| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb habit.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (habit) | 1. Put a habit on.[Wordnet]. 2. To inhabit.[Websters]. 3. To dress; to clothe; to array.[Websters]. 4. To accustom; to habituate. [Obs.] Chapman.[Websters]. 5. Base verb from the following inflections: habiting, habited, habits, habiter, habiters, habitingly and habitedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "HABITING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
Specialty Definition: habit
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Satire | HABIT, n. A shackle for the free. Source: Devil's Dictionary | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] Garb; dress; clothes or garments in general. The scenes are old, the habits are the same, We wore last year. There are among the statues, several of Venus, in different habits.. | 2: [Noun] A coat worn by ladies over other garments.. | 3: [Noun] State of any thing; implying some continuance or permanence; temperament or particular state of a body, formed by nature or induced by extraneous circumstances; as a costive or lax habit of body; a sanguine habit.. | 4: [Noun] A disposition or condition of the mind or body acquired by custom or a frequent repetition of the same act. Habit is that which is held or retained, the effect of custom or frequent repetition. Hence we speak of good habits and bad habits. Frequent drinking of spirits leads to a habit of intemperance. We should endeavor to correct evil habits by a change of practice. A great point in the education of children, is to prevent the formation of bad habits. Habit of plants, the general form or appearance, or the conformity of plants of the same kind in structure and growth.. | 5: [Verb] To dress; to clothe; to array. They habited themselves like rural deities.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Environment | The general aspect or mode of growth of a plant. (references) | ||
| Geology | 1: The general growth pattern of a plant. A plant's habit may be described as creeping, trees, shrubs, vines, etc. (references) | 2: The growth form of a plant, comprising its size, shape, texture and orientation. (references) | |
| Law | HABIT. 1. A disposition or condition of the body or mind acquired by custom or a frequent repetition of the same act. See 2 Mart. Lo. Rep. N. S. 622. 2. The habit of dealing has always an important bearing upon the construction of commercial contracts. A ratification will be inferred from the mere habit of dealing between the parties; as, if a broker has been accustomed to settle losses on policies in a particular manner, without any objection being made, or with the silent approbation of his principal, and he should afterward settle other policies in the same manner, to which no objection should be made within a reasonable time, a just presumption would arise of an implied ratification; for if the principal did not agree to such settlement he should have declared his dissent. 2 Bouv. Inst. 1313-14. (references) | ||
| Mining | A. A general term for the outward appearance of a mineral or rock b. The characteristic or typical crystal form, combination of forms, or other shape of a mineral, including irregularities. (references) | ||
| Tips from 1870 | 1: "Man yields to custom as he bows to fate, In all things ruled-- mind, body, and estate." 2: Usage: Custom, Habit. Habit is a tendency which leads us to do easily; custom grows out of the habitual doing or frequent repetition of the same act. Custom refers to the usages of society, or of the individual; habit refers more frequently to the individual acts. "Ill habits gather by unseen degrees." Source: Slips of Speech. | ||
| Wikipedic | A habit is the usual condition or state of a person or thing, either natural or acquired, regarded as something had, possessed, and firmly retained. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] A long piece of clothing worn by monks and nuns. It's interesting how Catholic and Buddhist monks both wear habits. (references) | 2: [Noun] A piece of clothing worn uniformly for a specific activity. The new riding habits of the team looked smashing!. (references) | 3: [Noun] An action done on a regular basis. It's become a habit of mine to have a cup of coffee after dinner. (references) | 4: [Noun] An action performed repeatedly and automatically, usually without awareness. By force of habit, he dressed for work even though it was holiday. (references) | 5: [Noun] An addiction. He has a 10-cigar habit. (references) | 6: [Noun] Customary manner of dress. 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe … it was always my fate to choose for the worse, so I did here; for having money in my pocket and good clothes upon my back, I would always go on board in the habit of a gentleman; and so I neither had any business in the ship, or learned to do any. (references) | 7: [Verb] To clothe. (references) |
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Common Expressions: habit
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Bad Habit | Bad Habit is the fourth single off of The Offspring's breakthrough album Smash. The lyrics describe road rage and battles between angry drivers. The song is perhaps most famous for a stream of profanity in the bridge. (references) | ||
