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- relatively moderate, limited, or small
- (of a voice) faint
- limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
- (of children and animals) young, immature
- not large but sufficient in size or amount
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- low or inferior in station or quality
- slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope
- have fine or very small constituent particles
- made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth)
- Having a small penis, muscles, or other important body parts, regardless of overall body size.
- Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.
- Humiliated or insignificant.
- (figuratively, not comparable) Young, as a child.
- (especially clothing, food or drink) That is small (the manufactured size).
- Synonym of little (“of an industry or institution(s) therein: operating on a small scale, unlike larger counterparts”).
- (writing, not comparable) Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written or printed letters.
- Evincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.
- Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.
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- the slender part of the back
- a garment size for a small person
- (countable, especially clothing, food or drink) An item labelled or denoted as being that size.
- (countable, rare) Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back.
- (uncountable, especially clothing, food or drink) One of several common sizes to which an item may be manufactured, smaller than a medium.
- (countable, especially with respect to clothing) One who fits an item of that size.
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- (mathematics) An arbitrarily small quantity.
- (finance) The percentage change in an option value with respect to the underlying dividend yield.
- The fifth letter of the Greek alphabet, ε or Ε, preceded by delta (Δ, δ) and followed by zeta (Ζ, ζ).
- (computing, colloquial) Something negligible or insignificant.
- (colloquial) A small child.
- (phonetics) In IPA, the phonetic symbol ɛ that represents the open-mid front unrounded vowel.
- the 5th letter of the Greek alphabet
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- small in quantity
- being of delicate or slender build
- (of something abstract like a chance or margin) Very small, tiny.
- (of a workforce) Of a reduced size, with the intent of being more efficient.
- (of an object) Long and narrow.
- (by extension, of clothing) Designed to make the wearer appear slim.
- (rustic, Northern England, Scotland) Bad, of questionable quality; not strongly built, flimsy.
- (of a person or a person's build) Slender in an attractive way.
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- make small or insignificant
- represent as less significant or important
- cause to seem less serious; play down
- (computing, transitive, graphical user interface) To remove (a window) from the main display area, collapsing it to an icon or caption.
- (transitive) To treat (someone) in a slighting manner.
- (transitive) To make (something) smaller or as small as possible; shrink; reduce.
- (transitive) To treat as trivial or insignificant; to trivialize.
- (transitive) To relegate or assign (something) to a less insignificant status; diminish.
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- Little or small in size.
- (informal) Inclined to cause frustration or annoyance to others out of spite over minor grievances; extremely vindictive.
- Having little or no importance.
- Of persons or their behaviour: marked by or reflective of undesirably limited interests, sympathies, or views; begrudging, selfish, small-minded; also, preoccupied with subjects having little or no importance and not mindful of broader concerns.
- (historical) Of or relating to the lowest grade or level of school; junior, primary.
- Secondary in importance or rank; minor, subordinate.
- inferior in rank or status
- contemptibly narrow in outlook
- (informal) small and of little importance
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- small-scale analysis
- (sociology) the analysis of individual or community social activity e.g. family relationships.
- (social sciences) the analysis of individual or community social activity e.g. family relationships.
- (chemistry) The analysis (and subsequent identification) of very small quantities of material.
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- Very small; minute
- Able to see extremely minute objects.
- Of, or relating to microscopes or microscopy; microscopal
- So small that it can only be seen with the aid of a microscope.
- (figurative) Carried out with great attention to detail.
- of or relating to or used in microscopy
- so small as to be invisible without a microscope
- visible under a microscope; using a microscope
- extremely precise with great attention to details
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- relatively moderate, limited, or small
- (of a scale or mode) having half steps between the second and third degrees, and (usually) the fifth and sixth degrees, and the seventh and eighth degrees
- of the younger of two boys with the same family name
- warranting only temporal punishment
- inferior in number or size or amount
- not of legal age
- of lesser seriousness or danger
- lesser in scope or effect
- of lesser importance or stature or rank
- of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization
- (music, historical) Of or related to the relationship between the longa and the breve in a score.
- (law) Underage, not having reached legal majority.
- (music, historical) Having semibreves twice as long as a minim.
- (mathematics) Of or related to a minor, a determinate obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns from a matrix.
- (music) Smaller by a diatonic semitone than the equivalent major interval.
- (graph theory) Including both directed and undirected edges.
- Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option, particularly:
- (Canada, US, education) Of or related to a minor, a secondary area of undergraduate study.
- (medicine, sometimes figurative) Not serious, not involving risk of death, permanent injury, dangerous surgery, or extended hospitalization.
- (music) Incorporating a minor third interval above the (in scales) tonic or (in chords) root note, (also figurative) tending to produce a dark, discordant, sad, or pensive effect.
- Having little worth or ability; paltry; mean.
- (logic) Acting as the subject of the second premise of a categorical syllogism, which then also acts as the subject of its conclusion.
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- a young person of either sex
- (entomology) A leaf-cutter worker ant intermediate in size between a minim and a media.
- (Canada, US, education) A formally recognized secondary area of undergraduate study, requiring fewer course credits than the equivalent major.
- (campanology) Changes rung on six bells.
- (rugby, historical) Ellipsis of minor point (“a lesser score formerly gained by certain actions”).
- (law) A child, a person who has not reached the age of majority, consent, etc. and is legally subject to fewer responsibilities and less accountability and entitled to fewer legal rights and privileges.
- (Canada, US, education, uncommon) A person who is completing or has completed such a course of study.
- (Australian football) Synonym of behind: a one-point kick.
- (Catholicism) Alternative letter-case form of Minor: a Franciscan friar, a Clarist nun.
- (baseball) Ellipsis of minor league (“the lower level of teams”).
- (entomology) Any of various noctuid moths in Europe and Asia, chiefly in the Oligia and Mesoligia genera.
- (logic) Ellipsis of minor term or minor premise.
- (ice hockey) Ellipsis of minor penalty (“a penalty requiring a player to leave the ice for 2 minutes unless the opposing team scores”).
- (mathematics) A determinant of a square matrix obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns.
