WIT
\wˈɪt], \wˈɪt], \w_ˈɪ_t]\
Definitions of WIT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 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
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mental ability; "he's got plenty of brains but no common sense"
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a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
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a witty amusing person who makes jokes
By Princeton University
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mental ability; "he's got plenty of brains but no common sense"
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a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To know; to learn.
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Mind; intellect; understanding; sense.
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Felicitous association of objects not usually connected, so as to produce a pleasant surprise; also. the power of readily combining objects in such a manner.
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A person of eminent sense or knowledge; a man of genius, fancy, or humor; one distinguished for bright or amusing sayings, for repartee, and the like.
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A mental faculty, or power of the mind; - used in this sense chiefly in the plural, and in certain phrases; as, to lose one's wits; at one's wits' end, and the like.
By Oddity Software
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To know; to learn.
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Mind; intellect; understanding; sense.
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Felicitous association of objects not usually connected, so as to produce a pleasant surprise; also. the power of readily combining objects in such a manner.
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A person of eminent sense or knowledge; a man of genius, fancy, or humor; one distinguished for bright or amusing sayings, for repartee, and the like.
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ing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of
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A mental faculty, or power of the mind; - used in this sense chiefly in the plural, and in certain phrases; as, to lose one's wits; at one's wits' end, and the like.
By Noah Webster.
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The faculty of expressing the amusing, clever, or comical or the keen perception and cleverly apt expression of connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure. (From Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Mind; sense; knowledge; mental faculty or power; the power of combining ideas or words so as to produce a laughable effect; mental quickness; one who possesses power to make others laugh.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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(B.) To know.
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Understanding (so in B.): a mental faculty (chiefly in pl.): the power of combining ideas with a ludicrous effect: the result of this power: one who has wit.
By Daniel Lyons
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Intelligence; faculty of combining ideas so as to produce a striking or amusing effect; the exercise of this faculty; one who has wit.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To be or become aware of; learn.
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Sudden and ingenious association of ideas or words, causing surprize and merriment.
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A witty person; formerly, a person of learning or genius.
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The reasoning power or faculty; sense.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Originally, intellect; the understanding or mental powers; the association of ideas in a manner natural, but unusual and striking, so as to produce surprise joined with pleasure; the faculty of, or a turn for, associating ideas in this manner; a man of genius; sense; judgment; a man given to witty remark; power of invention; faculty of the mind; soundness of mind or judgment.
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To know; used only in the infinitive, to wit, that is, to say.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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To be informed; to be known; used now only in the phrase to wit, signifying "namely," "that is to say"; also in a few compounds, as outwit.
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The power or faculty of knowing; understanding; intellect; the power of associating ideas in a manner new and unexpected, and so connected as to produce pleasant surprise; a man who excels in giving expression to unusual and striking ideas in such a manner as to create amusement or pleasant surprise; sound mind; ingenuity.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
