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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope