Meaning of it | Babel Free

Definitions

1. she, her (used subjectively and after prepositions)
2. The third-person singular neuter personal pronoun used to refer to an inanimate object, abstract entity, or non-human living thing.
3. it (used subjectively and after prepositions to refer to feminine nouns)
4. A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to a baby or child, especially of unknown gender.
5. information technology
6. A third-person singular pronoun used to refer to an unspecified person.
   rare
7. An animal that has been neutered: The cat is an it.
8. An affectionate third-person singular personal pronoun.
   obsolete
9. information technology.
10. A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to an animate referent who is transgender or non-binary.
    derogatory, offensive
11. belonging to it. The bird has hurt its wing. sy ضَمير المُلكيَّه لِغَير العاقِل негов dele/a svůj, svá, své sein, ihr dets; dens; sit; sin του su, sus selle حالت مالکیت؛ مال آن -nsa, -nsä, sen son, sa, sesשלו, שלה उसका, इसका njegov -a, -e; -ja, -je; -át; -ét stb. miliknya þess, sinn, sitt suo, sua, suoi, sue それの 그것의 jo, jos, savo tā; tās; savs miliknya zijnsin, dens, detsswój, jego د هغه مال dele/a lui, ei, lor свои; его, ее svoj, svoja, svoje njegov; svoj svoje sin, sitt, dess ของมัน onun 它的...
12. Refers to someone being identified, often on the phone, but not limited to this situation.
13. pron. neut. it is → eso es; it'scontr. of it and is;
14. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent as the subject of an impersonal verb or statement (known as the dummy pronoun, dummy it or weather it).
15. 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; an action; or an abstraction: polished the table until it shone; couldn't find out who it was; opened the meeting by calling it to order.
16. Used as the subject of an impersonal verb: It is snowing.
17. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent, or with unstated but contextually implied referent, in various short idioms or expressions.
18. Used as an anticipatory subject or object: Is it certain that they will win? We found it hard to believe that the car was that old.
19. Referring to a desirable quality or ability, or quality of being successful, fashionable or in vogue.
20. Used to refer to a general condition or state of affairs: She couldn't stand it.
21. Referring to sexual intercourse or other sexual activity.
22. Used to refer to a crucial situation or culmination: This is it—the rivals are finally face to face. That's it! I won't tolerate any more foolishness.
23. Sex appeal, especially that which goes beyond physical appearance.
    uncountable
24. The impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject, or less commonly, object; known as the dummy pronoun (according to some definitions), anticipatory it or, more formally in linguistics, a syntactic expletive. The delayed subject is commonly a to-infinitive, a gerund, or a noun clause introduced by a subordinating conjunction.
25. All or the end; something after which there is no more.
26. Followed by an omitted and understood relative pronoun: That which; what.
    obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“Take this book and put it on the shelf.”

“Take each day as it comes.”

“I found a poor little cat. It seems to be half starving.”

“It is not a pen. It is a book.”

“The Nansi District was formerly known as the "Jiaba Community", and was one of the early territories of the Taivoan, as well as where the Zou resided. Later, due to the invasion of the Siraya tribe, the community members later migrated out to regions such as Gongguan, Paoziliao (Kaohsiung County), and Daciouyuan. During the time of the Japanese occupation, because of its location at the west of the "Nanzihsian River", it was therefore renamed Nansi ("si" meaning "west"). A village and village hall were established here, under the governance of Sinhua District of Tainan Province. After the war in 1945, it was renamed Nansi Township, and was changed to Nansi District after the merging of Tainan City and County on December 25th, 2010.”

“She took the baby and held it in her arms.”

“A child cannot quarrel with its elders, as I had done; cannot give its furious feelings uncontrolled play, as I had given mine, without experiencing afterwards the pang of remorse and the chill of reaction.”

“I could only encourage Mrs. Clements to speak next of Anne's early days […] "There was nobody else, sir, to take the little helpless creature in hand," replied Mrs. Clements. "The wicked mother seemed to hate it—as if the poor baby was in fault!—from the day it was born. My heart was heavy for the child, and I made the offer to bring it up as tenderly as if it was my own." "Did Anne remain entirely under your care from that time?" "Not quite entirely, sir. Mrs. Catherick had her whims and fancies about it at times, and used now and then to lay claim to the child, as if she wanted to spite me for bringing it up.”

