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AIT

Definitions: AIT

AIT

Noun

1. Oat.

2. An islet, or little isle, in a river or lake; an eyot.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "AIT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1660. (references)

 

Specialty Definitions: AIT

DomainDefinitions

Computing

AIT Advanced Intelligent Tape. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: AIT

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

AIT

EnglishAsian Institute of TechnologyN/A

AIT

FrenchAccident ischémique transitoireMedicine

AIT

GermanAnalytischer IntelligenztestMedicine

AIT

Greekπαροδικό ισχαιμικό αγγειακό εγκεφαλικό επεισόδιοMedicine

AIT

SpanishAccidente isquémico transitorioMedicine

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms within Context: AIT

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Island

Noun: island, isle, islet, eyot, ait, holf, reef, atoll, breaker; archipelago; islander.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: AIT

English words defined with "AIT": Eyot. (references)
Specialty definitions using "AIT": Advanced Intelligent TapeCrux DecussataDrowned in a Butt of MalmseyHair devoted to ProserpineMartine. (references)
Non-English Usage: "AIT" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (have), Inuktitut (eight), Latin (affirm, assent, assert, he says, it is said, lay down, prescribe, say, say yes, so, they say), Scottish (glad, joyful), Turkish (appurtenant, belonging to, concerning, relating to, relative to).

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Modern Usage: AIT

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Pourvu qu'on ait l'ivresse (1974)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: AIT

DomainTitle

References

  • AIT Group plc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • AIT GROUP PLC: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (Financial Performance Series) (reference)

  • The Ait Ayash of the High Moulouya Plain: Rural Social Organization in Morocco (Museum of Anthropology, Univ of Michigan, No 69) (reference)

  • The Ait Ndhir of Morocco: A Study of the Social Transformation of a Berber Tribe (Anthropological Papers ; Number Fifty Five) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: AIT

SubjectTopicQuote

Civil Liberties

Nigeria

The NBC also challenged expansion plans by African Independent Television (AIT), a part of Daar Communications, claiming that AIT's global and terrestrial licenses do not allow them to act as a network. (references)

Economic History

Taiwan

AIT has been engaged in a series of trade negotiations which have focused on protection of intellectual property rights and issues relating to Taiwan's accession to the WTO, as well as other market access issues. (references)

South Africa

The few prominent deals included the acquisition of the Health and Racquet Club by the UK group Virgin Active for R319.6 million; British Airways' acquisition of 18 percent of Comair for R168 million; and the acquisition of a 22 percent stake in Automated Identification Technologies (AIT) by a U.S. consortium for about R120 million (AIT is involved in developing security systems for tracking and managing assets). (references)

Trade

Taiwan

If you have questions on labeling requirements for food products, please contact the AIT Agricultural Trade Office. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: AIT

"AIT" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 61.11% of the time. "AIT" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)61.11%11106,044
Noun (singular)22.22%4175,879
Lexical Verb (base form)16.67%3202,518
                    Total100.00%18N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: AIT

CountryName
United Kingdom

AIT Group plc

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expression: AIT

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "AIT": Ait-laoussine.

Ending with "AIT": osier-ait.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: AIT

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

ait

287

ait trucking

7

ait education.vsnl.com

47

sony ait tape drive

7

ait tran

37

ait trans

7

ait freight

25

ait 2

6

ait worldwide

24

ait logistics

6

ait ii

22

ait driver

5

ait technology

22

ait bar code label

5

ait worldwide logistics

21

ait freight system

5

ait tape

16

sony ait tape

5

ait tape drive

15

airline ait tran

5

sony ait

15

ait inc

5

ait shipping

12

ait tape library

4

ait ticket

12

ait taiwan

4

ait backup scsi

11

ait arvi

4

ait 3

11

ait thailand

4

ait backup scsi sony

10

ait tango

4

ait drive

10

ait result

4

ait pune

8

ait atlanta.org

4

ait army

8

ait transportation

4

ait transat

7

sony ait drive

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: AIT

Language Translations for "AIT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

ishull (Holm, island, Isle, islet). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏عب (quaff), ‏جزيرة صغيرة (holm). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

островче (islet). (various references)

   

French

  

petite île, fardeau. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

sziget (island, Isle). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aitay

   

Portuguese

  

ilhota (cay, inch, islet). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

ostrov (bank, Holm, island, Isle), insuliţã (Holm, islet). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

островок (isle, islet). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

otočić. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

cù lao (eyot). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Bible Trace: AIT

LanguageDateSourceMatthew Chapter 14, Verse 18
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintO de eipen ferete moi autouV wde
Latin405VulgateQui ait eis adferte illos mihi huc
Old English990West SaxonÐa cwæð se hælend. bringeð mehider.
Middle English1395WyclifAnd he seide to hem, Brynge ye hem hidur to me.
Renaissance English1526TyndaleAnd he sayde: bringe the hyther to me.
Jacobean English1611King JamesHe said, Bring them hither to me.
Victorian English1833WebsterHe said, Bring them hither to me.
Basic English1964OgdenAnd he said, Give them to me.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: AIT

LanguageMatthew Chapter 14, Verse 18
CebuanoUg siya miingon, "Dad-a nganhi kanako."
Chinese耶 穌 說 、 拿 過 來 給 我 。
CroatianA on æe im: "Donesite mi ih ovamo."
DanishMen han sagde: "Henter mig dem hid!"
DutchEn Hij zeide: Brengt Mij dezelve hier.
FinnishMutta hän sanoi: "Tuokaa ne tänne minulle".
FrenchEt il dit: Apportez-les-moi.
GermanUnd er sprach: Bringet sie mir her.
Haitian CreoleJezi di yo: Pote yo ban mwen.
HungarianÕ pedig monda: Hozzátok azokat ide hozzám.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari"Bawa itu kemari," kata Yesus.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaMaka kata-Nya, "Bawalah dia ke mari kepada-Ku."
ItalianEd egli disse: «Portatemeli qua».
Manx GaelicDooyrt eshyn, Cur-jee lhieu ad ayns shoh hym's.
MaoriNa ka mea ia, Mauria mai ki konei ki ahau.
NorwegianMen han sa: Hent dem hit til mig!
PortugueseE ele disse: trazei-mos aqui.   
RumanianWi El le -a zis: ,,Aduceyi -i aici la Mine.``
RussianпО УЛБЪБМ: ТЙОЕУЙФЕ ЙИ нОЕ УА"Б.
ShuarTuíniakui Jesus "Wats, nu itiartitiarum" Tímiayi.
SpanishÉl les dijo: --Traédmelos acá.
SwahiliYesu akawaambia, "Nileteeni hapa."
SwedishDå sade han: "Bären dem hit till mig."
UmaNa'uli' Yesus: "Keni tumai."

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: AIT

Derivations

Words beginning with "AIT": aitch, aitchbone, aitchbones, aitches, aits. (additional references)

Words ending with "AIT": await, bait, distrait, gait, jailbait, krait, outwait, parfait, plait, portrait, rebait, redbait, spait, strait, trait, unplait, wait, whitebait. (additional references)

Words containing "AIT": awaited, awaiter, awaiters, awaiting, awaits, baited, baiter, baiters, baith, baiting, baits, bearbaiting, bearbaitings, bullbaiting, bullbaitings, caitiff, caitiffs, distraite, dumbwaiter, dumbwaiters, faith, faithed, faithful, faithfully, faithfulness, faithfulnesses, faithfuls, faithing, faithless, faithlessly, faithlessness, faithlessnesses, faiths, faitour, faitours, gaited, gaiter, gaiters, gaiting, gaits, headwaiter, headwaiters, interfaith, kraits, laitance, laitances, laith, laithly, laities, laity, misfaith. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: AIT

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-i-t"

-1 letter: ai, at, it, ta, ti.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-t"
 

+1 letter: adit, airt, aits, alit, anti, bait, dita, fiat, gait, ikat, iota, lati, pita, sati, tail, tain, tali, taxi, vita, wait.

 

+2 letters: actin, adits, admit, afrit, agist, airth, airts, aitch, alist, ambit, amity, antic, antis, astir, atilt, atria, atrip, attic, audit, await, axite, baith, baits, batik, biota, cacti, coati, davit, dicta, ditas, entia, faint, faith, fiats, gaits, giant, habit, ikats, inapt, iotas, irate, krait, laith, laity, lathi, litai, litas, maist, matin, ostia, paint, patin, patio, pieta, pinta, pitas, plait, ratio, retia, riant, riata, saint, saith, satin, satis, sitar, spait, staid, staig, stain, stair, stoai, stria, tabid, tacit, tafia, taiga, tails, tains, taint, takin, tamis, tapir, tapis, tarsi, tawie, taxis, telia, tenia, terai, tiara, tibia, tical, tidal, tilak, tinea, titan, tragi, traik, trail, train, trait, triac, triad, trial, tsadi, twain, vatic, vista, vitae, vital, vitta, waist, waits, witan.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: AIT


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 49 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    ..    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01001001 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#73 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0049 0054

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

354354

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Names: Company Usage
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Bible Trace
12. Abbreviations
13. Acronyms
14. Derivations
15. Anagrams
16. Orthography
17. Bibliography


  

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