- (bridge) Ellipsis of minor suit, a card of a minor suit.
- (music) Ellipsis of minor interval, minor scale, minor mode, minor key, minor chord, or minor triad.
- (graph theory) Short for graph minor
- A lesser person or thing, a person, group, or thing of minor rank or in the minor leagues.
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- relatively moderate, limited, or small
- marked by simplicity; having a humble opinion of yourself
- not large but sufficient in size or amount
- humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness
- low or inferior in station or quality
- free from pomp or affectation
- not offensive to sexual mores in conduct or appearance
- Not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements; unpretentious, humble.
- (especially of behavior or clothing) Intending to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others.
- Small, moderate in size.
- Pure and delicate from a sense of propriety.
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- The smallest possible amount, quantity, or degree.
- (music) Characterised by the repetition and gradual alteration of short phrases.
- (art) Characterised by the use of simple form or structures.
- (mathematics, technical) Among elements of some collection, such that no other element is greater (with respect to some given partial order).
- the least possible
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- a tiny or scarcely detectable amount
- a small piece of cloth
- A fragment of something; a particle; a piece; also, a very small amount.
- (rare) A shard or sherd (“a piece of broken glass or pottery”).
- A long, narrow piece (especially of fabric) cut or torn off; a strip; specifically, a piece of cloth or clothing.
- (cooking) A thin strip of fruit peel, a vegetable, etc., cut so that it curls.
- (by extension) A thin strand or wisp, as of a cloud, mist, etc.
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- tear into shreds
- (music) Chiefly in rock and heavy metal: to play (a musical instrument (especially a guitar) or a piece of music) very fast and in a way that requires technical skill.
- (cooking) To cut (fruit peel, a vegetable, etc.) into thin strips that curl.
- To destroy (a document) by cutting or tearing into strips or small pieces that cannot easily be read, especially using a shredder.
- To reduce (something) by a large percentage; to slash.
- (bodybuilding) To reduce body weight due to fat and water before a competition.
- To become separated into small portions.
- (originally US) To convincingly defeat (someone); to thrash, to trounce.
- To separate (something) into small portions.
- (snowboarding, surfing) To cut through (snow, water, etc.) swiftly with one's snowboard, surfboard, etc.; (by extension) to move or ride along (a road, track, etc.) aggressively and rapidly.
- (snowboarding, surfing, etc.) To travel swiftly using a snowboard, surfboard, or vehicle.
- To cut or tear (something) into long, narrow pieces or strips.
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- Small in size.
- Short in duration; brief.
- (derogatory) To imply that the inhabitants of the place have an insular attitude and are hostile to those they perceive as foreign.
- (offensive) Used to belittle a person.
- Very young, of childhood age.
- Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow, shallow, contracted; mean, illiberal, ungenerous.
- (often capitalized) Used with the name of a place, especially of a country or its capital, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers are from that place.
- (of an industry or other field, or institution(s) therein, often capitalized) Operating on a small scale.
- Small and underdeveloped, particularly (of a male) in the genitals.
- Having few members.
- (of a sibling) Younger.
- Insignificant, trivial.
- (of a voice) faint
- limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
- (of children and animals) young, immature
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- (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with ‘a’) at least some
- small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context)
- (informal) small and of little importance
- low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal
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- (countable, age regression) One who has mentally age regressed to a childlike state.
- Ellipsis of little go (“type of examination”).
- (countable, university slang) A newly initiated member of a sorority or fraternity, who is mentored by a big.
- (countable, ageplay) The participant who acts out the younger role.
- (chiefly uncountable or in the singular) A small amount.
- (countable, informal) A child, particularly an infant.
- a small amount or duration
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- (engineering) A connecting bar or rod, pivoted at each end to the end of another piece, for transmitting motion, especially from one plane to another; specifically, such a piece in an organ stop action to transmit motion from the trundle to the lever actuating the stop slider.
- An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.
- A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
- An act of tracing.
- (meteorology) A small amount of rain, not enough to be measured.
- (semiotics) A signifier approximated in the absence of stable signified.
- A very small amount, often residual, of some substance or material.
- An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
- (linear algebra) The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
- (programming) A sequence of instructions, including branches but not loops, that is executed for some input data.
- (electronics) A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
- (fortification) The ground plan of a work or works.
- (grammar) An empty category occupying a position in the syntactic structure from which something has been moved, used to explain constructions such as wh-movement and the passive.
- (geometry) The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
- One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whippletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.
- a just detectable amount
- a visible mark (as a footprint) left by the passage of person or animal or vehicle
- either of two lines that connect a horse's harness to a wagon or other vehicle or to a whiffletree
- a drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image
- an indication that something has been present
- a suggestion of some quality
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- (transitive) To draw or sketch lightly or with care.
- (computing, transitive) To follow the execution of the program by making it to stop after every instruction, or by making it print a message after every step.
- (transitive) To follow the trail of.
- To follow the history of.
- (transitive) To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
- make a mark or lines on a surface
- pursue or chase relentlessly
- follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something
- make one's course or travel along a path; travel or pass over, around, or along
- copy by following the lines of the original drawing on a transparent sheet placed upon it; make a tracing of
- read with difficulty
- to go back over again
- discover traces of
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- make appear small by comparison
- check the growth of
- (intransitive) To become (much) smaller.
- To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt.
- (transitive) To make appear (much) smaller, puny, tiny; to be much larger than.
- (transitive) To render (much) smaller, turn into a dwarf (version).
- (transitive) To make appear insignificant.
noun
- a plant or animal that is atypically small
- a person who is markedly small
- a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure
- (mythology) Any member of a race of beings from (especially Scandinavian and other Germanic) folklore, usually depicted as having some sort of supernatural powers and being skilled in crafting and metalworking, often as short with long beards, and sometimes as clashing with elves.
- (astronomy) A dwarf star.
- An animal, plant or other thing much smaller than the usual of its sort.
- (now sometimes offensive) A person of short stature, often one whose limbs are disproportionately small in relation to the body as compared with typical adults, usually as the result of a genetic condition.
