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Definition
pron (English)
1. (rare) A third-person singular pronoun used to refer to an unspecified person.Examples: "All these things inclined her, step by step, to submit to the new discovery, whether Queen Victoria's or another's, that each man and each woman has another allotted to it for life, whom it supports, by whom it is supported, till death them do part."; "She had never seen that each human being was different, would react differently, had its own peculiar idiosyncrasies."rare
2. (obsolete) An affectionate third-person singular personal pronoun.Examples: ""[…] It's my belief that you don't know your own mind." "I don't, dear," said Hulda, nestling to him. "Why, what a puss it is!" cried Sir Philip, kissing her tenderly."; "1897, Olive Pratt Rayner (Grant Allen), The Type-Writer Girl She caught my eye, and laughed. “What a funny girl it is!” she cried. “You are so comical! But it isn't the least use your trying to frighten me. I can see the twinkle in your big black eyes; and I like you in spite of your trying to be horrid. Do you know, I liked you from the first moment I saw you.”"; "WILLIAM: You don't like me better? CLARA: Indeed I do. WILLIAM (laughing): Well, what a dear girl it is. CLARA (flinging her arms around his neck with suddenly disclosed passion): Oh, I do love you!"obsolete
3. (chiefly derogatory, offensive) A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to an animate referent who is transgender or non-binary.Examples: "1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure Next morning bought her [a drag queen] breakfast & she asked for a couple dollars to get a drink. Gave her $3, walked her to a bar. […] Some teenage boys watched us walking & began shouting. When I left her at the bar door & kissed her goodbye, they began shouting "Ugh! You kissed it!!""; ""Oh, don't be silly. I am neither male nor female. I'm a farfel." […] "It. Refer to me as an it." "That seems pretty rude," I said nervously. "Not as rude as calling me a he or a she," it said."; "The individual known as Maia Arson Crimew was born as Tillie Kottmann on 7 August 1999 in Lucerne, Switzerland. Kottmann/Crimew has expressed on its website a desire to be referred to by ‘it’ pronouns (Crimew 2021), so this article will interchangeably refer to it by its preferred terms as either ‘Maia Arson Crimew’ or ‘it’. Crimew is a well-known figure among hacking and cybersecurity circles. It has either taken credit for or been attributed to hacks from several major multinational corporations, including […]"derogatoryoffensive
4. (uncountable) Sex appeal, especially that which goes beyond physical appearance.Examples: "'Tisn't beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just It. Some women'll stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street"; "And she had It. It, hell; she had Those."uncountable
5. (obsolete) Followed by an omitted and understood relative pronoun: That which; what.Examples: "In briefe, I am content, and what should providence add more? Surely this is it [= it which] wee call Happinesse, and this doe I enjoy [...]."obsolete
det (English)
1. (obsolete) Its.Examples: "That which groweth of it owne accord of thy haruest, thou ſhalt not reape, neither gather the grapes of thy Uine vndreſſed: for it is a yeere of reſt vnto the land."obsolete
noun (English)
1. (British) A game of tag.Examples: "Let's play it at breaktime."British
2. (informal) A desirable characteristic, as being fashionable.Examples: "Man, he's really got it."; "She's the it girl, at least for this Fall."informal
3. (informal) Sexual intercourse.Examples: "OMG, they were doing it in the storage room."informal
4. (informal) Sex appeal.Examples: "She really has it going on."informal
adj (English)
1. (colloquial) Most fashionable, popular, or in vogue.Examples: "Going away for the weekend and feel the need to profile en route? This is the "it" bag."; "With Hit Girl, Moretz is this year's It Girl, alternately sweet, savage and scary."; "These Italian made sneakers quickly became an it shoe and the trend is not going anywhere any time soon!"colloquialnot-comparable
noun (English)
1. (informatics) Initialism of information technology.Examples: "Hello, IT. Have you tried turning it off and turning it on again? Ok. Well, are you sure that it's plugged in?"; "Sources tell WIRED that Bobba, Coristine, Farritor, and Shaotran all currently have working GSA emails and A-suite level clearance at the GSA, which means that they work out of the agency’s top floor and have access to all physical spaces and IT systems, according a source with knowledge of the GSA’s clearance protocols."Synonyms: info techabbreviationalt-ofcountableinitialismuncountable
2. (geology) Initialism of intercept-time method.abbreviationalt-ofcountableinitialismuncountable
adj (English)
1. (medicine, pharmacology) Initialism of intrathecal.abbreviationalt-ofinitialismnot-comparable
This word may be considered offensive or sensitive in some contexts.
Definition source: Wiktionary