-lite

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  -lite \-lite\ (-l[imac]t) suff.
     See {-lith}.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Lite \Lite\ (l[imac]t), a., adv., & n.
     Little. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
     [1913 Webster] Liter

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  -lith \-lith\ (-l[i^]th), -lite \-lite\ (-l[imac]t). suff.
     Combining forms fr. Gr. li`qos a stone; -- used chiefly in
     naming minerals and rocks.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  lite
       adj : having relatively few calories; "diet cola"; "light (or
             lite) beer"; "lite (or light) mayonnaise"; "a low-cal
             diet" [syn: {light}, {low-cal}]

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  lite
       
           (Misspelling of "light", when used to mean
          "lightweight") A suffix denoting a scaled-down or crippled
          product, often designed to be distributed without charge,
          e.g. on a magazine {coverdisk}.  An example is {pklite}.
       
          (1995-10-06)