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noun
- A small amount.
- A ratio of two numbers (numerator and denominator), usually written one above the other and separated by a horizontal bar called the vinculum or, alternately, in sequence on the same line and separated by a solidus (diagonal bar).
- A component of a mixture, separated by fractionation.
- A part of a whole, especially a comparatively small part.
- In a eucharistic service, the breaking of the host.
verb
noun
- A small amount.
- One who has mentally age regressed to a childlike state.
- A child; particularly an infant.
- A newly initiated member of a sorority, who is mentored by a big.
- The participant in ageplay who acts out the younger role.
det
pron
adj
- Operating on a small scale.
- Very young.
- Short in duration; brief.
- To imply that the inhabitants of the place have an insular attitude and are hostile to those they perceive as foreign.
- Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous.
- Younger.
- 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.
- Having few members.
- Small in size.
- Insignificant, trivial.
- Used to belittle a person.
adv
noun
noun
- A small, unspecified amount or quantity.
- A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars.
- A bright lamp; a spotlight.
- The southern redfish, or red horse (Sciaenops ocellatus), which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail.
- The act of spotting or noticing something.
- An official determination of placement.
- A brief advertisement or program segment on television.
- Penalty spot.
- 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 variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak.
- An autosoliton.
- A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally round in shape.
- A parking space.
- One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist if safety dictates); a spotter.
- Any of various points marked on the table, from which balls are played, in snooker, pool, billiards, etc.
- A difficult situation.
- A pimple, papule or pustule.
- A stain or disfiguring mark.
- A decimal point; point.
- A location or area.
- Any of the balls marked with spots in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the stripes.
adj
verb
- To cut or chip (timber) in preparation for hewing.
- To retouch a photograph on film to remove minor flaws.
- To keep the head and eyes pointing in a single direction while turning.
- To place an object at a location indicated by a spot.
- To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to assist if safety dictates.
- To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain.
- To loan a small amount of money to someone.
- To stain; to leave a spot (on).
- To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify.
- To position (a locomotive or car) at a predetermined point, e.g., for loading or unloading.
- To position (an aircraft) on the deck of an aircraft carrier ready for launch by catapult.
- To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation.
noun
- A tiny amount.
- A beam of light or radiation.
- A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin.
- A line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point.
- A marine fish with a flat body, large wing-like fins, and a whip-like tail.
- The letter ⟨/⟩, one of two which represent the r sound in Pitman shorthand.
- One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.
- A radiating part of a flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, such as an aster or a sunflower; one of the pedicels of an umbel or other circular flower cluster; radius.
verb
noun
- a slight but appreciable amount
- a painful or straitened circumstance
- an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed
- a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action
- a small sharp bite or snip
- a squeeze with the fingers
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
verb
noun
- a slight but appreciable amount
- the event of something coming in contact with the body
- the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)
- a suggestion of some quality
- a distinguishing style
- the act of putting two things together with no space between them
- a communicative interaction
- a slight attack of illness
- the act of soliciting money (as a gift or loan)
- the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin
- deftness in handling matters
- the feel of mechanical action
verb
- make physical contact with, come in contact with
- perceive via the tactile sense
- affect emotionally
- be relevant to
- be in direct physical contact with; make contact
- have an effect upon
- deal with; usually used with a form of negation
- cause to be in brief contact with
- to extend as far as
- be equal to in quality or ability
- tamper with
- make a more or less disguised reference to
- comprehend
- consume
- color lightly
noun
- A very small amount.
- The ground plan of a work or works.
- The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
- The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
- 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.
- A residue of some substance or material.
- An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.
- 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.
- A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
- An act of tracing.
- 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.
- An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
- A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
verb
- 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.
- To draw or sketch lightly or with care.
- To follow the trail of.
- To follow the history of.
- To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
noun
noun
- A very small amount; a whit.
- The smallest possible amount of matter which still retains its identity as a chemical element, now known to consist of a nucleus surrounded by electrons.
- In logical atomism, a fundamental fact that cannot be further broken down.
- The smallest medieval unit of time, equal to fifteen ninety-fourths of a second.
- An age group division in hockey for nine- to eleven-year-olds.
- An element of a set that is not itself a set; an urelement.
- A mote of dust in a sunbeam.
- A hypothetical particle posited by Greek philosophers as an ultimate and indivisible component of matter.
- The smallest, indivisible constituent part or unit of something.
- A non-zero member of a partially ordered set that has only zero below it (assuming that the poset has a least element, its "zero").
- An individual number or symbol, as opposed to a list; a scalar value.
noun
- A bit, small amount.
