Mite

Definition: Mite

Mite

Noun

1. A small but appreciable amount; "this dish could use a touch of garlic".

2. Any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods.

Date "mite" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Domain	Definition
Bible	Mite contraction of minute, from the Latin minutum, the translation of the Greek word lepton, the very smallest bronze of copper coin (Luke 12:59; 21:2). Two mites made one quadrans, i.e., the fourth part of a Roman as, which was in value nearly a halfpenny. (See FARTHING.). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.
Food & Agriculture	A small arachnid of the order Acarina, having no obvious demarcation between the various parts of its body. Source: European Union. (references)
Literature	Mite Sir Matthew Mite. A purseproud East Indian merchant, who gives his servants the most costly exotics, and overpowers everyone with the profusion of his wealth. (S. Foote: The Nabob.) Lady Oldham says: "He comes amongst us preceded by all the pomp of Asia. Profusely scattering the spoils of conquered provinces, corrupting the virtue, and alienating the affections of all the old friends of the family." Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Slang in 1811	MITE. A nick name for a cheesemonger: from the small insect of that name found in cheese. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
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
MITE	English	Miniaturized integrated telegraph equipment	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Mite

Synonyms: hint (n), jot (n), pinch (n), soupcon (n), speck (n), touch (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Insufficiency	Dole, mite, pittance; short allowance, short commons; half rations; banyan day.
Littleness	Animalcule, monad, mite, insect, emmet, fly, midge, gnat, shrimp, minnow, worm, maggot, entozoon; bacteria; infusoria; microzoa; phytozoaria; microbe; grub; tomtit, runt, mouse, small fry; millet seed, mustard seed; barleycorn; pebble, grain of sand; molehill, button, bubble.
Money	Petty cash, pocket money, change, small change, small coin, doit, stiver, rap, mite, sou, penny, shilling, tester, groat, guinea; rouleau; wampum; good sum, round sum, lump sum; power of money, plum, lac of rupees.
Smallness	Small quan modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point; material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch, cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive; snip, snippet; snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Mite

English words defined with "mite": acarine, Acaroid, acarus, Atomy ♦ Bird louse ♦ Cheese mite, chigger ♦ Dove tick ♦ Egg mite ♦ Face mite ♦ Grocer's itch ♦ harvest mite, Hydrachnid ♦ itch, Itch insect ♦ jigger ♦ Leptus ♦ Panonychus ulmi ♦ Red bug, red spider, red spider mite, redbug, ricketsialpox, Rust mite ♦ scabicide, scabies, spider mite, Sugar mite ♦ tetranychid, trombiculiid, trombidiid ♦ Water spider, Water tick, Whealworm. (references)

Specialty definitions using "mite": Arachnidism ♦ barley itch ♦ grain itch ♦ straw itch ♦ Texas mange, Tick Control ♦ vine mite. (references)

Etymologies containing "mite": Mity. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Mite" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Afrikaan (myth), French (clothes moth, mite, moth), Italian (bland, genial, gentle, lenient, meek, mild, moderate, reasonable, temperate).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	It's only a mite. It's not as though he created a fully grown Doctor of Philosophy or a strapping great ploughboy (Pandaemonium; writing credit: Frank Cottrell Boyce) This one shoots a mite further (Quigley Down Under; writing credit: John Hill) But I'd say a mite smaller (Lady and the Tramp; writing credit: Ward Greene; Erdman Penner)
Movie/TV Titles	The Mite Makes Right (1948)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Good for You, Mikey Mite (reference) Mikey Mite Goes to School (reference) The Widow's Mite and Other Stories (Contemporary American Fiction) (reference) Widows Mite (reference) (more book examples)

Consumer Goods	Eureka 965A Mini Mite Superlite Canister Vacuum (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Visible as a dark, oval shape, an adult female varroa mite feeds on the midsection of a developing worker bee. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..		Varroa jacobsoni mite. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..
	That's the house : a sightly place, but I like to turn in a mite higher above salt water when I'm ashore. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	Seems a little mite frosty for rain
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		However, the mite dies in a couple of days and does not reproduce. (references)
		When living on a person, an adult female mite can live up to a month. (references)
		Rugs on concrete floors encourage dust mite growth and should be avoided. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Mite" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mite" is used about 198 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 (singular)	100%	198	21,729

Expressions using "mite": Beetle mite ♦ cheese mite ♦ ear mite ♦ Egg mite ♦ Face mite ♦ harvest mite ♦ itch mite ♦ let me contribute my mite ♦ Louse mite ♦ mange mite ♦ mite box ♦ Mite Infestations ♦ not a mite left ♦ red mite ♦ red spider mite ♦ rust mite ♦ scab mite ♦ scarlet mite ♦ spider mite ♦ spinning mite ♦ sugar mite ♦ vine mite ♦ water mite ♦ widow's mite ♦ wood mite. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "mite": house-dust-mite.
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.

