ait

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see also: AIT

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /eɪt/

Noun

ait (plural aits)

1. An island in a river, especially the River Thames in England.

   • The ait where the osiers grew.

   • 1833, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life trans. John Oxenford, book 9,

     Striking richness of vegetation which follows in the windings of the Rhine, marks its banks, islands, and aits.

   • 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch. 1,

     Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows.

Synonyms

• eyot

Noun

ait (plural aits)

1. (Scotland) An oat.
   • 1785, Robbie Burns, Scotch Drink

     Let husky wheat the haughs adorn,
     An' aits set up their awnie horn,

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AIT

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Noun

ait (uncountable)

1. (pathology) Initialism of alloimmune thrombocytopenia: a too-low number of platelets in one's blood, especially a newborn's or fetus', due to alloimmunity.

Synonyms

• neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia, NAITP, NAIT
• feto-maternal alloimmune thrombocytopenia, FMAITP, FMAIT
• alloimmune thrombocytopenia

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