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Definitions: AIT |
AITNoun1. Oat. 2. An islet, or little isle, in a river or lake; an eyot. |
Date "AIT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1660. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Computing | AIT Advanced Intelligent Tape. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
AIT | English | Asian Institute of Technology | N/A |
AIT | French | Accident ischémique transitoire | Medicine |
AIT | German | Analytischer Intelligenztest | Medicine |
AIT | Greek | παροδικό ισχαιμικό αγγειακό εγκεφαλικό επεισόδιο | Medicine |
AIT | Spanish | Accidente isquémico transitorio | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: AIT |
| English words defined with "AIT": Eyot. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "AIT": Advanced Intelligent Tape ♦ Crux Decussata ♦ Drowned in a Butt of Malmsey ♦ Hair devoted to Proserpine ♦ Martine. (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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Movie/TV Titles | Pourvu qu'on ait l'ivresse (1974) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 61.11% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (singular) | 22.22% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 16.67% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 18 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | AIT Group plc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "AIT": Ait-laoussine. | |
Ending with "AIT": osier-ait. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency 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. | |||
| 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 ilhota (cay, inch, islet). (various references) ostrov (bank, Holm, island, Isle), insuliţã (Holm, islet). (various references) островок (isle, islet). (various references) otočić. (various references) cù lao (eyot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 14, Verse 18 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | O de eipen ferete moi autouV wde |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Qui ait eis adferte illos mihi huc |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Ða cwæð se hælend. bringeð mehider. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And he seide to hem, Brynge ye hem hidur to me. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And he sayde: bringe the hyther to me. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | He said, Bring them hither to me. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | He said, Bring them hither to me. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And he said, Give them to me. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Matthew Chapter 14, Verse 18 |
| Cebuano | Ug siya miingon, "Dad-a nganhi kanako." |
| Chinese | 耶 穌 說 、 拿 過 來 給 我 。 |
| Croatian | A on æe im: "Donesite mi ih ovamo." |
| Danish | Men han sagde: "Henter mig dem hid!" |
| Dutch | En Hij zeide: Brengt Mij dezelve hier. |
| Finnish | Mutta hän sanoi: "Tuokaa ne tänne minulle". |
| French | Et il dit: Apportez-les-moi. |
| German | Und er sprach: Bringet sie mir her. |
| Haitian Creole | Jezi di yo: Pote yo ban mwen. |
| Hungarian | Õ pedig monda: Hozzátok azokat ide hozzám. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | "Bawa itu kemari," kata Yesus. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka kata-Nya, "Bawalah dia ke mari kepada-Ku." |
| Italian | Ed egli disse: «Portatemeli qua». |
| Manx Gaelic | Dooyrt eshyn, Cur-jee lhieu ad ayns shoh hym's. |
| Maori | Na ka mea ia, Mauria mai ki konei ki ahau. |
| Norwegian | Men han sa: Hent dem hit til mig! |
| Portuguese | E ele disse: trazei-mos aqui. |
| Rumanian | Wi El le -a zis: ,,Aduceyi -i aici la Mine.`` |
| Russian | пО УЛБЪБМ: ТЙОЕУЙФЕ ЙИ нОЕ УА"Б. |
| Shuar | Tuíniakui Jesus "Wats, nu itiartitiarum" Tímiayi. |
| Spanish | Él les dijo: --Traédmelos acá. |
| Swahili | Yesu akawaambia, "Nileteeni hapa." |
| Swedish | Då sade han: "Bären dem hit till mig." |
| Uma | Na'uli' Yesus: "Keni tumai." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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). | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 49 54 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .. - |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01001001 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A I T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0049 0054 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)354354 |
| 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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