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- make appear small by comparison
- follow, usually without the person's knowledge
- cast a shadow over
- (transitive) To shade, cloud, or darken.
- (transitive, intransitive) To accompany (a professional) during the working day, so as to learn about an occupation one intends to take up.
- (transitive) To block light or radio transmission from.
- (particularly espionage) To secretly or discreetly track or follow another, to keep under surveillance.
- (transitive) To represent faintly and imperfectly.
- (transitive) To hide; to conceal.
- (transitive, computing) To apply the shadowing process to (the contents of ROM).
- (transitive, programming) To make (an identifier, usually a variable) inaccessible by declaring another of the same name within the scope of the first.
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- refuge from danger or observation
- something existing in perception only
- an inseparable companion
- an unilluminated area
- shade within clear boundaries
- a premonition of something adverse
- a dominating and pervasive presence
- a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements
- an indication that something has been present
- (UK, law enforcement) A trainee, assigned to work with an experienced officer.
- A dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object.
- A spirit; a ghost; a shade.
- (Jungian psychology) An unconscious aspect of the personality.
- (typography) A drop shadow effect applied to lettering in word processors etc.
- Relative darkness, especially as caused by the interruption of light; gloom; obscurity.
- An imperfect and faint representation.
- An inseparable companion.
- (figurative) That which looms as though a shadow.
- One who secretly or furtively follows another.
- An influence, especially a pervasive or a negative one.
- (chiefly in the negative) A small degree; a shade.
- An area protected by an obstacle (likened to an object blocking out sunlight).
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- To speak (a language or words) with only a superficial knowledge of it.
- To approach or study (something, such as a subject) superficially; to dabble in.
- (by extension, US) To hit (someone or something) with a liquid; to splash, to spatter.
- To have a slight, superficial knowledge of something; to dabble.
- (US) To hit with a liquid; to splash, to spatter.
- speak with spotty or superficial knowledge
- work with in an amateurish manner
- to talk foolishly
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- a small margin
- the property of being narrow; having little width
- an inclination to criticize opposing opinions or shocking behavior
- a restriction of range or scope
- (uncountable) The state of being narrow.
- (countable) A constriction; a narrow passage or place; an instance or aspect of being narrow, or having a limited scope or extent.
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- Of two or more animals or plants with the same name: the smaller or smallest.
- Chiefly used with abstract nouns: less than all others in extent or size; littlest, smallest.
- the superlative of ‘little’ that can be used with mass nouns and is usually preceded by ‘the’; a quantifier meaning smallest in amount or extent or degree
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- painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts)
- a copy that reproduces a person or thing in greatly reduced size
- An illustration in an illuminated manuscript.
- A particular feature or trait.
- A musical composition which is short in duration.
- Greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale.
- A small version of something; a model of reduced scale.
- Lettering in red; rubric distinction.
- A small, highly detailed painting, a portrait miniature.
- (chess) A chess game which is concluded with very few moves.
- (roleplaying games, board games) A token in a game representing a unit or character.
- The art of painting such highly detailed miniature works.
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- the property of being a relatively small amount
- the property of having a relatively small size
- (countable) The result or product of being small.
- the property of having relatively little strength or vigor
- lack of generosity in trifling matters
- The quality of being minor in influence, power, or rank.
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being small.
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- Small, not high (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
- (in several set phrases) Being near the equator.
- Depressed in mood, dejected, sad.
- Low-cut.
- (baseball, of a ball) Below the batter's knees.
- Disparaging; assigning little value or excellence.
- Dead. (Compare lay low.)
- (of an automobile, gear, etc) Designed for a slow (or the slowest) speed.
- Being a nadir, a bottom.
- (acoustics) Grave in pitch, due to being produced by relatively slow vibrations (wave oscillations); flat.
- Humble, meek, not haughty.
- Lacking health or vitality, strength or vivacity; feeble; weak.
- Of less than normal height or upward extent or growth, or of greater than normal depth or recession; below the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.
- (card games) Lesser in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc.
- Not high in status, esteem, or rank, dignity, or quality. (Compare vulgar.)
- (video games, roleplaying games) Having few hit points remaining; damaged.
- Pertaining to (or, especially of a language: spoken in) in an area which is at a lesser elevation, closer to sea level (especially near the sea), than other regions.
- Quiet; soft; not loud.
- Depleted, or nearing deletion; lacking in supply.
- (chiefly in several set phrases) Favoring simplicity (see e.g. low church, Low Tory).
- (phonetics) Made with a relatively large opening between the tongue and the palate; made with (part of) the tongue positioned low in the mouth, relative to the palate.
- Situated close to, or even below, the ground or another normal reference plane; not high or lofty.
- Having a small or comparatively smaller concentration of (a substance, which is often but not always linked by "in" when predicative).
- (especially in biology) Simple in complexity or development.
- subdued or brought low in condition or status
- no longer sufficient
- unrefined in character
- less than normal in degree or intensity or amount
- of the most contemptible kind
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- low or inferior in station or quality
- being at or having a relatively small elevation or upward extension
- very low in volume
- used of sounds and voices; low in pitch or frequency
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- Close to the ground.
- Of a pitch, at a lower frequency.
- (astronomy) In a path near the equator, so that the declination is small, or near the horizon, so that the altitude is small; said of the heavenly bodies with reference to the diurnal revolution.
- With a low voice or sound; not loudly; gently.
- In a low mean condition; humbly; meanly.
- In a time approaching our own.
- Under the usual price; at a moderate price; cheaply.
- in a low position; near the ground
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- The lowest-speed gearing of a power-transmission system, especially of an automotive vehicle.
- A period of depression; a depressed mood or situation.
- The minimum atmospheric temperature recorded at a particular location, especially during one 24-hour period.
- (meteorology, informal) An area of low pressure; a depression.
- A low point or position, literally (as, a depth) or figuratively (as, a nadir, a time when things are at their worst, least, minimum, etc).
- (slang, usually accompanied by "the") A cheap, cost-efficient, or advantageous price.
- (countable, UK, Scotland, dialect) A flame; fire; blaze.
- (card games) The lowest trump, usually the deuce; the lowest trump dealt or drawn.
