different between whit vs granule

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English wi?t, wight, from Old English wiht (“wight, person, creature, being, whit, thing, something, anything”), from Proto-Germanic *wiht? (“thing, creature”) or *wihtiz (“essence, object”), from Proto-Indo-European *wekti- (“cause, sake, thing”), from *wek?- (“to say, tell”). Cognate with Old High German wiht (“creature, thing”), Dutch wicht, German Wicht. Doublet of wight.

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?t, hw?t, IPA^(key): /w?t/, /??t/
• Rhymes: -?t
• Homophone: wit (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Noun

whit (plural whits)

1. The smallest part or particle imaginable; an iota.
   • 1602: William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act V scene 2

     Not a whit.

   • 1917, Incident by Countee Cullen

     Now I was eight and very small, / And he was no whit bigger / And so I smiled, but he poked out / His tongue, and called me, 'Nigger.'

Synonyms

• (smallest part imaginable): bit, iota, jot, scrap
• See also Thesaurus:modicum.

Translations

Etymology 2

Preposition

whit

1. Pronunciation spelling of with.

Anagrams

• with, with-

Middle English

Alternative forms

• hwit, white, whyte, whitt, whytt, whyt, whi?t, qwyght, ?wijt, wyghte, whiyt, whijt

Etymology

Old English hw?t, from Proto-Germanic *hw?taz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?t/

Adjective

whit (plural and weak singular white, comparative whitter, superlative whittest)

1. white, pale, light (in color)
2. (referring to people) wearing white clothes
3. (referring to people) having white skin
4. attractive, fair, beautiful
5. bright, shining, brilliant
6. (referring to plants) having white flowers
7. (heraldry) silver, argent (tincture)
8. (alchemy) Inducing the transmutation of a substance into silver
9. (medicine) Unusually light; bearing the pallor of death

Related terms

• snow whit

Descendants

• English: white (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: quhite, fyte, fite, whyte, white
• Yola: whit

References

• “wh?t, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

Noun

whit

1. white (colour)
2. white pigment
3. The white of an egg
4. The white of an eye
5. white fabric
6. white wine
7. dairy products
8. Other objects notable for being white

Descendants

• English: white
• Scots: quhite, fyte, fite, whyte, white

References

• “wh?t, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

See also

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??t]

Pronoun

whit

1. Alternative form of what

References

• “what, pron., adv., adj., conj., interj..” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin granulum, diminutive of Latin granum (“grain”); for more, see grain.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???anju?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???ænjul/, /???ænj?l/

Noun

granule (plural granules)

1. A tiny grain, a small particle.
2. (biology) A small structure in a cell.
3. (geology) A particle from 2 to 4 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
4. (astronomy) a small mark in the photosphere of the sun caused by convection currents. See also Wikipedia:Granule (solar physics).

Related terms

• grain
• granular
• granularity
• granulate
• granulation

Translations

Further reading

• granule in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• granule in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• langure, unregal

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: granulent, granules

Verb

granule

1. first-person singular present indicative of granuler
2. third-person singular present indicative of granuler
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of granuler
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of granuler
5. second-person singular imperative of granuler

Spanish

Verb

granule

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of granular.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of granular.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of granular.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of granular.