A small piece or quantity of something:
— A bit of paper.
— A bit of lint.
— I gave him a bit of my mind.

synonym: spot.

Roget 752: prison, prison house; jail, gaol, cage, coop, den, cell; stronghold, fortress, keep, donjon, dungeon, Bastille, oubliette, bridewell^†, house of correction, hulks, tollbooth, panopticon^†, penitentiary, guardroom, lockup, hold; round house, watch house, station house, sponging house; station; house of detention, black hole, pen, fold, pound; inclosure etc. 232; isolation (exclusion) 893; penal settlement, penal colony; bilboes, stocks, limbo, quod [Lat.]; calaboose, chauki^†, choky^†, thana^†; workhouse [U.S.].    Newgate, Fleet, Marshalsea; King's Bench, Queen's Bench.    bond; bandage; irons, pinion, gyve, fetter, shackle, trammel, manacle, handcuff, straight jacket, strait jacket, strait-jacket, strait-waistcoat, hopples^†; vice, vise.    yoke, collar, halter, harness; muzzle, gag, bit, brake, curb, snaffle, bridle; rein, reins; bearing rein; martingale; leading string; tether, picket, band, guy, chain; cord etc. (fastening) 45; cavesson^†, hackamore [U.S.], headstall, jaquima [U.S.], lines, ribbons.    bolt, deadbolt, bar, lock, police lock, combination lock, padlock, rail, wall, stone wall; paling, palisade; fence, picket fence, barbed wire fence, Cyclone fence, stockade fence, chain-link fence; barrier, barricade.    drag etc. (hindrance) 706.    ... show more

Roget 527: information, enlightenment, acquaintance, knowledge etc. 490; publicity etc. 531; data etc. 467.    communication, intimation; notice, notification; enunciation, annunciation; announcement; communiqu_e; representation, round robin, presentment.    case, estimate, specification, report, advice, monition; news etc. 532; return etc. (record) 551; account etc. (description) 594; statement etc. (affirmation) 535.    mention; acquainting etc. v.; instruction etc. (teaching) 537; outpouring; intercommunication, communicativeness.    informant, authority, teller, intelligencer^†, reporter, exponent, mouthpiece; informer, eavesdropper, delator, detective; sleuth; mouchard^†, spy, newsmonger; messenger etc. 534; amicus curiae [Lat.].    valet de place, cicerone, pilot, guide; guidebook, handbook; vade mecum [Lat.]; manual; map, plan, chart, gazetteer; itinerary etc. (journey) 266.    hint, suggestion, innuendo, inkling, whisper, passing word, word in the ear, subaudition^†, cue, byplay; gesture etc. (indication) 550; gentle hint, broad hint; verbum sapienti [Lat.], a word to the wise; insinuation etc. (latency) 526.    information theory.    [units of information] bit, byte, word, doubleword [Comp.], quad word, paragraph, segment.    [information storage media] magnetic media, paper medium, optical media; random access memory, RAM; read-only memory, ROM; write once read mostly memory, WORM.    ... show more

Dutch: vlek, beetje, ietsepietsie, ietsepietsje, pietsie, pietsje, tikje, tikkeltje, vleugje
Polish: odrobina, ciutka, krzyna, krztyna, krzta

A small fragment of something broken off from the whole:
— A bit of rock caught him in the eye.

synonyms: chip, flake, fleck, scrap.

Dutch: deel, part, scherf, schilfer, stuk, vlok
Polish: odprysk

An indefinitely short time:
— In just a bit.

synonyms: minute, mo, moment, second.

Dutch: minuut, moment, ogenblik, punt, seconde, tel
Polish: okamgnienie, mgnienie oka, mgnienie, ułamek sekundy, minutka, minuta, chwilka, chwileczka, sekundka, chwila, moment, sekunda, chwilunia, momencik ... show more

An instance of some kind:
— He had a bit of good luck.

synonym: piece.

Dutch: exemplaar, snuifje, stuk

Piece of metal held in horse's mouth by reins and used to control the horse while riding.

Dutch: beetje, bit, boortje, gebit, hapje, mondstuk, stuk
Polish: kiełzno

A unit of measurement of information (from binary + digit); the amount of information in a system having two equiprobable states.

Dutch: bit
Polish: b, bit

A small amount of solid food; a mouthful:
— All they had left was a bit of bread.

synonyms: bite, morsel.

Roget 32: smallness etc. adj.; littleness etc. (small size) 193; tenuity; paucity; fewness etc. (small number) 103; meanness, insignificance (unimportance) 643; mediocrity, moderation.    small quantity, modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point; material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight^†, whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch, cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau^†, screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet^†, flitter, gobbet^†, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive^†; snip, snippet; snick^†, snack, snatch, slip, scrag^†; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair.    nutshell; thimbleful, spoonful, handful, capful, mouthful; fragment; fraction etc. (part) 51; drop in the ocean.    animalcule etc. 193.    trifle etc. (unimportant thing) 643; mere nothing, next to nothing; hardly anything; just enough to swear by; the shadow of a shade.    finiteness, finite quantity.    ... show more

Dutch: brok, beet, hap

A small fragment.

synonym: snatch.

Polish: urywek, wyrywek

A short performance that is part of a longer program.

synonyms: act, number, routine, turn.

Dutch: akte, daad, handeling, spelen, acteren, act, nummer
Polish: numer, punkt, punkt programu

The part of a key that enters a lock and lifts the tumblers.

The cutting part of a drill; usually pointed and threaded and is replaceable in a brace or bitstock or drill press.

Dutch: boor
Polish: wiertło, bor