- the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving
- a low level or position or degree
- an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation
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- A small, unspecified amount or quantity.
- (soccer) Penalty spot.
- The act of spotting or noticing something.
- (US, advertising) A brief advertisement or program segment on television.
- (sports) An official determination of placement.
- A bright lamp; a spotlight.
- A pimple, papule or pustule.
- A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally round in shape.
- A symbol on a playing card, domino, die, etc. indicating its value; a pip.
- Any of the balls marked with spots in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the stripes.
- (finance) A decimal point; point.
- A parking space.
- (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting) One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist if safety dictates); a spotter.
- (physics) An autosoliton.
- A location or area.
- Any of various points marked on the table, from which balls are played, in snooker, pool, billiards, etc.
- (slang, US) A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars.
- A food fish (Leiostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States, with a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides.
- A difficult situation.
- A stain or disfiguring mark.
- A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak.
- The southern redfish, or red horse (Sciaenops ocellatus), which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail.
- a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer
- a small piece or quantity of something
- a business establishment for entertainment
- a mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the suit)
- a short section or illustration (as between radio or tv programs or in a magazine) that is often used for advertising
- a point located with respect to surface features of some region
- a blemish made by dirt
- a section of an entertainment that is assigned to a specific performer or performance
- a small contrasting part of something
- an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
- a slight attack of illness
- an outstanding characteristic
- a playing card with a specified number of pips on it to indicate its value
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- (transitive, gymnastics, dance, weightlifting, climbing) To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to assist if safety dictates.
- (rail transport, transitive) To position (a locomotive or car) at a predetermined point, e.g., for loading or unloading.
- (dialectal) To rain slightly, in scattered, infrequent drops, for example when first beginning to rain.
- (ambitransitive) To stain; to leave a spot (on).
- (transitive) To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain.
- (transitive, dance) To keep the head and eyes pointing in a single direction while turning.
- (transitive) To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation.
- (transitive, chiefly snooker and billiards) To place (an object) at a location indicated by a spot.
- (US, slang, ditransitive) To loan a small amount of money to someone.
- To experience vaginal spotting; to expel blood from the vagina.
- (intransitive, snooker and billiards) Of a ball, to be capable of being placed on its own spot.
- (aviation, military, transitive) To position (an aircraft) on the deck of an aircraft carrier ready for launch by catapult.
- (transitive) To cut or chip (timber) in preparation for hewing.
- (transitive) To cover with spots, to speckle.
- (transitive) To retouch a photograph on film to remove minor flaws.
- (transitive) To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify.
- catch sight of
- mar or impair with a flaw
- mark with a spot or spots so as to allow easy recognition
- detect with the senses
- become spotted
- make a spot or mark onto
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- (figurative) Any small amount, a little bit.
- An avoirdupois ounce, weighing ¹⁄₁₆ of an avoirdupois pound, or 28.349523125 grams.
- (cryptozoology) Synonym of onza, a particularly aggressive cougar or jaguarundi in Mexican folklore.
- A British imperial fluid ounce, with a volume of ¹⁄₂₀ of an imperial pint, 1.733871 cubic inches or 28.4130625 millilitres.
- Synonym of snow leopard, Panthera uncia.
- A US fluid ounce, with a volume of ¹⁄₁₆ of a US pint, 1.804688 cubic inches or 29.5735295625 millilitres.
- A troy ounce, weighing ¹⁄₁₂ of a troy pound, or 480 grains, or 31.1034768 grams.
- a unit of apothecary weight equal to 480 grains or one twelfth of a troy pound
- large feline of upland central Asia having long thick whitish fur
- a unit of weight equal to one sixteenth of a pound or 16 drams or 28.349 grams
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- A small part or proportion.
- (historical) The tenth part of the increase arising from the profits of land and stock, allotted to the clergy for their support, as in England, or devoted to religious or charitable uses; a tax taking ten percent of land or stock profits, used for religious or charitable purposes.
- A contribution to one's religious community or congregation of worship (notably to the LDS church).
- a levy of one tenth of something
- an offering of a tenth part of some personal income
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- To take one-tenth or a tithe of something, particularly:
- (transitive) To enforce or collect a tithe upon someone or something.
- (transitive) To spare only every tenth person, killing the rest (usually in relation to the sacking of the episcopal seat at Canterbury by the pagan Danes in 1011).
- (intransitive) To pay a tithe; to pay a 10% tax
- (intransitive) To enforce or collect a tithe.
- (transitive) To pay a tithe upon something.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To pay or offer as a levy in the manner of a tithe or religious tax.
- (transitive) To pay something as a tithe.
- (transitive) To impose a tithe upon someone or something.
- levy a tithe on (produce or a crop)
- pay a tenth of one's income; pay one tenth of, especially to the church
- exact a tithe from
noun
- The smallest possible amount.
- (chiefly British, slang) Synonym of periwinkle (“type of mollusk”).
- A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.
- A brief time; an instant.
- An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
- (tiddlywinks) Synonym of tiddlywink (“small disc used in the game of tiddlywinks”).
- A subtle allusion.
- closing one eye quickly as a signal
- a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly
- a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
verb
- (intransitive) To close one's eyes.
- (intransitive) To gleam fitfully or intermittently; to twinkle; to flicker.
- (intransitive) To close one's eyes quickly and involuntarily; to blink.
- (transitive, intransitive) To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion, usually with an implication of conspiracy. (When transitive, the object may be the eye being winked, or the message being conveyed.)
- (intransitive) Usually followed by at: to look the other way, to turn a blind eye.
- gleam or glow intermittently
- keep back by blinking
- signal by winking
- briefly shut the eyes
noun
- (mathematics) An arbitrarily small quantity.
- (finance) The percentage change in an option value with respect to the underlying dividend yield.
- The fifth letter of the Greek alphabet, ε or Ε, preceded by delta (Δ, δ) and followed by zeta (Ζ, ζ).
- (computing, colloquial) Something negligible or insignificant.
- (colloquial) A small child.
- (phonetics) In IPA, the phonetic symbol ɛ that represents the open-mid front unrounded vowel.
