Associations to the word «Nit»

Wiktionary

NIT, noun. The egg of a louse.
NIT, noun. A young louse.
NIT, noun. (UK) (slang) A fool, a nitwit.
NIT, noun. A nitpicker.
NIT, noun. A minor shortcoming.
NIT, noun. A candela per square meter.
NIT COMB, noun. A fine-toothed comb used to remove nits from the hair
NIT NURSE, noun. (British) (dated) A nurse who periodically checked schoolchildren's hair for lice.
NIT NURSES, noun. Plural of nit nurse

Dictionary definition

NIT, noun. A luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source.
NIT, noun. Egg or young of an insect parasitic on mammals especially a sucking louse; often attached to a hair or item of clothing.

Wise words

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley