credit
/ˈkɹɛdɪt/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Written titles and other information about the TV program or movie shown at the beginning and/or end of the TV program or movie.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Someone said there were over 100,000 people there, but I can't credit that."
- "How shall they credit A poor unlearned virgin?"
- "[T]he Heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slowest to credit another's Treachery."
- "She said quite naturally, as if nothing had happened, “I want you to go back home, Victor darling. You mustn’t worry about me any more.”’ Victor told me he could hardly credit it, at first, that she could stand there and say this to him."
- "Credit accounts receivable with the amount of the invoice."
- "For the payroll period credit employees' tips to their wages paid account and debit their minimum wage payable account."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *ḱerd-, crédit, crēditum
Usage
- Transitive verb
- Countable
- Uncountable
- American usage
Inflected Forms
credits (present, singular)
crediting (participle, present)
credited (participle, past)
credited (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
credited (first person, past)
creditest (archaic, present)
credited (past, second person)
creditedst (archaic, past)
crediteth (archaic, present)
credited (past, singular)