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Canadian educational TV series about computers
Bits and Bytes is the name of two Canadian educational television series produced by TVOntario that taught the basics of how to use a personal computer
Bits_and_Bytes
Unit of digital information, usually 8 bits
from the original on 2017-04-05. Retrieved 2017-04-05. Ashley Taylor. "Bits and Bytes". Stanford. https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs101/bits-bytes.html
Byte
Information transmission rate expressed in bits per second
cumulative size in bytes can be found by dividing the file size in bits by the number of bits in a byte, which is eight: size in bytes = size in bits 8 {\displaystyle
Bit_rate
Way in which data is arranged and accessed in computer memory
b/8 byte aligned address (ex. 64-bit aligned is 8 bytes aligned). A memory access is said to be aligned when the data being accessed is n bytes long and the
Data_structure_alignment
Base memory unit handled by a computer
addition to bit, are listed below. Byte denotes a group of bits used to encode a character, or the number of bits transmitted in parallel to and from input-output
Word_(computer_architecture)
Convention to identify bit positions
computing, bit numbering is the convention used to identify the bit positions in a binary number. The bits can be those in a memory byte or word, or
Bit_numbering
Order of bytes in a computer word
address is eight bits long and is called a byte. Larger groups comprise two or more bytes; for example, a 32-bit word contains four bytes. There are two
Endianness
Computer data measurements and scales
numbers of bits based on convention and computer hardware design, but today means 8 bits. A more accurate, but less commonly used name for 8 bits is octet
Orders_of_magnitude_(data)
Graphics designing computer by Pixar
(512 bytes) 2. Tile pointer table (8 × numberTiles bytes) 3. Picture data Origin of image is left top corner. All data in file use small-endian byte order
Pixar_Image_Computer
Encoding for a sequence of byte values using 64 printable characters
number of bytes that is 2 more than a multiple of 3 (e.g. 'M', 'a'), then the last 2 bytes (16 bits) are encoded in 3 Base64 digits (18 bits). The two
Base64
Unit of measurement
telecommunications, data rate units are commonly multiples of bits per second (bit/s) and bytes per second (B/s). For example, the data rates of modern residential
Data-rate_units
Sequence of binary digits
bitstream (or bit stream), also known as binary sequence, is a sequence of bits. A bytestream is a sequence of bytes. Typically, each byte is an 8-bit quantity
Bitstream
Efficient variable-length integer encoding
do { byte = value & 0x7f; /* low-order 7 bits of value */ value >>= 7; if (value != 0) /* more bytes to come */ byte |= 0x80; /* set high-order bit of byte
LEB128
Multiple of the unit byte
375 bytes unformatted, and was advertised as "110 Kbyte", using the 1000 convention. Likewise, the 8-inch DEC RX01 floppy (1975) held 256,256 bytes formatted
Kilobyte
24-bit number in networking equipment that uniquely identifies its manufacturer
digits and the bits of the octet value, are derived by reversing the order of the bits in the octet value and interpreting the resulting bit sequence
Organizationally unique identifier
Organizationally_unique_identifier
Algorithm
characters, each stored as an 8-bit byte, making a data word of 1088 bits in total. A convenient block size would be 8 bits, although this is not required
Fletcher's_checksum
Canadian actor (1934–2003)
TVOntario's Bits and Bytes, a show devoted to the usage of early (mostly 8-bit) personal computers, a role returned to 1991 in Bits and Bytes 2. Van narrated
Billy_Van
Parameter in telecommunications networking
link's capacity (in bits per second) and its round-trip delay time (in seconds). The result, an amount of data measured in bits (or bytes), is equivalent
Bandwidth-delay_product
Unit of measure for digital data
whole bytes or groups of bytes, rather than individual bits. A group of four bits, or half a byte, is sometimes called a nibble, nybble or nyble. This unit
Units_of_information
Computer architecture bit width
1 for English and Western European languages. The IBM System/360 introduced byte-addressable memory with 8-bit bytes, as opposed to bit-addressable or
8-bit_computing
Fourth version of the Internet Protocol
of 32-bit words in the header. The minimum value for this field is 5, which indicates a length of 5 × 32 bits = 160 bits = 20 bytes. As a 4-bit field
IPv4
Unit of information