| Breaking The Habit | Breaking The Habit is a single by the Nu metal band Linkin Park, from their 2003 sophomore album Meteora. The single was released in 2004. The song is one of the few Linkin Park songs which does not feature the rapping of Mike Shinoda. The music video is in an anime style. This video won the 2004 MTV VMA Viewer's Choice Award. (references) | ||
| Change of Habit | Change of Habit is a 1969 motion picture drama starring Elvis Presley and Mary Tyler Moore. As Dr. John Carpenter, Presley is practicing in a ghetto medical clinic and falls for a co-worker, Sister Michelle Gallagher (Moore), unaware that she is a nun; hence, the title was a play on words. This film was considered by some critics to be of somewhat more substance that some of the previous Presley films, in other words it did not consist solely of contrived situations which allowed him to sing, dance, and otherwise interact with beautiful young women. (references) | ||
| Crystal habit | In mineralogy, shape and size give rise to descriptive terms applied to the typical appearance, or habit of crystals. (references) | ||
| Habit evidence | Habit evidence is a term used in the law of evidence in the United States to describe any evidence submitted for the purpose of proving that a person acted in a particular way on a particular occasion based on that person's tendency to reflexively respond to a particular situation in a particular way. (references) | ||
| Monastic habit | A long loose habit worn by monks in a monastery. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Nun's habit | A long loose habit worn by nuns in a convent. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Parafunctional habit | A para-functional habit or parafunctional habit is the habitual exercise of a body part in a way that is other than the most common use of that body part. The term is most commonly used by dentists, orthodontists, or maxillofacial specialists to refer to parafunctional uses of the mouth, tongue and jaw. Oral para-functional habits may include bruxism (tooth-clenching or grinding), tongue tension, mouth-breathing, and any other habitual use of the mouth unrelated to eating or drinking. (references) | ||
| Riding habit | Attire that is typically worn by a horseback rider (especially a woman's attire). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit | Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit is a 1993 movie starring Whoopi Goldberg, directed by Bill Duke, and released by Touchstone Pictures. It is a sequel to the successful 1992 movie Sister Act. Like the original, Sister Act 2 contains several musical performances, which are integrated into the main plot. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: habit
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Buying habit | Medicine | Housewives in different cities differ in their shopping habits. Information about. . . their -- may be available from reports published by newspapers and from company sales records. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Crystal habit | Mining | The forms typically appearing on specimens of a mineral species or group, rarely all the forms permitted by its point group. Crystal habits range from highly diverse, e.g., calcite, to almost never showing crystal faces, e.g., turquoise. In addition to describing mineral habits with form names, e.g., prismatic, pyramidal, or tetrahedral, other names for appearances are used, e.g., fibrous, columnar, platy, or botryoidal. Intergrowths aregiven by specific description. (references) | |
| Drug habit | Medicine | A term formerly used by the WHO to describe compulsive drug abuse of a lesser degree than addiction. It is a condition resulting from the repeated consumption of a drug. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Dyvour's habit | Law | DYVOUR'S HABIT. Scotch law. A habit which debtors, who are set free on a cessio bonorum, are obliged to wear, unless in the summons and process of cessio, it be libeled, sustained, and proved that the bankruptcy proceeds from misfortune. And bankrupts are condemned to submit to the habit, even where no suspicion of fraud lies against them, if they have been dealers in an illicit trade. Ersk. Pr. L. Scot. 4, 3, 13. This practice was bottomed on that of the Roman civil law, which Filangierl says is better fitted to excite laughter than compassion. He adds: " Si conduce il debitore vicino ad una colonna a quest officio destinata, egli l'abbraccia nel mentre, che uno araldo grida Cedo bonis ed un al tro gli abza le vesti, e palesa agli spettatori le sue natiche. Finita questa ceremonia il debitore messo in liberta." Filangieri della legislazione, cap. iv. (references) | |
| Habit forming | Transportation | Although a given airport may have been classified for short domestic flights, traffic demand and airline planning may require the airport's use for --. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Habit is Second Nature | Literature | 1: The wise saw of Diogenes, the cynic. (B.C. 412-323.) 2: Shakespeare: "Use almost can change the stamp of nature" (Hamlet, iii. 4). 3: Italian: "L'abito una seconda natura." 4: Latin: "Usus est optimus magister" (Columella). 5: French: "L'habitude est une seconde nature." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| King's habit | Health | Cocaine. (references) | |
| Pepsi habit | Health | Occasional use of drugs. (references) | |
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