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Definition: Dit |
DitNoun1. The shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1599. (references) |
| 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 |
DIT | Danish | Directory information tree | Computing |
DIT | English | Dundee Institute of Technology | N/A |
DIT | French | Système de données et d'information | Computing, Information |
DIT | German | Verzeichnis-Informations-Baum | Computing |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: DitSynonym: dot (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Completion | Phrase: the race is run; actum est; finis coronat opus; consummatum est; c'en est fait; it is all over; the game is played out, the bubble has burst; aussitot dit aussitot fait; aut non tentaris aut perfice. |
Conversation | Causerie, chat, chitchat; small talk, table talk, teatable talk, town talk, village talk, idle talk; tattle, gossip, babble, babblement; tripotage, cackle, prittle-prattle, cancan, on dit; talk of the town, talk of the village. |
News | Report, rumor, hearsay, on dit, flying rumor, news stirring, cry, buzz, bruit, fame; talk, oui dire, scandal, eavesdropping; town tattle, table talk; canard, topic of the day, idea afloat. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Dit |
| English words defined with "dit": Ditt ♦ On dit. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "dit": alias-name ♦ Boucan ♦ Directory Information Tree structure rule, DIT structure rule ♦ Geneva Bible ♦ Jean de Lettre, Juge de Paix ♦ King of Yvetot ♦ Lifelong Learning Action Plan ♦ Metra ♦ naming authority ♦ OEil ♦ personal reintegration budget, previous experience ♦ tilføjelse til katalogoplysningstræet. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "dit": Ditt. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Dit" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (it, that, that over there, them, these, this, this here, those), Catalan (finger, said), Danish (your, your familiar), Dutch (these, this, this here), Flemish (this), French (fixed, said, set, statedly), French Canadian (say), Frisian (that, that over there, these, this, this here, those), Swedish (that way, there, thither, where, whither, yonder). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Je vous assure, cher cousin, que vous avez dit bizarre, bizarre (Drôle de drame ou L'étrange aventure de Docteur Molyneux; writing credit: J. Storer Clouston; Jacques Prévert) Moi j'ai dit bizarre, bizarre ? Comme c'est étrange Pourquoi aurais-je dit bizarre, bizarre (Drôle de drame ou L'étrange aventure de Docteur Molyneux; writing credit: J. Storer Clouston; Jacques Prévert) Ne me dit pas que tu as encore faim (Douze travaux d'Astérix, Les; writing credit: René Goscinny; Albert Uderzo) | |
Lyrics | Dit dit dit dit doo (Too Late For Goodbyes; performing artist: Julian Lennon) | |
Movie/TV Titles | On ne se dit pas tout entre époux (1971) Sire le Roy n'a plus rien dit (1965) Dit navn er kvinde (1961) Tussen dit en vier weken (1959) In Dit Teken (1949) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | Comme on dit qu'il a une hydropisie,... / Par Draner. [i.e. Jules Renard]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Hippocrate dit oui... / Lith. de Langlume. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | J't'ai déjà dit d'examiner le monde... / J. Grandville Lith de Langlumé. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Ce Qu'on Dit Et Ce Qu'on Pense / G. lith. de Gihaut frères. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | Vue de l'Hopital Royal de la Salpetriere : dit Hopital general, hors de Paris, a une petite promenade de la porte Saint Bernard. / Dessine et Grave Sur les lieux par J. Rigaud. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Louis II de Bourbon, dit le Grand Condé. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Le Centre democrate a toujours dit oui a la grande Europe. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Seiko Premier" by Peter Bos Commentary: "Dit is m'n seiko Premier." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "Dit" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 57.14% of the time. "Dit" is used about 14 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 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 57.14% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (proper) | 21.43% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 21.43% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "dit": aussitot dit aussitot fait ♦ DIT structure rule ♦ on dit. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "dit": dit-da, dit-da-dit. | |
