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Re: [at-l] Websters
- Subject: Re: [at-l] Websters
- Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 22:04:56 -0600
- Reply-to: tjfort@netdoor.com
Felix wrote:
> Guess what it was.
:)
it (īt) pronoun
1. Used to refer to that one previously mentioned. Used of a nonhuman
entity; an animate being whose sex is unspecified, unknown, or
irrelevant; a group of objects or individuals; or an abstraction:
polished the table until it shone; couldn't find out who it was; opened
the meeting by calling it to order.
2. Used as the subject of an impersonal verb: It is snowing.
3. a. Used as an anticipatory subject or object: Is it certain that they
will win? b. Used as an anticipatory subject to emphasize a term that is
not itself a subject: It was on Friday that all the snow fell.
4. Used to refer to a general condition or state of affairs: She
couldn't stand it.
5. Informal. Used to refer to something that is the best, the most
desirable, or without equal: He thinks he's it. That steak was really
it!
noun
1. Games. A player, as in tag, who attempts to find or catch the other
players.
2. An animal that has been neutered: The cat is an it.
[Middle English, from Old English hit.]
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To: "Felix" <AThiker@smithville.net>, "AT-list" <at-l@backcountry.net>