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I . nibble [ˈnɪbl] N

1. nibble (small bite):

nibble

небольшо́е коли́чество nt

nibble

кусо́чек m

2. nibble pl Brit inf (snack):

nibble

лёгкая заку́ска f

II . nibble [ˈnɪbl] VB trans

1. nibble (eat with small bites):

nibble

отку́сывать

2. nibble (peck at sensually):

nibble

поку́сывать

III . nibble [ˈnɪbl] VB intr

1. nibble (snack lightly):

nibble

перекуси́ть

nibble

есть ма́ленькими кусо́чками

2. nibble (show interest in):

to nibble at sth

разду́мывать над чем-ли́бо

3. nibble (deplete slowly):

to nibble away at sth

ме́дленно исче́рпывать что-ли́бо

Usage examples with nibble

to nibble at sth

разду́мывать над чем-ли́бо

to nibble away at sth

ме́дленно исче́рпывать что-ли́бо

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

Some fish specialise as cleaner fish, and establish cleaning stations where other fish can come to have their parasites nibbled away. en.wikipedia.org

A "nybble", sometimes nibble, is a number composed of four bits. en.wikipedia.org

They wander inside a big farm van to nibble at the food. en.wikipedia.org

Here the column is determined by the least significant nibble, and the row is determined by the most significant nibble. en.wikipedia.org

They remove dirt and oil and realign feather barbs by nibbling their feathers. en.wikipedia.org

It indicates when an arithmetic carry or borrow has been generated out of the four least significant bits, or lower nibble. en.wikipedia.org

He started nibbling on dry bread to give him the strength to stay awake through his morning receptions. en.wikipedia.org

The attribute byte stores the foreground color in the low nibble and the background color and blink attribute in the high nibble. en.wikipedia.org

The lower nibble of the rightmost byte is usually used as the sign flag, although some unsigned representations lack a sign flag. en.wikipedia.org

The remaining eight bytes consist of 16 signed 4-bit nibbles which correspond to the 16 samples, packed in a big-endian manner. en.wikipedia.org

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