Language		Translations for "mite"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		morr bimësh (plant louse), qindarka, kacidhe, grimë (bit, dash, doit, drachm, dram, drop, fleck, hint, hoot, jiff, jiffy, jot, lick, rag, suspicion, tittle, touch, whit), çilimi. (various references)

Arabic		‏فلس (break, breaking, crash, go bankrupt, peg out, ruin, smash), ‏مقدار قليل (fleabite, handful, ounce, spot), ‏مخلوق صغير, ‏قطعة نقدية صغيرة (penny), ‏وحدة نقد (dinar, peso), ‏عش (nest), ‏شىء صغير جدا. (various references)

Bulgarian		кърлеж, малък принос, лепта (subscription, tribute), дребосъче (atomy, hop-o'-my-thumb, minikin, tomtit), дребно нещо (speck). (various references)

Chinese		小蜘蛛. (various references)

Czech		troška (atom, dab, touch, trace, whit), roztoè, peníz (coin, penny), hřivna, drobeèek (crumb, minikin). (various references)

Danish		mide. (various references)

Dutch		mijt (woodpile). (various references)

Esperanto		akaro. (various references)

Farsi		کرم پنیر (Maggot). (various references)

Finnish		punkki (tick). (various references)

French		acarien. (various references)

Frisian		myt. (various references)

German		Milbe (mange mite, sarcoptes, scab mite). (various references)

Greek		μια σταλιά, ζωύφιο (animalcule, insect), άκαρι (feeding pit, linopodes mite, mite pit, predaceous mite, predatory mite, red gamasid mite), ακάρια,ακάρεα,τσιμπούρια, οβολόσ (obolus). (various references)

Hebrew		מעט (few, less, little, slightly, some, sprinkling), יל�"ון (tad, tyke), שמץ (grain, iota, jot, modicum, morsel, odor, odour, particle, pinch, shade, shred, soupcon, sprinkling, suspicion, syllable, tincture, trace, whit), פרוט�" (farthing, mil, pence), אקרית, �"רן (grub, moth), ברחש (gnat). (various references)

Hungarian		fillér (bean, dump, penny), sajtkukac (hopper, jitterbug, jumper), picula (pice), pici gyerek, parányi dolog (minim), kukac (maggot, weenie, worm), kicsi dolog, atka (tick). (various references)

Indonesian		sedikit sekali (pitance). (various references)

Italian		acaro (acarus). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�'子 (beauty spot, black figures, dark mole, face mole, prompter, stagehand), 壁蝨 (tick). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ダニ (tick), ほくろ (beauty spot, dark mole, face mole), �"くし (abuse, beauty spot, dark mole, distinguished citizen, envoy, face mole, history of a nation, Japanese history, overuse of a pitcher, patriot, provincial governor). (various references)

Manx		meeyllag, lieh-farling, finneig (canoe, capsule, cock boat, dugout, shell). (various references)

Pig Latin		itemay.(various references)

Portuguese		ácaro (acarus). (various references)

Romanian		voinic (bulky, burly, chopping, hale and hearty, Hardy, healthy, hefty, hero, husky, muscular, nervy, powerful, stout, strapping, sturdy, tight, upstanding, vigorous), uriaş (astronomic, astronomical, colossal, colossus, elephantine, enormous, giant, giantlike, gigantic, goliath, huge, immense, infinite, mammoth, monster, monumental, mountainous, ogre, prodigious, strapping, thumping, vast), sumã neînsemnatã, sumã modestã, obol modest, obiect minuscul, lucru uşor, lucru mic, gâzã (insect), fãrâmã de om (shrimp), cãpuşã (tick), ban (ban, bribe, coin, fortune, gag, soap), bãnuţ (farthing). (various references)

Russian		скромная доля (widow's mite), чуточка (dram, dribblet, lick, modicum, nibble, ounce, relish, smidgen, spot, suspicion, tiny bit), клещ;крошка, клещ (harvest-bug, harvest-mite, pincers movement, tick), грош. (various references)

Scottish		fìonag (a mite). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		malo stvorenje, mali prilog, novčić (coin, copper, moneywort), gnjida (nit). (various references)

Spanish		óbolo, ácaro (blister mite, flour mite, forage mite, gall mite, grain mite, meal mite). (various references)

Swedish		skärv (farthing), kvalster. (various references)

Thai		เงินจำนวนเล็กน้อย (birdseed, shoestring), ตัวเห็บ. (various references)

Turkish		mayt, zerre (atom, corpuscle, corpuscule, crumb, grain, granule, iota, jot, molecule, monad, mote, particle, rap, Ray, scintilla, shadow, sparklet, speck, tittle, touch, vestige, whit), ufacık şey (minikin, wisp), kuruş (doit, penny, piastre), böcekçik, akar (running), çocuk (baby, bairn, brat, child, chit, infant, infantile, junior, juvenile, kid, moppet, nipper, paed-, seed, son, youngster). (various references)

