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whit
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)
- 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.'
- 1602: William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act V scene 2
Synonyms
- (smallest part imaginable): bit, iota, jot, scrap
- See also Thesaurus:modicum.
Translations
Etymology 2
Preposition
whit
- 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)
- white, pale, light (in color)
- (referring to people) wearing white clothes
- (referring to people) having white skin
- attractive, fair, beautiful
- bright, shining, brilliant
- (referring to plants) having white flowers
- (heraldry) silver, argent (tincture)
- (alchemy) Inducing the transmutation of a substance into silver
- (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
- white (colour)
- white pigment
- The white of an egg
- The white of an eye
- white fabric
- white wine
- dairy products
- 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
- Alternative form of what
References
- “what, pron., adv., adj., conj., interj..” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
whit From the web:
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inch
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?nt?/
- Rhymes: -?nt?
Etymology 1
From Middle English ynche, enche, from Old English ynce, borrowed from Latin uncia (“twelfth part”). Doublet of ounce.
Noun
inch (plural inches)
- A unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot, or exactly 2.54 centimetres.
- (meteorology) The amount of water which would cover a surface to the depth of an inch, used as a measurement of rainfall.
- The amount of an alcoholic beverage which would fill a glass or bottle to the depth of an inch.
- (figuratively) A very short distance.
- "Don't move an inch!"
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ??? (inchi)
- ? Korean: ?? (inchi)
Translations
Verb
inch (third-person singular simple present inches, present participle inching, simple past and past participle inched)
- (intransitive, followed by a preposition) To advance very slowly, or by a small amount (in a particular direction).
- Fearful of falling, he inched along the window ledge.
- 1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey", in, 1961, Franny and Zooey:
- The window blind had been lowered — Zooey had done all his bathtub reading by the light from the three-bulb overhead fixture—but a fraction of morning light inched under the blind and onto the title page of the manuscript.
- To drive by inches, or small degrees.
- 1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero, a Tragedy
- He gets too far into the soldier's grace / And inches out my master.
- 1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero, a Tragedy
- To deal out by inches; to give sparingly.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- thou
- mil
Etymology 2
From Scottish Gaelic innis
Noun
inch (plural inches)
- (Scotland) A small island
Usage notes
- Found especially in the names of small Scottish islands, e.g. Inchcolm, Inchkeith.
Anagrams
- Ch'in, Chin, chin, ichn-
Middle English
Noun
inch
- Alternative form of ynche
inch From the web:
- = 2.54 centimeters
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