Nit

Noun

 * 1) The egg of a louse.
 * 2) A young louse.
 * 3)  A fool, a nitwit.

Synonyms

 * dickies

Derived terms

 * nit-picking

Noun

 * 1) A candela per square meter.

Thesaurus
adverse criticism, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, captiousness, carping, cat flea, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, chigoe, cockroach, crab, criticism, dog flea, exception, faultfinding, flak, flea, grayback, hairsplitting, hit, home thrust, hostile criticism, hypercriticalness, hypercriticism, imputation, jigger, knock, louse, mite, nagging, nay, niggle, niggling, nit-picking, nix, no, nope, obloquy, overcriticalness, parasite, pestering, pettifogging, priggishness, quibble, quibbling, rap, red bug, reflection, reproachfulness, roach, sand flea, slam, stricture, swipe, taking exception, trichoschistism, vermin, weevil

Etymology 1
nite:, from hnitu:, from  (cf. Dutch neet:, German Nisse:, Norwegian nit:), from  (cf. Scottish Gaelic sneadh:, Lithuanian glìnda:, Polish gnida:, Albanian thëri:, Ancient Greek κονίς:)

Etymology 2
Latin nitere, to shine

Noun

 * Albanian: thëri
 * Arabic: (ṣúğba)
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: bartz
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 蟣子, 虮子
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Fijian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: ტილის კვერცხი
 * German:
 * Greek: κονίδα
 * Hawaiian: liha
 * Hungarian: serke
 * Icelandic:
 * Ilocano: lisa
 * Indonesian: telur kutu
 * Italian:
 * Ilocano: lisa
 * Indonesian: telur kutu
 * Italian:


 * Latin:
 * Maori:
 * Norwegian: gnett
 * Polish: f
 * Portuguese: lêndea
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: gnet
 * Tagalog:
 * Thai: (len)
 * Turkish: sirke
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Yup'ik: ingqiq
 * Tagalog:
 * Thai: (len)
 * Turkish: sirke
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Yup'ik: ingqiq
 * Yup'ik: ingqiq


 * Dutch:


 * Georgian: წილი


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Danish: ,


 * Finnish:
 * Georgian: სულელი, ტუტუცი

Anagrams

 * int, in't
 * ITN
 * tin, TIN

Noun

 * 1) night

Etymology
From nox:, noctem.

Noun

 * 1) thread

Derived terms

 * nitka

Noun

 * 1) rivet (mechanical fastener)

Etymology
Niete:.

Noun

 * 1) rivet

Etymology
From Niete:.

Noun

 * 1) thread
 * 2) flow, continuity

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) thread

Noun

 * 1) a rivet
 * 2) the action of breaking very hard
 * 3) a lottery ticket which gave no reward
 * 4) zeal

Synonyms

 * tvärnit
 * nitlott

Noun

 * 1) A staple
 * 2) A staple for office stapler<--um, so a staple? Mglovesfun-->