dite
/daɪt/
dite verb: to prepare for use or action; to make ready.
Verb
dite (third-person singular simple present dites, present participle diting, simple past and past participle dited)
- To prepare for use or action; to make ready.
- His hideous club aloft he dites.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 18
Noun
dite (plural dites)
- A trifling quantity or amount.
- A “dite” is a Maine measurement, somewhere between a smidge and a bit.
- Two carpenters were moving a small building onto a new foundation, and one of them says, “Shove it my way a dite!” The other shoved, but shoved a little too hard. “Nope — too much! I said a dite!”2019, John Gould, This Trifling Distinction: Reminiscences from Down East, Down East Books, →ISBN, page 95
Forms of dite
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | dites |
| present participle | diting |
| past participle | dited |
| past | dited |
| Noun | |
| plural | dites |
Origin of dite
See dight.
Variant of doit.
Words that rhyme with dite
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- knight
- slight
- Dwight
- height
- sight
- night
- sprite
- fight
- parasite
- site
- alight
- smite
- all right
- blight
- might
- mite
- skite
- cite
- indite
- lite
- outright
- plight
- bight
- excite
- ignite
- invite
- overnight
- uptight
- wight
- accite
- alright
- benight
- bewrite
- blite
- copyright
- despite
- dight
- disunite
- finite
- flite
- hight
- incite
- recite
- relight
- rewrite
- sleight
- spite
- spright
Questions about dite
- What does dite mean?
- Dite means to prepare for use or action; to make ready.
- What part of speech is dite?
- Dite can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce dite?
- Dite is pronounced /daɪt/.
- What is the past tense of dite?
- The past tense of dite is dited.
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