Habit

Definition: Habit

Habit

Noun

1. An established custom; "it was their habit to dine at 7 every evening".

2. A pattern of behavior acquired through frequent repetition; "she had a habit twirling the ends of her hair"; "long use had hardened him to it".

3. A distinctive attire (as the costume of a religious order).

4. Excessive use of drugs.

Verb

1. Put a habit on.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "habit" was first used: 12th century. (references)

Satire

Mining

Tips from 1870

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

Synonyms: Habit

Affections

Noun: affections, affect; character, qualities, disposition, nature, spirit, tone; temper, temperament; diathesis, idiosyncrasy; cast of mind, cast of soul, habit of mind, habit of soul, frame of mind, frame of soul; predilection, turn, natural turn of mind; bent, bias, predisposition, proneness, proclivity, propensity, propenseness, propension, propendency; vein, humor, mood, grain, mettle; sympathy; (love).

Clothing

Robe, tunic, paletot, habit, gown, coat, frock, blouse, toga, smock frock, claw coat, hammer coat, Prince Albert coat, sack coat, tuxedo coat, frock coat, dress coat, tail coat.

Desuetude

Verb: be -unaccustomed; Adjective: leave off a habit, cast off a habit, break off a habit, wean oneself of a habit, violate a habit, break through a habit, infringe a habit, leave off a custom, cast off a custom, break off a custom, wean oneself of a custom, violate a custom, break through a custom, infringe a custom, leave off a usage, cast off a usage, break off a usage, wean oneself of a usage, violate a usage, break through a usage, infringe a usage; disuse; wear off.

Noun: desuetude, disusage; obsolescence, disuse; want of habit, want of practice; inusitation; newness to; new brooms.

Disuse

Noun: forbearance, abstinence; disuse; relinquishment; desuetude; (want of habit); disusage.

Impulse

Wont; used to, given to, addicted to, attuned to, habituated; Verb: in the habit of; habitue; at home in; (skillful); seasoned; imbued with; devoted to, wedded to.

Phrase: cela s'entend; abeunt studia in mores; adeo in teneris consuescere multum est; consuetudo quasi altera natura; hoc erat in more majorum; "How use doth breed a habit in a man!"; magna est vis consuetudinis; morent fecerat usus.

Get into the way, get into the knack of; learn; cling to, adhere to; repeat; acquire a habit, contract a habit, fall into a habit, acquire a trick, contract a trick, fall into a trick; addict oneself to, take to, get into.

Cacoethes; bad habit, confirmed habit, inveterate habit, intrinsic habit; addiction, trick.

Be habitual; Adjective: prevail; come into use, become a habit, take root; gain upon one, grow upon one.

Intemperance

Indulgence; high living, wild living, inabstinence, self-indulgence; voluptuousness; Adjective: epicurism, epicureanism; sybaritism; drug habit.

Intrinsicality

Habit; temper, temperament; spirit, humor, grain; disposition.

Unconformity

Verb: be uncomformable; Adjective: abnormalize; leave the beaten track, leave the beaten path; infringe a law, infringe a habit, infringe a usage, infringe a custom, break a law, break a habit, break a usage, break a custom, violate a law, violate a habit, violate a usage, violate a custom; drive a coach and six through; stretch a point; have no business there; baffle all description, beggar all description.

Crosswords: Habit

French (article of dress, costume, dress-coat, evening dress, garment, tail coat, tails), German (Gewohnheit), Swedish (attire).

