nit

• IPA^(key): /nɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɪt
• Homophone: knit

From Middle English nite, from Old English hnitu, from Proto-Germanic *hnits (compare Dutch neet, German Nisse, Norwegian nit), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱ(o)nid- (compare Scottish Gaelic sneadh, Lithuanian glìnda, Polish gnida, Albanian thëri, Ancient Greek κονίς (konís))

nit (plural nits)

1. The egg of a louse.
2. A young louse.
3. (Britain, Ireland, slang) A head louse regardless of its age.
4. (Britain, slang) A fool, a nitwit.
5. A nitpicker.
6. A minor shortcoming.

• dickies (Geordie)

• nit-picking

nit (third-person singular simple present nits, present participle nitting, simple past and past participle nitted)

1. (MLE) To have the modus vivendi of a drug addict, to live the life of a nitty.
   • 2018, HL8 and SimpzBeatz (music), “Rolling Round”, performed by Sparko of OMH:

     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 nittin

From Latin nitēre (“to shine”).

nit (plural nits)

1. A candela per square meter.

   This brightness of this LCD screen is between 900 and 1000 nits.

nit (plural nits)

1. Synonym of nat (logarithmic unit of information)

• INT, ITN, TIN, i'n't, in't, int, int., tin

From Old Catalan nuit, from Old Occitan (compare Occitan nuèit), from Latin noctem, accusative of nox (compare French nuit, Portuguese noite, Spanish noche, Italian notte), from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts (compare English night).

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈnit/
• Rhymes: -it

nit f (plural nits)

1. night

   durant la nit ― during the night

• anit
• mitjanit

nit

1. water

• Basic Vocabulary, pages 7-8

From Proto-Slavic *nitь.

• IPA^(key): /ɲɪt/

• audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪt

nit f

1. thread

• nitka f

• nit in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• nit in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

From Old Norse gnit, from Proto-Germanic *hnits.

• IPA^(key): /nɪːt/
• Rhymes: -ɪːt
• Homophone: nyt

nit f (genitive singular nitar, no plural)

1. nit (egg of a louse)

nit

1. water

• Basic Vocabulary, pages 7-8

From German Niet.

• IPA^(key): /ɲit/

nit m inan

1. rivet (mechanical fastener)

• nit in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From German Niet.

nit n (plural nituri)

1. rivet

nit

1. water

• Basic Vocabulary, pages 7-8

From Proto-Slavic *nitь.

• IPA^(key): /nîːt/

nȋt f (Cyrillic spelling ни̑т)

1. thread
2. flow, continuity

From Proto-Slavic *nitь.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnít/
• Tonal orthography: nȉt

nìt f (genitive níti, nominative plural níti)

1. thread

From German Niet.

nit c

1. a rivet, a stud
2. the action of braking (a motor vehicle) very hard
3. a lottery ticket which gave no reward
4. zeal

• (braking): tvärnit
• (lottery ticket): nitlott

• nita
• gå på en nit
• tvärnit

nit (plural nits)

1. staple
2. staple for office stapler

nit (definite form nit ki)

1. person

• nëch (Slovakia)

nit

1. (Romania, including Wassertal) not

• Claus Stephani, Zipser Mära und Kasska (1989)
• Anton-Joseph Ilk, Zipser Volksgut aus dem Wassertal (1990)