Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A small island.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A small island in a river or lake.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun An islet, or little isle, in a river or lake; an eyot.
  • noun Scot. Oat.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An island in a river, especially the River Thames in England.
  • noun Scotland An oat.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English eit, from Old English īgeth, diminutive of īg, īeg, island; see island.]

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Examples

  • With them, though the term aitía was employed, and even occasionally in several of the senses in which Aristotle later distinguished it, the commoner term was arché, with which the former was apparently generally interchangeable.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

  • Chacun voudrait que son voisin ait un peu de conscience, mais personne n'en veut pour soi-même.

    Escapade 2010

  • Chacun voudrait que son voisin ait un peu de conscience, mais personne n'en veut pour soi-même.

    French Word-A-Day: 2005

  • Chacun voudrait que son voisin ait un peu de conscience, mais personne n'en veut pour soi-même.

    voisin - French Word-A-Day 2005

  • Chacun voudrait que son voisin ait un peu de conscience, mais personne n'en veut pour soi-même.

    French Word-A-Day: 2005

  • "Sed ne illud quidem," ait, "quisquam negabit bonum esse omne quod iustum est contraque quod iniustum est malum."

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • "Ex his enim," ait, "quae concessa sunt, euenit eorum quidem qui uel sunt uel in possessione uel in prouectu uel in adeptione uirtutis, omnem quaecumque sit bonam, in improbitate uero manentibus omnem pessimam esse fortunam."

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • "Si igitur cognitor," ait, "resideres, cui supplicium inferendum putares, eine qui fecisset an qui pertulisset iniuriam?"

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • Orto deinde murmure "Non efficietis," ait, "ut solutos verear quos alligatos adduxi."

    A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885

  • Jacko bounded like a piece of indiarubber on to Gurney's head; next moment he was clinging to the edge of the mainsail, and the next he was comfortably seated on the top of the mast, where he proceeded calmly and leisurely to "ait" the biscuit in the face of its exasperated and rightful owner.

    The Red Eric 1859

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  • ait a small island especially in a river with barely a enough room to stand hence a(i)t??? Where it is at! A Heraclitian spot. A moreoxy (oxymoron)!?! Never the same place twice!

    December 27, 2006

  • JM hates aches on an ait - but you do get over it quickly!

    October 4, 2009