You're too late again , Mr. Bond! It's a bad habit of yours (Tomorrow Never Dies; writing credit: Bruce Feirstein)

You seem to have this nasty habit of surviving (Octopussy; writing credit: George MacDonald Fraser)

We called him Mother Superior on account of the length of his habit. (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge)

We try not to make a habit of it. (Witness for the Prosecution; writing credit: Agatha Christie; Larry Marcus)

I never guess: it is an appalling habit, destructive to the logical faculty (The Seven-Per-Cent Solution; writing credit: Arthur Conan Doyle; Nicholas Meyer)

You're a hard habit to break (Hard Habit to Break; performing artist: Chicago)

Have we become a habit (WE BELONG; performing artist: Pat Benatar)

She said it's really not my habit to intrude (50 Ways To Leave Your Lover; performing artist: PAUL SIMON)

I've kicked the habit (Sledgehammer; performing artist: Peter Gabriel)

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. (references; author: Mark Twain)

You are an engineer if you have a habit of destroying things in order to see how they work. (references; author: unknown)

Change of Habit (1969)

Habit Troubles (1964)

Breaking the Habit (1964)

Habit Rabbit (1963)

L' Habit vert (1937)

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

Books

• The Anger Habit Workbook: Practical Steps for Anger Management (reference)

• The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Habit (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Chick Habit (reference)

• Sister Act / Sister Act 2: Back In The Habit [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

Prince Albert I of Monaco, 1848-1922, a great oceanographer, statesman, and humanitarian. He is wearing the "habit ver", the uniform of the Institut de France of which the Academie des sciences de Paris is one of five components. Through his generosity, the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco was established. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Farshot of Rosa habit. Credit: John Craig.

Smoking a clay pipe. : The habit is suspected of causing cancer. / WHO photo. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Kick the Habit Before You Kick the Bucket. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

They went back to the old habit of singing in saloons for bread and beer. Credit: Library of Congress.

The new morality play exit demon rum--enter drug habit / / W.A. Rogers. Credit: Library of Congress.

Another victim of the kerosene habit. Credit: Library of Congress.

Help Uncle Sam kick the habit!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Narcoti-cure Cures the tobacco habit in from 4 to 10 days ; Price $5.00 / / Bradley. Credit: Library of Congress.

America's representative comedians, Murray and Mack creators of the laughing habit. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

It ought to have been a habit with him by this time, of following his duty, instead of consulting expediency

Scrooge was not much in the habit of cracking jokes, nor did he feel, in his heart, by any means waggish then

One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about human beings was their habit of continually stating and repeating the obvious, as in It's a nice day, or You're very tall, or Oh dear you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you all right

But the long habit of victory has made them generous

Are not prosecuting officers in the habit of acting thus

But in hell the torments cannot be overcome by habit.

And since, when a joyful thing happened, they looked to see whether joy was on her, it was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials

This I mention as an instance of the great power of habit and prejudice

This was habit.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Nicotine in this form acts as a nicotine replacement to help smokers quit the smoking habit. (references)

Hypnotic medications should not be the mainstay of treatment of insomnia, are overused and have habit forming potential. (references)

Caffeine, however, can cause headaches as well as cure them. Heavy coffee drinkers often get headaches when they try to break the caffeine habit. (references)

Business

This high percentage indicates that "Personal imports" is no longer a special experience but has become an established shopping habit of the general consumers. (references)

Children

Nicaragua

Many of those surveyed said that they engaged in prostitution to buy basic necessities such as food and clothing, or to support a drug habit. (references)

Civil Liberties

Tunisia

On May 3, for the fourth year in a row, the Committee to Protect Journalists named President Ben Ali as 1 of its "10 worst enemies of the press." In 2000 RSF stated that "journalists have adopted a habit of self-censorship and those who venture to be independent pay a high price." During the year, RSF named Ben Ali as 1 of "39 Predators of Press Freedom." The Tunisian Newspaper Association remained expelled from the World Association of Newspapers (WAN). (references)

Economic History

Barbados

Exporters should be aware that Barbadian consumers buy goods based on price, quality and habit. (references)

Human Rights

Cameroon

In his report, U.N. Special Rapporteur Rodley noted that the Government increasingly was moving toward punishing offenders, but that "some of those incriminated act out of ignorance and others out of pure habit, for they have regularly acted that way for a long time without fear of any consequences." Pretrial detainees sometimes were required, under threat of abuse, to pay so-called "cell fees," essentially a bribe to the prison guards to prevent further abuse. (references)

