MIT," and that he had directed the Provost, Chancellor and General Counsel to submit a proposal to provide legal advice to students.
In May 2015 the parties reached a settlement.
Usage examples of "tidbit".
You even dangled those little tidbits about Bandora in front of me and I snapped at the bait like a hungry trout.
At night, Bob and I followed CJ around the pool tables, bars, and beer joints of Gatlin and Travis counties, picking up bits and pieces of information, tracking tidbits of gossip, following the rills of rumors.
With chopsticks the other two picked tidbits off the plates set on lacquered stands in front of them.
Most of the information has been targeted toword the first time dutch oven user, although, the more experienced cook may find a tidbit or two here and there.
Louisiana industry was gossamer tidbits of apocryphal tales spun into the mainstream of the mega-millions that those Gashouses of refineries made.
As if dazzled by too many sensa, he moved through a wall of little sounds and odours: sizzling meats and conversational tidbits, woodsmoke and scorched oil and icevine burning thick and sweet.
The operator takes the living ovum, mounts it in the device, gets a tremendously magnified image of it with the slow-neutrino shadowscope, compares the image with a gene-map, starts gouging out submolecular tidbits with single-particle shots.
At the far corner of the field some blackbirds and three magpies were wading in the water and muck, hunting for choice tidbits.
Many of the choicest tidbits in UFO lore were not actual events but were put into circulation by contactees who placed their complete trust in their contacters.
If the mighty Deek would help fetch the tidbit in the water, why, then the bat would tell him something interesting.
Both owls hopped down from their perches to stand on the ground beside him, waiting for tidbits.
Fearing for the future of civilization, I read the notices on the bulletin board, gleaming tidbits about symposiums on A-V equipment, potluck dinners, and opportunities to study abroad for a zillion dollars.
Now and then Senzei caught snippets of their conversation, tidbits carried back to him on the evening breeze: Rakhene history.
One story led to another and another, but they were interesting tidbits, and Carrie thought it would be rude to interrupt.
She was already aware that he had a loose tongue and gloried in tidbits of scandal.