sizes are often measured in (binary) IEC multiples of bytes, for example, 1 KiB = 1024 bytes = 8192 bits. Confusion may arise in cases where (for historic
Bit
Computer architecture bit width
version 1.3 or later. HOW Stuff Works "How Bits and Bytes work" "Ken Colburn on LockerGnome.com: 32-Bit Vs. 64-Bit Windows". Archived from the original on
32-bit_computing
128-bit number used to identify information in computer systems
namespace and name, the UUID of the namespace is transformed to a string of bytes, concatenated with the input name, then hashed with MD5, yielding 128 bits. Then
Universally_unique_identifier
Computer color depth
assign 3 bits to red, 3 bits to green and 2 bits to blue, as the human eye is less sensitive to blue light. This creates a so called 3-3-2 8-bit color image
8-bit_color
Four-bit unit of binary data
an "8 bit nibble". The term byte once had the same ambiguity and meant a set of bits but not necessarily 8, hence the distinction of bytes and octets
Nibble
Unicode character
noncharacter Unicode code point if its bytes are swapped. Hence, the process accessing the text can examine these first few bytes to determine the endianness, without
Byte_order_mark
Array data structure that compactly stores bits
example on 32 bits: exchange two 16-bit halfwords exchange bytes by pairs (0xddccbbaa -> 0xccddaabb) ... swap bits by pairs swap bits (b31 b30 ... b1
Bit_array
Codes used for on-board diagnostics
In the second byte (B), bit 3 indicates the engine type and thus how to interpret bytes C and D, with 0 being spark (Otto or Wankel) and 1 (set) being
OBD-II_PIDs
here, and the table is generated using the bit-at-a-time code. Function CRC32 Input: data: Bytes // Array of bytes Output: crc32: UInt32 // 32-bit unsigned
Computation of cyclic redundancy checks
Computation_of_cyclic_redundancy_checks
Computer architecture bit width
what was possible using only 16-bit addresses. Programs containing more than 216 bytes (65,536 bytes) of instructions and data therefore required special
16-bit_computing
Adding data to a message prior to encryption to hide its length
of bits long, not necessarily a whole number of bytes long. For example, a message of 23 bits that is padded with 9 bits in order to fill a 32-bit block:
Padding_(cryptography)
Encoding Unicode characters as 4 bytes per code point
bytes) per code point (but a number of leading bits must be zero as there are far fewer than 232 Unicode code points, needing actually only 21 bits)
UTF-32
Data structure that maps one or more adjacent bits
bytes (16-bits) of memory; sometimes the values to be stored actually need only one or two bits. Having a number of these tiny variables share a bit field
Bit_field
Type of two-dimensional barcode
2 byte-errors. A total of 26 code-words consist of 7 error-correction bytes, and 17 data bytes, in addition to the "Len" (8 bit field), "Enc" (4 bit field)
QR_code
Canadian actress and comedian
alongside Billy Van) in an educational series on computers called Bits and Bytes. Produced by TVOntario, the show was aired by PBS stations in the United
Luba_Goy
Encoding method for variable-length integers
universal code that uses an arbitrary number of binary octets (eight-bit bytes) to represent an arbitrarily large integer. A VLQ is essentially a base-128
Variable-length_quantity
Tables for the Data Encryption Standard
block cipher. All bits and bytes are arranged in big endian order in this document. That is, bit number 1 is always the most significant bit. This table specifies
DES_supplementary_material
Comparison of a wide range of bit rates
1000 bytes = 8000 bits 1 KiB (kibibyte) = 210 bytes = 1024 bytes = 8192 bits 1 kbit (kilobit) = 125 bytes = 1000 bits 1 Kibit (kibibit) = 210 bits = 1024
Orders of magnitude (bit rate)
Orders_of_magnitude_(bit_rate)
Prefix indicating a power of two
1000000000 bytes or b) 230 bytes. ... As used in this document, the terms kilobyte (kB) means 210 or 1024 bytes, megabyte (MB) means 1024 kilobytes, and gigabyte
Binary_prefix
Computer communications authentication algorithm
512 bits (64 bytes) when using one of the following hash functions: SHA-1, MD5, RIPEMD-128. function hmac is input: key: Bytes // Array of bytes message:
HMAC
IEEE standard on binary prefixes
to indicate quantities of bits and bytes – the unit symbol "Mb", for instance, has been widely used for both megabytes and megabits. IEEE 1541 sets new
IEEE_1541
Serial communications protocol
periods. Each byte (8 bits) of data is sent as 11 bits: 1 start bit 8 bit data/message, least significant bit sent first 1 bit parity 1 stop bit The default
Modbus
Standard for the encryption of electronic data
