Dither vs Lither - What's the difference?
dither | lither |
The state of being undecided.
* 2002 , Thomas P. Glynn, A Child's Christmas In Chicago , page 59:
*:Everyone was in a dither'''; either in it or about to get in it or just climbing out of it. Naturally, the Madam was not in a '''dither'''. '''Dither was a foreign concept to her.
A form of noise which is intentionally applied to randomize errors which occur in the processing of both digital audio and digital video data
(obsolete) To tremble, shake, or shiver with cold.
*1913 ,
*:Presently he came running out of the scullery, with the soapy water dripping from him, dithering with cold.
To be uncertain or unable to make a decision about doing something.
*2012 , The Economist, Sept. 22nd issue, ''
*:The dithering Mr Singh of recent times may worry that his reform proposals are already too bold. The reforming Mr Singh of yore would see them as just the start.
To do something nervously.
(computer graphics) To render an approximation of (an image, etc.) by using dot patterns in similar colours to those that are unavailable on the system.
(lithe)
* 1900 — , ch VIII
Bad; wicked; false; worthless; slothful; lazy.
* 1592 :
* 1653 , Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux (translators), (1534), chapter XL
* 1850 , H. I. (translator), Reverand Thomas Harding, A.M. (editor), The Decades of Henry Bullinger, Minister of the Church of Zurich.'', ''Third Decade , The Parker Society, Great Britain, page 32
* 1920 , Charles Whibley, Literary Portraits, Ayer Publishing, ISBN 0836909887, page 63
As a noun dither
is the state of being undecided.As a verb dither
is (obsolete) to tremble, shake, or shiver with cold.As an adjective lither is
(lithe) or lither can be bad; wicked; false; worthless; slothful; lazy.dither
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Noun
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(en verb)Indian Reform: At Last
Derived terms
* dithererAnagrams
* *lither
English
Etymology 1
See (lithe)Adjective
(head)- Doolittle and myself waited. Colebrook kept on cautiously, squirming his long body in sinuous waves like a lizard's through the grass, and was soon lost to us. No snake could have been lither .
Etymology 2
From (etyl) lither, lyther, luther, lithere, lidder, from (etyl) . See (l).Adjective
(en adjective)- Anon, from thy insulting tyranny,
- Coupled in bonds of perpetuity,
- Two Talbots, winged through the lither sky,
- In thy despite shall ’scape mortality.
- After the same manner a monk--I mean those lither , idle, lazy monks--doth not labour and work, as do the peasant and artificer; doth not ward and defend the country, as doth the man of war; cureth not the sick and diseased, as the physician doth; doth neither preach nor teach, as do the evangelical doctors and schoolmasters; doth not import commodities and things necessary for the commonwealth, as the merchant doth.
- Secondarily, let him which laboreth in his vocation be prompt and active; let him be watchful and able to abide labour; he must be no lither -back1, unapt, or slothful fellow. Whatever he doth, that let him do with faith2 and diligence.
- Thus he sketched an education which might have befitted a great king, without a word of ribaldry or scorn, and in such a spirit as proves that he gravely condemned the lazy, lither system of the monasteries.