- the 5th letter of the Greek alphabet
noun
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- small-scale analysis
- (sociology) the analysis of individual or community social activity e.g. family relationships.
- (social sciences) the analysis of individual or community social activity e.g. family relationships.
- (chemistry) The analysis (and subsequent identification) of very small quantities of material.
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- a tiny or scarcely detectable amount
- a small piece of cloth
- A fragment of something; a particle; a piece; also, a very small amount.
- (rare) A shard or sherd (“a piece of broken glass or pottery”).
- A long, narrow piece (especially of fabric) cut or torn off; a strip; specifically, a piece of cloth or clothing.
- (cooking) A thin strip of fruit peel, a vegetable, etc., cut so that it curls.
- (by extension) A thin strand or wisp, as of a cloud, mist, etc.
verb
- tear into shreds
- (music) Chiefly in rock and heavy metal: to play (a musical instrument (especially a guitar) or a piece of music) very fast and in a way that requires technical skill.
- (cooking) To cut (fruit peel, a vegetable, etc.) into thin strips that curl.
- To destroy (a document) by cutting or tearing into strips or small pieces that cannot easily be read, especially using a shredder.
- To reduce (something) by a large percentage; to slash.
- (bodybuilding) To reduce body weight due to fat and water before a competition.
- To become separated into small portions.
- (originally US) To convincingly defeat (someone); to thrash, to trounce.
- To separate (something) into small portions.
- (snowboarding, surfing) To cut through (snow, water, etc.) swiftly with one's snowboard, surfboard, etc.; (by extension) to move or ride along (a road, track, etc.) aggressively and rapidly.
- (snowboarding, surfing, etc.) To travel swiftly using a snowboard, surfboard, or vehicle.
- To cut or tear (something) into long, narrow pieces or strips.
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- To speak (a language or words) with only a superficial knowledge of it.
- To approach or study (something, such as a subject) superficially; to dabble in.
- (by extension, US) To hit (someone or something) with a liquid; to splash, to spatter.
- To have a slight, superficial knowledge of something; to dabble.
- (US) To hit with a liquid; to splash, to spatter.
- speak with spotty or superficial knowledge
- work with in an amateurish manner
- to talk foolishly
noun
- a small margin
- the property of being narrow; having little width
- an inclination to criticize opposing opinions or shocking behavior
- a restriction of range or scope
- (uncountable) The state of being narrow.
- (countable) A constriction; a narrow passage or place; an instance or aspect of being narrow, or having a limited scope or extent.
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noun
- the property of being a relatively small amount
- the property of having a relatively small size
- (countable) The result or product of being small.
- the property of having relatively little strength or vigor
- lack of generosity in trifling matters
- The quality of being minor in influence, power, or rank.
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being small.
noun
- A small, unspecified amount or quantity.
- (soccer) Penalty spot.
- The act of spotting or noticing something.
- (US, advertising) A brief advertisement or program segment on television.
- (sports) An official determination of placement.
- A bright lamp; a spotlight.
- A pimple, papule or pustule.
- A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally round in shape.
- A symbol on a playing card, domino, die, etc. indicating its value; a pip.
- Any of the balls marked with spots in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the stripes.
- (finance) A decimal point; point.
- A parking space.
- (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting) One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist if safety dictates); a spotter.
- (physics) An autosoliton.
- A location or area.
- Any of various points marked on the table, from which balls are played, in snooker, pool, billiards, etc.
- (slang, US) A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars.
- A food fish (Leiostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States, with a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides.
- A difficult situation.
- A stain or disfiguring mark.
- A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak.
- The southern redfish, or red horse (Sciaenops ocellatus), which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail.
- a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer
- a small piece or quantity of something
- a business establishment for entertainment
- a mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the suit)
- a short section or illustration (as between radio or tv programs or in a magazine) that is often used for advertising
- a point located with respect to surface features of some region
- a blemish made by dirt
- a section of an entertainment that is assigned to a specific performer or performance
- a small contrasting part of something
- an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
- a slight attack of illness
- an outstanding characteristic
- a playing card with a specified number of pips on it to indicate its value
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- (transitive, gymnastics, dance, weightlifting, climbing) To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to assist if safety dictates.
- (rail transport, transitive) To position (a locomotive or car) at a predetermined point, e.g., for loading or unloading.
- (dialectal) To rain slightly, in scattered, infrequent drops, for example when first beginning to rain.
- (ambitransitive) To stain; to leave a spot (on).
- (transitive) To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain.
- (transitive, dance) To keep the head and eyes pointing in a single direction while turning.
- (transitive) To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation.
- (transitive, chiefly snooker and billiards) To place (an object) at a location indicated by a spot.
- (US, slang, ditransitive) To loan a small amount of money to someone.
- To experience vaginal spotting; to expel blood from the vagina.
- (intransitive, snooker and billiards) Of a ball, to be capable of being placed on its own spot.
- (aviation, military, transitive) To position (an aircraft) on the deck of an aircraft carrier ready for launch by catapult.
- (transitive) To cut or chip (timber) in preparation for hewing.
- (transitive) To cover with spots, to speckle.
- (transitive) To retouch a photograph on film to remove minor flaws.
- (transitive) To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify.
- catch sight of
- mar or impair with a flaw
- mark with a spot or spots so as to allow easy recognition
- detect with the senses
- become spotted
- make a spot or mark onto
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- (figurative) Any small amount, a little bit.
- An avoirdupois ounce, weighing ¹⁄₁₆ of an avoirdupois pound, or 28.349523125 grams.
- (cryptozoology) Synonym of onza, a particularly aggressive cougar or jaguarundi in Mexican folklore.
- A British imperial fluid ounce, with a volume of ¹⁄₂₀ of an imperial pint, 1.733871 cubic inches or 28.4130625 millilitres.
- Synonym of snow leopard, Panthera uncia.
- A US fluid ounce, with a volume of ¹⁄₁₆ of a US pint, 1.804688 cubic inches or 29.5735295625 millilitres.
