English-French translations for bit

• bit
  Le niveau de protection des données dans le flux actuel des bits n'est pas encore suffisant pour l'Union européenne. The level of data protection in today' s bit streams is still not adequate in the European Union.
• bribe
• forêt
• fragment
• instant
  Néanmoins, le processus de réforme engagé semble pour l'instant un peu lent. However, the reform process embarked upon so far sometimes feels a bit slow.
  Madame le Président, il y a un instant, vous disiez que des corrections ont été apportées dans toutes les langues. I am a bit puzzled by that because, if the original language has been changed, at what stage in the procedure was it changed?
• khabit
• mèche
• minute
  Monsieur le Président, vous comprendrez certainement que je prenne un peu plus de cinq minutes pour répondre aux cinq rapports. Member of the Commission. - Mr President, of course, you understand that I will take a bit longer than five minutes to reply to the five reports.
  J’ai fait allusion au fait que je trouvais un peu injuste que vous soyez disposé à m’arrêter alors que d’autres orateurs avaient parlé pendant une minute et demie. I alluded to the fact and said it seemed a bit unfair that you were ready to stop me when others had spoken for one and a half minutes.
  au nom du groupe PPE-DE. - (NL) Monsieur le Président, j'espère que nous pourrons nous montrer un peu plus généreux avec ces deux minutes, dans la mesure où mon prédécesseur ne prend plus la parole. on behalf of the PPE-DE Group. - (NL) Mr President, perhaps we can be a bit more generous with these two minutes since my predecessor is dropping out.
• morceau
  L'adjectif "intégré" signifie que l'on traite un problème dans son ensemble, pas morceau par morceau. Something called 'integrated' is dealt with as a whole, not bit by bit.
  Ces investisseurs sont souvent à l'affût d'un rendement à deux chiffres indécent, qui ne peut généralement être obtenu qu'en dépeçant les entreprises et en les revendant morceau par morceau. These investors are very often on the look-out for absurdly high two-figure profits, which they can usually only achieve by carving up the acquired enterprises and selling them off bit by bit.
  - Monsieur le Président, ce Parlement n’a cessé de lancer des avertissements contre le danger de détricoter le Traité en lui enlevant un morceau, puis un autre et encore un autre. Mr President, this Parliament has warned time and time again against the danger of unravelling the Treaty by taking away one bit, then another, then another.
• mors
• panneton
• part
  Demain, nous ferons notre part au sein du Parlement. Tomorrow, we will do our bit in Parliament.
  Les ingénieurs ont fait leur partie du travail. The engineers have done their bit.
• petit morceau
• peu
  Ce n'est pas une question de marchandage: donner un peu ici, reprendre un peu là. It is not a matter of horse-trading: giving a bit here, taking a bit there.
  - Monsieur le Président, un peu moins de fraude par ci, un peu plus de fraude par là! Mr President, a bit less fraud here, a bit more fraud there.
  On gagne ainsi un peu de temps. That would save a bit of time.
• pièce
• seconde
  Je sais que ma petite introduction m'a sans doute coûté quelques secondes. I know the bit at the beginning perhaps cost me some seconds.
  Mais je ne me dérobe pas ni ne reviens une seconde sur la nécessité de cette réforme. But I do not back down or retract one bit on the need for reform.
  La première partie de l'amendement est exactement la même, mais la nouvelle partie - la seconde - est cohérente. The first half of the amendment is exactly the same but the new bit - the second part - is consistent.

Definition of bit

• A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal
• A rotary cutting tool fitted to a drill, used to bore holes
• A ten-cent piece, dime
• An eighth of a dollar. Note that there is no coin minted worth 12.5 cents. (When this term first came into use, the Spanish 8 reales coin was widely used as a dollar equivalent, and thus the 1 real coin was equivalent to 12.5 cents
• In the southern and southwestern states, a small silver coin formerly current; commonly, one worth about 12½ cents; also, the sum of 12½ cents
• ''Specifically'', a small amount of time
• Fractions of a second
• A portion of something
• Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree. See also '''''a bit'''''
• A prison sentence, especially a short one
• An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc
• A small part or role, sometimes with spoken lines, in a theatrical performance
• The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers
• The cutting iron of a plane
• The bevelled front edge of an axehead along which the cutting edge runs
• To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of (a horse
• , bitten
• bitten
• Having been bitten
• A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0
• Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values
• A unit of measure for information entropy
• A , or a millionth of a (0.000001 BTC

Synonyms

• piece
• scrap

Examples

• A horse hates having a bit put in its mouth
• a threepenny bit
• A quarter is two bits
• There were bits of paper all over the floor.   Does your leg still hurt? / Just a bit now.   Ive done my bit; I expect you to do yours
• Ill be there in a bit; I need to take care of something first.   He was here just a bit ago, but it looks like hes stepped out
• The 400 metres race was won in 47 seconds and bits
• Id like a big bit of cake, please
• Am I bored? Not a bit of it!
• His bit about video games was not nearly as entertaining as the other segments of his show
• She acted her bit in the opening scene.
• Your dog bit me!
• I have been bit by your dog!
• Even though hes bit, of course the zombies would still chase him
• status bits on IRC
• permission bits in a file system

Related words

• prohibit
• bitonal
• arbitrary
• rabbit
• habit
• bite
• bitch
• bitter
• inhabitant