Ending with "dit": dit-da-dit, l'inter-dit, l'intra-dit. | |
| 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 "dit"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | DIT-struktur (Directory Information Tree structure rule, DIT structure rule), vejviserinformationstræstruktur (Directory Information Tree structure rule, DIT structure rule), struktur af kataloginformationstræ (Directory Information Tree structure rule, DIT structure rule). (various references) | |
Dutch | DIT-structuur (Directory Information Tree structure rule, DIT structure rule), directory-informatieboomstructuur (Directory Information Tree structure rule, DIT structure rule). (various references) | |
French | règle de structure du DIT (Directory Information Tree structure rule, DIT structure rule), règle de structure de l'arbre d'information de l'annuaire (Directory Information Tree structure rule, DIT structure rule). (various references) | |
German | DIT-Struktur-Regel (Directory Information Tree structure rule, DIT structure rule), Struktur des Verzeichnis-Informations-Baumes (Directory Information Tree structure rule, DIT structure rule). (various references) | |
Greek | δομή δένδρου πληροφοριών καταλόγου (Directory Information Tree structure rule, DIT structure rule). (various references) | |
Italian | struttura informativa ad albero della directory (Directory Information Tree structure rule, DIT structure rule). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | itday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | estrutura da árvore de informação de directoria (Directory Information Tree structure rule, DIT structure rule). (various references) | |
Russian | дит. (various references) | |
Spanish | regla de estructura del árbol de información de la guía (Directory Information Tree structure rule, DIT structure rule). (various references) | |
Swedish | DIT-strukturregel (Directory Information Tree structure rule, DIT structure rule), strukturregel för kataloginformationsträd (Directory Information Tree structure rule, DIT structure rule). (various references) | |
Thai | สัญญาณในการส่งรหัสวิทยุ. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | lời đồn đại (on dit). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dit": dita, ditas, ditch, ditchdigger, ditchdiggers, ditched, ditcher, ditchers, ditches, ditching, dite, dites, ditheism, ditheisms, ditheist, ditheists, dither, dithered, ditherer, ditherers, dithering, dithers, dithery, dithiocarbamate, dithiocarbamates, dithiol, dithyramb, dithyrambic, dithyrambically, dithyrambs, ditransitive, ditransitives, dits, ditsier, ditsiest, ditsy, dittanies, dittany, ditties, ditto, dittoed, dittoing, dittos, ditty, ditz, ditzes, ditzier, ditziest, ditzy. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "dit": accredit, adit, audit, bandit, coedit, copyedit, credit, discredit, edit, misedit, noncredit, overedit, pandit, plaudit, preaudit, preedit, pundit, reaccredit, reedit, subedit. (additional references) | |
Words containing "dit": absurdities, absurdity, accreditable, accreditation, accreditations, accredited, accrediting, accredits, acidities, acidity, acridities, acridity, addition, additional, additionally, additions, additive, additively, additives, additivities, additivity, additory, adits, algidities, algidity, almandite, almandites, andradite, andradites, antitraditional, aridities, aridity, auditable, audited, auditing, audition, auditioned, auditioning, auditions, auditive, auditives, auditor, auditoria, auditories, auditorily, auditorium, auditoriums, auditors, auditory, audits, avidities. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-i-t" | |
-1 letter: id, it, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-i-t" | |
+1 letter: adit, diet, dint, dipt, dirt, dita, dite, dits, ditz, doit, duit, edit, tide, tidy, tied. | |
+2 letters: adits, admit, audit, bidet, cited, davit, debit, deist, deity, demit, dhoti, dhuti, dicot, dicta, dicty, didst, diets, dight, digit, dints, dirts, dirty, ditas, ditch, dites, ditsy, ditto, ditty, ditzy, divot, dixit, doits, drift, dript, droit, duits, edict, edits, fetid, idiot, kited, midst, nitid, odist, ootid, sited, staid, stied, tabid, teiid, teind, tepid, third, tidal, tided, tides, tilde, tiled, timed, timid, tined, tired, tondi, triad, tried, tsadi, tumid, width, wited. | |
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