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dit¹

  • /dɪt/

Rhymes with -ɪt

Where it comes from

From Middle English ditten, dutten, 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.

verb dits · ditting · ditted

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

dit²

  • /dɪt/

Rhymes with -ɪt

Where it comes from

Variant of dite.

noun dits

  1. obsolete, rare A ditty, a little melody. 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. obsolete A word; a decree.

dit³

  • /dɪt/

Rhymes with -ɪt

Where it comes from

Imitative.

noun dits

  1. The spoken representation of a dot in radio and telegraph Morse code.

dit⁴

  • /dɪt/

Rhymes with -ɪt

Where it comes from

Shortening.

noun dits

  1. decimal digit

dit⁵

  • /dɪt/

Rhymes with -ɪt

Where it comes from

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

adjective

  1. Canada, not comparable, obsolete Indicator of a declared surname originating from Canadian French.

dit⁶

  • /dɪt/

Rhymes with -ɪt

noun dits

  1. UK, slang An anecdote or yarn. Spinning dits comes with a few guidelines. The established dit litany is fairly simple: you must simply state a geographic datum for the dit, followed by the amount of alcohol that had been consumed immediately prior to the events […]

DIT⁷

noun DITs

  1. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of diet-induced thermogenesis
  2. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of digital intermediate technician
  3. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of digital imaging technician 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.

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noun spoken representation of a dot in radio and telegraph Morse code

日本語トン ton
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Русскийто́чка tóčka

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@misc{dit_2026,
  title = {dit},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dit},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}