second, third and fourth row is 1 byte, 3 bytes and 4 bytes respectively—this change only applies for the Rijndael cipher when used with a 256-bit block, as
Advanced_Encryption_Standard
Computer science topic
operates on a bit string, a bit array or a binary numeral (considered as a bit string) at the level of its individual bits. It is a fast and simple action
Bitwise_operation
Floating-point number format by Microsoft
32 bits (4 bytes), with a 23-bit mantissa, 1-bit sign, and an 8-bit exponent. Extended (12k) BASIC included a double-precision type with 64 bits. During
Microsoft_Binary_Format
Type of computer instructions
normally manipulates 8-bit data bytes, but the mask and rotate units makes it possible to manipulate single or multiple bits, making this a variable
Bit_manipulation_instructions
Bit added to a binary string for error detection
A parity bit, or check bit, is a bit added to a string of binary code. Parity bits are a simple form of error detecting code. Parity bits are generally
Parity_bit
Series of standards for 8-bit character encodings
mapped to bytes 0 to 31) from ISO 646 and the C1 control set (control characters mapped to bytes 128 to 159) from ISO 6429, resulting in full 8-bit character
ISO/IEC_8859
Group of computer programming languages
large collections of information at once rather than focusing on just bits and bytes. Languages claimed to be 4GL may include support for database management
Fourth-generation programming language
Fourth-generation_programming_language
Computer approximation for real numbers
family. This is a binary format that occupies 64 bits (8 bytes) and its significand has a precision of 53 bits (about 16 decimal digits). Double extended,
Floating-point_arithmetic
Using software instead of dedicated hardware to process and make use of signals
SPI bus via bit banging. void send_8bit_serial_data(unsigned char data) { // select device (active low) output_low(SD_CS); // send bits 7..0 for (int
Bit_banging
Bitmap image file format family
single 0 byte, indicating a sub-block with 0 data bytes). For the sample image above, the reversible mapping between 9-bit codes and bytes is shown below
GIF
Windows Bitmap image file format family
have 6 bytes of data and 2 bytes of padding, Width=3 would have 9 bytes of data and 3 bytes of padding, and Width=4 would have 12 bytes of data and no padding
BMP_file_format
Family of lossless-compression image file formats
unit, X axis" (4 bytes), "Pixels per unit, Y axis" (4 bytes), and "Unit specifier" (1 byte) for a total of 9 bytes. sBIT (significant bits) indicates the
PNG
ASCII-compatible variable-width encoding of Unicode
RFC 2279, could encode up to 31 bits in 6 bytes, as shown in the table below. The current RFC 3629 allows only up to 4 bytes. For this table the characters
UTF-8
Industrial standard for programmable logic controllers
DWORD – 32 bit (4 byte) LWORD – 64 bit (8 byte) INTEGER – whole numbers (Considering byte size 8 bits) SINT – signed short integer (1 byte) INT – signed
IEC_61131-3
International car standard
two bytes in this case, with the first 4 bit field the type (type 1) and the following 12 bits the message length (excluding the type and length bytes).
ISO_15765-2
Type of matrix barcode
finder pattern and finder sub pattern. Format information is built as 18-bit sequence containing 6 data bits, 12 error correction bits calculated using
Rectangular_Micro_QR_Code
Multiple of the unit byte
for 10002 (one million) bytes or 10242 bytes. The interpretation of using base 1024 originated as technical jargon for the byte multiples that needed to
Megabyte
Communication aspects of Universal Serial Bus
to send. Token packets consist of a PID byte followed by two payload bytes: 11 bits of address and a five-bit CRC. Tokens are only sent by the host, never
USB_communications
International standard for messaging systems
these objects. A set of encoding rules for mapping these messages to bits and bytes when transmitted. MMS was standardized in 1990 under two separate standards
Manufacturing Message Specification
Manufacturing_Message_Specification
Data protocol for motor vehicles
stuffing bits (5 bits for packets smaller than 6 bytes and 6 bits for packets bigger than 6 bytes). CRC is also size-dependent, set to 17 bits for packets
CAN_FD
Unit of data on an Ethernet network
transmission of 64 octets (bytes). With header and FCS taken into account, the minimum payload is 42 octets when an 802.1Q tag is present and 46 octets when absent
Ethernet_frame
Encoding for a sequence of byte values using 32 printable characters
