Itpronoun
The third-person singular personal pronoun that is normally used to refer to an inanimate object or abstract entity, also often used to refer to animals.
‘Put it over there.’; ‘Take each day as it comes.’; ‘I heard the sound of the school bus - it was early today.’;
Isnoun
plural of i
‘remember to dot your is’;
Itpronoun
A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to a child, especially of unknown gender.
‘She took the baby and held it in her arms.’;
Isverb
The third person singular of the substantive verb be, in the indicative mood, present tense; as, he is; he is a man. See Be.
‘For thy is I come, and eke Alain.’; ‘Aye is thou merry.’; ‘To-morrow is the new moon.’;
Itpronoun
Used to refer to someone being identified, often on the phone, but not limited to this situation.
‘It's me. John.’; ‘Is it her?’;
Itpronoun
The impersonal pronoun, used without referent as the subject of an impersonal verb or statement. (known as the dummy pronoun or weather it)
‘It is nearly 10 o’clock.’; ‘It’s 10:45 [read ten-forty-five].’; ‘It’s very cold today.’; ‘It’s lonely without you.’;
Itpronoun
The impersonal pronoun, used without referent in various short idioms.
‘stick it out’; ‘live it up’; ‘rough it’;
Itpronoun
The impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject, or less commonly, object; known as the dummy pronoun 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.
‘It is easy to see how she would think that. (with the infinitive clause headed by to see)’; ‘I find it odd that you would say that. (with the noun clause introduced by that)’; ‘It is hard seeing you so sick. (with the gerund seeing)’; ‘He saw to it that everyone would vote for him. (with the noun clause introduced by that)’; ‘It is not clear if the report was true. (with the noun clause introduced by if)’;
Itpronoun
All or the end; something after which there is no more.
‘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.’;
Itpronoun
A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to an animate referent who is transgender or is neither female nor male.
Itpronoun
(obsolete) Followed by an omitted and understood relative pronoun: That which; what.
Itdeterminer
(obsolete) its
Itnoun
One who is neither a he nor a she; a creature; a dehumanized being.
Itnoun
The person who chases and tries to catch the other players in the playground game of tag.
‘In the next game, Adam and Tom will be it…’;
Itnoun
The game of tag.
‘Let's play it at breaktime.’;
Itnoun
(uncountable) Sex appeal, especially that which goes beyond beauty.
Itnoun
(euphemism) Sexual activity.
‘caught them doing it’;
Itnoun
A biological force that inhabits living beings, according to the vitalist approach of Georg Groddeck.
Itadjective
(colloquial) Most fashionable.
Itproper noun
abbreviation of Italy
Itproper noun
abbreviation of Italianlanguage
Itpronoun
The neuter pronoun of the third person, corresponding to the masculine pronoun he and the feminine she, and having the same plural (they, their or theirs, them).
‘The day present hath ever inough to do with it owne grief.’; ‘Do, child, go to it grandam, child.’; ‘It knighthood shall do worse. It shall fright all it friends with borrowing letters.’; ‘The fruit tree yielding fruit after his (its) kind.’;
Itpronoun
As a substance for any noun of the neuter gender; as, here is the book, take it home.
Itpronoun
As a demonstrative, especially at the beginning of a sentence, pointing to that which is about to be stated, named, or mentioned, or referring to that which apparent or well known; as, I saw it was John.
‘It is I; be not afraid.’; ‘Peter heard that it was the Lord.’;
Itpronoun
As an indefinite nominative for a impersonal verb; as, it snows; it rains.
Itpronoun
As a substitute for such general terms as, the state of affairs, the condition of things, and the like; as, how is it with the sick man?
‘Think on me when it shall be well with thee.’;
Itpronoun
As an indefinite object after some intransitive verbs, or after a substantive used humorously as a verb; as, to foot it (i. e., to walk).
‘The Lacedemonians, at the Straits of Thermopylæ, when their arms failed them, fought it out with nails and teeth.’; ‘Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it,If folly grows romantic, I must paint it.’;
