MIT

Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Discover The Influence Of Portuguese On English Via This Quiz!

We’ve gathered some interesting words donated to English from Portuguese … as well as some that just don’t translate at all. Do you know what they mean?

Question 1 of 11

Which of the following animal names traces its immediate origin to Portuguese?

owl

crow

piranha

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Example sentences from the Web for mit

Five days later, he reappeared, saying he was doing well but had been placed in the hospital by MIT.
Prof: MIT Hospitalized Me For Ferguson Tweets|Nina Strochlic|December 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
MIT Professor Eric Alm thinks that sewers are the missing link to tracking public health.
The Secret to Tracking Ebola, MERS, and Flu? Sewers|Wudan Yan|November 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Eric Alm, a professor of microbiology at MIT, has an idea: use the sewers.
The Secret to Tracking Ebola, MERS, and Flu? Sewers|Wudan Yan|November 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Not surprisingly, the losers were now winning engineers; one of the MIT graduates had gone on to invent ear buds for Apple.
These Undocumented Teens Outsmarted MIT—and Still Cant Get Real Jobs in America|Jonathan Alter|July 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Some of the pre-eminent innovators at the intersection of art and coding are based at the Aesthetics and Computation Group at MIT.
Frickin’ Laser Beams Run by Eyeballs: The Next Art Revolution Is Here|Nico Hines|July 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Mit wunderbaren geperden und gesprchen, verzucken, gesichten und offenbarungen.
History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, Volume III|J. H. Merle D'Aubign
You spit in your catcher's mit, like Kelly, the ten-thousand-dollar baseball beauty.
Hints to Pilgrims|Charles Stephen Brooks
So much have I been seasick, mit der ship going oop und down, oop und down!
The White Christmas and other Merry Christmas Plays|Walter Ben Hare
I trink your health, mit your family's—may you lif long—and brosper!
Trilby|George Du Maurier
In dot house leef an oldt lady all mit herself and ade sairvans.
Puppets at Large|F. Anstey

British Dictionary definitions for mit

MIT

abbreviation for

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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