it
Plural: its
Noun
- the branch of engineering that deals with the use of computers and telecommunications to retrieve and store and transmit information
- One who is neither a he nor a she; a creature; a dehumanized being.
- The person who chases and tries to catch the other players in the playground game of tag.
- A game of tag.
- A desirable characteristic, as being fashionable.
- Sexual intercourse.
- Sex appeal.
- Alternative letter-case form of It (“force in the vitalist approach of Georg Groddeck”).
- Alternative letter-case form of It (“the id”).
Pron
- The third-person singular neuter personal pronoun used to refer to an inanimate object, abstract entity, or non-human living thing.
- A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to a baby or child, especially of unknown gender.
- A third-person singular pronoun used to refer to an unspecified person.
- An affectionate third-person singular personal pronoun.
- A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to an animate referent who is transgender or non-binary.
- Refers to someone being identified, often on the phone, but not limited to this situation.
- The impersonal pronoun, used without referent as the subject of an impersonal verb or statement (known as the dummy pronoun, dummy it or weather it).
- The impersonal pronoun, used without referent, or with unstated but contextually implied referent, in various short idioms or expressions.
- The impersonal pronoun, used without referent, or with unstated but contextually implied referent, in various short idioms or expressions.
- Referring to a desirable quality or ability, or quality of being successful, fashionable or in vogue.
- The impersonal pronoun, used without referent, or with unstated but contextually implied referent, in various short idioms or expressions.
- Referring to sexual intercourse or other sexual activity.
- Sex appeal, especially that which goes beyond physical appearance.
- The impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject, or less commonly, object; known as the dummy pronoun (according to some definitions), anticipatory it or, more formally in linguistics, a syntactic expletive. The delayed subject is commonly a to-infinitive, a gerund, or a noun clause introduced by a subordinating conjunction.
- All or the end; something after which there is no more.
- Followed by an omitted and understood relative pronoun: That which; what.
Det
- Its.
Adj
- Most fashionable, popular, or in vogue.
Pronoun
- The third-person singular neuter pronoun.
Examples
- Are there more students in this class, or is this it?
- Even a small word like IT can be crucial for connecting longer plays.
- He saw to it that everyone would vote for him.
- I find it odd that you would say that.
- I found a poor little cat. It seems to be half starving.
- In the next game, Adam and Tom will be it…
- It is easy to see how she would think that.
- It is hard seeing you so sick.
- It is I, your king.
- It is nearly 10 o’clock.
- It is not clear if the report was true.
- It seems so.
- It's me, John.
- It’s 10:45.
- It’s lonely without you.
- It’s very cold today.
- Let's play it at breaktime.
- Man, he's really got it.
- OMG, they were doing it in the storage room.
- She made it clear what she expected by the weekend, which made it a problem to juggle her and other customers' jobs at the same time.
- She really has it going on.
- She took the baby and held it in her arms.
- She's the it girl, at least for this Fall.
- Somebody wanted a drink, didn't they? Who was it?
- Take each day as it comes.
- Take this book and put it on the shelf.
- That's it—I'm not going to any more candy stores with you.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English it, hit ( > dialectal English hit (“it”)), from Old English hit (“it”), from Proto-West Germanic *hit, from Proto-Germanic *hit (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this, here”). Cognate with West Frisian it (“it”), Saterland Frisian et, 't (“it”), Dutch het (“it”), Low German it (“it”), German es (“it”). Compare also Gothic 𐌹𐍄𐌰 (ita, “it”), Latin cis (“on this”), hic (“this”). More at he.
Synonyms
information technology
Scrabble Score: 2
it: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordit: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
it: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 2
it: valid Words With Friends Word