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bait
noun[ U ]
us/beɪt/

baitnoun[U] (FOOD)

a small amount of food used to attract and catch a fish or animal:
The fishermen bought some worms to use as bait.
fig. Bait is also anything used to persuade someone to do something:
Lawyers making the investment offering will find out today whether someone is ready to take the bait.
bait
verb[ T ]
us/beɪt/

baitverb[T] (PUT BAIT ON)

put bait on a hook or in a trap:
You can bait the mousetrap with a piece of cheese.

baitverb[T] (MAKE ANGRY)

to intentionally make someone angry by saying or doing annoying things:
She enjoys baiting her brother by teasing him about his girlfriend.

Examples of bait

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A similar pattern was observed at the carrion baits.
The species responding to baits represent a relatively small sample of the meliponine guild, and may be biased to include foraging generalists, rather than specialists.
Both of these species also responded to baits throughout the day.
To keep seed availability roughly constant throughout our experiments, baits were replenished when necessary.
The highest values for mean species richness, percentage of baits attacked and intensities of attack, all occurred during the transitional season.
Untreated control: natural baits without the application of any substance, and placed on unprotected plants.
The frequency of captured a nd non-captured larvae or baits in each bioassay were compared as in the ant experiments.
The use of relatively small baits ensured that competition would have occurred even at low beetle densities.
Further examination of species distributions on baits in a plot during a single observation, however, provides evidence of mild interspecific interaction.
No direct relationships were noted between rainfall recorded at the sites and species richness, frequency and intensity of attack on baits.
Examination of baits may disrupt termite foraging for some period because the anchoring wire and planter bag must be removed for inspection.
The five baits inspected at any given census were randomly selected from those baits that had not been previously examined.
Simple linear regressions were also used to test for relationships between rainfall and mean species richness, percentage of baits attacked, intensities of attack.
The number of manholes baited varies from year to year.
In the second trial, small aircraft were used for distribution of praziquantel baits (20/km2) according to the protocol of concurrent rabies immunization campaigns.
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Collocations withbait

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These are words often used in combination with bait.

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bait shop
It is more likely that an effect could arise from different syntactic constructions, such as compound noun phrase versus verb phrase, as in baitshop versus bet some.
bait station
This experiment was designed to test whether baitstation design affected bait matrix removal, not whether bait design affected bait discovery.
live bait
What possible excuse can there be for using a healthy live mammal as livebait?
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