Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - whit
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n. a particle; a least possible amount (not a whit better). Phrases and idioms every whit the whole; wholly. no (or never a or not a) whit not at all. Etymology: earlier w(h)yt app. alt. f. WIGHT in phr. no wight etc. WHIT adj. connected with, belonging to, or following Whit Sunday (Whit Monday; Whit weekend). Phrases and idioms Whit Sunday the seventh Sunday after Easter, commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost (Acts 2). Etymology: OE Hwita Sunnand{aelig}g, lit. white Sunday, prob. f. the white robes of the newly-baptized at Pentecost ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. относящийся к празднику Троицы Whit Sunday —- Троицын день, Троица Whit Monday —- Духов день Whit week —- неделя после Троицы whit 1. книж. чуточка, йота not a whit, no whit, never a whit —- ни чуточки, ни капельки, ни на йоту not a whit of truth in the statement —- в заявлении нет ни капли истины not a whit better —- ничуть не лучше I don't care a whit —- мне совершенно безразлично every whit —- целиком и полностью every whit as good as this —- ничуть не хуже этого he doesn't seem a whit concerned —- он, видимо, совсем не беспокоится 2. фюйть-фюйть (свист птицы) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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Sunday noun eccl. пятидесятница WHIT I Whit adj. eccl. whit Monday - духов день; whit Sunday - троицын день II noun капелька, йота; he is not a (или no) whit better - ему ничуть не лучше ...Англо-русский словарь
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1. You say not a whit or not one whit to emphasize that something is not the case at all. (mainly FORMAL or OLD-FASHIONED) He cared not a whit for the social, political or moral aspects of literature... PHRASE: with neg, PHR after v c darkgreen]emphasis 2. Whit means the same as Whitsun. The orchestra gave its first performance on Whit Monday. N-UNCOUNT: usu N n ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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hobby abbr. Whittle funny abbr. We Hate Ichidai Takahashi NASDAQ abbr. Whittman Hart, Inc. ...English abbreviation dictionary
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- 12c., na whit "no amount," from O.E. nan wiht, from wiht "amount," originally "person, human being" (see wight). WHITE - O.E. hwit, from P.Gmc. *khwitaz, from PIE *kwintos/*kwindos "bright." Meaning "morally pure" was in O.E. Association with royalist causes is late 18c. Slang sense of "honorable, fair" is 1877, Amer.Eng. The racial sense (adj.) of "of those races (chiefly European or of European extraction) characterized by light complexion" is first recorded 1604. The noun in this sense ("white man, person of a race distinguished by light complexion") is from 1671. White supremacy attested from 1902; white flight is from 1967; white trash is black slang first attested 1855. White elephant (1851) is from supposed custom of the King of Siam in showing his disfavor of a courtier by giving him care of one of the sacred albino elephants, a high honor, but ruinously expensive. Whitecap is 1668 of birds, 1773 of breaking waves, 1818 of mushrooms, and 1891 for "one of a self-constituted band in U.S. who committed outrages under pretense of regulating public morals." [O.E.D.] White hope came into sporting use c.1912 in reference to the quest for a white man capable of beating champion pugilist Jack Johnson. White heat "state of intense or extreme emotion" first recorded 1839. White-collar is from 1919. Whitewash (v.) in figurative sense of "to cover up, conceal" is from 1762. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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