BITS

"BITS" is a plural of: bit.

Date "BITS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Computing

Chemical Industry

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Money

Penny, cent, Lincoln cent, indian head penny, copper; two-cent piece three-cent piece, half-dime, nickel, buffalo nickel, V nickel, dime, disme, mercury dime, quarter, two bits, half dollar, dollar, silver dollar, Eisenhower dollar, Susan B. Anthony dollar.

Crosswords: BITS

Dutch (abrasive, acrid, acrimonious, sharp-toned, shrill, snappy, tard), French (bits), German (bits).

You're not going to save the world, Okay you're delusional. You've made this all up out of bits and piece in you're head (Twelve Monkeys; writing credit: David Webb Peoples)

It's run by little ones and zeroes, little bits of data (Sneakers; writing credit: Phil Alden Robinson, Lawrence Lasker, and Walter F. Parkes.)

And all your little lame-ass friends are gonna be kibbles 'n' bits. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Bits of me keep passing out. (The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy; writing credit: Douglas Adams; John Lloyd)

The brutal bungalow of the Blinking Buzzards, a bold bad bunch of blood-thirsty bandits who would break into a bank, blow a battleship to bits or beat up a blue eyed baby blonde (The 'High Sign'; writing credit: Edward F. Cline; Buster Keaton)

You give me bits and pieces (We Need A Resolution; performing artist: Aaliyah)

Enjoy it while you can, we'll soon be blown to bits (Happy Birthday; performing artist: Weird Al Yankovic)

Bits and Pieces Blues (1943)

Hits and Bits of 1938 (1938)

Bits of Life (1921)

The Gilded Six Bits (1999)

Bits (1999)

Bits and Pieces (performing artist: The Dave Clark Five)

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Books

• Bits and Bridles: Power Tools for Thinking Riders (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Bits Information (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Best Bits of Mr. Bean (reference)

• Two Bits (reference)

• Johnny Winter - Pieces & Bits (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Itzhak Perlman - Bits and Pieces / Samuel Sanders (reference)

• Greatest Bits (reference)

• Greatest Bits [LIVE] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Compucable Pocket Tool Kit W/Case 10PC W/ Driver & Bits Tweezers Ic Inserte (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Jesada 655-502 Lock Miter Junior Bits Join Thinner Stock 3/8" to 11/16 (reference)

• Milwaukee 5368-22 7/8" Capacity SDS Drive D-Handle Rotary Hammer Kit with Case and Bits (reference)

• DeWalt DW2036BK #6 Slotted 3-1/2" Screwdriver Power Bits (4-Pack) (reference)

• Irwin 47410 Power Ship Auger Bits (reference)

• JET JBM-5 / 708580 Benchtop Mortiser includes 1/4", 3/8", and 1/2" Chisel and Bits a $50.00 Value (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Bergy bits. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Small bergy bits the size of houses being released from Tracy Arm. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Drifting bits of sea ice. Ross Ice Shelf in the background. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The Graceful Kelp Crab, Pugettia gracilis, commonly found in eelgrass beds and on rocky shorelines from Alaska to Monterey Bay. It is distinguishable by rows of small hooks on the carapace into which it can place bits of algae, eelgrass and other organisms for camouflage. However, it is usually seen without camouflage on the carapace. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

RA-2 running a survey line while dodging bergy bits in Tracy Arm. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. In storage for the duration go these figures for merry-go-rounds, peacetime product of this New York state plant, now turning out bits and pieces for the war program. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New Yor. Credit: Library of Congress.

Melbourne, Australia. Beaufort torpedo bomber turret sub-assembly plant. All bits and drills and most hand tools in the tool store were imported under the land lease program. Credit: Library of Congress.

Jim Eckles, water pumper, "backup man," with drill bits used in oil well in C.C. Graber pool, Continental oil company. Moundridge area near McPherson, Kansas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Machines. Steel bits. Credit: Library of Congress.

