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Dit vs Doit - What's the difference?

dit | doit |

As nouns the difference between dit and doit

is that dit is a ditty, a little melody while doit is a small Dutch coin, equivalent to one-eighth of a stiver.

As a verb dit

is to stop up; block (an opening); close. Cf. Scots {{term|dit|lang=sco}}.

dit

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) ditten, .

Verb

  • To stop up; block (an opening); close. Cf. Scots dit.
    • Related terms
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    Etymology 2

    Variant of dite.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic, rare) A ditty, a little melody.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vi:
    • No bird, but did her shrill notes sweetly sing; / No song but did containe a louely dit : / Trees, braunches, birds, and songs were framed fit [...].
  • (obsolete) A word; a decree.

    • Etymology 3

    Imitative.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The spoken representation of a dot in radio and telegraph Morse code.

    • See also

    * dah

    Etymology 4

    Old English dyttan, akin to Icelandic ditta.

    Verb

    (ditt)
  • (obsolete) To close up.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Etymology 5

    Shortening.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • decimal digit

    • Anagrams

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    doit

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (historical) A small Dutch coin, equivalent to one-eighth of a stiver.
  • * c.'' 1606 , , Act 4, Scene 12:
    • most monster-like, be shown / For poor'st diminutives, for doits ;
  • (archaic) A small amount; a bit, a jot.
  • * 1819 , — Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
  • *:“Speak out, ye Saxon dogs — what bid ye for your worthless lives? — How say you, you of Rotherwood?” “Not a doit I,” answered poor Wamba.
  • * 1610 , , act 2 scene 2
    • When / they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they / will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
  • (music) In jazz music, a note that slides to an indefinite pitch chromatically upwards.
  • * 1995 , Music & Computers (volume 1, issues 2-4, page 57)
    • Jazz symbols include many contoured articulations and inflections, such as doits , fall-offs, and scoops.
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