{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "ɪt" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (UK)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/uk/it.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (UK)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/uk/it.mp3" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/it.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/it.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English it, hit ( dialectal English hit (“it”)), from Old English hit (“it”), from Proto-Germanic *hit (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this, here”). Cognate with West Frisian it (“it”), Saterland Frisian et, 't (“it”), Low German it (“it”), Dutch het (“it”), German es (“it”), Latin cis, hic. More at he." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Pronoun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "The third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to an inanimate object, abstract entity, or non-human living thing.\nTake this book and put it on the shelf.\nTake each day as it comes.\nI found a poor little cat. It seems to be half starving.\n2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)\nIt is not a pen. It is a book.\nAudio (US)(file)" }, { "mean": "A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to a baby or child, especially of unknown gender.\nShe took the baby and held it in her arms.\n1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter IV:\nA child cannot quarrel with its elders, as I had done; cannot give its furious feelings uncontrolled play, as I had given mine, without experiencing afterwards the pang of remorse and the chill of reaction.\n1859, Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White‎:I could only encourage Mrs. Clements to speak next of Anne's early days \"There was nobody else, sir, to take the little helpless creature in hand,\" replied Mrs. Clements. \"The wicked mother seemed to hate it—as if the poor baby was in fault!—from the day it was born. My heart was heavy for the child, and I made the offer to bring it up as tenderly as if it was my own.\"\"Did Anne remain entirely under your care from that time?\"\"Not quite entirely, sir. Mrs. Catherick had her whims and fancies about it at times, and used now and then to lay claim to the child, as if she wanted to spite me for bringing it up.\n2005, Marcus Zusak, The Book Thief, part 10:\nThe sky was dripping. Like a tap that a child has tried its hardest to turn off but hasn't quite managed." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) An affectionate third-person singular personal pronoun.\n1890, George Manville Fenn, Black Blood\n\" 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.\n1897, Olive Pratt Rayner (Grant Allen), The Type-Writer Girl\nShe 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.”\n1905, The Harvard Monthly (volumes 39-40, page 183)\nWILLIAM: 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!" }, { "mean": "(chiefly derogatory, offensive) A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to an animate referent who is transgender or is neither female nor male.\n1993, Bruce Coville, Aliens Ate My Homework, pages 72–73:\n\"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." }, { "mean": "Used to refer to someone being identified, often on the phone, but not limited to this situation.\nIt's me. John.\nIs it her?\nIt is I, your king." }, { "mean": "The impersonal pronoun, used without referent as the subject of an impersonal verb or statement (known as the dummy pronoun, dummy it or weather it).\nIt is nearly 10 o’clock.\nIt’s 10:45.\nIt’s very cold today.\nIt’s lonely without you." }, { "mean": "The impersonal pronoun, used without referent, or with unstated but contextually implied referent, in various short idioms or expressions.\nrough it\nlive it up\nstick it out", "submean": [ "Referring to a desirable quality or ability, or quality of being successful, fashionable or in vogue.\nAfter all these years, she still has it.\n2021, Seth Wickersham, It's Better to Be Feared: The New England Patriots Dynasty and the Pursuit of Greatness, Liveright Publishing, →ISBN:Later that night, a friend told Brady, “Still got it.” “Never lost it,” he replied. THAT WAS MOSTLY TRUE. But the 2013 season ended with the Patriots coaches wondering whether Brady's skills were in a subtle but irrevocable decline ", "Referring to sexual intercourse or other sexual activity.\nI caught them doing it.\nAre you getting it regularly?\n1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, London: Heinemann, →OCLC, page 14:The great advantage of English public school life lies of course in the quality of tutelage it provides. Adrian had received a decent and broad English education in the area of his loins... He had quickly happened upon the truth which many lonely contemporaries would never discover, the truth that everybody, simply everybody, was panting for it and could, with patience, be shown that they were panting for it. So Adrian grabbed what was to hand and had the time of his life genitally—focusing exclusively on his own gender of course, for this was 1973 and girls had not yet been invented." ] }, { "mean": "(uncountable) Sex appeal, especially that which goes beyond physical appearance.