- A mixture of sugar, cocoa and milk, used to make industrial chocolate.
- A nobody; a worthless person.
- A small piece of other material, such as rubber.
- A body louse (Pediculus humanus).
- The soft internal portion of bread, surrounded by crust.
- A small piece which breaks off from baked food (such as cake, biscuit or bread).
verb
adj
- Expressing a relatively small quantity or degree.
- Characterized by having a small number, greater than two, of (usually equivalent) components.
- Pertaining to a language form referring to a few of something (three to around ten), as a small group of people; contrast singular, dual, trial, and plural.
noun
noun
- A very small amount (of something).
- A particular kind of pewter.
- Anything that is of little importance or worth.
- An insignificant amount of money.
- Utensils made from this particular kind of pewter.
- An English dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, jelly and whipped cream.
verb
noun
- An arbitrarily small quantity.
- In IPA, the phonetic symbol ɛ that represents the open-mid front unrounded vowel.
- The name for the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet, ε or Ε, preceded by delta (Δ, δ) and followed by zeta (Ζ, ζ).
- Something negligible or insignificant.
- A small child.
- Yes, we have to convert all the symbol names to upper case at startup, but that’s epsilon.
- The percentage change in an option value with respect to the underlying dividend yield.
noun
- Any small amount, a little bit.
- A troy ounce, weighing ¹⁄₁₂ of a troy pound, or 480 grains, or 31.1035 grams.
- A British imperial fluid ounce, with a volume of ¹⁄₂₀ of an imperial pint, 1.7339 cubic inches or 28.4131 millilitres.
- An avoirdupois ounce, weighing ¹⁄₁₆ of an avoirdupois pound, or 28.3495 grams.
- A US fluid ounce, with a volume of ¹⁄₁₆ of a US pint, 1.8047 cubic inches or 29.5735 millilitres.
- Synonym of onza, a particularly aggressive cougar or jaguarundi in Mexican folklore.
- Synonym of snow leopard, Panthera uncia.
verb
- take a small amount from
- immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
- dip into a liquid while eating
- go down momentarily
- stain an object by immersing it in a liquid
- switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
- lower briefly
- appear to move downward
- slope downwards
- dip into a liquid
- place (candle wicks) into hot, liquid wax
- immerse in a disinfectant solution
- plunge (one's hand or a receptacle) into a container
- scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface
noun
- a depression in an otherwise level surface
- (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon
- a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places
- tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped
- a brief immersion
- a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
- a candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or tallow
- a brief swim in water
- a gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms
noun
- The smallest amount.
- Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, such as sweepings left over from handling higher grades.
- A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
- A fight, tussle, skirmish.
- The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
- Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
- A piece of deep-fried batter left over from frying fish, sometimes sold with chips.
- A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated with the Sureno gang.
- Leftover food.
verb
noun
- The smallest amount.
- He always tries to get away with doing the minimum.
- The lowest limit.
- A period of minimum brightness or energy intensity (of a star).
- The smallest member of a batch or sample or the lower bound of a probability distribution.
- A lower bound of a set which is also an element of that set.
adj
adj
- Insignificantly small.
- Without adjustment to remove the effects of inflation.
- Of, resembling, relating to, or consisting of a name or names.
- Of a species, the species name without consideration of whether it is a junior synonym or in reality consists of more than one biological species.
- Of or relating to the presumed or approximate value, rather than the actual value.
- Assigned to or bearing a person's name.
- Of, relating to, or being the amount or face value of a sum of money or a stock certificate, for example, and not the purchasing power or market value.
- Existing in name only.
- Of or relating to a noun or word group that functions as a noun.
- Of, relating to, or being the rate of interest or return without adjustment for compounding or inflation.
- Having values whose order is insignificant.
- Of or relating to nominalism.
- According to plan or design.
noun
- A person listed in the Police National Computer database as having been convicted, cautioned or recently arrested.
- A part of speech that shares features with nouns and adjectives. (Depending on the language, it may comprise nouns, adjectives, possibly numerals, pronouns, and participles.)
- A number (usually natural) used like a name; a numeric code or identifier. (See nominal number on Wikipedia.)
- A noun or word group that functions as part of a noun phrase.
noun
- A small amount; a whit.
- An attempt at something.
- A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream.
- An instance of earning money fast, usually by illegal means, thus a heist, drug deal etc.; mostly used in phrasal verbs: hit a lick, hit licks
- A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue.
- The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.
- A place where animals lick minerals from the ground.
- The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick.
- A short motif.
- A stroke or blow.
- A rate of speed. (Always qualified by good, fair, or a similar adjective.)
