Definitions for "WIT"
Keywords:  belgian, beer, wheat, spiced, louvain
The Flemish term for a Belgian style of spiced wheat beer.- X-Y-Z
"White" beer. It is a cloudy wheat beer, spiced with corriander and orange peel.
a belgian beer style. It is a pale (white or wit) beer reflecting the use of pale grains and wheat.
Mind; intellect; understanding; sense.
A mental faculty, or power of the mind; -- used in this sense chiefly in the plural, and in certain phrases; as, to lose one's wits; at one's wits' end, and the like.
A person of eminent sense or knowledge; a man of genius, fancy, or humor; one distinguished for bright or amusing sayings, for repartee, and the like.
Keywords:  ovarian, vivian, edson, hbo, emma
Wit (also spelled W;t) is a play by Margaret Edson about a university professor of English who is dying of ovarian cancer. As she copes with her life-threatening cancer she assesses her own life through the intricacies of the English language, especially the use of wit and the metaphysical poetry of John Donne.
Wit is a 2001 HBO television movie based on the play Wit, and starring Emma Thompson as Vivian Bearing, a woman suffering through ovarian cancer and her attempt at keeping a calm position through all the problems she goes through.
The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
During the Renaissance wit was synonymous with intelligence and wisdom. During the 17th century it became more closely associated with fancy. One of the main themes of Pope's An Essay on Criticism is wit and he concludes that: True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed. Today wit is limited to intellectual humour. See fancy.
Felicitous association of objects not usually connected, so as to produce a pleasant surprise; also. the power of readily combining objects in such a manner.
Keywords:  thermotherapy, induced, water
Water-Induced Thermotherapy
Waterford Institute of Technology
Women In Technology
Keywords:  know, learn
To know; to learn.