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# biter

«biter» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person or animal that bites, or tends to bite** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a biter, biters)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A biter is a person or animal that bites, or tends to bite. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biter/#m1)

2) In fishing, a biter is a fish that takes the bait. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biter/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and safety it describes a dog, pet or toddler that bites: «Be careful, he's a biter». Phrase: «the biter bit» means someone who tried to trick others was tricked themselves.

### examples

- Be careful with that hamster, it's a biter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biter/#x1)
- Our toddler was a biter at nursery but has stopped. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biter/#x2)
- The dog wears a muzzle because he's a biter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biter/#x3)
- The cheeky trickster was caught in his own trick: the biter bit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biter/#x4)
- Mosquitoes are annoying biters on summer evenings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biter/#x5)
- The pet shop warned us that the parrot was a biter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biter/#x6)

### note

From the verb «bite» (bite, bit, bitten) + -er. Plural: biters. Not to be confused with «bitter» (a sharp, unpleasant taste), which has double t.

### In the corpora

- [Ticks are tiny biters that live in long grass and woods and can spread Lyme disease.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/29-germs-from-animals/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «biter» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biter/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.