“The sky was dripping. Like a tap that a child has tried its hardest to turn off but hasn't quite managed.”

“All these things inclined her, step by step, to submit to the new discovery, whether Queen Victoria's or another's, that each man and each woman has another allotted to it for life, whom it supports, by whom it is supported, till death them do part.”

“She had never seen that each human being was different, would react differently, had its own peculiar idiosyncrasies.”

“"[…] It's my belief that you don't know your own mind." "I don't, dear," said Hulda, nestling to him. "Why, what a puss it is!" cried Sir Philip, kissing her tenderly.”

“1897, Olive Pratt Rayner (Grant Allen), The Type-Writer Girl She caught my eye, and laughed. “What a funny girl it is!” she cried. “You are so comical! But it isn't the least use your trying to frighten me. I can see the twinkle in your big black eyes; and I like you in spite of your trying to be horrid. Do you know, I liked you from the first moment I saw you.””

“WILLIAM: You don't like me better? CLARA: Indeed I do. WILLIAM (laughing): Well, what a dear girl it is. CLARA (flinging her arms around his neck with suddenly disclosed passion): Oh, I do love you!”

“1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure Next morning bought her [a drag queen] breakfast & she asked for a couple dollars to get a drink. Gave her $3, walked her to a bar. […] Some teenage boys watched us walking & began shouting. When I left her at the bar door & kissed her goodbye, they began shouting "Ugh! You kissed it!!"”

“"Oh, don't be silly. I am neither male nor female. I'm a farfel." […] "It. Refer to me as an it." "That seems pretty rude," I said nervously. "Not as rude as calling me a he or a she," it said.”

“The individual known as Maia Arson Crimew was born as Tillie Kottmann on 7 August 1999 in Lucerne, Switzerland. Kottmann/Crimew has expressed on its website a desire to be referred to by ‘it’ pronouns (Crimew 2021), so this article will interchangeably refer to it by its preferred terms as either ‘Maia Arson Crimew’ or ‘it’. Crimew is a well-known figure among hacking and cybersecurity circles. It has either taken credit for or been attributed to hacks from several major multinational corporations, including […]”

“It's me, John.”

“Somebody wanted a drink, didn't they? Who was it?”

“It is I, your king.”

“It is nearly 10 o’clock.”

“It’s 10:45.”

“It’s very cold today.”

“It’s lonely without you.”

“It seems so.”

“It blew all night.”

“rough it”

“live it up”

“stick it out”

“After all these years, she still has it.”

“Later that night, a friend told Brady, “Still got it.” “Never lost it,” he replied. THAT WAS MOSTLY TRUE. But the 2013 season ended with the Patriots coaches wondering whether Brady's skills were in a subtle but irrevocable decline […]”

“I caught them doing it.”

“Are you getting it regularly?”

“Is man really the only animal who does "it" face to face?”

“The great advantage of English public school life lies of course in the quality of tutelage it provides. Adrian had received a decent and broad English education in the area of his loins. […] He had quickly happened upon the truth which many lonely contemporaries would never discover, the truth that everybody, simply everybody, was panting for it and could, with patience, be shown that they were panting for it. So Adrian grabbed what was to hand and had the time of his life genitally – focusing exclusively on his own gender of course, for this was 1973 and girls had not yet been invented.”

“'Tisn't beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just It. Some women'll stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street”

“And she had It. It, hell; she had Those.”

“It’s not worth talking to you.”

“It is easy to see how she would think that.”

“"I know now!" said I. "I have seen this in your face a long while." "No; have you really, my dear?" said he. "What a Dame Durden it is to read a face!"”

“It was felt that I'd be the right man for the job.”

“I find it odd that you would say that.”

“It is hard seeing you so sick.”

“He saw to it that everyone would vote for him.”

“It is not clear if the report was true.”

“She made it clear what she expected by the weekend, which made it a problem to juggle her and other customers' jobs at the same time.”

“Are there more students in this class, or is this it?”

“That's it—I'm not going to any more candy stores with you.”

“In briefe, I am content, and what should providence add more? Surely this is it [= it which] wee call Happinesse, and this doe I enjoy [...].”

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