"whit" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "whits",
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        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "care a whit"
        }
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          "ref": "1890 December 9, Thomas H. Huxley, “Letter to the \"Times\" on the \"Darkest England Scheme\"”, in Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays",
          "text": "Sadly behind the great age of rowdy self-advertisement in which their lot has fallen, they seem not to have advanced one whit beyond John the Baptist and the Apostles, 1800 years ago, in their notions of the way in which the metanoia, the change of mind of the ill-doer, is to be brought about.",
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          "ref": "1917, Countee Cullen, Incident",
          "text": "Now I was eight and very small, / And he was no whit bigger / And so I smiled, but he poked out / His tongue, and called me, 'Nigger.'",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1944 July and August, “London Railway Stations in 1893”, in Railway Magazine, page 201, taken from The English Illustrated Magazine of June 1893",
          "text": "In conclusion, I would remark that the great railway stations of London deserve to be visited every whit as much as St. Paul's Cathedral, the Abbey, or the Tower, and they are as worthy a memento of this century as those buildings are of the days that are gone.",
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      ],
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        "The smallest part or particle imaginable; an iota."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "bit"
        },
        {
          "word": "iota"
        },
        {
          "word": "jot"
        },
        {
          "word": "scrap"
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        {
          "word": "modicum"
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        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "neznačitelno količestvo",
          "sense": "smallest part imaginable",
          "word": "незначително количество"
        },
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          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "kapčica",
          "sense": "smallest part imaginable",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "капчица"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "smallest part imaginable",
          "word": "rahtunen"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "smallest part imaginable",
          "word": "hitunen"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "smallest part imaginable",
          "word": "hiukkanen"
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          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "smallest part imaginable",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "once"
        },
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          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "smallest part imaginable",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "iotă"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "jóta",
          "sense": "smallest part imaginable",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "йо́та"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "kápelʹka",
          "sense": "smallest part imaginable",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ка́пелька"
        },
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "čútočka",
          "sense": "smallest part imaginable",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
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      "ipa": "/wɪt/"
    },
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      "ipa": "/ʍɪt/"
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      "rhymes": "-ɪt"
    },
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      "homophone": "wit (in accents with the wine-whine merger)"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "wĭt"
    }
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      "word": "care a whit"
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      "name": "inh"
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      "name": "der"
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          "ref": "1890 December 9, Thomas H. Huxley, “Letter to the \"Times\" on the \"Darkest England Scheme\"”, in Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays",
          "text": "Sadly behind the great age of rowdy self-advertisement in which their lot has fallen, they seem not to have advanced one whit beyond John the Baptist and the Apostles, 1800 years ago, in their notions of the way in which the metanoia, the change of mind of the ill-doer, is to be brought about.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1917, Countee Cullen, Incident",
          "text": "Now I was eight and very small, / And he was no whit bigger / And so I smiled, but he poked out / His tongue, and called me, 'Nigger.'",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1944 July and August, “London Railway Stations in 1893”, in Railway Magazine, page 201, taken from The English Illustrated Magazine of June 1893",
          "text": "In conclusion, I would remark that the great railway stations of London deserve to be visited every whit as much as St. Paul's Cathedral, the Abbey, or the Tower, and they are as worthy a memento of this century as those buildings are of the days that are gone.",
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          "word": "bit"
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          "word": "scrap"
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    },
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      "ipa": "/ʍɪt/"
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      "homophone": "wit (in accents with the wine-whine merger)"
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "neznačitelno količestvo",
      "sense": "smallest part imaginable",
      "word": "незначително количество"
    },
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "kapčica",
      "sense": "smallest part imaginable",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "капчица"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "smallest part imaginable",
      "word": "rahtunen"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "smallest part imaginable",
      "word": "hitunen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "smallest part imaginable",
      "word": "hiukkanen"
    },
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      "sense": "smallest part imaginable",
      "tags": [
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      "sense": "smallest part imaginable",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "iotă"
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      "roman": "jóta",
      "sense": "smallest part imaginable",
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      ],
      "word": "йо́та"
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      "roman": "kápelʹka",
      "sense": "smallest part imaginable",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ка́пелька"
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      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "čútočka",
      "sense": "smallest part imaginable",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "чу́точка"
    }
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