Lit vs Ait - What's the difference?
lit | ait |
(obsolete) Little.
(obsolete) Little.
(light)
(US, dialectal) To run, or light
* {{quote-news, 1988, April 8, Grant Pick, Johnny Washington's Life, Chicago Reader
, passage=With that the kid lits off down the street, and, what do you know! }}
illuminated
* He walked down the lit corridor.
(slang) intoxicated or under the influence of drugs; stoned
(slang) Sexually aroused (usually a female), especially visibly sexually aroused (e.g., labial swelling is present)
Colour; blee; dye; stain.
To colour; dye.
Abbreviated form of literature.
An island in a river, especially the River Thames in England.
* R. Hodges (1649)
* 1833 , , Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life trans. John Oxenford, book 9,
* 1853 , , Bleak House , ch. 1,
(Scotland) An oat.
As nouns the difference between lit and ait
is that lit is while ait is place, area.lit
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) lit, lut, from (etyl) . More at (l).Adjective
(en-adj)Noun
(-)Etymology 2
From (etyl) lihte, from (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(head)citation
Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* half litEtymology 3
From (etyl) lit, from (etyl) .Noun
(-)Derived terms
* (l) * (l)Etymology 4
From (etyl) litten, liten, from (etyl) . See above.Verb
(litt)Etymology 5
Short for literature.Noun
(-)Derived terms
* chick lit * lit crit * litfanAnagrams
* ----ait
English
Noun
(wikipedia ait) (en noun)- The ait where the osiers grew.
- Striking richness of vegetation which follows in the windings of the Rhine, marks its banks, islands, and aits .
- Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows.
- (Burns)