\n1904, Rudyard Kipling, \"Mrs Bathurst\"\n'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\n1927, Dorothy Parker:\nAnd she had It. It, hell; she had Those." }, { "mean": "The impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject, or less commonly, object; known as the dummy pronoun (according to some definitions), anticipatory it or, more formally in linguistics, a syntactic expletive. The delayed subject is commonly a to-infinitive, a gerund, or a noun clause introduced by a subordinating conjunction.\nIt is easy to see how she would think that. (with the infinitive clause headed by to see)\n1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, , published 1853, →OCLC:\"I know now!\" said I. \"I have seen this in your face a long while.\"\"No; have you really, my dear?\" said he. \"What a Dame Durden it is to read a face!\"\nI find it odd that you would say that. (with the noun clause introduced by that)\nIt is hard seeing you so sick. (with the gerund seeing)\nHe saw to it that everyone would vote for him. (with the noun clause introduced by that)\nIt is not clear if the report was true. (with the noun clause introduced by if)" }, { "mean": "All or the end; something after which there is no more.\nAre there more students in this class, or is this it?\nThat's it—I'm not going to any more candy stores with you." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) Followed by an omitted and understood relative pronoun: That which; what.\n1643, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, II.2:\nIn briefe, I am content, and what should providence add more? Surely this is it wee call Happinesse, and this doe I enjoy ." } ] }, { "name": "Determiner", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(obsolete) Its.\n1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Leviticus 25:5: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.replaced by \"its\" in the 1769 Oxford Standard Text" } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "One who is neither a he nor a she; a creature; a dehumanized being.\n1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1\nHis master glanced up quickly, and removed the letter from his hands. \"I'm surprised at you, James,\" he remarked severely. \"A secretary should control itself. Don't forget that the perfect secretary is an it: an automatic machine—a thing incapable of feeling.…\"\n1995, Neil Weiner, Sharon E. Robinson Kurpius, Shattered innocence (page 8)\nToo often, children become an \"it\" in their homes and their humanness is devalued." }, { "mean": "The person who chases and tries to catch the other players in the playground game of tag.\nIn the next game, Adam and Tom will be it…\n2000, Katherine T. Thomas, Amelia M. Lee, Jerry R. Thomas, Physical education for children (page 464)\nWhen there are only two children left who haven't been tagged, I will stop the game, and we will start over with those children starting as the Its." }, { "mean": "(Britain, uncountable) The game of tag.\nLet's play it at breaktime." }, { "mean": "Alternative letter-case form of It (“force in the vitalist approach of Georg Groddeck”)\n1988, Frederic D. Homer, The Interpretation of Illness, Purdue University Press, →ISBN, page 27:For Groddeck, the it is given, unknowable, and he does not try to conceptualize drives or forces. Early life and sexuality permeate" }, { "mean": "Alternative letter-case form of It (“the id”)\n2015, Charis Charalampous, Rethinking the Mind-Body Relationship in Early Modern Literature, Philosophy, and Medicine: The Renaissance of the Body, Routledge, →ISBN, page 36: thus reversing the roles of the I and the it, the former now occupying the place of the latter and vice versa. An awareness of our bisubjective nature (it and me) requires thus an I as a third term that slides between" } ] }, { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(colloquial) Most fashionable, popular, or in vogue.\n2007 September, Vibe, volume 15, number 9, page 202:\nGoing away for the weekend and feel the need to profile en route? This is the \"it\" bag.\n2010, David Germain, Hilarious ‘Kick-Ass’ delivers bloody fun, Associated Press\nWith Hit Girl, Moretz is this year's It Girl, alternately sweet, savage and scary.\n2021 October 4, Robert P, “Are Golden Goose Sneakers Worth It? My Honest Review Of Golden Goose Sneakers”, in Gold Talk Club‎:These Italian made sneakers quickly became an it shoe and the trend is not going anywhere any time soon!" } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "대명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "" ] }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "결정자", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "형용사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }