“Bight” or “Bite” or “Byte”

bight / bite / byte are similar-sounding terms with different meanings (referred to as homophones). To better understand the differences, see below for definitions, pronunciation guides, and example sentences using each term.

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bight b·AY·t

nouna loop in a rope.
nouna bend or curve (especially in a coastline).
nouna broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline.
nounthe middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends).
verbfasten with a bight.

bite b·AY·t

nouna wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person.
nouna light informal meal.
noun(angling) an instance of a fish taking the bait.
nounthe act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws.
nouna portion removed from the whole.
verbto grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws.
verbcause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort.
verbpenetrate or cut, as with a knife.

byte b·AY·t

nouna sequence of 8 bits (enough to represent one character of alphanumeric data) processed as a single unit of information.

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“bight”

…found in the South Atlantic Bight in Georgia in 2007 which…
…Shelf of the Middle Atlantic Bight: 1975–1976 Investigations.
…its location in the Georgia Bight (the arc of the Atlantic…
…sentry duty in the German Bight.
Short storiesStar Wars: Canto Bight - "Rules of the Game"…
…during a patrol in Heligoland Bight.
…on Kiel Bay and German Bight Netherlands Journal of Sea Research…
…of Heligoland in the German Bight with Britain in 1890, and…
…end of the Great Australian Bight, south from Balladonia.
…areas within the Southern California Bight.

“bite”

…amputated because of a rattlesnake bite in 2011.
…at the start of the bite point.
Sharky loves to bite things, mostly mail-carriers.
…through an increase of the bite point, and thereby transferring the…
…in Canadian forensic literature on bite mark evidence at the time,…
…its sequel, Curse II: The Bite had no Lovecraftian relevance.
…breasts and neck were Boden's bite marks, with the intent to…
…into a Ci-Kat-A with a bite.
…he had the snapping turtle bite his hand in the Deep…
…raped and strangled, and savage bite marks were found on her

“byte”

Due to the 32k Byte memory constraint MONECS serially processed…
When byte output is required, Py specifies…
…row to fill a whole byte.
…devices from 20pin with 16K Byte flash memory to 128pin with…
It has 20-bit 1M Byte address space.
…of the 256 unique numeric byte values.
…was first evangelized in a Byte article.
Byte 5A is replacing ¤ with…
…called a bit yet a byte is called an octet (from…
…each word represents a different byte value between 0 and 255.

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