Čo znamená nibble v angličtine a aká je definícia nibble?

V tomto najautoritatívnejšom anglickom slovníku sa môžete naučiť nibble výslovnosť, gramatika a synonymá.

nibble Význam & definícia

0 to eat something by taking a lot of small bites:
- Do you have some peanuts for us to nibble while the party warms up?
- A mouse has nibbled through the computer cables.
- Jenny's hamster's nibbled a hole in the sofa.
- She nibbled his ear.
1 an act of nibbling something:
- Just take/have a nibble to see if you like the taste.
- I bought some crisps, nuts, and other nibbles.
- Our house was on the market for six months and there wasn't a single nibble.
2 to eat something by taking a lot of small bites:
- [ T ] Ben stopped nibbling his apple.
- [ I ] Keep vegetables handy to nibble on.
- [ T ] Fish were nibbling at their hands.
3 the act of eating something by taking a lot of small bites:
- fig. The real-estate agent says she’s gotten some nibbles for our house (= some people have expressed interest in it).

The word byte brought forth nibble or nybble (half a byte) and gulp (two bytes), neither of which are much used, however.
With iterative activities (24c) such as nibbling, to take a nibble denotes one subevent of nibbling (a semelfactive).
In practice, nibble is often used in conjunction with the string combinator.
A cautious developer will carry out simulations of particularly risky approaches - and perhaps nibble fingernails when the system goes live.
The basic method is related to nibble methods used to colour graphs having 'near-disjoint' cliques.
They declined, however, to eat pupae of any species, though they nibbled at them occasionally.
It nibbled at the boundaries of what respectability might want to construct as private.
However, slowly growing rural populations are likely to nibble away at any land that has the potential for crop production, which gives higher returns per hectare.