BITING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does biting mean? 

• BITING (adjective)
  The adjective BITING has 2 senses:

1. capable of wounding

2. causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold

  Familiarity information: BITING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BITING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Capable of wounding

Synonyms:

barbed; biting; mordacious; nipping; pungent

Context example:

pungent satire

Similar:

sarcastic (expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold

Synonyms:

biting; bitter

Context example:

a biting wind

Similar:

painful (causing physical or psychological pain)

 Context examples 

A radiographic film that is positioned in the mouth by biting on a central tab or positioning wing.

(Bitewing Radiograph, NCI Thesaurus)

Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS) Facial and Oral Movements, Jaw, e.g., biting, clenching, chewing, mouth opening, lateral movement.

(AIMS - Jaw, NCI Thesaurus)

A triangular shaped structure, i.e., one of the triangular segments of heart valve or a raised area of the biting surface of a tooth.

(Cusp, NCI Thesaurus)

Also, you may not notice biting on a bone from your food.

(Dentures, NIH: National Institute on Aging)

A horse disease caused by a retrovirus which is transmitted by biting flies.

(Equine Infectious Anemia, NCI Thesaurus)

The international team from Michigan State University (MSU) and Sun Yat-sen University reported a corresponding plunge in adult females, which transmit the disease to humans by biting.

(Mosquitos rendered infertile by biological engineering, SciDev.Net)

Exposing malaria-transmitting mosquitoes to light at two-hour intervals during the night or at late daytime could inhibit their biting behaviour and reduce malaria transmission.

(Shining light at night quells mosquito bites, SciDev.Net)

Stimulation of the periaqueductal gray (PAG) portion of the brain controlled stalking and stimulation of the reticular formation controlled biting.

(Geneticists produce laser-activated killer mice, Wikinews)

Bed nets treated with inexpensive pyrethroid insecticides are the main defense against biting, malaria-carrying mosquitoes, and they have significantly cut down on the number of cases.

(Malaria-carrying Mosquitoes Becoming Resistant to Bed Nets in Southern Africa, VOA)

This new biocidal approach targets mosquitoes biting and resting outdoors as well as indoors, and may be less vulnerable to the problem of insecticide resistance.

(Genetically modified fungus hailed as malaria breakthrough, SciDev.Net)