nit
/nɪt/
nit noun: the egg of a louse.
Noun (1)
nit (plural nits)
Verb
nit (third-person singular simple present nits, present participle nitting, simple past and past participle nitted)
- To have the modus vivendi of a drug addict, to live the life of a nitty.
- 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 nittin2018, “Rolling Round”, HL8 and SimpzBeatz (music), performed by Sparko of OMH
- Can’t miss no dots
Noun (2)
nit (plural nits)
- A candela per square metre.
- This brightness of this LCD screen is between 900 and 1000 nits.
Noun (3)
nit (plural nits)
Noun (4)
nit (plural nits)
- A player with an overly cautious and reactive playing style.
Noun (5) capitalized: NIT
NIT (plural NITs)
- Abbreviation of National Institute of Technology.
nit meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
nit in Hindi
- एन. आई. टी, निट, एन. आइ. टी
nit in Tamil
- egg of a louse
- ஈர் īr
- young louse
- நமுடு namuṭu
nit in Marathi
- एन. आय. टी, एन. आई. टी
nit in Urdu
- egg of a louse
- لِیکھ līkh
- young louse
- لِیکھ līkh
More languagesFewer languages
- nit in Telugu
- నిట్, ఎన్. ఐ. టి, ఎన్ఐటి
- nit in Malayalam
- എൻ. ഐ. ടി, നിറ്റ്
- nit in Kannada
- ಎನ್. ಐ. ಟಿ, ನಿಟ್, ನಿಟ್ಗೆ
- nit in Punjabi
- ਨਿਤ nit
- nit in Gujarati
- એન. આઈ. ટી, એન. આઇ. ટી, નિટ
- nit in Odia
- ନିଟ୍, ଏନ୍. ଆଇ. ଟି
- nit in Nepali
- निट
- nit in Tagalog
- lisa
- nit in Arabic
- صُغْبَة ṣuḡba
- nit in Indonesian
- telur kutu
- nit in Persian
- رشک rešk
- nit in Thai
- เล็น len
- nit in Vietnamese
- trứng chấy, trứng rận
Examples of nit in a sentence
- And you and Clarko you did bits and I heard that this bird got nits.
- Notice M.O. 24 to be revised and issued in cases of slightly nitted heads.
- There are only a few nits to pick.
Synonyms of nit
Forms of nit
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | nits |
| plural | NITs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | nits |
| present participle | nitting |
| past participle | nitted |
| past | nitted |
Origin of nit
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”).
Possibly a blend of Neperian + digit, as is nepit.
Words formed from nit
Phrases with nit
Words that rhyme with nit
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Questions about nit
- What does nit mean?
- Nit means the egg of a louse.
- What is nit in Hindi?
- Nit in Hindi is एन. आई. टी, निट, एन. आइ. टी. See Nit meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is nit?
- Nit can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce nit?
- Nit is pronounced /nɪt/.
- What is the plural of nit?
- The plural of nit is nits.
Words near nit in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: nit (page history and authors); NIT (page history and authors); nit (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); nit (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); nit (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); nit (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); nit (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); nit (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); nit (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); nit (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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