elt (third-person singular simple present elts, present participle elting, simple past and past participle elted)
(transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To injure (anything) by rough handling; handle roughly.
(transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To begrime; soil with mud; daub; smear.
(transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To work persistently or laboriously; be occupied in working (e.g. in the earth, rake among dirt, etc.).
(transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To meddle; interfere.
(transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To knead dough; stir dough previously kneaded to a proper consistency before baking.
(intransitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To become soft; become moist, as damp earth.
Shortening.
elt (plural elts)
(math, computing) Abbreviation of element.
• -let, ETL, LTE, TEL, TLE, Tel., let, tel
ELT (plural ELTs)
(communication, aviation) Initialism of emergency locator transmitter.
(medicine, physiology) Initialism of euglobulin lysis time.
Initialism of English language teaching.
• -let, ETL, LTE, TEL, TLE, Tel., let, tel
Source: Wiktionary
3 April 2025
(noun) an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; “how big is that part compared to the whole?”; “the team is a unit”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
