dit

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see also: DIT

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Pronunciation

• enPR: dĭt, IPA: /dɪt/

Verb

dit (dits, present participle ditting; past and past participle ditted)

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

Related terms

• dottle

Noun

dit (plural dits)

1. (archaic, rare) A ditty, a little melody.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi:

     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.

Noun

dit (plural dits)

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

Translations

• French: ti
• Russian: то́чка

Noun

dit (plural dits)

1. (information theory) decimal digit

Adjective

dit (not comparable)

1. (Canada, obsolete) Indicator of a declared surname originating from Canadian French.

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DIT

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Noun

dit (plural dits)

1. Initialism of diet-induced thermogenesis

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