Bits of careless talk are pieced together by the enemy / Stevan Dohanos. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He took down from the shelf a heap of little bits of paper, pinned together in twos and threes

She mended her old, wornout corsets with bits of calico which were torn by the slightest motion

Get it out in bits! Temple turned right and left, making sudden feeble gestures as he spoke

Joad chuckled again while he brushed the bits of broken insect from his fingertips

The superficies was composed of several bits of wood, about the bigness of a die, but some larger than others

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Bits of lung tissue are sampled, using a tiny forceps. (references)

Bits of food can fall or be pulled into the windpipe (trachea), which may result in lung infection. (references)

The answer is that antibody genes are pieced together from widely scattered bits of DNA, and the possible combinations are nearly endless. (references)

Business

Imports of DES and RSA encryption software over 56 bits, to be used by the defense and the financial sector, require U.S. export Controls. (references)

Although this report does not enter into detail regarding accessories for power tools, sales of power tools inevitably generate demand for accessories, such as drill bits and sanding sheets. (references)

Economic History

Colombia

The reform also paved the way for Colombian ratification of BITs previously negotiated with Great Britain, Peru, Spain and Cuba. (references)

Sri Lanka

The present capacity in Sri Lanka for international internet traffic is only 14 mega bits per second (MBPS), almost 95 percent of which comes from fiber optic lines. (references)

Moldova

Depending on the access speed desired, dedicated Internet access costs anywhere between USD 65 and USD 1,200 per month, with the top speed being 256,000 bits per second. (references)

Political Economy

COSTA RICA

BITs with Korea and Switzerland require ratification by the Legislative Assembly. (references)

Trade

Bolivia

This applies to equipment imported by the oil companies that is "consumed" in the process of development and cannot be re-exported, such as pipe and drill bits. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "BITS": a group of bits ♦ all in bits ♦ be thrilled to bits ♦ bits and pieces ♦ bits per inch ♦ bits per pixel ♦ bits per second ♦ bucky bits ♦ effective number of bits ♦ in bits ♦ naughty bits ♦ number of equivalents bits ♦ pack up one's bits and pieces ♦ source of all good bits ♦ take to bits ♦ two bits. Additional references.

Beginning with "BITS": bits-and-bobs, bits-and-pieces, bits-of-old-inner-tube, bits-versus-chunks.

Ending with "BITS": tit-bits.

Albanian

monedhë e vogël (bawbee, bit). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فتات (crumbs, fractions, fragments, morsels). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разглобявам (disarticulate, disassemble, disjoint, dislocate, take down, take smth. apart, take to bits, take to pieces, unjoint), монета от 25 цента (quarter, two bits). (various references)

Chinese 

位 (bit). (various references)

Czech

být radostí bez sebe (be thrilled to bits). (various references)

Danish

bygningstaktsignalgenerator (building integrated timing supply), partikler (particles), fremmedlegemer. (various references)

Dutch

vlokken, moederkloksysteem voor een gebouw (building integrated timing supply). (various references)

Finnish

roska (litter, rubbish, trash), rakennuksen pääajastinkello (building integrated timing supply). (various references)

French

bits, source BITS, fragments. (various references)

German

Bits (bits per second). (various references)

Greek 

BITS (building integrated timing supply), τεμαχίδια σε χρώμα. (various references)

Hungarian

darabok (pieces). (various references)

Indonesian

berbingkah-bingkah (in bits), membingkah (smash to bits), lumatan (something crushed into bits). (various references)

Italian

filigrana (filigree, watermark, watermarks). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

豆知識 (bits of knowledge, trivia), 狸饂飩 (noodles with bits of deep-fried tempura batter), 揚げ玉 (bits of fried batter left after cooking tempura), 断片　 (bits & pieces, crumb, fragment, shred), 断片 (bits and pieces, crumb, fragment, shred), ちょび髭 (a topknot, at a glance, bits and pieces, by accident, dot, drop by drop, easy, flickering, fluttering, frizzily, in trickles, intermittently, point, short mustache, simple, small mustache, sparsely, to be dazzled, to flicker, to flit, to litter). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たぬきうどん (noodles with bits of deep-fried tempura batter), まめちしき (bits of knowledge, trivia), あげだま (bits of fried batter left after cooking tempura), ちりちり (bits and pieces, frizzily), だんぺん (bits and pieces, crumb, fragment, shell or bullet fragment, shrapnel, shred). (various references)

