it

adjective

1. (colloquial) most fashionable.

determiner

1. (obsolete) its

noun

1. the branch of engineering that deals with the use of computers and telecommunications to retrieve and store and transmit information

Definition categories: thought, engineering, technology

pronoun

1. The third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to an inanimate object, to an inanimate thing with no or unknown sex or gender.

- Put it over there.

- Take each day as it comes.

2. A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to a child of unknown gender.

- She took the baby and held it in her arms.

3. Used to refer to oneself when identifying oneself, often on the phone, but not limited to this situation.

- It's me. John.

4. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent as the subject of an impersonal verb or statement. (known as the dummy pronoun or weather it)

- It is nearly 10 o’clock.

- It’s very cold today.

- It’s lonely without you.

5. The impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject, or less commonly, object. (known as the dummy pronoun or, more formally in linguistics, a syntactic expletive)

- It is easy to see how she would think that.

- I find it odd that you would say that.

- He saw to it that everyone would vote for him.

6. All or the end; something after which there is no more.

- Are there more students in this class, or is this it?That's it—I'm not going to any more candy stores with you.

7. (obsolete, relative) That which; what.