dit

present singular third person dits · participle present ditting · participle past ditted · past ditted

1. Northern EnglandUKdialectalTo stop up; block (an opening); close (compare Scots dit).
2. obsoleteTo close up.

   that I would haue thought my sincere plainnesse in that first part vpon that subiect, should haue ditted the mouth of the most enuious Momus

   1599, James VI and I, Basilikon Doron

plural dits

1. obsoleterareA ditty, a little melody.

   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 [...].

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

2. obsoleteA word; a decree.

plural dits

1. The spoken representation of a dot in radio and telegraph Morse code.

plural dits

1. computingdecimal digit

1. Canadanot comparableobsoleteIndicator of a declared surname originating from Canadian French.

plural dits

1. UKslanggovernmentAn anecdote or yarn.

   Spinning dits comes with a few guidelines. The established dit litany is fairly simple: you must simply state a geographic datum for the dit, followed by the amount of alcohol that had been consumed immediately prior to the events […]

   2022, Paul Tremelling, Harrier: How To Be a Fighter Pilot

plural DITs

1. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of diet-induced thermogenesis.
2. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of digital intermediate technician.
3. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablebroadcastingInitialism of digital imaging technician.

   In 2022, nearly every movie and TV show has a dedicated DIT who works with the cinematographer and the director to figure out what an image might look like after it’s been run through a series of digital filters.

   2022 January 10, Emily VanDerWerff, “Colors: Where did they go? An investigation.”, in Vox