because it encodes five 8-bit bytes (40 bits) to eight 5-bit base32 characters rather than three 8-bit bytes (24 bits) to four 6-bit base64 characters, padding
Base32
Two-dimensional matrix barcode
can be text or numeric data. The usual data size is from a few bytes up to 1556 bytes. The length of the encoded data depends on the number of cells in
Data_Matrix
Message-digest hashing algorithm
with complete bytes: append 0x80 // and pad with 0x00 bytes so that the message length in bytes ≡ 56 (mod 64). append original length in bits mod 264 to
MD5
German interaction designer and media artist (born 1973)
installations and lighting designs. He is based in Berlin. His projects focus on the translation of bits and bytes into objects and environments and vice versa
Christopher_Bauder
Principal protocol used to stream data across an IP network
packet with Total Length of 200 bytes and IHL value of 5, which indicates a length of 5 bits × 32 bits = 160 bits = 20 bytes. We can compute the TCP length
Transmission_Control_Protocol
Computer architecture bit width
(over 276 bytes). A 128-bit register can store 2128 (over 3.40 × 1038) different values. The range of integer values that can be stored in 128 bits depends
128-bit_computing
Computer network protocol
transfer up to 8 bytes (64 bits) of data per one PDO either from or to the device. One PDO can contain multiple object dictionary entries and the objects within
CANopen
Higher-level 7-bit and 8-bit character encoding system
including control codes, with multiple bytes (e.g. UTF-16, UTF-32) Mixing bytes with the most significant bit set and unset within the coded representation
ISO/IEC_2022
Encoding for a sequence of byte values using 85 printable characters
a sequence of four zero bytes. When encoding, each group of 4 bytes is taken as a 32-bit binary number, most significant byte first (Ascii85 uses a big-endian
Ascii85
Industrial automation protocol
of an XOR of all the bytes starting from the start byte and ending with the last byte of the data field, including those bytes. Each manufacturer that
Highway Addressable Remote Transducer Protocol
Highway_Addressable_Remote_Transducer_Protocol
Internet protocol used for error messages in network operations
while the last four bytes depend on the type and code of the ICMP packet. Type: 8 bits ICMP type, see § Control messages. Code: 8 bits ICMP subtype, see
Internet Control Message Protocol
Internet_Control_Message_Protocol
Two raised to an integer power
bits that was defined by the hardware context, typically of 5 to 32 bits, rather than only an 8-bit unit.) The prefix kilo, in conjunction with byte,
Power_of_two
Lossless data compression software
byte. Values greater than 127 (and up to 2^63) are stored in two or more bytes (up to 9). All bytes except the last one have the most significant bit
XZ_Utils
Computer architecture bit width
bits for virtual memory and, for any given processor, up to 52 bits for physical memory. These limits allow memory sizes of 256 TB (256 × 10244 bytes)
64-bit_computing
Computer architecture with addressable bytes
on either 6-bit or 9-bit bytes. Neither of these machines originally had direct machine support for random access to bytes; adjusting a byte pointer to
Byte_addressing
Tools used to make software
Cappos, Justin (2019). in-toto: Providing farm-to-table guarantees for bits and bytes. 28th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 19). USENIX Association
Software_supply_chain
Computer file system architecture design
file system uses 16 bits per FAT entry, thus one entry spans two bytes in little-endian byte order: The FAT32 file system uses 32 bits per FAT entry, thus
Design_of_the_FAT_file_system
Data structure
inequality), the key at each node is compared chunk-of-bits by chunk-of-bits, where the quantity of bits in that chunk at that node is the radix r of the radix
Radix_tree
Hash function that is suitable for use in cryptography
so SHA-224 has an output size of 224 bits (28 bytes); SHA-256, 32 bytes; SHA-384, 48 bytes; and SHA-512, 64 bytes. SHA-3 (Secure Hash Algorithm 3) was
Cryptographic_hash_function
Software algorithm book
published in 2002. It presents fast bit-level and low-level arithmetic algorithms for common tasks such as counting bits or improving speed of division by
Hacker's_Delight
Smart card message
format byte T0; interface bytes TAi, TBi, TCi, TDi (optionals, variable number); historical bytes Ti (optionals, up to 15), and the check byte TCK (optional)
Answer_to_reset
Typographical symbol (@)
Archived from the original on 2012-07-23. Bowen, David (23 October 2011). "Bits and Bytes". The Independent. Archived from the original on 9 July 2018. ... Tim
