dit
Americannoun
noun
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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
Many critics and fans disagreed–and I’m guessing that some of them will wish these two hours were a little more, comment se dit, zoobezoo?
From Time ● Apr. 4, 2013
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
Dit dah dit dah, he flashed again, remembering the signal he had learned with his bear-trap mind.
From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry
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
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 Zangwill, Israel
When business was over for the, day, she loved to cast the cares of sovereignty behind, and become a woman—chatting with her ladies of honor over the "on dits" of the court and city.
From Joseph II. and His Court by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)
Of course I was obliged to conquer to a certain extent my aversion to anything but finished works, and accordingly I made a considerable number of sketches 'proprement dits.'
From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume I by Barrington, Mrs. Russell
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