- A troy ounce, weighing ¹⁄₁₂ of a troy pound, or 480 grains, or 31.1034768 grams.
- a unit of apothecary weight equal to 480 grains or one twelfth of a troy pound
- large feline of upland central Asia having long thick whitish fur
- a unit of weight equal to one sixteenth of a pound or 16 drams or 28.349 grams
noun
- A small part or proportion.
- (historical) The tenth part of the increase arising from the profits of land and stock, allotted to the clergy for their support, as in England, or devoted to religious or charitable uses; a tax taking ten percent of land or stock profits, used for religious or charitable purposes.
- A contribution to one's religious community or congregation of worship (notably to the LDS church).
- a levy of one tenth of something
- an offering of a tenth part of some personal income
verb
- To take one-tenth or a tithe of something, particularly:
- (transitive) To enforce or collect a tithe upon someone or something.
- (transitive) To spare only every tenth person, killing the rest (usually in relation to the sacking of the episcopal seat at Canterbury by the pagan Danes in 1011).
- (intransitive) To pay a tithe; to pay a 10% tax
- (intransitive) To enforce or collect a tithe.
- (transitive) To pay a tithe upon something.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To pay or offer as a levy in the manner of a tithe or religious tax.
- (transitive) To pay something as a tithe.
- (transitive) To impose a tithe upon someone or something.
- levy a tithe on (produce or a crop)
- pay a tenth of one's income; pay one tenth of, especially to the church
- exact a tithe from
noun
- The smallest possible amount.
- (chiefly British, slang) Synonym of periwinkle (“type of mollusk”).
- A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.
- A brief time; an instant.
- An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
- (tiddlywinks) Synonym of tiddlywink (“small disc used in the game of tiddlywinks”).
- A subtle allusion.
- closing one eye quickly as a signal
- a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly
- a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
verb
- (intransitive) To close one's eyes.
- (intransitive) To gleam fitfully or intermittently; to twinkle; to flicker.
- (intransitive) To close one's eyes quickly and involuntarily; to blink.
- (transitive, intransitive) To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion, usually with an implication of conspiracy. (When transitive, the object may be the eye being winked, or the message being conveyed.)
- (intransitive) Usually followed by at: to look the other way, to turn a blind eye.
- gleam or glow intermittently
- keep back by blinking
- signal by winking
- briefly shut the eyes
verb
- make small or insignificant
- represent as less significant or important
- cause to seem less serious; play down
- (computing, transitive, graphical user interface) To remove (a window) from the main display area, collapsing it to an icon or caption.
- (transitive) To treat (someone) in a slighting manner.
- (transitive) To make (something) smaller or as small as possible; shrink; reduce.
- (transitive) To treat as trivial or insignificant; to trivialize.
- (transitive) To relegate or assign (something) to a less insignificant status; diminish.
verb
- make appear small by comparison
- check the growth of
- (intransitive) To become (much) smaller.
- To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt.
- (transitive) To make appear (much) smaller, puny, tiny; to be much larger than.
- (transitive) To render (much) smaller, turn into a dwarf (version).
- (transitive) To make appear insignificant.
noun
- a plant or animal that is atypically small
- a person who is markedly small
- a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure
- (mythology) Any member of a race of beings from (especially Scandinavian and other Germanic) folklore, usually depicted as having some sort of supernatural powers and being skilled in crafting and metalworking, often as short with long beards, and sometimes as clashing with elves.
- (astronomy) A dwarf star.
- An animal, plant or other thing much smaller than the usual of its sort.
- (now sometimes offensive) A person of short stature, often one whose limbs are disproportionately small in relation to the body as compared with typical adults, usually as the result of a genetic condition.
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- make appear small by comparison
- follow, usually without the person's knowledge
- cast a shadow over
- (transitive) To shade, cloud, or darken.
- (transitive, intransitive) To accompany (a professional) during the working day, so as to learn about an occupation one intends to take up.
- (transitive) To block light or radio transmission from.
- (particularly espionage) To secretly or discreetly track or follow another, to keep under surveillance.
- (transitive) To represent faintly and imperfectly.
- (transitive) To hide; to conceal.
- (transitive, computing) To apply the shadowing process to (the contents of ROM).
- (transitive, programming) To make (an identifier, usually a variable) inaccessible by declaring another of the same name within the scope of the first.
noun
- refuge from danger or observation
- something existing in perception only
- an inseparable companion
- an unilluminated area
- shade within clear boundaries
- a premonition of something adverse
- a dominating and pervasive presence
- a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements
- an indication that something has been present
- (UK, law enforcement) A trainee, assigned to work with an experienced officer.
- A dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object.
- A spirit; a ghost; a shade.
- (Jungian psychology) An unconscious aspect of the personality.
- (typography) A drop shadow effect applied to lettering in word processors etc.
- Relative darkness, especially as caused by the interruption of light; gloom; obscurity.
- An imperfect and faint representation.
- An inseparable companion.
- (figurative) That which looms as though a shadow.
- One who secretly or furtively follows another.
- An influence, especially a pervasive or a negative one.
- (chiefly in the negative) A small degree; a shade.
- An area protected by an obstacle (likened to an object blocking out sunlight).
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- relatively moderate, limited, or small
- (of a voice) faint
- limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
- (of children and animals) young, immature
- not large but sufficient in size or amount
- lowercase
- low or inferior in station or quality
- slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope
- have fine or very small constituent particles
- made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth)
- Having a small penis, muscles, or other important body parts, regardless of overall body size.
- Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.
- Humiliated or insignificant.
- (figuratively, not comparable) Young, as a child.
- (especially clothing, food or drink) That is small (the manufactured size).
- Synonym of little (“of an industry or institution(s) therein: operating on a small scale, unlike larger counterparts”).
- (writing, not comparable) Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written or printed letters.
- Evincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.
- Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.
noun
- the slender part of the back
- a garment size for a small person
- (countable, especially clothing, food or drink) An item labelled or denoted as being that size.
- (countable, rare) Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back.
- (uncountable, especially clothing, food or drink) One of several common sizes to which an item may be manufactured, smaller than a medium.
