different between rebut vs rebit

English

Etymology

Entered English around 1302–1307, from Old French reboter, rebuter, rebouter, etc., from re- + boter, buter, bouter (“to butt”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??.?b?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Verb

rebut (third-person singular simple present rebuts, present participle rebutting, simple past and past participle rebutted)

1. To drive back or beat back; to repulse.
3. To deny the truth of something, especially by presenting arguments that disprove it.

Usage notes

• See refute.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• "rebut, v." listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (second edition, 1989)

Anagrams

• Ubert, brute, buret, tuber

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /r??but/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /re?but/
• Rhymes: -ut

Noun

rebut m (plural rebuts)

1. receipt (acknowledgement that something has been received)

   Synonym: rebuda

Verb

rebut m (feminine rebuda, masculine plural rebuts, feminine plural rebudes)

1. past participle of rebre

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.by/

Verb

rebut

1. third-person singular past historic of reboire

Noun

rebut m (plural rebuts)

1. (archaic) casting-off, throwing-away
2. cast-off; scrap, rubbish
3. scum, dreg
4. dead letter

Further reading

• “rebut” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• brute, buter, tuber

English

Etymology 1

Verb

rebit

1. simple past tense of rebite

Etymology 2

re- +? bit?

Noun

rebit (plural rebits)

1. (physics) Any of an arbitrary number of quantum mechanical binary states that are maximally entangled with every other one (in the real-vector-space theory).

Anagrams

• Berti, Breit, Tiber, biter, tribe