Gnat Definition

năt
gnats
noun
Any of various small insects, esp. certain dipterous flies, which often bite.
Webster's New World
A mosquito.
Webster's New World
pronoun
A type of jet fighter aircraft.
Wiktionary
idiom
strain at a gnat
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Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Gnat

Noun

Singular:
gnat
Plural:
gnats

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Gnat

  • strain at a gnat

Origin of Gnat

  • Old English gnætt "gnat, midge, mosquito," earlier gneat, used of various small, flying insects, from Proto-Germanic *gnattaz (cf. Low German gnatte, German Gnitze); perhaps literally "biting insect" and related to gnaw.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old English gnæt

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Gnat Sentence Examples

  • The gnat larva, for example, breathes at the tail-end, hanging head-downwards from the surface-film.

  • You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.

  • I combined the two to make ' Gnat ' - a little creature that's very bothersome to big ones ' .

  • Manson and Bancroft suggested that the second host of the parasite is the mosquito or gnat, and for a long time it was thought that they were conveyed to man by the mosquito dying after laying her eggs in water, the larval nematodes escaping from her body and being swallowed by man.

  • The distinctive term has no zoological significance, but in England the "mosquito" has commonly been distinguished from the "gnat" as a variety of larger size and more poisonous bite.

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Words Starting With

GGNGNA

Words Ending With

TATNAT

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gnat

Words Starting With G and Ending With T

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4 Letter Words4 Letter Words Starting With G4 Letter Words Ending With T