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Definition: Nit |
NitNoun1. A luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source. 2. Egg or young of an insect parasitic on mammals especially a sucking louse; often attached to a hair or item of clothing. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "nit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1593. (references) |
Etymology: Nit \Nit\, noun. [from Anglo-Saxon expression hnitu; akin to Dutch neet, German niss, Old High German. niz; compare to gr. Icelandic gnit, Swedish gnet, Danish gnid, Russ. Pol. gnida, Bohem. hnida, Welsh nedd.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Electrical Engineering | A)the SI unit of luminance; b)the luminance of a surface one square metre in area when it emits a luminous intensity of one candela normal to the surface. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Nit One of the attendants of Queen Mab. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A nit is a unit of luminance equal to one candela per square metre. It is often used to quote the brightness of computer displays, which typically have luminances of 200 to 300 nits.
A nit is also the common name for various types of lice eggs. See head lice, pubic lice, Pediculosis.
A nit is also a term of abuse, indicating follishness
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Nit."
| 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 |
NIT | Dutch | Neutralisatie-indextest | N/A |
NIT | English | Notice inviting tender | N/A |
| AM NIT | English | Ammonium Nitrate | Chemistry |
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Crosswords: Nit |
| English words defined with "nit": Nit grass. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "nit": NIT SQUEEGER. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "nit": Nittings. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Nit" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Catalan (night), Czech (cotton, thread), Portuguese (candela per square meter, candela per square metre), Romanian (rivet), Serbo-Croatian (flow, thread), Swedish (Ardor, ardour, blank, rivet, zeal, zealotry). |
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Clever | Meticulous Attention To Detail: A nit picker. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Nit d'albades (1925) Ronda de nit (2002) Espais de nit (1996) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Unhatched nit of head louse, Pediculus humanus var capitis. Note red eyespots of developing embryo. Parasite, egg. Credit: CDC. |  | Nit. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Health | Nit (head lice egg) combs, often found in lice medicine packages should be used to remove nits and lice from the hair shaft. (references) | |
A nit (head lice egg) comb should be used to remove lice and nits from the hair. Many flea combs made for cats and dogs are also effective. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Nit" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 68.42% of the time. "Nit" is used about 19 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) | 68.42% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (proper) | 15.79% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 10.53% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 5.26% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 19 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "nit": nit grass. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "nit": nit-pick, nit-picked, nit-picker, nit-pickers, nit-picking, nit-wit. | |
Containing "nit": Tssop-nit-palu. | |
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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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
nit | 200 | nit houston | 4 |
b b nit picking | 12 | kurukshetra nit | 3 |
calicut nit | 10 | louse nit | 3 |
nit warangal | 9 | nit picker | 3 |
nit school | 9 | jalandhar nit | 3 |
nit preseason | 8 | nit and pick | 3 |
nit hoop | 8 | nit removal | 3 |
nit noi | 8 | nit basketball tournament | 3 |
nit champion | 7 | nit surat | 3 |
nit surathkal | 6 | head louse nit picture | 3 |
houston nit noi | 5 | de la nit sat | 3 |
nit worthington | 5 | nit usssa | 3 |
nit comb | 5 | allahabad nit | 2 |
2003 nit preseason | 4 | nit noi restaurant | 2 |
nit rourkela | 4 | league nit | 2 |
nit suratkal | 4 | nit basketball | 2 |
cd maker nit | 4 | brightness nit | 2 |
nagpur nit | 4 | nit picking | 2 |
nit tournament | 4 | nit wit | 2 |
nit college | 4 | nit silchar | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "nit"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | thërrijë (egg of lice), lajthi (cobnut, Filbert, hazelnut, nut), arrë (nut, walnut). (various references) | |
Arabic | صغب, القملة الصغيرة, أحمق (ass, barmy, berk, bonkers, brutish, childish, chuckle-head, chump, cuckoo, daft, empty, empty headed, fantastic, fat, fathead, fatuous, foolish, footless, goofy, goon, haywire, idiotic, impolitic, imprudent, indiscreet, inept, injudicious, insensate, jerk, lemon, mad, meaningless, nitwit, nonsensical, numskull, ornery, oyster, perverse, pointless, prat, screwball, senseless, sod, stupid, unwise, vacant, wacky, weak, weak-minded, whacky, witless, wood-headed, zany). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гнида, нищожество (insect, nobody, nonentity, nothing, null, nullity, pygmy, squit, wet, whiff). (various references) | |
Czech | hnida. (various references) | |
Dutch | muggezifter (hair-splitter, niggler, nit-picker), haarklover (hair-splitter, niggler, nit-picker). (various references) | |
Esperanto | harfendemulo (hair-splitter, niggler, nit-picker), ĉikanulo (hair-splitter, niggler, nit-picker). (various references) | |
French | lente. (various references) | |
German | nisse (egg of a louse, larva of a louse), schwachkopf (dimwit, half wit, idiot, imbecile, moron, nitwit, thickie, wanker, zombie), dummkopf (ass, blockhead, bonehead, booby, chump, dimwit, dullard, dunce, fool, goose, half wit, idiot, imbecile, jackass, loggerhead, meathead, nitwit, pinhead, thick, thickhead, thick-head), blödmann (buffoon, faggot, loon, muggins, stupid fool, wretch). (various references) | |
Greek | κόνιδα ψείρασ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | א ב" (egg of louse), ביצת כי ", טומטום (moron, nitwit, twerp, twit). (various references) | |
Hungarian | serke. (various references) | |
Italian | lendine (egg of a louse, larva of a louse). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 名工大 (Nagoya Institute of Technology). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | めい"う い (Nagoya Institute of Technology). (various references) | |
Manx | snieng (louse egg), sneig. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | itnay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | lêndea. (various references) | |
Romanian | lindinã. (various references) | |
Russian | гнида. (various references) | |
Scottish | sneadh (a nit). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | gnjida (mite). (various references) | |
Spanish | liendre (egg of a louse, larva of a louse). (various references) | |
Swedish | gnetägg. (various references) | |
Thai | ไข่เหา, คนโง่ (apeth, berk, birdbrain, bozo, chucklehead, chump, clod, clodpole, div, doughnut, dove, dummy, dunce, featherbrain, fool, half-wit, ignoramus, loon, muddlehead, mug, muggins, muppet, mut, nerd, nincompoop, noddy, oaf, schlepp, silly, simp, simple, simpleton, thicko). (various references) | |
Turkish | sirke (vinegar), bit yumurtası. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | курсант авіашколи, горіх (nut, nut tree), гнида, військовий поліцай, нікчема (blighter, bum, cipher, duffer, ne'er do well, nihil, nobody, nonentity, nought, nullity, pygmy, snake, snipe, snipper-snapper, wastrel, wet, whipper-snapper, whipster, zero). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | trứng rận, trứng chấy. (various references) | |
Welsh | nedden. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "nit": nitchie, nitchies, nite, niter, niterie, niteries, niters, nitery, nites, nitid, nitinol, nitinols, niton, nitons, nitpick, nitpicked, nitpicker, nitpickers, nitpickier, nitpickiest, nitpicking, nitpicks, nitpicky, nitrate, nitrated, nitrates, nitrating, nitration, nitrations, nitrator, nitrators, nitre, nitres, nitric, nitrid, nitride, nitrided, nitrides, nitriding, nitrids, nitrification, nitrifications, nitrified, nitrifier, nitrifiers, nitrifies, nitrify, nitrifying, nitril, nitrile, nitriles. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "nit": binit, interknit, interunit, kainit, knit, multiunit, reknit, sennit, snit, subunit, unit, unknit, whodunit, whodunnit. (additional references) | |
Words containing "nit": acetonitrile, acetonitriles, aconite, aconites, aconitic, aconitum, aconitums, acrylonitrile, acrylonitriles, adenitis, adenitises, admonition, admonitions, admonitorily, admonitory, affinities, affinity, alkalinities, alkalinity, allanite, allanites, alunite, alunites, amanita, amanitas, amanitin, amanitins, amazonite, amazonites, amblygonite, amblygonites, amenities, amenity, aminities, aminity, ammonite, ammonites, ammonitic, ammunition, ammunitions, antihumanitarian, antihumanitarians, antiobscenities, antiobscenity, aphanite, aphanites, aphanitic, aquilinities, aquilinity, aragonite, aragonites. (additional references) | |
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"Nit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cnit, enit, gnit, int, inth, intj, intl, intr, inty, nabt, nact, Naft, Naht, Nait, naith, nalt, natt, natu, naut, nazt, Ncito, Nciv, ndt, neet, neith, Netc, Neth, neti, netl, neto, netu, ngi, Nhi, nhic, nia, niat, nibt, nic, nict, nicta, nid, nie, niet, nif, nift, nifto, nih, niht, nij, nik, nikto, ninti, nio, nipt, niq, nir, nirt, nish, nist, nitb, nitc, nite, Nith, niti, Nito, nitq, nitr, nitt, nitti, nitto, nitu, nity, nitz, Niu, niv, niw, nixt, niy, niz, njt, nmt, noct, noht, noit, npt, Nri, Nti, ntr, nuft, nuict, nuit, nuth, nutt, nutw, nyet, nyp, nyr, nyt, Nyta, Nyte, nyu, Nzita, onit, znit. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "nit" (pronounced ni"t) |
| 3 | n i" t | knit. |
| 2 | -i" t | acquit, admit, befit, bit, brit, Britt, chit, commit, emit, fit, flit, grit, hit, it, kit, lit, mitt, omit, permit, pit, presplit, quit, readmit, refit, remit, resubmit, sit, skit, slit, Smit, spit, split, submit, transmit, unfit, whit, wit, writ. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: tin. | |
| Words within the letters "i-n-t" | |
-1 letter: in, it, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-n-t" | |
+1 letter: anti, bint, dint, hint, inti, into, knit, lint, mint, nite, nits, pint, snit, tain, thin, tine, ting, tins, tint, tiny, twin, tyin, unit. | |
+2 letters: actin, antic, antis, binit, bints, biont, cutin, dints, elint, entia, faint, feint, flint, giant, glint, hints, inapt, inept, inert, ingot, inlet, input, inset, inter, intis, intro, joint, knits, lints, linty, matin, mints, minty, neist, nifty, night, ninth, niter, nites, nitid, niton, nitre, nitro, nitty, ontic, paint, patin, pinot, pinta, pinto, pints, piton, point, print, quint, riant, rutin, saint, satin, senti, skint, snits, stain, stein, sting, stink, stint, suint, tains, taint, takin, teind, tenia, thein, thine, thing, think, thins, tigon, tinct, tinea, tined, tines, tinge, tings, tinny, tints, titan, tondi, tonic, toxin, train, trine, tunic, twain, twine, twins, twiny, tying, tyiyn, unfit, unite, units, unity, unlit, untie, until, unwit, witan. | |
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