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Alt vs Ait - What's the difference?

alt | ait |

As nouns the difference between alt and ait

is that alt is a modifier key while ait is place, area.

alt

English

Abbreviation

(Abbreviation) (en-abbr)
  • A state of excitement, conveyed by a high-pitched voice.
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  • That lady was in alt at Loxsleigh's high station and had spent the morning making inquiries of her friends, which also allowed her to spread the word about her interesting new acquaintance. citation
  • (knitting)
  • (music)
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  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Internet, multi-user dungeon) One of a player's alternate or secondary characters.
  • * 1996 , "Jonobie D. Baker", Survey of MUSHers.'' (on newsgroup ''rec.games.mud.tiny )
  • Of these alts , how many of them are a gender other than your own?
  • * 2000 , "KaVir", Code Bases - why release buggy crap?'' (on newsgroup ''alt.mud )
  • Yes, I have many alts , and no, none of the others have any unusual capitalisation.

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    ait

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia ait) (en noun)
  • An island in a river, especially the River Thames in England.
  • * R. Hodges (1649)
  • The ait where the osiers grew.
  • * 1833 , , Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life trans. John Oxenford, book 9,
  • Striking richness of vegetation which follows in the windings of the Rhine, marks its banks, islands, and aits .
  • * 1853 , , Bleak House , ch. 1,
  • Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows.
  • (Scotland) An oat.
  • (Burns)

    Synonyms

    * eyot

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