dite

See dight.

• IPA^(key): /daɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -aɪt

dite (third-person singular simple present dites, present participle diting, simple past and past participle dited)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To prepare for use or action; to make ready.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 18:

     His hideous club aloft he dites.

Variant of doit.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /daɪt/

dite (plural dites)

1. (US, Maine) A trifling quantity or amount.

   A “dite” is a Maine measurement, somewhere between a smidge and a bit.

   • 2019, John Gould, This Trifling Distinction: Reminiscences from Down East, Down East Books, →ISBN, page 95:

     Two carpenters were moving a small building onto a new foundation, and one of them says, “Shove it my way a dite!” The other shoved, but shoved a little too hard. “Nope — too much! I said a dite!”

   • 1993, Ralph Moody, The Fields of Home, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 80:

     “Set your calipers a dite bigger’n the hole so’s they’ll fit good and snug.”

• -tide, DIET, Diet, diet, diët, edit, edit., tide, tied

• IPA^(key): /dit/

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dite f sg

1. feminine singular of dit

• “dite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• édit

dite

1. inflection of ditar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

dite

1. inflection of dire:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

• tedi

From French du thé.

• IPA^(key): /dite/

dite

1. tea

From French thé.

dite

1. tea

• Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

dite

1. inflection of ditar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

From French thé.

dite

1. tea

• Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français

dite

1. second-person singular imperative of decir combined with te