tailieunhanh - NTC's Pocket Dictionary of Words and Phrases part 9

NTC's Pocket Dictionary of Words and Phrases part 9. The small but very concise NTC's Pocket Dictionary of Words and Phrases offers 6,000 basic and common English words plus 6,000 basic and common English idioms and phrases. You will find this portable title essential in the classroom, at home, or traveling, when you need help to recall word and phrase meanings. | bite on something bite on something 1. to chew on something to grasp something with the teeth. 2. to respond to a lure. bite one s nails to be nervous or anxious to bite one s nails from nervousness or anxiety. bite one s tongue to struggle not to say something that one really wants to say. bite the dust to fall to defeat to die. bite the hand that feeds one to do harm to someone who does good things for one. bitten bit n Past participle of BITE. bitter bit 1. adj. very sharp or harsh in taste not sweet salty or sour. Adv bitterly. 2. adj. of wind or weather extremely cold. Adv bitterly. 3. adj. emotionally painful distressful. Adv bitterly. 4. adj. resentful hateful. Adv bitterly. TAKE THE BITTER WITH THE SWEET bizarre bi zar adj. very strange eccentric weird. Adv bizarrely. black blAk 1. adj. the color of coal the color of the darkest night the opposite of white. Comp blacker sup blackest. 2. adj. of coffee served without cream or milk. 3. adj. evil wicked. Adv blackly. Comp blacker sup blackest. 4. adj. of people usually of African descent having dark-colored skin. Occasionally capitalized. 5. adv. of coffee served without cream or milk. 6. n. someone who is of African descent having dark-colored skin. Sometimes capitalized. GET A BLACK EYE GIVE SOMEONE A BLACK EYE IN BLACK AND WHITE IN THE BLACK PITCH BLACK the POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK black and blue bruised showing signs of having been physically harmed. black out 1. to pass out to become unconscious. 2. for lights to go out. black something out 1. to cut or turn out the lights or electric power. 2. to prevent the broadcast of a specific television or radio program in a specific area. blacken blAk @n 1. tv. to make something black to cause something to become black. 2. iv. to become very dark or black to turn black. blackness blAk n@s n. the state of being black. No plural. blackout blAk aut 1. n. a complete loss of all electricity or power a situation of complete darkness especially caused by a loss of .