ait

plural aits · alternative eight · alternative eyet · alternative eyot

1. An island in a river, especially the River Thames in England.

   1833, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life trans. John Oxenford, book 9, Striking richness of vegetation which follows in the windings of the Rhine, marks its banks, islands, and aits.

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   The ait where the osiers grew.

   1649, R. Hodges, unknown title

   ‘[H]e the said seigneur, in quality of Lord Paramount, is to all intents and purposes invested with the sole right and property of the river running through his fief, together with […] all the islands and aits within it.’

   1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 148

   Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows.

   1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC

   Synonyms: eyot

plural aits

1. ScotlandAn oat.

   Let husky wheat the haughs adorn, An' aits set up their awnie horn,

   1785, Robbie Burns, Scotch Drink

1. alternativeAlternative form of aight.

plural AITs

1. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablemedicineInitialism of alloimmune thrombocytopenia: a too-low number of platelets in the blood, especially of a newborn or fetus, due to alloimmunity.

   Synonyms: neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia, NAITP, NAIT, feto-maternal alloimmune thrombocytopenia, FMAITP, FMAIT, alloimmune thrombocytopenia

2. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of allergen immunotherapy.
3. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of auditory integration training.
4. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of autoignition temperature.

1. abbreviationinitialismengineeringInitialism of Austrian Institute of Technology (Austria's largest Research and Technology Organization (RTO)).