1. [n]  the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws
2. [n]  a sharp bitter taste property
3. [n]  a light informal meal
4. [n]  a small amount of solid food; a mouthful; "all they had left was a bit of bread"
5. [n]  a wound resulting from biting
6. [n]  a painful wound caused by the thrust of a stinger into skin
7. [v]  of insects, scorpions, or other animals; "A bee stung my arm yesterday."
8. [v]  to grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws; "Gunny invariably tried to bite her"
9. [v]  penetrate or cut, as with a knife; "The fork bit into the surface"
10. [v]  cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort; "The sun burned his face"

Bite
Two journalists using the name C. J. Tosh write a novel about two journalists who start a new magazine: Bite, which features style, fashion, and a slew of celebrities. The novel details their road to success--and their less promising love lives.

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1. \Bite\, v. t. [imp. {Bit}; p. p. {Bitten}, {Bit}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Biting}.] [OE. biten, AS. b[=i]tan; akin to D.
   bijten, OS. b[=i]tan, OHG. b[=i]zan, G. beissen, Goth.
   beitan, Icel. b[=i]ta, Sw. bita, Dan. bide, L. findere to
   cleave, Skr. bhid to cleave. [root]87. Cf. {Fissure}.]
   1. 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.
            Such smiling rogues as these, Like rats, oft bite
            the holy cords atwain.                --Shak.
   2. To puncture, abrade, or sting with an organ (of some
      insects) used in taking food.
   3. To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure,
      in a literal or a figurative sense; as, pepper bites the
      mouth. ``Frosts do bite the meads.'' --Shak.
   4. To cheat; to trick; to take in. [Colloq.] --Pope.
   5. To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the
      anchor bites the ground.
            The last screw of the rack having been turned so
            often that its purchase crumbled, . . . it turned
            and turned with nothing to bite.      --Dickens.
   {To bite the dust}, {To bite the ground}, to fall in the
      agonies of death; as, he made his enemy bite the dust.
   {To bite in} (Etching), to corrode or eat into metallic
      plates by means of an acid.
   {To bite the thumb at} (any one), formerly a mark of
      contempt, designed to provoke a quarrel; to defy. ``Do you
      bite your thumb at us?'' --Shak.
   {To bite the tongue}, to keep silence. --Shak.
   

2. \Bite\, v. i.
   1. To seize something forcibly with the teeth; to wound with
      the teeth; to have the habit of so doing; as, does the dog
      bite?
   2. To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which
      causes such a sensation; to be pungent; as, it bites like
      pepper or mustard.
   3. To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or
      injure; to have the property of so doing.
            At the last it [wine] biteth like serpent, and
            stingeth like an adder.               --Prov. xxiii.
                                                  32.
   4. To take a bait into the mouth, as a fish does; hence, to
      take a tempting offer.
   5. To take or keep a firm hold; as, the anchor bites.
   

3. \Bite\, n. [OE. bite, bit, bitt, AS. bite bite, fr.
   b[=i]tan to bite, akin to Icel. bit, OS. biti, G. biss. See
   {Bite}, v., and cf. {Bit}.]
   1. The act of seizing with the teeth or mouth; the act of
      wounding or separating with the teeth or mouth; a seizure
      with the teeth or mouth, as of a bait; as, to give
      anything a hard bite.
            I have known a very good fisher angle diligently
            four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a
            bite.                                 --Walton.
   2. The act of puncturing or abrading with an organ for taking
      food, as is done by some insects.
   3. The wound made by biting; as, the pain of a dog's or
      snake's bite; the bite of a mosquito.
   4. A morsel; as much as is taken at once by biting.
   5. The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing
      to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has
      upon another.
   6. A cheat; a trick; a fraud. [Colloq.]
            The baser methods of getting money by fraud and
            bite, by deceiving and overreaching.  --Humorist.
   7. A sharper; one who cheats. [Slang] --Johnson.
   8. (Print.) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to
      a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening
      between the type and paper.
   

It's spelled "byte" to avoid confusion with "bit".