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Dit

//dɪt// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Indicator of a declared surname originating from Canadian French. Canada, not-comparable, obsolete
Noun
  1. 1
    A ditty, a little melody. obsolete, rare

    "No bird, but did her shrill notes sweetly sing; / No song but did containe a louely dit: / Trees, braunches, birds, and songs were framed fit [...]."

  2. 2
    The spoken representation of a dot in radio and telegraph Morse code.
  3. 3
    decimal digit
  4. 4
    Initialism of diet-induced thermogenesis. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  5. 5
    the shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code wordnet
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  1. 6
    A word; a decree. obsolete
  2. 7
    Initialism of digital intermediate technician. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  3. 8
    a logarithmic unit which measures information or entropy, based on base 10 logarithms and powers of 10. wordnet
  4. 9
    Initialism of digital imaging technician. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable

    "In 2022, nearly every movie and TV show has a dedicated DIT who works with the cinematographer and the director to figure out what an image might look like after it’s been run through a series of digital filters."

Verb
  1. 1
    To stop up; block (an opening); close (compare Scots dit). Northern-England, UK, dialectal
  2. 2
    To close up. obsolete

    "that I would haue thought my sincere plainnesse in that first part vpon that subiect, should haue ditted the mouth of the most enuious Momus"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English ditten, dütten, from Old English dyttan (“to stop up, close”), from Proto-West Germanic *duttijan, from Proto-Germanic *duttijaną, from *duttaz (“wisp”), akin to Icelandic dytta. Related to Old English dott (“dot, point”). More at dot.

Etymology 2

Variant of dite.

Etymology 3

Imitative.

Etymology 4

Shortening.

Etymology 5

From French dit (“called”). Doublet of ditto.

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