Ukrainian		скромна частка, лепта. (various references)

Welsh		mymryn (atom, bit, particle), hatling (half farthing). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Acaridae, Acarina. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Luke Chapter 12, Verse 59
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Legw soi ou mh exelqhV ekeiqen ewV ou kai to escaton lepton apodwV
Latin	405	Vulgate	Dico tibi non exies inde donec etiam novissimum minutum reddas
Old English	990	West Saxon	Ic secge þe ne gæst þu þanone ær þu agylde þone ytemystan feorðling;
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Y seie to thee, thou schalt not go fro thennus, til thou yelde the laste ferthing.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	I tell ye thou departest not thence tyll thou have made good ye vtmost myte.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	I tell thee, thou shalt not depart thence, till thou hast paid the very last mite.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	I tell thee, thou shalt not depart thence, till thou hast paid the very last mite.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	I say to you, You will not come out of it till you have made payment to the very last farthing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Luke Chapter 12, Verse 59
Cebuano	Suginlan ko ikaw, nga dili ka na gayud unya makagawas hangtud kabayran mo na ang katapusang diyot."
Croatian	Kažem ti: neæeš iziæi odande dok ne isplatiš do posljednjega novèiæa."
Danish	Jeg siger dig: Du skal ingenlunde komme ud derfra, førend du får betalt endog den sidste Skærv."
Dutch	Ik zeg u: Gij zult van daar geenszins uitgaan, totdat gij ook het laatste penningsken betaald zult hebben.
Finnish	Minä sanon sinulle: sieltä et pääse, ennenkuin maksat viimeisenkin rovon."
French	Je te le dis, tu ne sortiras pas de l� que tu n`aies payé jusqu`� dernière pite.
German	Ich sage dir: Du wirst von dannen nicht herauskommen, bis du den allerletzten Heller bezahlest.
Haitian Creole	M'ap di ou sa: ou p'ap soti nan prizon an tout tan ou pa peye dènye lajan ou dwe a.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Percayalah! Kalian tidak akan keluar dari penjara sebelum dendamu lunas."
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Aku berkata kepadamu: Sekali-kali tiada engkau dapat keluar dari sana, selagi engkau belum menjelaskan utangmu sehabis-habisnya."
Italian	Ti assicuro, non ne uscirai finché non avrai pagato fino all'ultimo spicciolo».
Latvian	Es tev saku: no turienes tu neiziesi, kamçr nebûsi samaksâjis pçdçjo grasi.
Manx Gaelic	Ta mee ginsh dhyt, nagh jig oo magh ass shen derrey t'ou er n'eeck yn farling s'jerree.
Maori	Ko taku kupu tenei ki a koe, E kore rawa koe e puta mai i reira, kia poto ra ano nga moni iti rawa te utu e koe.
Norwegian	Jeg sier dig: Du skal ingenlunde komme ut derfra før du har betalt til siste øre.
Portuguese	Digo-te que não sairás dali enquanto não pagares o derradeiro lepto.
Rumanian	Kyi spun cq nu vei iewi de acolo, pknq nu vei plqti wi cel mai de pe urmq bqnuy.``
Russian	уЛБЪЩЧБА ФЕ�'Е: ОЕ ЧЩК�"ЕЫШ ПФФХ�"Б, � ПЛБ ОЕ ПФ�"БЫШ Й � ПУМЕ�"ОЕК � ПМХЫЛЙ.
Shuar	Tura nekas tajai, nui enkemamka Ashí rearchisha akikmachkumka Jíinkishtatme" Tímiayi.
Spanish	Te digo que no saldrás de allí hasta que hayas pagado la última blanca.
Swahili	Hakika hutatoka huko nakwambia, mpaka utakapomaliza kulipa senti ya mwisho."
Swedish	Jag säger dig: Du skall icke slippa ut därifrån, förrän du har betalt ända till den yttersta skärven."
Uma	Mpu'u ku'uli': uma-tapa tebahaka ngkai rala tarungku' ane da koo-ko'ia oti tabayari waya' -ta."
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "mite": miter, mitered, miterer, miterers, mitering, miters, miterwort, miterworts, mites. (additional references)
	Words ending with "mite": bedlamite, boehmite, calamite, catamite, chromite, diatomite, dolomite, dynamite, eremite, fomite, gummite, hellgrammite, marmite, maximite, psammite, rolamite, samite, smite, sodomite, somite, stalagmite, termite, thermite, totemite, willemite, wolframite. (additional references)