- (countable, especially with respect to clothing) One who fits an item of that size.
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- small in quantity
- being of delicate or slender build
- (of something abstract like a chance or margin) Very small, tiny.
- (of a workforce) Of a reduced size, with the intent of being more efficient.
- (of an object) Long and narrow.
- (by extension, of clothing) Designed to make the wearer appear slim.
- (rustic, Northern England, Scotland) Bad, of questionable quality; not strongly built, flimsy.
- (of a person or a person's build) Slender in an attractive way.
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- Little or small in size.
- (informal) Inclined to cause frustration or annoyance to others out of spite over minor grievances; extremely vindictive.
- Having little or no importance.
- Of persons or their behaviour: marked by or reflective of undesirably limited interests, sympathies, or views; begrudging, selfish, small-minded; also, preoccupied with subjects having little or no importance and not mindful of broader concerns.
- (historical) Of or relating to the lowest grade or level of school; junior, primary.
- Secondary in importance or rank; minor, subordinate.
- inferior in rank or status
- contemptibly narrow in outlook
- (informal) small and of little importance
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- Very small; minute
- Able to see extremely minute objects.
- Of, or relating to microscopes or microscopy; microscopal
- So small that it can only be seen with the aid of a microscope.
- (figurative) Carried out with great attention to detail.
- of or relating to or used in microscopy
- so small as to be invisible without a microscope
- visible under a microscope; using a microscope
- extremely precise with great attention to details
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- relatively moderate, limited, or small
- (of a voice) faint
- limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
- (of children and animals) young, immature
- not large but sufficient in size or amount
- lowercase
- low or inferior in station or quality
- slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope
- have fine or very small constituent particles
- made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth)
- Having a small penis, muscles, or other important body parts, regardless of overall body size.
- Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.
- Humiliated or insignificant.
- (figuratively, not comparable) Young, as a child.
- (especially clothing, food or drink) That is small (the manufactured size).
- Synonym of little (“of an industry or institution(s) therein: operating on a small scale, unlike larger counterparts”).
- (writing, not comparable) Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written or printed letters.
- Evincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.
- Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.
noun
- the slender part of the back
- a garment size for a small person
- (countable, especially clothing, food or drink) An item labelled or denoted as being that size.
- (countable, rare) Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back.
- (uncountable, especially clothing, food or drink) One of several common sizes to which an item may be manufactured, smaller than a medium.
- (countable, especially with respect to clothing) One who fits an item of that size.
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- relatively moderate, limited, or small
- (of a scale or mode) having half steps between the second and third degrees, and (usually) the fifth and sixth degrees, and the seventh and eighth degrees
- of the younger of two boys with the same family name
- warranting only temporal punishment
- inferior in number or size or amount
- not of legal age
- of lesser seriousness or danger
- lesser in scope or effect
- of lesser importance or stature or rank
- of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization
- (music, historical) Of or related to the relationship between the longa and the breve in a score.
- (law) Underage, not having reached legal majority.
- (music, historical) Having semibreves twice as long as a minim.
- (mathematics) Of or related to a minor, a determinate obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns from a matrix.
- (music) Smaller by a diatonic semitone than the equivalent major interval.
- (graph theory) Including both directed and undirected edges.
- Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option, particularly:
- (Canada, US, education) Of or related to a minor, a secondary area of undergraduate study.
- (medicine, sometimes figurative) Not serious, not involving risk of death, permanent injury, dangerous surgery, or extended hospitalization.
- (music) Incorporating a minor third interval above the (in scales) tonic or (in chords) root note, (also figurative) tending to produce a dark, discordant, sad, or pensive effect.
- Having little worth or ability; paltry; mean.
- (logic) Acting as the subject of the second premise of a categorical syllogism, which then also acts as the subject of its conclusion.
noun
- a young person of either sex
- (entomology) A leaf-cutter worker ant intermediate in size between a minim and a media.
- (Canada, US, education) A formally recognized secondary area of undergraduate study, requiring fewer course credits than the equivalent major.
- (campanology) Changes rung on six bells.
- (rugby, historical) Ellipsis of minor point (“a lesser score formerly gained by certain actions”).
- (law) A child, a person who has not reached the age of majority, consent, etc. and is legally subject to fewer responsibilities and less accountability and entitled to fewer legal rights and privileges.
- (Canada, US, education, uncommon) A person who is completing or has completed such a course of study.
- (Australian football) Synonym of behind: a one-point kick.
- (Catholicism) Alternative letter-case form of Minor: a Franciscan friar, a Clarist nun.
- (baseball) Ellipsis of minor league (“the lower level of teams”).
- (entomology) Any of various noctuid moths in Europe and Asia, chiefly in the Oligia and Mesoligia genera.
- (logic) Ellipsis of minor term or minor premise.
- (ice hockey) Ellipsis of minor penalty (“a penalty requiring a player to leave the ice for 2 minutes unless the opposing team scores”).
- (mathematics) A determinant of a square matrix obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns.
- (bridge) Ellipsis of minor suit, a card of a minor suit.
- (music) Ellipsis of minor interval, minor scale, minor mode, minor key, minor chord, or minor triad.
- (graph theory) Short for graph minor
- A lesser person or thing, a person, group, or thing of minor rank or in the minor leagues.
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- relatively moderate, limited, or small
- marked by simplicity; having a humble opinion of yourself
- not large but sufficient in size or amount
- humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness
- low or inferior in station or quality
- free from pomp or affectation
- not offensive to sexual mores in conduct or appearance
- Not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements; unpretentious, humble.
- (especially of behavior or clothing) Intending to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others.
- Small, moderate in size.
- Pure and delicate from a sense of propriety.
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- The smallest possible amount, quantity, or degree.
- (music) Characterised by the repetition and gradual alteration of short phrases.
- (art) Characterised by the use of simple form or structures.
- (mathematics, technical) Among elements of some collection, such that no other element is greater (with respect to some given partial order).
- the least possible
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- Small in size.
- Short in duration; brief.
- (derogatory) To imply that the inhabitants of the place have an insular attitude and are hostile to those they perceive as foreign.
