Bite or bite means to sink the teeth into--
Does the dog bite?
Don't bite off more than you can chew.
Bite may also mean the act of sinking the teeth into--
His bark is worse than his bite.
Bite may also mean a taste--
Try a bite of this pizza.
Bite may mean something to eat, informally--
Let's stop for a bite.
Bite may mean to take a piece from, in order to reduce the size of--
Let's take a bite out of crime.
Bite also means how the upper and lower teeth match--
The dentist said he needs braces to fix his bite.
Byte or byte ( rhymes with bite ) is combined from "binary unit", meaning a unit of information as used or stored by a computer, equal to one digit or character--
Eight bits make a byte, just as eight bits make a dollar.
The computer stores information by the byte.
Now that you know that, you can say--
"Each byte of information we can keep secure helps to take a bite out of hacking and computer fraud."
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