	Words containing "mite": bedlamites, bevomited, boehmites, calamites, catamites, chromites, delimited, delimiter, delimiters, diatomites, dolomites, dynamited, dynamiter, dynamiters, dynamites, eremites, fomites, gummites, hellgrammites, limited, limitedly, limitedness, limitednesses, limiteds, limiter, limiters, limites, marmites, maximites, prelimited, psammites, rolamites, samites, scimiter, scimiters, semiterrestrial, smiter, smiters, smites, sodomites, somites, stalagmites, summited, summiteer, summiteers, termites, thermites, totemites, unlimited, unlimitedly, unmiter. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Mite" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: imet, imote, Imt, Imtec, Imtfe, imto, jite, mafte, mayte, Mcit, meate, metae, metce, meten, metey, meti, Mette, metu, Mibei, Miche, michi, mide, mie, miee, miet, mife, mifet, Mifta, Miftah, mige, mihte, miktat, milti, Mimtec, minte, Mintex, miqe, mishe, Mishev, mistek, mistel, mita, mitae, Mitau, Miteb, mitek, mitex, mitey, mith, mithen, miti, mitle, mito, mits, Mittag, mitte, mittel, mitti, mitto, mity, Mitze, Mitzel, mive, mixta, Mlita, mmta, moite, Motej, Mpta, Muito, Mutebi, mutek, mutu, mye, myte, Mythe, mytl, mytle, niet, nite, nitee, nitey, Nitze, Nyte, oite. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "mite" (pronounced mī"t)
3	m ī" t	might.
2	-ī" t	alight, alright, bite, blight, bright, byte, cite, contrite, ignite, delight, despite, disinvite, dunite, excite, fight, flight, forthright, fright, height, hight, incite, indict, indite, invite, kite, knight, Kyte, light, lite, night, nite, nonwhite, outright, overexcite, overnight, overwrite, plight, polite, quite, recite, reignite, reinvite, reunite, rewrite, right, rite, sight, site, sleight, slight, spite, sprite, tight, tonight, trite, upright, uptight, white, Wight, Wright, write.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: emit, item, time.
	Words within the letters "e-i-m-t"
	-1 letter: met, tie.
	-2 letters: em, et, it, me, mi, ti.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-m-t"
	+1 letter: demit, emits, items, merit, metis, miter, mites, mitre, remit, smite, stime, tempi, timed, timer, times.
	+2 letters: bemist, bemixt, betime, demits, emetic, emetin, enmity, etamin, fomite, gimlet, hermit, imaret, impute, inmate, intime, itemed, iterum, kismet, limpet, merits, metier, meting, metric, midget, millet, milted, milter, minted, minter, minuet, minute, misate, miseat, mismet, misset, misted, mister, miters, mither, mitier, mitred, mitres, mitten, moiety, motile, motive, mutine, optime, permit, pitmen, reemit, remint, remits, remixt, retime, retrim, samite, smiter, smites, somite, stimes, stymie, tamein, tammie, tedium, telium, theism, timber, timbre, timely, timers, tinmen, titmen, tmesis, trimer, uptime.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
dust mite	565	mighty mite neptune	8
mite	85	dust mite photo	7
mighty mite	58	mite picture	7
dust mite allergy	56	widow mite coin	7
bird mite	56	mite varroa	7
clover mite	53	provent a mite	7
spider mite	41	ear mite dog	7
red spider mite	36	dust mite treatment	7
widow mite	33	mity mite	6
dust mite picture	25	mite control	6
dust mite control	23	mite rock	6
eureka mighty mite	20	mite water	6
mite scabies	15	dog ear mite treatment	6
spider mite control	15	dino mite	6
cleaning dust mattress mite	14	demodex mite	6
mite red	13	itch mite	6
mite bite	13	mite spider spruce	6
dust mite cover	11	dust mite spray	6
mooney mite	11	fowl mite northern	5
ear mite treatment	10	identification mite	5
		allergy dust mite symptom	5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Mite

Definition: Mite

Mite

Noun

Specialty Definition: Mite

Specialty Definition: Mite

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Mite

MITE

Synonyms: Mite

Synonyms within Context: Mite

Insufficiency

Littleness

Money

Smallness

Crosswords: Mite

Modern Usage: Mite

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Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Mite

Books

Consumer Goods

Image Slideshow: Mite

Photos:Mite

Illustrations:Mite

Computer Images:Mite

Photo Album: Mite

Use in Literature: Mite

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Non-Fiction Usage: Mite

Usage Frequency: Mite

Expression: Mite

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Mite

Modern Translation: Mite

Albanian

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Indonesian

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Japanese Kanji

Japanese Katakana

Manx

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Romanian

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Scottish

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Spanish

Swedish

Thai

Turkish

Ukrainian

Welsh

Ancestral Language Translations: Mite

Bible Trace: Mite

Matched Bible Translations: Mite

Derivations & Misspellings: Mite

Derivations

Misspellings

Rhyming with "Mite"

Anagrams: Mite

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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