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Habit

Habit

Expressions using "habit": acquired habit ♦ bad habit ♦ be in the habit ♦ be in the habit of ♦ be in the habit of doing ♦ be in the habit of doing smth. ♦ Bowel habit changes ♦ break a habit ♦ break of a habit ♦ break of the habit ♦ break oneself of a habit ♦ break smb. from the habit ♦ break smb. of a habit ♦ break smb. of the habit ♦ break the habit ♦ buying habit ♦ contract a habit ♦ custom habit ♦ drop a bad habit ♦ drop a habit ♦ drop back into a habit ♦ drop into a habit ♦ drug habit ♦ EnLighten Habit Modification Systems ♦ fall into a habit ♦ force of habit ♦ form a habit ♦ from habit ♦ get into the habit of ♦ get out of a habit ♦ get out of the habit ♦ get the habit ♦ get the habit of ♦ get the habit of doing ♦ habit formation ♦ habit forming ♦ habit of body ♦ habit of mind ♦ invariably habit ♦ kick the habit ♦ lose the habit ♦ make a habit of ♦ make habit ♦ make habit of smth. ♦ monastic habit ♦ monk's habit ♦ out of habit ♦ riding habit ♦ rude habit ♦ run into a habit ♦ strange habit ♦ sunday habit ♦ take the habit ♦ the force of habit ♦ unfortunate habit ♦ want of habit. Additional references.

Beginning with "habit": habit-forming.

Ending with "habit": co-habit, dope-habit, motor-habit, riding-habit.

Containing "habit": non-habit-forming.

Afrikaans

gewoonte (custom, way), gebruik (custom, employ, make, make use of, turn to account, use, way). (various references)

Albanian

huq (knack, vice), zakon (consuetude, custom, groove, habitude, institute, institution, inurnment, knack, manners, mode, practice, praxis, rut, tradition, usage, use, way, wont), veshje (apparel, array, article of clothing, ascription, attire, attribution, clothes, clothing, cloudiness, dress, dressing, fig, furnishings, garb, garment, garments, gear, guise, habiliments, incrustation, outfit, overlay, papering, raggery, raiment, sheath, strip, suit, tog, toggery, togs, vesture, wear), ves (defect, immorality, kink, problem, vice), rasë (case, cassock, gown, pinafore), prirje (affinity, aptitude, bent, current, disposition, drift, flair, fondness, gift, inclination, leaning, liability, mission, penchant, proclivity, propensity, run, set, taste, tendency, trend, vocation), petk (array, attire, dressy, habiliment), natyrë (character, complexion, disposition, kind, make, make up, Mold, mould, nature, sort, stock, temper, type), adet (custom, habitude, manners, mode, way). (various references)

Arabic 

عادة (custom, practice), ‏سلوك (action, antics, attitude, bearing, behavior, behaviour, conduct, course, demeanor, demeanour, goings on, manner, performance, walk), ‏عادة (as a rule, commonly, custom, freak, generally, groove, habit of body, institution, observance, ordinarily, practice, praxis, rite, rubric, rule, usage, usually, wont), ‏عرف (acquaint, constitution, convention, custom, define, figure out, form, impart, know, know what's what, locate, manners, mores, realize, rule, savvy, see, sort out, tradition, usage, use), ‏طريقة مميزة (mannerism, way), ‏طبع (etching, grain, impression, inscribe, instill, instillation, lithograph, mood, nature, normalize, print, printing, publishing, redaction, run, stamp, temper, temperament), ‏خلق (create, creation, differentiate, fiber, inspire, make, mood, nil), ‏روتين (bureaucracy, red tape, rote, routine, rut), ‏رداء (apparel, dress, robe, vestment), ‏شيمة (custom), ‏بذلة ركوب الخيل. (various references)

Basque

ohitura (custom). (various references)

