nit
Plural: nits
Noun
- The egg of a louse or other parasitic insect.
- a luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source
- egg or young of an insect parasitic on mammals especially a sucking louse; often attached to a hair or item of clothing
- The egg of a louse.
- A young louse.
- A head louse regardless of its age.
- A fool, a nitwit.
- A minor shortcoming; the object of a nitpick.
- A nitpicker.
- A candela per square metre.
- Synonym of nat (“logarithmic unit of information”).
- A player with an overly cautious and reactive playing style.
Verb
- To have the modus vivendi of a drug addict, to live the life of a nitty.
Examples
- He had to get rid of a troublesome ’I’ tile, like a nit on a comb.
- This brightness of this LCD screen is between 900 and 1000 nits.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English nite, from Old English hnitu, from Proto-Germanic *hnits (compare Dutch neet, German Nisse, Norwegian nit), from Proto-Indo-European *-níd- (compare Scottish Gaelic sneadh, Lithuanian gli̇̀nda, Polish gnida, Albanian thëri, Ancient Greek κονίς (konís)).
Scrabble Score: 3
nit: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordnit: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
nit: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 4
nit: valid Words With Friends Word