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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Blit /blit/ vt. 1. [common] To copy a large array of bits from one part of a computer's memory to another part, particularly when the memory is being used to determine what is shown on a display screen. "The storage allocator picks through the table and copies the good parts up into high memory, and then blits it all back down again." See bitblt, BLT, dd, cat, blast, snarf. More generally, to perform some operation (such as toggling) on a large array of bits while moving them. 2. [historical, rare] Sometimes all-capitalized as `BLIT': an early experimental bit-mapped terminal designed by Rob Pike at Bell Labs, later commercialized as the AT&T 5620. (The folk etymology from `Bell Labs Intelligent Terminal' is incorrect. Its creators liked to claim that "Blit" stood for the Bacon, Lettuce, and Interactive Tomato.). Source: Jargon File. |
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Crosswords: BLIT |
| Specialty definitions using "BLIT": bitblt, blitter. (references) |
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| 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 |
blit | 12 |
blit infectious interactive | 2 |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "BLIT": blite, blites, blithe, blithely, blither, blithered, blithering, blithers, blithesome, blithesomely, blithest, blitz, blitzed, blitzes, blitzing, blitzkrieg, blitzkriegs. (additional references) | |
Words containing "BLIT": obliterate, obliterated, obliterates, obliterating, obliteration, obliterations, obliterative, obliterator, obliterators, subliteracies, subliteracy, subliterary, subliterate, subliterature, subliteratures, sublittoral, sublittorals. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-i-l-t" | |
-1 letter: bit, lib, lit, til. | |
-2 letters: bi, it, li, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-i-l-t" | |
+1 letter: blite, blitz, built. | |
+2 letters: albeit, albite, billet, blight, blintz, blites, blithe, blivet, boleti, giblet, riblet, tabuli, tibial, timbal, tribal, trilby, twibil. | |
+3 letters: ability, albites, albitic, astilbe, backlit, bailout, bastile, batlike, belting, bestial, bibelot, biblist, billets, bilsted, biltong, bimetal, bitable, blastie, blights, blighty, blintze, blister, blither, blitzed, blitzes, blivets, bobtail, bolting, botulin, bristle, bristly, bristol, brittle, brittly, butling, citable, cubital, driblet, filbert, giblets, gilbert, halibut, holibut, inbuilt, inkblot, kilobit, labiate, liberty, librate, limbate, oblasti, orbital, potboil, rebuilt, riblets, stabile, stibial, strobil, subtile, tabling, tabloid, tabouli, tabulis, thimble, tilbury, timbale, timbals, timbral, timbrel, triable, tublike, tubulin, tumbril, twibill, twibils, unbuilt, upbuilt. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 4C 49 54 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, 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)01000010 01001100 01001001 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B L I T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 004C 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)36464354 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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