Bait meaning

Noun: bait

Pronunciation: (beyt)

Bait meaning:

1. Anything that serves as an enticement. Synonyms: hook, lure, sweetener
2. Something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed. Synonyms: decoy, lure

Verb: bait

Meaning:

1. Deliberately provoke by mocking or poking fun, often in an aggressive manner. Synonyms: cod, rag, rally, taunt, wind up
2. Lure, entice, or entrap with bait
3. Attack with dogs or set dogs upon

Quotations: Steven Wittels – There is such a term, called ‘judge baiting’ baiting the judge into losing her cool and her temper. I don’t know that they (Merck’s lawyers) sit around and think that, but anything is possible.

Roger Norbeck – The bass drive the bait fish to the surface and feed on them, but they can’t go back down to the bottom to hide because there’s not enough oxygen there.

Chris LaGarde – There’s no reason why you couldn’t have sandwich shops and bait shops all around that area. This is about rebuilding a tax base that is gone, and this is certainly a fast way to start bringing it back.

Sri Guru Granth Sahib – You yourself are the water, you yourself are the fish, and you yourself are the net. You yourself cast the net, and you yourself are the bait. You yourself are the lotus, unaffected and still brightly-colored in hundreds of feet of water. You yourself liberate those who think of you for even an instant.

Sam Albert – I think it’s an interesting perspective that she would like to teach the customer to fish. She’s going to needs a very special line, bait and tackle in that process.

Sample sentences:

1. The children baited the new teacher.
2. In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.
3. Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it then steps in it.
4. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
5. We place a series of bait stations about 15 feet apart in the soil around the house.
6. If they’re bait and switched or the offers are not real offers, then consumers can be harmed.
7. The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
8. These people would apparently just contact girls randomly, bait them with alcohol and recruit them.
9. I guess sooner or later you’ve got to fish or cut bait. I’ll be interested to see what the outcome is myself.
10. The fishing is incredible. Getting gas, ice and bait is a problem. There is nowhere to launch, there is nowhere to stay.