If you're going to make fun of someone's writing you should probably check a dictionary first. Bated means "in great suspense; very anxiously or excitedly" and is used correctly in the summary. You're thinking of "baited."
Well, "with bated breath" means that. "Bated" means "held" or "restrained", though it's practically never used any more except in that expression. It's cognate to "abate".
Optional pedantry: Shakespeare used "bate" in the "restrained" sense, including this from Much Ado: "she will die, if he woo her, rather than she will bate one breath of her accustomed crossness" (Meaning: If he makes a pass at her, she would rather die than cut back even a little bit on her usual insults.)
Historically, yes. Since it's never used any other way now, the Oxford dictionary has apparently determined your definition is obsolete and the one I gave is correct:
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What does that even mean, a "tablet computer without the tablet bits"?
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Gross. Spit those worms out now.
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If you're going to make fun of someone's writing you should probably check a dictionary first. Bated means "in great suspense; very anxiously or excitedly" and is used correctly in the summary. You're thinking of "baited."
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Well, "with bated breath" means that. "Bated" means "held" or "restrained", though it's practically never used any more except in that expression. It's cognate to "abate".
Optional pedantry: Shakespeare used "bate" in the "restrained" sense, including this from Much Ado: "she will die, if he woo her, rather than she will bate one breath of her accustomed crossness" (Meaning: If he makes a pass at her, she would rather die than cut back even a little bit on her usual insults.)
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Historically, yes. Since it's never used any other way now, the Oxford dictionary has apparently determined your definition is obsolete and the one I gave is correct:
http://www.oxforddictionaries.... [oxforddictionaries.com]
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Don't be a homonymophobe, you insensitive clod. :-)