A BIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does a bit mean? 

• A BIT (adverb)
  The adverb A BIT has 1 sense:

1. to a small degree; somewhat

  Familiarity information: A BIT used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• A BIT (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To a small degree; somewhat

Synonyms:

a bit; a little; a trifle

Context example:

a trifle smaller

 Context examples 

Benefits like these can be worth quite a bit.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The wife minced a bit of meat, then crumbled some bread on a trencher, and placed it before me.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

"I haven't changed any. I'm the same Martin Eden, though for that matter I'm a bit worse—I smoke now. Don't you smell my breath?"

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Well, sir, it was a bit rumpled, certainly, when I came back.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had caught her meddling, I suspect, and given her a bit of his mind, and that was the start of it.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Lizzy is not a bit better than the others; and I am sure she is not half so handsome as Jane, nor half so good-humoured as Lydia.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

“Well,” says I, growing a bit bolder, “if I'm to choose, I declare I have a right to know what's what, and why you're here, and where my friends are.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Only when a new sample comes from the chemist, there’s a bit of a break.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It is group of organisms that although differing quite a bit among themselves still have a large degree of characteristics in common.

(Order, NCI Thesaurus)

“Wait a bit, Gregson,” said Sherlock Holmes.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)