see|Whit
English

Pronunciation
AHD|wĭt, IPA|/wɪt/, SAMPA|/wIt/ or AHD|hwĭt, IPA|/�ɪt/, SAMPA|/WIt/ (in Scottish English and some English accents)
rhymes|ɪt

Homophones
wit (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Noun
en-noun

1. The smallest part or particle imaginable; an iota.

#:He worked tirelessly to collect and wind a ball of string eight feet around, and it matters not one whit.

Quotations
1602 : w:William Shakespeare|William Shakespeare, s:Hamlet|Hamlet , act V scene 2
:Not a whit.

Synonyms
(''smallest part imaginable): bit, iota, jot, scrap

Translations
Finnish: rahtunen, hitunen, hiukkanen

Category:English homophones

Scots

1. what|What.

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