English Dictionary

it

/ɪt/

noun

One who is neither a he nor a she; a creature; a dehumanized being. / The person who chases and tries to catch the other players in the playground game of tag. / (Britain, uncountable) The game of tag.

I saw it at the store.

意味（1）

One who is neither a he nor a she; a creature; a dehumanized being.

His master glanced up quickly, and removed the letter from his hands. I'm surprised at you, James, he remarked severely. A secretary should control itself. Don't forget that the perfect secretary is an it: an automatic machine—a thing incapable of feeling.…

意味（2）

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…

意味（3）

(Britain, uncountable) The game of tag.

Let's play it at breaktime.

意味（4）

Alternative letter-case form of It (“force in the vitalist approach of Georg Groddeck”)

For Groddeck, the it is given, unknowable, and he does not try to conceptualize drives or forces. Early life and sexuality permeate […]

意味（5）

Alternative letter-case form of It (“the id”)

[…] thus reversing the roles of the I and the it, the former now occupying the place of the latter and vice versa. An awareness of our bisubjective nature (it and me) requires thus an I as a third term that slides between […]