At_sign
Class of computer memory address reference
masks out these bits before accessing memory. E.g., on a 32-bit architecture (for both addresses and word size), a word is 32 bits = 4 bytes, so word-aligned
Tagged_pointer
File format for executables, object code, shared libraries, and core dumps
command is read and the number of bytes for the load commands do not match, or if we go outside the number of bytes for load commands before reaching
Mach-O
Single chip microcontroller series by Intel
256 bytes of internal data RAM (16 bytes of which are bit-addressable), up to 128 bytes of I/O, 512 bytes to 64 KB of internal program memory, and sometimes
Intel_MCS-51
Dynamic window manager for X Window System
Retrieved 2015-05-04. Kolmodin, Lennart (April 2, 2007). "xmonad". Bits and Bytes. Retrieved 2011-05-15. Danjou, Julien (20 Sep 2007). "Announcing 'awesome'"
Dwm
16-bit computer number format
is a binary floating-point computer number format that occupies 16 bits (two bytes in modern computers) in computer memory. It is intended for storage
Half-precision floating-point format
Half-precision_floating-point_format
Cryptographic hash function
512-bit (64-bits size, big-endian) padding: func pad(M) original_length := len(M) # In bytes # 512 bits (total length) - 256 bits (size length) - 1 bit (padding
Whirlpool_(hash_function)
Computer network protocol
that 8-cycle per bit has nothing to do with bytes. Each byte takes 80 cycles to transfer. 16 for BSS0 and BSS1 and 64 for its bits. Also note that BSS0
FlexRay
Canadian computer programmer (1936–2007)
Bits and Bytes, for which he was already the main source of technical content and author of the accompanying resource book. That year Butterfield and
Jim_Butterfield
Operations transforming individual bits of integral data types
counterparts, the AND, OR, NOT operators. Instead of performing on individual bits, byte-level operators perform on strings of eight bits (known as bytes) at a time
Bitwise_operations_in_C
Sequence of bits or bytes of a fixed size
(specifically data transmission and data storage), a block, sometimes called a physical record, is a sequence of bytes or bits, usually containing some whole
Block_(data_storage)
Cryptographic hash function
M We will get cBytesRemaining bytes (i.e. 0..128 bytes) cBytesCompressed ← cBytesCompressed+cBytesRemaining The actual number of bytes leftover in M chunk
BLAKE_(hash_function)
Computer display mode based on characters
characters requires at least 2,000 bytes. Assuming a monochrome display, 8 bits per byte, and a standard size of 8 times 8 bits for each character, a framebuffer
Text_mode
Key derivation function based on an HMAC
hmac_digest(key: bytes, data: bytes) -> bytes: return hmac.new(key, data, hash_function).digest() def hkdf_extract(salt: bytes, ikm: bytes) -> bytes: if len(salt)
HKDF
Cryptographic hash function
MIT in the design of the MD4 and MD5 message digest algorithms, but generates a larger message digest (160 bits vs. 128 bits). SHA-1 was developed as part
SHA-1
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Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : occupational name for a maker and seller of spurs, bits, and other small metal attachments to harness and tackle. Compare Lorimer.
Girl/Female
Australian, Dutch
Loving and Musical
Girl/Female
English, Modern
Gods Angel
Male
English
Unisex pet form of English Andrew and Andrea, ANDY means "man; warrior."
Female
Serbian
(Bulgarian and Serbian Ðна): Bulgarian and Serbian form of Greek Hanna, ANA means "favor; grace."
Surname or Lastname
French
French : habitational name from places in Landes and Lot-et-Garonne named Bias.English : possibly a variant spelling of Byas.
Girl/Female
Arabic, Indian, Japanese, Muslim, Parsi
Unique; Matchless; Beautiful
Female
Norwegian
Danish and Norwegian form of Greek Hanna, ANE means "favor; grace."
Female
Spanish
Portuguese and Spanish form of Latin Anna, ANA means "favor; grace."Â Compare with another form of Ana.
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : from Middle English bis, biss(e), bice, byse ‘dingy’, ‘dark’, ‘gray’, ‘murky’; ‘dark fur used for trimming and lining garments’ (Old French bis(e), of Germanic origin), hence a nickname for someone with an unhealthy complexion or someone who habitually dressed in particularly drab garments, or (from the noun) a metonymic occupational name for a furrier or maker of fur-trimmed garments.South German : nickname for a cutting, sarcastic person, from Biss ‘bite’.
Female
Danish
, compassion, grace; and, prayers.