Korean 

조금 (bit, little). (various references)

Manx

smooirlagh (debris, fragment). (various references)

Pig Latin

itsbay.(various references)

Portuguese

mordente (cheek, cutting, fixature, nipping, piquant). (various references)

Russian 

куски (pieces). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

bajt (bit: a group of bits, byte), dvadeset pet centi (two bits). (various references)

Spanish

virutas (shavings), los bits, alimentación de sincronización integrada del edificio (building integrated timing supply). (various references)

Swedish

bitar (pieces). (various references)

Turkish

bölük pörçük (bit by bit, fragmentary, in bits, piecemeal, scrappy), paramparça (all in bits, in pieces, tattered, tattered and torn). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "BITS": bitstock, bitstocks, bitsy. (additional references)

Words ending with "BITS": adhibits, ambits, cohabits, cubits, cucurbits, debits, deorbits, disinhibits, exhibits, gambits, gigabits, habits, henbits, hobbits, inhabits, inhibits, jackrabbits, kilobits, megabits, obits, orbits, probits, prohibits, rabbits, rarebits, reinhabits, tidbits, titbits, turbits. (additional references)

Misspellings

"BITS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Batsi, batsy, batts, bcit, betst, betts, betz, bict, bigs, bims, bints, birs, bis, Biss, Bista, bita, bitas, bitc, Bitci, bitcy, biti, bitl, bitn, bitr, Bitsa, bitu, bity, Bitz, bitzy, bnits, boites, botsa, botsi, brist, britz, bti, btis, bts, buist, Byth, bzit, dbits, Ibt, pbits. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: bis, bit, its, sib, sit, tis.

-2 letters: bi, is, it, si, ti.

+1 letter: baits, bints, bites, bitsy, bitts, brits, obits.

+2 letters: abatis, ambits, batiks, bedsit, befits, bemist, bestir, betise, bidets, bights, bigots, binits, bionts, biotas, births, bisect, bister, bistre, bistro, biters, blites, boites, britts, bruits, bustic, cubist, cubits, debits, habits, oboist, orbits, sobeit, subito, submit, tabbis, tibias, tobies, tribes, tubist, vibist, zibets.

+3 letters: abattis, absinth, abstain, albites, astilbe, babysit, baiters, bandits, banties, baptise, baptism, baptist, barites, basinet, basmati, bassist, bastile, basting, bastion, batfish, batiste, battiks, bawties, beastie, bedsits, bemists, bestial, besting, bestirs, bestrid, betides, betimes, betises, bhaktis, bhistie, biblist, biggest, bigshot, billets, bilsted, biotics, biotins, biscuit, bisects, bismuth, bistate, bisters, bistort, bistred, bistres, bistros, bitches, bitters, blastie, blights, blister, blitzes, blivets, boniest, bonitas, bonitos, booties, bothies, boxiest, brights, brisant, brisket, bristle, bristly, bristol, britska, brutish, brutism, bundist, bushtit, busiest, bustics, bustier, busting, butties, cambist, cubists, disturb, dustbin, gambits, gibbets, giblets, habitus, henbits, hobbits, inburst, intombs, isobath, mistbow, obesity, oblasti, oboists, obtains, orbiest, outbids, probits, rabbits, rebaits, riblets, rubiest, stabile, stibial, stibine, stibium, strobic, strobil, subedit, subitem, submits, subsist, subsite, subtile, subunit, symbiot, tabbies, tabulis, terbias, tidbits, timbals, timbers, timbres, titbits, tubaist, tubings, tubists, turbits, twibils, vibists, website, zibeths.