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nibble englanniksi
To take a small, quick bite, or several of such bites, of (something).
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(RQ:Spenser Complaints) / Some clambring through the hollovv cliffes on hy, / Nibble the buſhie ſhrubs, vvhich grovve thereby.
(RQ:Spectator)
(quote-book)|edition=2nd|location=London|publisher=(...) Millar|Andrew Millar,(nb...)|lines=395–398|page=123|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=y-YNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA123|oclc=642431581|passage=Dire Ills, it ſeems! their Gods denounce in Rage; / And Garlick only, can their Gods aſſvvage. / ''Thrice'' then, each Morn, (for thrice the Povvers direct) / Garlick thou nibbleſt, vvith devout Reſpect.
(RQ:Keats Poems)
(RQ:Thoreau Excursions)
(RQ:Conrad Nostromo)
(RQ:Fletcher Kipling England)
(RQ:Telegraph)
(quote-book)|location=Chicago, Ill.&59; London|publisher=University of Chicago Press|page=229|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=I5IlEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA229|doi=10.7208/chicago/9780226404790.001.0001|isbn=978-0-226-04150-6|passage=The loosening of the normative allows her to be venturesome: having arrived at her usual height, she nibbles the right side of the mushroom again and so drives herself down to nine inches high.
To lightly bite (a person or animal, or part of their body), especially in a loving or playful manner; to nip.
(quote-book)|location=Paris|publisher=Baudry,(nb...)|page=350|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=3vVVlErcOPEC&pg=PA350|oclc=457389209|passage=My hand, as it hangs down, thou nibblest tenderly, (..)
(RQ:Darwin Descent of Man)
To make (one's way) through or while taking small bites.
''Chiefly followed by'' into ''or'' to: to cause (something) to be in a certain state through small bites.
(RQ:Hardy Woodlanders)
(RQ:Cather My Antonia)
''Followed by'' away'','' off'', etc.'': to remove (something) through small bites.
(RQ:Marston Antonio's Revenge)
(RQ:Middleton Rowley Faire Quarrell)
(RQ:Fielding Old Debauchees) ''Lar''(quote-gloss). I am ſure our Bait is good—A fine VVoman is as good a Bait for a Prieſt-trap, as toaſted Cheeſe is for a Mouſe-trap. / ''Old Lar''(quote-gloss). Yes, but the Raſcal vvill nibble off tvventy Baits before you can take him.
(RQ:Trollope Last Chronicle)
To remove (small pieces) from glass, tile, etc., with a tool; also, to remove small pieces from (glass, tile, etc.) with a tool.
To fidget or play with (something), especially with the fingers or hands.
(RQ:Hogg Shepherd's Calendar)
(RQ:Middleton Trick)
''Chiefly followed by'' at'','' away'', or'' on: to take a small, quick bite, or several of such bites; to eat (at frequent intervals) with small, quick bites.
(RQ:Virgil Stanyhurst Aeneid) secrets ''Virgil'' hathe sealde vp in hys twelue bookes of ''Aeneis'', maye easily appeare to such reaching wits, as bend their endeuours, to the vnfolding thereof; not only by gnibling vpon the outwarde rine of a supposed historie, but also by groaping the pyth, that is shrind vp within the barke and bodie of so exquisit and singular a discourse.
(RQ:Lyly Pappe)
(RQ:Dekker Middleton Honest Whore)
(RQ:Day Humour)
(RQ:Milton Divorce)
(quote-book)|edition=3rd|location=London|publisher=(...) Marriot|Richard Marriot,(nb...)|page=6|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=lsxaAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA6|oclc=558086386|passage=The Roach being a Fiſh that only nibbleth, if you ſtrike him not juſt in that very moment of his nibbling you vvill miſs him, (..)
(RQ:Dryden All for Love)
(RQ:Cowper Poetical Works)
To lightly bite, especially in a loving or playful manner.
''Chiefly followed by'' at: to show slight interest in something, such as a commercial opportunity or a proposal.
(RQ:Middleton Dekker Roaring Girle)
(RQ:NYT)
''Followed by'' at: of a batter: to make an indecisive attempt to bat a ball bowled outside the stump.
(synonym of).
To fidget or play, especially with the fingers or hands.
(RQ:Holinshed Chronicles)
''Chiefly followed by'' at: to make insignificant complaints; to carp, to cavil, to fault.
(RQ:Milton Of Reformation)
(RQ:Bentley Epistles)
(RQ:Byron Don Juan)
(RQ:Swinburne Essays)
To engage in intercourse.
(RQ:Shirley Cardinal). (..) A ſpirited Lady, vvould I had her in my cloſet, (..) ''Exit.'' / ''Cel''(quote-gloss). I do ſuſpect this fellovv vvould be nibling / Like ſome vvhoſe narrovv fortunes vvill not riſe / To vvear things vvhen the inventions rare, and nevv, / But treading on the heel of pride, they hunt / The faſhion vvhen tis crippled, like fell tyrants; (..)
An act of taking a small, quick bite, or several of such bites, especially with the teeth; the bite or bites so taken.
(RQ:Irving Sketch Book)
A light bite of a person or animal, or part of their body, especially one which is loving or playful; a nip.
An amount of food that is or can be taken into the mouth through a small bite; a small mouthful.
(RQ:Gaskell Sylvia's Lovers)
A slight show of interest in something, such as a commercial opportunity or a proposal.
Grass or other vegetation eaten by livestock; forage, pasturage.
(RQ:Blackmore Alice Lorraine)
A unit of memory equal to half a byte, or chiefly four bits.
(quote-journal) The bottom four counters of each abacus can be used to represent a "nybble," and the upper counter on each can be used for parity.
(quote-journal)
(quote-book) Our mission, should we decide to accept it, is to test each nybble and determine whether or not the four bits constitute a valid BCD (8421) number.
(quote-book) Gray scale values can be stored in either 4 bits (nibble) or 8 bits (byte).
(quote-book)
(quote-book)|location=Hoboken, N.J.|publisher=Wiley-Interscience, (publisher)|John Wiley & Sons|page=20|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=UXUrz0pj_uAC&pg=PA20|isbn=978-0-471-73278-5|passage=Similarly, it's easy to convert a binary number such as %1100011010110010 into its hexadecimal equivalent. All we have to do is to split the binary value into 4-bit nybbles and to map each nybble onto its corresponding hexadecimal digit.
(quote-book) Hexadecimal and BCD digits are the primary items we can represent with a single nibble.
(quote-book)|page=47|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=YZIoDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA47|doi=10.1007/978-1-4842-2181-5|isbn=978-1-4842-2180-8|passage=Each half (quote-gloss), a group of four consecutive bits, called a ''semibyte'' or ''nibble'', is represented by a unique hexadecimal digit; for instance: 00101101 = 0x2D. The ''high nibble'' contains the most-significant four bits: 0010 = 0x2. The ''low nibble'' contains the least-significant four bits: 1101 = 0xD.
(l) (gloss)