Surname or Lastname
English, German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic)
English, German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for a maker of hoops and bands, etc., from Middle English band, bond, Middle High German, Middle Low German bant, German Band denoting something used for tying or binding: ‘hoop’, ‘metal band’, ‘fetter’, ‘shackle’.Old spelling of the Dutch cognates Bant, Bande, from Middle Dutch bant ‘band’.
Surname or Lastname
English and German
English and German : topographic name from Old English land, Middle High German lant, ‘land’, ‘territory’. This had more specialized senses in the Middle Ages, being used to denote the countryside as opposed to a town or an estate.English : topographic name for someone who lived in a forest glade, Middle English, Old French la(u)nde, or a habitational name from Launde in Leicestershire or Laund in West Yorkshire, which are named with this word.Norwegian : habitational name from any of three farmsteads so named, from Old Norse land ‘land’, ‘territory’ (see 1 above).
Surname or Lastname
English and German
English and German : nickname for someone with a deformed hand or who had lost one hand, from Middle English hand, Middle High German hant, found in such appellations as Liebhard mit der Hand (Augsburg 1383).Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname from German Hand ‘hand’ (see 1).Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Flaithimh (see Guthrie), resulting from an erroneous association of the Gaelic name with the Gaelic word lámh ‘hand’. It is used as an English equivalent for several other names of Gaelic origin too, e.g. Claffey, Glavin, and McClave.Dutch : from a variant of hont ‘dog’, ‘hound’, either a derogatory nickname, or a habitational name for someone living at a house distinguished by the sign of a dog.
Boy/Male
Australian, Indian
Gods Blessings
Female
Finnish
Estonian and Finnish pet form of Greek Hanna, ANU means "favor; grace."
Girl/Female
Muslim
Unique
Boy/Male
British, English
Unique; Matchless
Girl/Female
Indian
Unique
Surname or Lastname
English, Scottish, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic)
English, Scottish, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : topographic name for someone who lived on patch of sandy soil, from the vocabulary word sand. As a Swedish or Jewish name it was often purely ornamental.Dutch and Belgian : reduced form of Van den Sand(e), Van den Zande, a habitational name from places such as Zande in West Flanders or various minor places named with zand ‘sand’.English and Scottish : from a short form of Alexander.French : from a Germanic personal name, Sando.
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Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Kashmiri, Sanskrit
Lord Buddha
Girl/Female
Dutch, German, Latin
Of the Sea
Boy/Male
Australian, British, Danish, English, Hebrew, Swedish
God is My Judge
Boy/Male
Muslim
Felicity. Good fortune. Good luck.
Biblical
beauty of assistance
Girl/Female
Muslim
Pride, Sense
Girl/Female
Tamil
Liberated, Pearl
Boy/Male
Muslim/Islamic
The guide
Girl/Female
Hindu
Apsara, Of the clove plant
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from a place in Oxfordshire called Adwell, named with the Old English personal name Eadda + wiella ‘stream’.English : variant of Atwell.
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v. t.
To put round the bitts; as, to bitt the cable, in order to fasten it or to slacken it gradually, which is called veering away.
n. pl.
A frame of two strong timbers fixed perpendicularly in the fore part of a ship, on which to fasten the cables as the ship rides at anchor, or in warping. Other bitts are used for belaying (belaying bitts), for sustaining the windlass (carrick bitts, winch bitts, or windlass bitts), to hold the pawls of the windlass (pawl bitts) etc.
conj.
If; though. See An, conj.
n.
Tracts of land consisting of sand, like the deserts of Arabia and Africa; also, extensive tracts of sand exposed by the ebb of the tide.
n.
The bite of a flea, or the red spot caused by the bite.
n.
See Bitts.
v. t.
To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the anchor bites the ground.
adv.
In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally; as, to cut cloth bias.
v. t.
To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense; as, pepper bites the mouth.
n.
A turn of the cable about the end of the windlass, without the bits.
v. t.
To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a crust; the dog bit a man.
n.
Ground, in respect to its nature or quality; soil; as, wet land; good or bad land.
imp.
of Bite
v. i.
To take or keep a firm hold; as, the anchor bites.
v.
The wound made by biting; as, the pain of a dog's or snake's bite; the bite of a mosquito.
n.
A slant; a diagonal; as, to cut cloth on the bias.
adv.
Of each; an equal quantity; as, wine and honey, ana (or, contracted, aa), / ij., that is, of wine and honey, each, two ounces.