The difference between Ban and Bit
When used as nouns, ban means prohibition, whereas bit means a piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.
When used as verbs, ban means to summon, whereas bit means to put a bridle upon.
Bit is also adverb with the meaning: to a small extent.
Bit is also adjective with the meaning: bitten.
check bellow for the other definitions of Ban and Bit
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Ban as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To summon; to call out.
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Ban as a verb (transitive):
To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.
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Ban as a verb (transitive):
To curse; to execrate.
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Ban as a verb (transitive):
To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.
Examples:
"Bare feet are banned in this establishment."
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Ban as a verb (transitive):
To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.
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Ban as a noun:
Prohibition.
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Ban as a noun:
A public proclamation or edict; a summons by public proclamation. Chiefly, in early use, a summons to arms.
Examples:
"Bans is common and ordinary amongst the Feudists, and signifies a proclamation, or any public notice."
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Ban as a noun:
The gathering of the (French) king's vassals for war; the whole body of vassals so assembled, or liable to be summoned; originally, the same as arrière-ban: in the 16th c., French usage created a distinction between ban and arrière-ban, for which see the latter word.
Examples:
"He has sent abroad to assemble his ban and arriere ban."
"The Ban and the Arrierban are met armed in the field to choose a king."
"France was at such a Pinch..that they call'd their Ban and Arriere Ban, the assembling whereof had been long discussed, and in a manner antiquated."
"The ban was sometimes convoked, that is, the possessors of the fiefs were called upon for military services."
"The act of calling together the vassals in armed array, was entitled ‘convoking the ban."
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Ban as a noun (obsolete):
A curse or anathema.
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Ban as a noun:
A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban, such as a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes.
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Ban as a noun:
A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Romanian .
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Ban as a noun:
A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Moldovan .
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Ban as a noun:
A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms that define the bit.
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Ban as a noun:
A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century.
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Bit as a noun:
A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.
Examples:
"A horse hates having a bit put in its mouth."
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Bit as a noun:
A rotary cutting tool fitted to a drill, used to bore holes.
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Bit as a noun (dated, British):
A coin of a specified value. (Also formerly used for a nine-pence coin in the British Caribbean, and a fourpenny piece, or groat, in the British West Indies.)
Examples:
"a threepenny bit'"
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Bit as a noun (obsolete, Canada):
A ten-cent piece, dime.
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Bit as a noun (US):
An eighth of a dollar. Note that there is no coin minted worth 12.5 cents. (When this term first came into use, the Spanish 8 reales coin was widely used as a dollar equivalent, and thus the 1 real coin was equivalent to 12.5 cents.)
Examples:
"A quarter is two bits."
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Bit as a noun (historical, US):
In the southern and southwestern states, a small silver coin (such as the real) formerly current; commonly, one worth about 12½ cents; also, the sum of 12½ cents.
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Bit as a noun:
A small amount of something.
Examples:
"There were bits of paper all over the floor. Does your leg still hurt? / Just a bit now. I've done my bit; I expect you to do yours."
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Bit as a noun (informal):
Specifically, a small amount of time.
Examples:
"I'll be there in a bit; I need to take care of something first. He was here just a bit ago, but it looks like he's stepped out."
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Bit as a noun:
A portion of something.
Examples:
"I'd like a big bit of cake, please."
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Bit as a noun:
Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree.
Examples:
"Am I bored? Not a bit of it!"
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Bit as a noun (slang):
A prison sentence, especially a short one.
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Bit as a noun:
An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc.
Examples:
"His bit about video games was not nearly as entertaining as the other segments of his show."
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Bit as a noun:
The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.
Examples:
"rfquotek Knight"
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Bit as a noun:
The cutting iron of a plane.
Examples:
"rfquotek Knight"
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Bit as an adverb:
To a small extent; in a small amount (usually with "a").
Examples:
"That's a bit too sweet."
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Bit as a verb (transitive):
To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of (a horse).
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Bit as a verb:
Examples:
"Your dog bit me!"
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Bit as a verb (informal, _, in, _, US, archaic, _, in, _, UK):
, bitten
Examples:
"I have been bit by your dog!"
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Bit as an adjective (colloquial):
bitten.
Examples:
"Even though he's bit, of course the zombies would still chase him."
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Bit as an adjective (only in combination):
Having been bitten.
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Bit as a noun (mathematics, computing):
A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
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Bit as a noun (computing):
The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.
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Bit as a noun (information theory, cryptography):
Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.
Examples:
"status bits on IRC; permission bits in a file system"
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Bit as a noun (information theory):
A unit of measure for information entropy.
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Bit as a noun:
A , or a millionth of a (0.000001 BTC).