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Dit vs Jit - What's the difference?

dit | jit |

As verbs the difference between dit and jit

is that dit is (d) to happen while jit is (computing|transitive) to compile (program code for a virtual machine) immediately when needed, as part of the execution process.

As a noun jit is

an inexperienced, foolhardy young man or jit can be a style of zimbabwean dance music (as the bhundu boys) played with drums and guitar.

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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    jit

    English

    (wikipedia JIT)

    Noun

    (en-initialism)
  • (operations)
  • (computing, of bytecode optimizations)

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (computing, of bytecode optimizations) to perform an operation (usually compiling) Just-In-Time