Lit vs Jit - What's the difference?
lit | jit |
(obsolete) Little.
(obsolete) Little.
(light)
(US, dialectal) To run, or light
* {{quote-news, 1988, April 8, Grant Pick, Johnny Washington's Life, Chicago Reader
, passage=With that the kid lits off down the street, and, what do you know! }}
illuminated
* He walked down the lit corridor.
(slang) intoxicated or under the influence of drugs; stoned
(slang) Sexually aroused (usually a female), especially visibly sexually aroused (e.g., labial swelling is present)
Colour; blee; dye; stain.
To colour; dye.
Abbreviated form of literature.
(computing, of bytecode optimizations) to perform an operation (usually compiling) Just-In-Time
As nouns the difference between lit and jit
is that lit is little while JIT is initialism of Just-In-Time|lang=en.As verbs the difference between lit and jit
is that lit is past tense of light while JIT is to perform an operation (usually compiling) Just-In-Time.As an adjective lit
is little.lit
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) lit, lut, from (etyl) . More at (l).Adjective
(en-adj)Noun
(-)Etymology 2
From (etyl) lihte, from (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
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