Meaning

9 senses
  1. The egg of a louse.

    Nisse

    гни́даgnída

    гни́даhnýda

    egg or young of an insect parasitic on mammals especially a sucking louse; often attached to a hair or item of clothing

  2. A young louse.

  3. (Ireland, UK, broadly)A head louse regardless of its age.

  4. (UK, slang)A fool, a nitwit.

    деби́лdebíl

  5. A minor shortcoming; the object of a nitpick.

  6. A nitpicker.

  7. A candela per square metre.

    This brightness of this LCD screen is between 900 and 1000 nits.

    a luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source

  8. Synonym of nat (“logarithmic unit of information”).

  9. A player with an overly cautious and reactive playing style.

Examples

8 sentences
  1. The bed is infested with lice and nits.

  2. You can use a fine-toothed comb to check for nits.

  3. It is not the case now, but wasn't I the nit-picky type?

  4. He's always nit-picking.

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  5. Do all nits become lice?

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
egg of a louse:
Русский
By meaning 2
egg of a louse:
slang: fool, nitwit:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
egg of a louse:

Origin

From Middle English nite, from Old English hnitu, from Proto-Germanic *hnits (compare Dutc

From Middle English nite, from Old English hnitu, from Proto-Germanic *hnits (compare Dutch neet, German Nisse, Norwegian nit), from Proto-Indo-European *-níd- (compare Scottish Gaelic sneadh, Lithuanian gli̇̀nda, Polish gnida, Albanian thëri, Ancient Greek κονίς (konís)).

From Latin nitēre (“to shine”).

Possibly a blend of Neperian + digit, as is nepit.

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