different between whit vs molecule

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

Summary: from French molécule, from New Latin molecula (“a molecule”), diminutive of Latin moles (“a mass”); see mole + -cule.

French molécule (1674, Pierre Le Gallois, Conversations tirées de l'Académie de M. l'abbé Bourdelot, contenant diverses recherches et observations physiques) cited in Quemada, Bernard (1965), Datations et documents lexicographiques (tome 3).

Medieval Latin molecula (early XVII cent., Pierre Gassendi), cited in Le Grand Robert de la Langue Française (2e édn) tome 6. ?ISBN. pp. 522–23. Diminutive of moles

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?l?kju?l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?l?kjul/
• Hyphenation: mol?e?cule

Noun

molecule (plural molecules or moleculae or moleculæ)

1. (chemistry) The smallest particle of a specific element or compound that retains the chemical properties of that element or compound; two or more atoms held together by chemical bonds.
2. A tiny amount.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:molecule
• (small amount): see also Thesaurus:modicum.

Hyponyms

• macromolecule

Meronyms

• atom

Related terms

• molecular

Translations

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mo?.l??ky.l?/
• Hyphenation: mo?le?cu?le

Noun

molecule n or f or m (plural moleculen or molecules, diminutive moleculetje n)

1. Alternative form of molecuul.

Friulian

Noun

molecule f (plural moleculis)

1. molecule