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For this reason poets and artists developed the doctrine of Art for Art's Sake. The community did not appear to need them, so, tit for tat, they did not need the community. This being granted, it was no longer necessary or even desirable to make one's poetry either intelligible or sympathetic to the community.
Louis MacNeice

Meaning of "tit" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TIT

Perhaps of imitative origin, applied to small animate or inanimate objects; compare Icelandic tittr pin.
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PRONUNCIATION OF TIT

tit  [tɪt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TIT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tit is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TIT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of tit in the English dictionary

The first definition of tit in the dictionary is any of numerous small active Old World songbirds of the family Paridae, esp those of the genus Parus. They have a short bill and feed on insects and seeds. Other definition of tit is any of various similar small birds. Tit is also (archaic (or dialect) a worthless or worn-out horse; nag.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TIT

tit for tat
tit-for-tat
Tit.
titan
titanate
Titanesque
titaness
titania
titanic
titanic acid
titanic oxide
titanically
titaniferous
titanis
Titanism
titanite
titanium
titanium dioxide
titanium oxide

WORDS THAT END LIKE TIT

a bit
benefit
bit
circuit
credit
cut it
Detroit
dit
edit
exclusive OR circuit
exit
fit
for it
fruit
get it
go to it
have had it
hit
I have it
in the shit

Synonyms and antonyms of tit in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «tit» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TIT

Find out the translation of tit to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tit from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tit» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

针锋相对
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tit
570 millions of speakers

English

tit
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

तैसा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

حلمة الثدي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

синица
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tit
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

চামচিকা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mésange
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tit
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Meise
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

乳首
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

가슴
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tit
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ngựa con
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பதிலுக்குப்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रथिने
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

baştankara
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tetta
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

sikorka
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

синиця
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tit
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

tit
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

tit
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tit
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tit
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tit

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TIT»

The term «tit» is very widely used and occupies the 6.864 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TIT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «tit» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «tit» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tit

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QUOTES WITH «TIT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word tit.
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Louis MacNeice
For this reason poets and artists developed the doctrine of Art for Art's Sake. The community did not appear to need them, so, tit for tat, they did not need the community. This being granted, it was no longer necessary or even desirable to make one's poetry either intelligible or sympathetic to the community.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TIT»

Discover the use of tit in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tit and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim, ...
And unlike other books that consider place names, this is the first to reflect on both the real cartographic and political imbroglios they engender.
Mark Monmonier, 2008
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Tit-bits of Homoeopathy
The book is a compilation of the notes which the author jotted down through his forty years of practice.
T. P. Chatterjee, 2002
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Bearded Tit
This work shows how he became a card-carrying birdwatcher, observing his first skylark - peerless king of the summer sky - while stoned; his repeatedly failed attempts to get up at the crack of dawn like the real twitchers; and his flawed ...
Rory McGrath, 2009
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Weird Tit-for-Tat
Weird Tit-for-tat: the game of our lives is a welcome prequel to Minsos' 2002 book Culture Clubs: the art of living together. The earlier volume describes how all of us as quintessential game players adopt various strategies in our interactions ...
Susan Felicity Minsos, 2004
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A New Collection of Laws: Charters and Local Ordinances of ...
parties, in which interval, if the judge who referred it hath given sentence, it will be valid, L. 11. tit. 22. P. 3. [L. 11. tit. 22. P. 3.] From the second principle it follows, 1st, That the sentence given upon a thing not demanded or prayed for is not valid  ...
Joseph M. White, 1839
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Tit'haru!
Avigdor HaLevi Nebenzahl. trying to inform us of the chronological order of the creation, but rather, they were telling us that teshuvah was above and beyond the workings of this world. Under normal conditions, a person cannot perform an ...
Avigdor HaLevi Nebenzahl, 2004
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Game Theory and Public Policy
What we have found is that, if the probability of another round of play is great enough,8 in this example, a tit-for-tat rule by one player will make it unprofitable for the other player to deviate from cooperative behavior. If each player plays ...
Roger A. McCain, 2009
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House Don't Fall on Me
English translation of the autobiography, 'A Thig Na Tit Orm'. This is the story of a young boy growing up in the West Kerry Gaeltacht in the 1940s and 1950s.
Maidhc Dainín Ó Sé, 2007
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A Beautiful Math:: John Nash, Game Theory, and the Modern ...
A reputation as a tit-for-tat player will induce opponents to cooperate with you, knowing that if they do, you will. And if they don't, you won't. Alas, the story gets even more complicated. Just because tit for tat won Axelrod's tournament, that ...
Tom Siegfried, 2006
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A sermon [on Tit. i, 5] preached in St. Paul's
(O TIT. i. 5- i^r f/6/.r rtf»/f /f// in Creet, ftSwf Jljouldest jet in order the things, that are wanting, and ordain Eiders in every City, as I had anointed thee. T His Epistle is one of the three, not unfitly styled the Hierarchical Epistles, de statu ...
Edward Reynolds (bp. of Norwich.), 1678

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TIT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tit is used in the context of the following news items.
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New butterfly species 'Banded Tit' found in forests of Arunachal
The discovery of this butterfly christened as the Banded Tit (Hypolycaena Narada), was announced by state Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Wildlife and ... «Livemint, Jul 15»
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P'tit Quinquin review – acid black comedy in small-town France
Their bumblings are dispassionately observed by a local kid, P'tit Quinquin, ... At any rate, P'tit Quinquin revisits the themes and tropes of Dumont's early film ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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Krauthammer on Greek Debt Crisis: Greece Living Off The German …
Krauthammer on Greek Debt Crisis: Greece Living Off The German "Tit" For As Long As ... in this union because it gave them 25 years of living off the German tit. «RealClearPolitics, Jul 15»
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Mystery of Scotland's vanishing blue tit chicks
One theory is blue tits move into urban areas in the winter but the numbers involved cause shortages in the summer. Picture: Getty ... «Scotsman, Jul 15»
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Watch | The moment baby Blue Tit bird hatches from egg in man's …
This incredible footage shot by a Polish professor shows a baby Blue Tit bird slowly attempting to shake off its shell while he held it in his hand. The professor ... «Hindustan Times, Jun 15»
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Watch incredible moment a baby bird hatches in the palm of a man's …
A biologist has captured the precise moment a baby blue tit hatched in the palm of his hand. The tiny pink creature slowly emerges, trying to free itself from the ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jun 15»
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Fishermen's families in settlement over Tit Bonhomme sinking
The family of two Egyptian fisherman, who died when the Tit Bonhomme trawler sank in heavy seas outside Glandore Harbour in Co Cork, have settled their ... «RTE.ie, Mar 15»
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Dependants of fisherman awarded €262k over Tit Bonhomme death
€262,000 has been awarded to the three dependants of Egyptian fisherman Wael Mohamed, one of the five men killed when the Tit Bonhomme trawler hit an ... «RTE.ie, Mar 15»
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Tony Abbott? 'I think he's a tit', Miriam Margolyes tells Q&A
"I think he's a tit," was the five-word summation from Miriam Margolyes, the call-a-spade-a-spade actress whose response to the audience question was the ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Mar 15»
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Watch 'tit Rex and Chewbacchus live!
In what will be the next best thing to being there, NOLA.com will provide live Mardi Gras coverage of the downtown parades for the Krewe of 'tit Rex and the ... «NOLA.com, Feb 15»

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