Nit
noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 The egg of a louse.
- 2 A candela per square metre.
"This brightness of this LCD screen is between 900 and 1000 nits."
- 3 Synonym of nat (“logarithmic unit of information”).
- 4 A player with an overly cautious and reactive playing style.
- 5 Abbreviation of National Institute of Technology. India, abbreviation, alt-of
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- 6 egg or young of an insect parasitic on mammals especially a sucking louse; often attached to a hair or item of clothing wordnet
- 7 A young louse.
- 8 a luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source wordnet
- 9 A head louse regardless of its age. Ireland, UK, slang
- 10 A fool, a nitwit. UK, slang
- 11 A minor shortcoming; the object of a nitpick.
- 12 A nitpicker.
- 1 To have the modus vivendi of a drug addict, to live the life of a nitty. Multicultural-London-English
"Can’t miss no dots Every shot let caused I’m hittin Used to bag it up in the toilet My mumsie thought I was shittin Ever seen a junky fittin? Ever stepped in a room full of needles? No I ain’t doin no nittin"
Example
More examples"Can’t miss no dots Every shot let caused I’m hittin Used to bag it up in the toilet My mumsie thought I was shittin Ever seen a junky fittin? Ever stepped in a room full of needles? No I ain’t doin no nittin"
Etymology
From Middle English nite, from Old English hnitu, from Proto-Germanic *hnits (compare Dutch neet, German Nisse, Norwegian nit), from Proto-Indo-European *-níd- (compare Scottish Gaelic sneadh, Lithuanian gli̇̀nda, Polish gnida, Albanian thëri, Ancient Greek κονίς (konís)).
From Latin nitēre (“to shine”).
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