Bittername

• 1

  A surname from Dutch or German.

bitteradj詞源 1/ˈbɪt.ə/

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  Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).

  • The coffee tasted bitter.
  • Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth[…].
• 2

  Harsh, piercing, acerbic or stinging.

  • It was at the end of February, […] when the world was cold, and a bitter wind howled down the moors […].
• 3

  Hateful or hostile.

  • They're bitter enemies.
  • Tottenham have not won in the Premier League at Emirates Stadium for 12 years, with Arsenal losing just one of their last 29 home league games against their bitter rivals.
• 4

  Cynical and resentful.

  • I've been bitter ever since that defeat.

bitteradv詞源 1/ˈbɪt.ə/

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  To an intense or severe degree; bitterly.

  • A dynamic personality in the outfit, he met his death in the bitter-fought engagements in Venafro.
  • After that bitter-spoken warning, talk ceased outside […].

bitternoun詞源 1/ˈbɪt.ə/

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  A liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic.

  • Thus I begin: "All is not gold that glitters, "Pleasure seems sweet, but proves a glass of bitters.
• 2

  A type of beer heavily flavored with hops.

• 3

  nauticaltransportA turn of a cable about the bitts.

bitterverb詞源 1/ˈbɪt.ə/

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  archaicTo make bitter.

  • bittered with the hop

bitternoun詞源 2/ˈbɪt.ə/

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  informalcomputingengineeringmathematicsA hardware system whose architecture is based around units of the specified number of bits (binary digits).

  • However, 16-bitters are far more expensive than the 8-bit variety. And, unfortunately, have only a handful of business applications software packages that really take advantage of them.
  • The company believes that the 32-bit market will almost equal that of 16-bitters by the end of the decade. Chip maker Zilog Inc., not a major player in the 16-bit arena, is even more bullish about 32-bitters as it readies its own version for market.