Bulgarian 

склонност (addiction, affectation, aptitude, bent, bias, disposition, fancy, fondness, inclination, leaning, liability, liking, partiality, penchant, ply, predilection, predispose, prepossession, proclivity, proneness, propensity, relish, squint, stomach, taste, tendency, turn, vein), хабитус, темперамент (humor, humour, mettle, temperament, zip), телосложение (figure, frame, make, physique), външност (appearance, aspect, exterior, exteriority, externals, looks, mien, outside, outward, person, personage, surface), обличам (accouter, accoutre, attire, clothe, coat, deck, dress, dress up, endue, garb, garment, get on, gird, invest, pull on, pull over, put on, rig, rig out, rig up, robe, tire, vest, vesture), обичай (consuetude, convention, custom, institution, manner, manners, memorial, observance, practice, praxis), наркомания (addiction, dependence, white plague), начин на растеж, навик (custom, habitude, knack, manner, practice, use, wont), живея в (occupy), привичка (habitude, inurement, practice, rut, use). (various references)

Catalan

costum (custom, way). (various references)

Chinese 

癖 (hobby), �'慣 (custom, to be used to, usual practice), �' (to practice, to study), � 性. (various references)

Czech

habitus, hábit (robe), zvyk (consuetude, custom, form, rote, trick, usage, use, way, wont), obyèej (custom, observance, usage, use), návyk (habitude). (various references)

Danish

sædvane (custom, way). (various references)

Dutch

aanwensel (trick). (various references)

Esperanto

kutimo (custom, way), alkutimaĵo (trick). (various references)

Faeroese

vani (custom, way). (various references)

Farsi 

معتادکردن (Customize, Inure), مشرب (Grain, Mood), لباس روحانیت , زندگی کردن , خو (Temper), جامه پوشیدن , جامه (Apparel, Clobber, Costume, Garment, Gear, Raiment, Suit, Thing), اراستن (Apparel, Arrange, Array, Attire, Brave, Clothe, Embroider, Equip, Grace, Groom, Illustrate, Line, Perk, Pretty, Prim, Primp, Prune, Range, Rank, Stud, Tidy, Trim), روش طرزرشد, رابطه (Bond, Liaison, Linkage, Respect, Tie), ظاهر (Apparent, Appearance, Aspect, External, Face, Garb, Guise, Hue, Look, Mien, Ostensible, Outside, Rind, Surface). (various references)

Finnish

tapa (custom, fashion, manner, mode, mores, practice, usage, way). (various references)

French

habitude (habit of body, habitude), tenue d'équitation, coutume. (various references)

Frisian

wizânsje (custom, way), wenst (custom, way), oanwenst (trick), gewoante (custom, way), brûkme (custom, way). (various references)

German

Angewohnheit (custom, mannerism, practice, way), Gewohnheit (consuetude, custom, fashion, habitualness, practice, usualness, way), gepflogenheit (custom, practice, tradition, way). (various references)

Greek 

συνήθεια (convention, custom, customariness, practice, practise, rote, use, wont, wontedness). (various references)

Hawaiian

adet (custom, way). (various references)

Hebrew 

�"ר�'ל (custom, groove, habituation, wont). (various references)

Hungarian

habitus, testalkat (affect, body build, build, disposition, physique, set-up, shape), szokás (custom, fashion, institution, mode, modernism, practice, rule, use, way, wont), ruha (clothes, costume, dress, duds, garb, garment, habiliments, number, pressure garment, pressure suit, raiment, rig, togs, toilet, weed), külső megjelenés (appearance, aspect, external, guise, rig). (various references)

Icelandic

vani (custom, way). (various references)

Indonesian

kebiasaan (custom, fashion, natural, usage, wont), gelagat (attitude, indication, symptom). (various references)

Irish

béas. (various references)

Italian

abitudine (addiction, consuetude, custom, habitude, inurement, practice, trick, wont), costume (costume, custom, fancy dress, outfit, suit, usage, use, way, wont), vizio (bad habit, defect, error, fault, faults, flaw, flaws, mistake, problem, slip, slipup, trick, vice, vise, wickedness). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

