Bite vs. Chew — What's the Difference?

(of a person or animal) use the teeth to cut into something

To bite and grind with the teeth; masticate.

(of a tool, tyre, boot, etc.) grip or take hold on a surface

To meditate on; ponder

An act of biting something in order to eat it

To make a crushing and grinding motion with the teeth.

A piece cut off by biting

To cogitate; meditate

A sharp or pungent flavour

(Informal) To chew tobacco as a habit.

To cut, grip, or tear with or as if with the teeth.

The act of chewing.

To pierce the skin of with the teeth, fangs, or mouthparts.

Something held in the mouth and chewed, especially a plug of tobacco.

To sting with a stinger.

To crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws; done to food to soften it and break it down by the action of saliva before it is swallowed.

To cut into with or as if with a sharp instrument

To grind, tear, or otherwise degrade or demolish something with teeth or as with teeth.

To grip, grab, or seize

(informal) To think about something; to ponder; to chew over.

To eat into; corrode.

The act of chewing; mastication with the mouth.

To cause to sting or be painful

Level of chewiness.better def?

To grip, cut into, or injure something with or as if with the teeth.

A small sweet, such as a taffy, that is eaten by chewing.

To have a stinging effect.

Chewing tobacco.

To have a sharp taste.

A plug or wad of chewing tobacco; chaw or a chaw.

To take or swallow bait.

The condition of something being torn or ground up mechanically.

To be taken in by a ploy or deception

To bite and grind with the teeth; to masticate.

Vulgar Slang To be highly disagreeable or annoying.

To ruminate mentally; to meditate on.

The act of biting.

To perform the action of biting and grinding with the teeth; to ruminate; to meditate.

A skin wound or puncture produced by an animal's teeth or mouthparts

That which is chewed; that which is held in the mouth at once; a cud.

A stinging or smarting sensation.

A wad of something chewable as tobacco

An incisive, penetrating quality

Biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow

An amount removed by or as if by an act of biting

Chew (food);

An excerpt or fragment taken from something larger, such as a film.

An amount of food taken into the mouth at one time; a mouthful.

(Informal) A light meal or snack.

The act or an instance of taking bait

A secure grip or hold applied by a tool or machine upon a working surface.

The part of a tool or machine that presses against and maintains a firm hold on a working surface.

(Dentistry) The angle at which the upper and lower teeth meet; occlusion.

The corrosive action of acid upon an etcher's metal plate.

(Slang) An amount of money appropriated or withheld

(transitive) To cut into something by clamping the teeth.

(transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth.

(intransitive) To attack with the teeth.

(intransitive) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.

(intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.

(intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.

To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.

To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.

To sting.

(intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.

To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.

(intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.

(intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold.

(transitive) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.

To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.

To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.

To plagiarize, to imitate.

(obsolete) To deceive or defraud; to take in.

The act of biting.

The wound left behind after having been bitten.

The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.

A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.

(slang) Something unpleasant.

(slang) An act of plagiarism.

A small meal or snack.

(figuratively) aggression

The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.

A cheat; a trick; a fraud.

A sharper; one who cheats.

(printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.

(slang) A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.

(television) sound bite

To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a crust; the dog bit a man.

To puncture, abrade, or sting with an organ (of some insects) used in taking food.

To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense; as, pepper bites the mouth.

To cheat; to trick; to take in.

To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the anchor bites the ground.

To seize something forcibly with the teeth; to wound with the teeth; to have the habit of so doing; as, does the dog bite?

To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent; as, it bites like pepper or mustard.

To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.

To take a bait into the mouth, as a fish does; hence, to take a tempting offer.

To take or keep a firm hold; as, the anchor bites.

The act of seizing with the teeth or mouth; the act of wounding or separating with the teeth or mouth; a seizure with the teeth or mouth, as of a bait; as, to give anything a hard bite.

The act of puncturing or abrading with an organ for taking food, as is done by some insects.

The wound made by biting; as, the pain of a dog's or snake's bite; the bite of a mosquito.

A morsel; as much as is taken at once by biting.

The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.

A cheat; a trick; a fraud.

A sharper; one who cheats.

A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.

A wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person

A small amount of solid food; a mouthful;

A painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin

A light informal meal

(angling) an instance of a fish taking the bait;

Wit having a sharp and caustic quality;

A strong odor or taste property;

The act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws

A portion removed from the whole;

To grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws;

Cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort;

Penetrate or cut, as with a knife;

Deliver a sting to;