Crossword clues for wite
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wit \Wit\ (w[i^]t), v. t. & i. [inf. (To) Wit; pres. sing. Wot; pl. Wite; imp. Wist(e); p. p. Wist; p. pr. & vb. n. Wit(t)ing. See the Note below.] [OE. witen, pres. ich wot, wat, I know (wot), imp. wiste, AS. witan, pres. w[=a]t, imp. wiste, wisse; akin to OFries. wita, OS. witan, D. weten, G. wissen, OHG. wizzan, Icel. vita, Sw. veta, Dan. vide, Goth. witan to observe, wait I know, Russ. vidiete to see, L. videre, Gr. ?, Skr. vid to know, learn; cf. Skr. vid to find. ????. Cf. History, Idea, Idol, -oid, Twit, Veda, Vision, Wise,
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& n., Wot.] To know; to learn. ``I wot and wist alway.''
--Chaucer.Note: The present tense was inflected as follows; sing. 1st pers. wot; 2d pers. wost, or wot(t)est; 3d pers. wot, or wot(t)eth; pl. witen, or wite. The following variant forms also occur; pres. sing. 1st & 3d pers. wat, woot; pres. pl. wyten, or wyte, weete, wote, wot; imp. wuste (Southern dialect); p. pr. wotting. Later, other variant or corrupt forms are found, as, in Shakespeare, 3d pers. sing. pres. wots.
Brethren, we do you to wit [make you to know] of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia.
--2 Cor. viii. 1.Thou wost full little what thou meanest.
--Chaucer.We witen not what thing we prayen here.
--Chaucer.When that the sooth in wist.
--Chaucer.Note: This verb is now used only in the infinitive, to wit, which is employed, especially in legal language, to call attention to a particular thing, or to a more particular specification of what has preceded, and is equivalent to namely, that is to say.
Wite \Wite\, n. [AS. w[=i]te punishment. ????. See Wite, v.]
Blame; reproach. [Obs. or Scot.]
--Chaucer.
Wite \Wite\, v. t. [AS. w[=i]tan; akin to D. wijten, G.
verweisen, Icel. v[=i]ta to mulct, and E. wit; cf. AS.
w[=i]tan to see, L. animadvertere to observe, to punish.
????. See Wit, v.]
To reproach; to blame; to censure; also, to impute as blame.
[Obs. or Scot.]
--Spenser.
Though that I be jealous, wite me not.
--Chaucer.
There if that I misspeak or say,
Wite it the ale of Southwark, I you pray.
--Chaucer.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 alt. 1 (context chiefly Scotland English) To blame; regard as guilty, fault, accuse 2 To reproach, censure, mulct 3 To observe, keep, guard, preserve, protect vb. 1 (context chiefly Scotland English) To blame; regard as guilty, fault, accuse 2 To reproach, censure, mulct 3 To observe, keep, guard, preserve, protect Etymology 2
n. (label en obsolete outside Scotland) blame, responsibility, guilt. Etymology 3
vb. (context obsolete or poetic English) To go, go away, depart, perish, vanish
Usage examples of "wite".
Daar steeg zij af, bond den bles aan een jongen beuk, en daalde, haar sleep over den arm, in de groote kom van zand, die men op de Horze algemeen den Witten Kuil noemde.
Donderdag trouwden Georges en Lili en men was het er over eens, dat men haar een allerliefst, fijn bruidje vond, zoo als men haar in de kerk aan de zijde van haar bruidegom zag binnentreden, zeer bleek en blond in den witten nevel van haar sluier, haar lange sleep van zwaar blank moiré door Ben Van Raat en Nico Van Rijssel, als door twee miniatuurpagetjes, getorst, en gevolgd door den heer De Woude en mevrouw Verstraeten, den heer Verstraeten en Emilie, door de bruidsjonkers en bruidsmeisjes, door de getuigen en de overige leden der familie.
I seen her oncet or twice in town and its a shaym on a count of she was a bout the purttiest gal black or wite I ever seen.
I know my poy Malcolm will pe laying on ta top of his old cranfather to keep him waarm, and let peoples pe know tat ta plind piper will be lying town pelow wite awake and fery uncomfortable?
God it wote, Hath brought you thus upon the viretote: By Saint Neot, ye wot well what I mean.
Inspired by earlier works of Duff, Hull, Townsend, and building on insights of Schwarz, the Indian physicist Ashok Sen, and others, Witten announced a strategy for transcending the perturbative understanding of string theory.
Meanwhile, Witten was making significant headway on reformulating the weak link he had earlier identified.
Zij kwamen druipnat te voorschijn, met bemodderde schoenen en handen, vuil van het natte zand van den Witten Kuil, terwijl het onophoudelijk druppelde van de verslapte randen hunner strooien hoeden.
Witten and others argued, it is approximated by the long-neglected eleven-dimensional supergravity quantum field theory.
In 1984, Philip Candelas of the University of Texas at Austin, Gary Horowitz and Andrew Strominger of the University of California at Santa Barbara, and Edward Witten showed that a particular class of six-dimensional geometrical shapes can meet these conditions.
A crucial observation, central to the second superstring revolution initiated by Witten and others in 1995, is that string theory actually includes ingredients with a variety of different dimensions: two-dimensional Frisbee-like constituents, three-dimensional blob-like constituents, and even more exotic possibilities to boot.
As argued by Witten, this assumption has made the fundamental ingredients look and behave like one-dimensional strings even though they actually have a hidden, second spatial dimension.
Aspinwall, Morrison, and I had almost daily impromptu meetings with Witten at which he would show us new insights following from his approach.
Inspired by earlier works of Duff, Hull, Townsend, and building on insights of Schwarz, the Indian physicist Ashok Sen, and others, Witten announced a strategy for transcending the perturbative understanding of string theory.
Witten show that physical characteristics such as the number of families of string vibrations and the types of particles within each family are unaffected by these processes.