What is the difference between Wheat and Whit and Wit?




What is the difference between Wheat and Whit and Wit?


Wheat :



( 1 ) Grain from which flour is made

He bought a tone of wheat.


( 2 ) Plant that produces this

This is a field of wheat.



Whit :

( 1 ) The smallest amount

I do not care a white whether she stays or not.

I have read the report but I am not whit the wiser.



Wit :

( 1 ) Ability to combine words and ideas so as to produce a clever type of humor

He has a ready wit.

This is a literary style full of elegance and wit.

She is a journalist much admired for her wit.


( 2 ) Witty person

He is a well-known wit and raconteur.


( 3 ) Intelligence and quick understanding

He had not the wit enough to realize the danger.


( 4 ) AT ONE’S WITS END : not knowledge what to do or say because of worry and desperation

I am at my wits end worrying about how to pay the bills.











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