dit
Americannoun
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dits
plural
noun
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of dit
First recorded in 1935–40
Example Sentences
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Jean Charles dit Yenapono Some, governor of the Cascades region in a statement.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2023
They emit a sound each time his hand makes contact — from the right, a dit, or dot; from the left, a dah, or dash, the building blocks of the Morse code alphabet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2022
In terms of the terrain, the on dit is that it's not the Alps – only the Alps are the Alps – but that it will be a challenge nonetheless because there's less flat.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 18, 2013
Just, dit dit dit dit dit dit dit, they’re waiting for the sound, you know the sound, you’re waiting for the sound.
From Time ● Jun. 23, 2011
“Yes, and she just used to say it in this way: ‘Qu’avez vous donc? lui dit un de ces rats; parlez!’
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
He doesn’t talk much; he prefers the dits and dahs to communicate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2022
The copy gets beaten out on the portable typewriter, gets trimmed by the censor with his little looseleaf notebook of directives, gets whisked to the cable office, flicks undersea in dits and dots.
From Time Magazine Archive
Although the visitation was unheralded by the customary flourish of trumpeting on dits, it was extremely successful.
From The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert by Horace Wyndham
That is great praise from you, if there be any truth in on dits.
From Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume I (of II) by Charles James Lever
There are too many of Kipling's Tomlinsons in the world, whose consciences are wholly compact of on dits, on whom the devil himself, sinned they never so sadly, would refuse to waste his good pit-coal.
From Without Prejudice by Israel Zangwill
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