惰性 (inertia, momentum). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ならわし (customary practice, traditional event), しゅうか�" (cessation of publication, custom, imprisonment, manners, published weekly, week, weekly), しゅうへき (folds), か�"�"う (call to surrender, completion, consider, customary practice, decisive action, encouragement of industry, examination and correction, exposure, gagging, going slowly, hushing up, issue, keeping silent, kindness, largeheartedness, publication, sensitization, sightseeing, traditional event), じょうしゅう (common practice, custom), � せい (inertia, momentum). (various references)

Korean 

거주 (Abode, Inhabiting, locator, residence, Residing). (various references)

Malay

kebiasaan (custom, way), adat (custom, way). (various references)

Manx

oash (custom, fashion, formality, manner, mannerism, vogue, wont), cliaghtey (acclimatization, acclimatize, custom, exercise, familiarization, familiarize, fashion, follow, follow as trade, formality, habituate, institution, inure, practice, practise, profess, prosecute, prosecution, rehearsal, rehearse, seasoning, train, usage). (various references)

Norwegian

vane (custom, way). (various references)

Occitan

costuma (custom). (various references)

Papiamen

kutumber (custom, way), kostumber (custom, way), bisio (custom, way). (various references)

Pig Latin

abithay.(various references)

Polish

zwyczaj (custom, way). (various references)

Portuguese

hábito (addiction, duty, fashion, inurement, inveteracy, manner, observance, principle, rote, routine, rule, tradition, way), costume (choky, conventionality, costume, custom, fashion, habitude, institution, inurement, inveteracy, mode, mores, observance, outfit, praxis, rule, rut, usage, way). (various references)

Romanian

obicei (consuetude, convention, custom, dead letter, groove, habitude, manner, observance, practice, praxis, rut, tradition, usage, use, way, wont). (various references)

Russian 

привычка (custom, habitude, inurement, knack, rut, use, wont). (various references)

Scottish

nòs (a cow's first milk, a custom, custom, manner), cleachdainn (custom, practice, use), cleachdadh (custom, use), beus (behaviour, conduct, virtue), � bhaist (custom, usage). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

stanje (condition, pass, repair, shape, state, voice), oblačiti (bring clouds, clothe, dress), obitavati (reside), navika (habitude, practice, routine, wont), navada. (various references)

Spanish

costumbre (consuetude, convention, custom, institution, practice, praxis, rule, the custom, usage, use, way, wont), resabio (aftertaste, trick), mala costumbre (bad habit, trick), hábito (frock, robe, trick). (various references)

Swahili

desturi (custom, way). (various references)

Swedish

vana (custom, experience, fashion, institution, knack, practice, rule, way, wont), sedvana (custom, observance, practice), sed (custom, fashion, habitual, institution, vogue). (various references)

Tagalog

ugalí (custom, way). (various references)

Thai

นิสัย, การติ�"ยาเสพย์ติ�", กิจวัตร, ธรรมเนียม. (various references)

Turkish

huy (blood, character, cheer, constitution, humor, humour, kidney, nature, temper, temperament, vein), yapı (architecture, being, blood, build, building, chemistry, composition, conformation, constitution, construction, contexture, corpus, disposition, edifice, erection, fabric, fiber, fibre, form, frame, framework, habit of body, make, make up, making, Mold, mould, nature, organism, presence, quality, set up, strain, structural, structure, system, texture, works), yaşam biçimi, kafa yapısı (attitude of mind, habit of mind), kıyafet (apparel, attire, caparison, costume, dress, garb, get up, habiliments, livery, togs, turnout, vesture), elbise (apparel, attire, clothes, clothing, costume, dress, garment, gown, raiment, robe, tire, tog, toggery, wear), bağımlılık (addiction, bondage, dependance, dependence, dependency, fixation, indulgence, inveteracy, servitude, subjection), alışkanlık (consuetude, custom, habitude, practice, praxis, routine, use, wont), adet (bleeding, consuetude, convention, courses, custom, element, fashion, flow, fragment, groove, item, menses, menstruation, mounthly courses, mounthly periods, number, numeral, particle, period, praxis, routine, sum, the usual thing, total, tradition, usage, use, wont), âdet (custom, way). (various references)

