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it [ it ] CORE MEANING: a pronoun used to refer to an object or an animal, and sometimes a baby
  It's a lovely baby.
They've had the dog a week, and they still haven't thought of a name for it. |
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1. pron indicating specific situation: used to refer to a situation just described, or to an unspecified or implied situation
He's very upset, but he won't talk about it.
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2. pron indicating point of view: used to indicate feelings or a viewpoint on a particular situation
It's strange how things turn out.
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3. pron indicating something reported: used in the formation of passive sentences reporting a situation
It was reported that several people had been arrested.
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4. pron indicating weather: used as the subject of verbs such as "be," "get," "seem," and "feel" in order to describe something about the environment such as the temperature or the weather
It's cold and rainy.
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5. pron indicating time: used to state the time, e.g. the time of day, the month, the year, or the season
It's six o'clock.
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6. pron indicating description of experience: used to refer to life or a particular experience
What's it like being famous?
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7. pron emphasizing following clause: used to draw attention to the person, thing, or clause that immediately follows
It's you who are always complaining!
It isn't that I don't care.
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8. pron indicating crisis: the crucial or ultimate point, the perfect situation, person, or thing, or the death or end of somebody or something
When the car turned over I really thought that was it.
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9. pron attractive or selling quality: a quality considered by somebody to be the most important, e.g. talent, charm, sex appeal, or profitability
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informal
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You either have it or you don't.
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10. pron sex: sexual intercourse
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slang
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11. noun leisure player in children's games: in children's informal games, the player who must do something to the others, e.g. run after and touch them in the game of tag
You're it!
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| [ Old English hit< Germanic] |
