Ait
//eɪt// name, noun
name, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 An island in a river, especially the River Thames in England.
"The ait where the osiers grew."
- 2 An oat. Scotland
"Let husky wheat the haughs adorn, An' aits set up their awnie horn,"
- 3 Initialism of alloimmune thrombocytopenia: a too-low number of platelets in the blood, especially of a newborn or fetus, due to alloimmunity. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 4 Initialism of allergen immunotherapy. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 5 Initialism of auditory integration training. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
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- 6 Initialism of autoignition temperature. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Proper Noun
- 1 Initialism of Austrian Institute of Technology (Austria's largest Research and Technology Organization (RTO)). abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Example
More examples"Belaid Ait Ali is the founder of the written Kabyle literature."
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English eyt, eit, from Old English īġeoþ, īgoþ, iggaþ, iggoþ (“ait, eyot, islet, small island”), diminutive of īġ, ēġ, īeġ (“island”). More at eyot.
Etymology 2
From Scots ait, ate, from Middle English ate, from Old English āte. More at oat.
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