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industry | it |
(uncountable) The tendency to work persistently.
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, title= (countable, business, economics) Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole.
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, title= (uncountable, economics) Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.
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, title= (in the singular, economics) The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises.
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The third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to an inanimate object, to an inanimate thing with no or unknown sex or gender.
A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to a child of unknown gender.
* 1847 , Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre , Chapter IV:
Used to refer to oneself when identifying oneself, often on the phone, but not limited to this situation.
The impersonal pronoun, used without referent as the subject of an impersonal verb or statement. (known as the dummy pronoun or weather it)
The impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject, or less commonly, object. (known as the dummy pronoun or, more formally in linguistics, a syntactic expletive)
All or the end; something after which there is no more.
(obsolete, relative) That which; what.
* 1643 , (Thomas Browne), Religio Medici , II.2:
One who is neither a he nor a she; a creature; a dehumanized being.
* 1995 , Neil Weiner, Sharon E. Robinson Kurpius, Shattered innocence (page 8)
* 1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
The person who chases and tries to catch the other players in the playground game of tag.
* 2000 , Katherine T. Thomas, Amelia M. Lee, Jerry R. Thomas, Physical education for children (page 464)
(British, uncountable) The game of tag.
(colloquial) most fashionable.
* Vibe , Vol. 15, No. 9, p. 202, September 2007:
* David Germain,
(language) Italian.
Italy.
As a noun industry
is (uncountable) the tendency to work persistently.As a symbol it is
the iso 3166-1 two-letter (alpha-2) code for italy.industry
English
(wikipedia industry)Noun
International friendly: England 1-0 Spain, passage=England's win was built on industry and discipline, epitomised by the performances of Manchester City's Joleon Lescott in defence and Scott Parker in midfield.}}
End of the peer show, passage=Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.}}
Internal Combustion, chapter=2 , passage=But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries . By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.}}
Out of the gloom, passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}
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Synonyms
* (tendency to work persistently) diligence; application * (businesses of the same type) sector; field * (businesses that produce goods) manufacturingDerived terms
* automotive industry * captain of industry * cottage industry * film industry * finance industry * food services industry * health care industry * heavy industry * light industry * primary industry * secondary industry * smokestack industry * software industry * tertiary industry * video game industryReferences
External links
* * *it
English
(wikipedia it)Alternative forms
* (dialectal) (l)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m) ( > English dialectal . More at (l).Alternative forms
* itt (obsolete)Pronoun
- Put it over there.
- Take each day as it comes.
- She took the baby and held it in her arms.
- A child cannot quarrel with its' elders, as I had done; cannot give ' its furious feelings uncontrolled play, as I had given mine, without experiencing afterwards the pang of remorse and the chill of reaction.
- It' s me. John.
- It is nearly 10 o’clock.
- It ’s very cold today.
- It ’s lonely without you.
- It is easy to see how she would think that.
- I find it odd that you would say that.
- He saw to it that everyone would vote for him.
- Are there more students in this class, or is this it ?
- That's it —I'm not going to any more candy stores with you.
- In briefe, I am content, and what should providence add more? Surely this is it wee call Happinesse, and this doe I enjoy [...].
Quotations
* (English Citations of "it")Derived terms
(Derived terms) * buy it * do it * for it * move it * that’s it * watch itSee also
* he * her * him * I * me * she * thee * them * they * thou * us * we * ye * youNoun
(en noun)- Too often, children become an "it " in their homes and their humanness is devalued.
- His master glanced up quickly, and removed the letter from his hands. "I'm surprised at you, James," he remarked severely. "A secretary should control itself. Don't forget that the perfect secretary is an it : an automatic machine—a thing incapable of feeling.…"
- In the next game, Adam and Tom will be it …
- When there are only two children left who haven't been tagged, I will stop the game, and we will start over with those children starting as the Its .
- Let's play it at breaktime.
Adjective
(-)- Going away for the weekend and feel the need to profile en route? This is the "it " bag.
Hilarious ‘Kick-Ass’ delivers bloody fun, Associated Press, 2010:
- With Hit Girl, Moretz is this year's It Girl, alternately sweet, savage and scary.