Turkmen 

urp-adat (custom), цwrendekli (chronic), gylyk (character), endik. (various references)

Ukrainian

характер (blood, character, disposition, ethos, kind, make up, mettle, nature, stripe, temperament, tone), одягати (apparel, array, attire, clothe, costume, dress, enrobe, garb, gown), населяти (inhabit, people, populate), звичка (custom, habitude, rule, way, wont), звичай (consuetude, convention, custom, habitude, mode, observance, practice, praxis, rite, usage, way, wont). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vóc người tính khí, thói quen (groove, habitude, ply, praxis), tập quán thể chất, tạng người. (various references)

Welsh

arferiad (custom, practice, use), arfer (accustom, custom, practice, use), abid (apparel, dress of religious order). (various references)

Yucatec

suuk (custom, way). (various references)

Zulu

isiko (custom, tradition, way), ilisiko (custom, tradition, way). (various references)

adsuetudo, antiqua, antiqui, antiquis, antiquo, antiquorum, antiquum, habitus, instituta, institutum, more, morem, mores, mori, moria, moribus, moris, morisque, morum, mos, mosollam, usus. (various references)

haêm. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "habit": habitabilities, habitability, habitable, habitableness, habitablenesses, habitably, habitan, habitans, habitant, habitants, habitat, habitation, habitations, habitats, habited, habiting, habits, habitual, habitually, habitualness, habitualnesses, habituate, habituated, habituates, habituating, habituation, habituations, habitude, habitudes, habitue, habitues, habitus. (additional references)

Words ending with "habit": cohabit, inhabit, reinhabit. (additional references)

Words containing "habit": cohabitant, cohabitants, cohabitation, cohabitations, cohabited, cohabiting, cohabits, inhabitable, inhabitancies, inhabitancy, inhabitant, inhabitants, inhabitation, inhabitations, inhabited, inhabiter, inhabiters, inhabiting, inhabits, microhabitat, microhabitats, reinhabited, reinhabiting, reinhabits, uninhabitable, uninhabited. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Habit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: babit, bhabi, Chebut, gabit, Ghabbash, habaa, Habad, habbat, habbit, haben, haber, habet, habett, habi, habia, habib, habita, habt, habur, habut, hadit, Hafif, Hagitt, haib, haibu, hait, haith, haity, halbish, Halit, Hanbin, Haobam, Harith, Hasbi, Haubrich, havit, Hazbiu, hbai, Hebbie, heib, hezb-i, Hibbit, Hibbitt, Hibis, hobrit, houbit, Huaibin, Huaqiu, hubi, Labit, shabat, tabit, Tabito. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: baith.

-1 letter: baht, bait, bath.

-2 letters: ait, bah, bat, bit, hat, hit, tab.

-3 letters: ab, ah, ai, at, ba, bi, ha, hi, it, ta, ti.

+1 letter: bhakti, habits.

+2 letters: absinth, adhibit, batfish, bathing, bhaktis, bothria, cohabit, habitan, habitat, habited, habitue, habitus, halibut, inhabit, isobath.

+3 letters: absinthe, absinths, adhibits, batching, bathetic, biathlon, birdbath, birthday, brattish, cohabits, habitans, habitant, habitats, habiting, habitual, habitude, habitues, halibuts, hautbois, inhabits, isobaths, stablish, thebaine, tithable, tribrach.

+4 letters: absinthes, adhibited, aitchbone, backlight, bandwidth, batfishes, batholith, beachiest, biathlete, biathlons, birdbaths, birthdate, birthdays, birthmark, birthrate, brachiate, brashiest, breathier, breathily, breathing, cohabited, dithyramb, eightball, establish, habitable, habitably, habitants, habituate, habitudes, herbalist, heritable, hibernate, inbreathe, inhabited, inhabiter, labyrinth, reinhabit, shabbiest, shiftable, thebaines, thinkable, thinkably, thumbnail, tribrachs, whitebait.