- An act of cunnilingus.
verb
adj
- relatively moderate, limited, or small
- of the younger of two boys with the same family name
- warranting only temporal punishment
adj
- of lesser importance or stature or rank
- lesser in scope or effect
- inferior in number or size or amount
- (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
- not of legal age
- of lesser seriousness or danger
- of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization
noun
verb
adj
- relatively moderate, limited, or small
- (of children and animals) young, immature
- slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope
- low or inferior in station or quality
- lowercase
- (of a voice) faint
- have fine or very small constituent particles
- not large but sufficient in size or amount
- made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth)
adv
adj
noun
noun
- The smallest possible amount.
- Synonym of periwinkle
- A brief time; an instant.
- A subtle allusion.
- An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
- A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.
- Synonym of tiddlywink (“small disc used in the game of tiddlywinks”)
verb
- To close one's eyes quickly and involuntarily; to blink.
- 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.)
- To close one's eyes.
- To gleam fitfully or intermitently; to twinkle; to flicker.
- Usually followed by at: to look the other way, to turn a blind eye.
noun
adj
- Slight; minimal.
- Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to lose consciousness
- Performed, done, or acted, weakly; not exhibiting vigor, strength, or energy
- Barely perceptible; not bright, or loud, or sharp
- Lacking courage, spirit, or energy; cowardly; dejected
verb
- To decay; to disappear; to vanish.
- To lose consciousness through a lack of oxygen or nutrients to the brain, usually as a result of suddenly reduced blood flow (may be caused by emotional trauma, loss of blood or various medical conditions).
- To lose courage or spirit; to become depressed or despondent.
noun
noun
- A small but present amount of a quality, a hint.
- A small part of the whole.
- A required aspect or component of a cause of action. A deed is regarded as a violation of law only if each element can be proved.
- Atmospheric forces such as strong winds and rains.
- Any one of the simplest chemical substances that cannot be decomposed in a chemical reaction or by any chemical means and made up of atoms all having the same number of protons.
- An orbital element; one of the parameters needed to uniquely specify a particular orbit.
- One of the four basic building blocks of matter in theories of ancient philosophers and alchemists: water, earth, fire, and air.
- A basic, simple substance out of which something is made, raw material.
- The basic principles of a field of knowledge, basics, fundamentals, rudiments.
- One of the objects in a set.
- One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
- A group of people within a larger group having a particular common characteristic.
- One of the conceptual objects in a markup language, usually represented in text by tags.
- A factor, one of the conditions contributing to a result.
- Any of the teeth of a zip fastener.
- A component in electrical equipment, often in the form of a coil, having a high resistance, thereby generating heat when a current is passed through it.
- An infinitesimal interval of a quantity, a differential.
- The bread and wine taken at Holy Communion.
- A place or state of being that an individual or object is best suited to.
- One of the entries of a matrix.
noun
- The smallest amount of money imaginable.
- A wooden token that is manufactured and distributed by a particular business as an advertising gimic or which can be exchanged for goods. Many wooden nickels have now become collector's items.
- A worthless replica of a coin, usually intended to defraud.
- Something that purports to be something other than it actually is, especially that purports to be more valuable than it actually is.
noun
- A thing of small value; a trifle.
- A piece of jewellery that is attached to clothing with a pin.
- The spot at the exact centre of the target, originally a literal pin that fastened the target in place.
- A cylinder often of wood or metal used to fasten or as a bearing between two parts.
- A simple accessory that can be attached to clothing with a pin or fastener, often round and bearing a design, logo or message, and used for decoration, identification or to show political affiliation, etc.
- Any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector.
- The flagstick: the flag-bearing pole which marks the location of a hole
- A peg in musical instruments for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
- A size of brewery cask, equal to half a firkin, or eighth of a barrel.
- A pinball machine.
- One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each person should drink.
- The spot at the exact centre of the house (the target area)
- A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
- The victory condition of holding the opponent's shoulders on the wrestling mat for a prescribed period of time.
- A needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening.
- Either a scenario in which moving a lesser piece to escape from attack would expose a more valuable piece to being taken instead, or one where moving a piece is impossible as it would place the king in check.
- The tenon of a dovetail joint.
- A small cylindrical object which blocks the rotation of a pin-tumbler lock when the incorrect key is inserted.
- A small nail with a head and a sharp point.
- A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.
- A leg.
verb
- To attach (an icon, application, message etc.) to another item so that it persists.
- To cause an analog gauge to reach the stop pin at the high end of the range.
- To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
- To fix (an array in memory, a security certificate, etc.) so that it cannot be modified.
- To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.
- To pin down (someone).
- To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.
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