Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word CHIT
CHIT
Definitions of CHIT
- A child or babe; a young, small, or insignificant person or animal.
- A pert or sassy young person, especially a young woman.
- The embryonic growing bud of a plant
- A small tool used in cleaving laths. Compare: froe.
- (obsolete) An excrescence on the body, as a wart or a pimple.
- (intransitive, British, dialect) To sprout; to shoot, as a seed or plant.
- (transitive, British, dialect) To damage the outer layers of a seed such as Lupinus or Sophora to assist germination.
- (transitive, British, dialect) To initiate sprouting of tubers, such as potatoes, by placing them in special environment, before planting into the soil.
- (dated) A small sheet or scrap of paper with a hand-written note as a reminder or personal message.
- (historical) A voucher or token coin used in payrolls under the truck system.
- (pharmacology) A small sheet of paper on which is written a prescription to be filled; a scrip.
- (gaming) A smaller cardboard counter generally used not to directly represent something but for another, more transient, purpose such as tracking or randomization.
- (India, China) A signed voucher or memorandum of a small debt, as for food and drinks at a club.
- (US, slang) A debt or favor owed in return for a prior loan or favor granted, especially a political favor.
- (US, slang, euphemistic) Shit.
Number of letters
4
Is palindrome
No
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Examples of Using CHIT in a Sentence
- Old folk names, no longer used, include "chit lark", "peet lark", "tit lark", and "titling"; these refer to its small size and superficial similarity to a lark.
- These societies are still widespread in many parts of the developing world, where they are referred to as ROSCAs (rotating savings and credit associations), ASCAs (accumulating savings and credit associations), burial societies, chit funds, etc.
- Aleutian terns also have a call that is similar to call of Red-necked Phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus), which is a short, sharp "chit" , possibly uttered during social contact.
- In September 2018, he resigned from the NCP over colleague Pawar's clean chit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Rafale deal controversy, and re-joined the INC the following month.
- In World War I, British Royal Flying Corps pilots in India and Mesopotamia carried a "goolie chit" printed in four local languages that promised a reward to anyone who would bring an unharmed British aviator back to British lines.
- The following year, he and Mohsin applied for a publishing licence under Mohsin's name, since Sethi was "too notorious an offender" to be use the application, Mohsin told him that she intended to publish "a social chit chat thing, you know, with lots of pictures of parties and weddings".
- In 1894, economic historian Edith Simcox mentioned that chit fund lotteries were used to raise money for special events like weddings in South India.
- Randomization or chit drawing, as in Air Baron, where at the start of each round, one color-coded chit per player is placed in a cup.
- Each of the organs is considered "alive" when manned by a matching chit called a Snorg; the Snit player wins by successfully Kicking (via dice-roll) a certain percentage of Snorgs to death, or by finding "The Spark Of Life" chit, which is hidden by the Bolotomus player under a chosen Snorg at the start of the game, along with three explosive decoys.
- Their dawn song consists of a series of chit notes, accelerating to higher-pitched chit-its and often accelerating further but descending in pitch again to fade out in a churring trill trrrrrrrr.
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