IT
\ˈɪt], \ˈɪt], \ˈɪ_t]\
Definitions of IT
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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As a demonstrative, especially at the beginning of a sentence, pointing to that which is about to be stated, named, or mentioned, or referring to that which apparent or well known; as, I saw it was John.
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As an indefinite nominative for a impersonal verb; as, it snows; it rains.
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As a substitute for such general terms as, the state of affairs, the condition of things, and the like; as, how is it with the sick man?
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As an indefinite object after some intransitive verbs, or after a substantive used humorously as a verb; as, to foot it (i. e., to walk).
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As a demonstrative, especially at the beginning of a sentence, pointing to that which is about to be stated, named, or mentioned, or referring to that which apparent or well known; as, I saw it was John.
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As an indefinite nominative for a impersonal verb; as, it snows; it rains.
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As a substitute for such general terms as, the state of affairs, the condition of things, and the like; as, how is it with the sick man?
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As an indefinite object after some intransitive verbs, or after a substantive used humorously as a verb; as, to foot it (i. e., to walk).
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The pron. of the 3d pers. sing. neut. nom. or obj.; the thing already spoken of. Note.-It in a sentence stands instead of, and refers to, a place, animal, thing, quality, or clause, but often to nothing definite, as, it rains.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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pron. [Anglo-Saxon, Latin, Sanskrit] An impersonal pronoun, usually regarded as a demonstrative, but properly the neuter of he, and applied to objects without sex, to things, or to persons treated as things ; - a substitute for any word of the neuter gender ; - a substitute for the state or condition of a person or affair ; - the nominative case to an impersonal verb ; - the nominative to is or was, followed by a personal pronoun or name of a person.
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