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Dit

Definition: Dit

Dit

Noun

1. 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)

 

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Dit

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

DIT

DanishDirectory information treeComputing

DIT

EnglishDundee Institute of TechnologyN/A

DIT

FrenchSystème de données et d'informationComputing, Information

DIT

GermanVerzeichnis-Informations-BaumComputing

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: Dit

Synonym: dot (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Dit

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Dit

English words defined with "dit": DittOn dit. (references)
Specialty definitions using "dit": alias-nameBoucanDirectory Information Tree structure rule, DIT structure ruleGeneva BibleJean de Lettre, Juge de PaixKing of YvetotLifelong Learning Action PlanMetranaming authorityOEilpersonal reintegration budget, previous experiencetilføjelse 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).

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Modern Usage: Dit

DomainUsage

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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Commercial Usage: Dit

DomainTitle

Books

  • Detruire / Dit Elle (reference)

  • Poems of Cupid, God of Love: Christine De Pizan's Epistre Au Dieu D'Amours and Dit De LA Rose; Thomas Hoccleve's the Letter of Cupid (reference)

  • Un\Poet L'a Dit (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Music

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

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Image Slideshow: Dit

Illustrations:
Dit

More pictures...

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Photo Album: Dit

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & 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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Digital Photo Gallery: Dit
 

"Seiko Premier" by Peter Bos
Commentary: "Dit is m'n seiko Premier."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Usage Frequency: Dit

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (base form)57.14%8124,375
Noun (proper)21.43%3202,518
Noun (singular)21.43%3202,518
                    Total100.00%14N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Dit

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dit

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

dit

131

dit name

3

computer dit

58

antoine dit lachance pepin

3

da dit jow

23

abnehmen bergewicht dit gesundheit

2

bruni carla dit m quelqu un

15

atkins dit

2

dit m quelqu un

13

dit nova

2

crã dit lyonnais

8

acte de dit nantes voir

2

agricole crã dit

8

dit nhau

2

dit het nieuws

7

beach dit south

2

3d dit wat

5

de dit

2

dit mco

5

corporation dit

2

computer dit omaha

5

dit lyrics m quelqu un

2

abnehmen almased dit nahrungsergnzung

5

dit dzit gaii

2

corp dit

4

dit einer fr wiederkuer zusammenstellung

2

dit omaha

4

dit ne pas

2

5ocent com dit

3

bolton dit street

2

beaugrand champagne dit

3

crã dit

2

dit harris

3

dit dit.ie index.html personnel vacancy

2

crã dit mutuel

3

com dit f3f3f3

2

da dit jow recipe

3

dit dat jow

2

cr dit immobilier

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Dit

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.

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Derivations: Dit

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).

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Anagrams: Dit

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.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Usage Frequency
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Abbreviations
14. Acronyms
15. Derivations
16. Anagrams
17. Bibliography


  

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