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
- 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
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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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