- (offensive) Used to belittle a person.
- Very young, of childhood age.
- Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow, shallow, contracted; mean, illiberal, ungenerous.
- (often capitalized) Used with the name of a place, especially of a country or its capital, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers are from that place.
- (of an industry or other field, or institution(s) therein, often capitalized) Operating on a small scale.
- Small and underdeveloped, particularly (of a male) in the genitals.
- Having few members.
- (of a sibling) Younger.
- Insignificant, trivial.
- (of a voice) faint
- limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
- (of children and animals) young, immature
- lowercase
- (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with ‘a’) at least some
- small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context)
- (informal) small and of little importance
- low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal
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- (countable, age regression) One who has mentally age regressed to a childlike state.
- Ellipsis of little go (“type of examination”).
- (countable, university slang) A newly initiated member of a sorority or fraternity, who is mentored by a big.
- (countable, ageplay) The participant who acts out the younger role.
- (chiefly uncountable or in the singular) A small amount.
- (countable, informal) A child, particularly an infant.
- a small amount or duration
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- (engineering) A connecting bar or rod, pivoted at each end to the end of another piece, for transmitting motion, especially from one plane to another; specifically, such a piece in an organ stop action to transmit motion from the trundle to the lever actuating the stop slider.
- An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.
- A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
- An act of tracing.
- (meteorology) A small amount of rain, not enough to be measured.
- (semiotics) A signifier approximated in the absence of stable signified.
- A very small amount, often residual, of some substance or material.
- An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
- (linear algebra) The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
- (programming) A sequence of instructions, including branches but not loops, that is executed for some input data.
- (electronics) A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
- (fortification) The ground plan of a work or works.
- (grammar) An empty category occupying a position in the syntactic structure from which something has been moved, used to explain constructions such as wh-movement and the passive.
- (geometry) The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
- One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whippletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.
- a just detectable amount
- a visible mark (as a footprint) left by the passage of person or animal or vehicle
- either of two lines that connect a horse's harness to a wagon or other vehicle or to a whiffletree
- a drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image
- an indication that something has been present
- a suggestion of some quality
verb
- (transitive) To draw or sketch lightly or with care.
- (computing, transitive) To follow the execution of the program by making it to stop after every instruction, or by making it print a message after every step.
- (transitive) To follow the trail of.
- To follow the history of.
- (transitive) To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
- make a mark or lines on a surface
- pursue or chase relentlessly
- follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something
- make one's course or travel along a path; travel or pass over, around, or along
- copy by following the lines of the original drawing on a transparent sheet placed upon it; make a tracing of
- read with difficulty
- to go back over again
- discover traces of
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noun
- painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts)
- a copy that reproduces a person or thing in greatly reduced size
- An illustration in an illuminated manuscript.
- A particular feature or trait.
- A musical composition which is short in duration.
- Greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale.
- A small version of something; a model of reduced scale.
- Lettering in red; rubric distinction.
- A small, highly detailed painting, a portrait miniature.
- (chess) A chess game which is concluded with very few moves.
- (roleplaying games, board games) A token in a game representing a unit or character.
- The art of painting such highly detailed miniature works.
verb
adj
- Small, not high (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
- (in several set phrases) Being near the equator.
- Depressed in mood, dejected, sad.
- Low-cut.
- (baseball, of a ball) Below the batter's knees.
- Disparaging; assigning little value or excellence.
- Dead. (Compare lay low.)
- (of an automobile, gear, etc) Designed for a slow (or the slowest) speed.
- Being a nadir, a bottom.
- (acoustics) Grave in pitch, due to being produced by relatively slow vibrations (wave oscillations); flat.
- Humble, meek, not haughty.
- Lacking health or vitality, strength or vivacity; feeble; weak.
- Of less than normal height or upward extent or growth, or of greater than normal depth or recession; below the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.
- (card games) Lesser in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc.
- Not high in status, esteem, or rank, dignity, or quality. (Compare vulgar.)
- (video games, roleplaying games) Having few hit points remaining; damaged.
- Pertaining to (or, especially of a language: spoken in) in an area which is at a lesser elevation, closer to sea level (especially near the sea), than other regions.
- Quiet; soft; not loud.
- Depleted, or nearing deletion; lacking in supply.
- (chiefly in several set phrases) Favoring simplicity (see e.g. low church, Low Tory).
- (phonetics) Made with a relatively large opening between the tongue and the palate; made with (part of) the tongue positioned low in the mouth, relative to the palate.
- Situated close to, or even below, the ground or another normal reference plane; not high or lofty.
- Having a small or comparatively smaller concentration of (a substance, which is often but not always linked by "in" when predicative).
- (especially in biology) Simple in complexity or development.
- subdued or brought low in condition or status
- no longer sufficient
- unrefined in character
- less than normal in degree or intensity or amount
- of the most contemptible kind
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- low or inferior in station or quality
- being at or having a relatively small elevation or upward extension
- very low in volume
- used of sounds and voices; low in pitch or frequency
adv
- Close to the ground.
- Of a pitch, at a lower frequency.
- (astronomy) In a path near the equator, so that the declination is small, or near the horizon, so that the altitude is small; said of the heavenly bodies with reference to the diurnal revolution.
- With a low voice or sound; not loudly; gently.
- In a low mean condition; humbly; meanly.
- In a time approaching our own.
- Under the usual price; at a moderate price; cheaply.
- in a low position; near the ground
noun
- The lowest-speed gearing of a power-transmission system, especially of an automotive vehicle.
- A period of depression; a depressed mood or situation.
- The minimum atmospheric temperature recorded at a particular location, especially during one 24-hour period.
- (meteorology, informal) An area of low pressure; a depression.
- A low point or position, literally (as, a depth) or figuratively (as, a nadir, a time when things are at their worst, least, minimum, etc).
- (slang, usually accompanied by "the") A cheap, cost-efficient, or advantageous price.
- (countable, UK, Scotland, dialect) A flame; fire; blaze.
- (card games) The lowest trump, usually the deuce; the lowest trump dealt or drawn.
- the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving
- a low level or position or degree
- an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation