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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
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
adv
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.
pron
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
- 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 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
noun
- A small amount of something.
- A gag of a style similar to a bridle.
- An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc.
- The bevelled front edge of an axehead along which the cutting edge runs.
- A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.
- A gun.
- The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.
- A portion of something.
- A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
- In the southern and southwestern states, a small silver coin (such as the real) formerly current; commonly, one worth about 12½ cents; also, the sum of 12½ cents.
- The cutting iron of a plane.
- Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.
- A unit of measure for information entropy.
- A prison sentence, especially a short one.
- A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC).
- A unit of currency or coin in the Americas worth a fraction of a Spanish dollar; now specifically, an eighth of a US dollar.
- A rotary cutting tool fitted to a drill, used to bore holes.
- Fractions of a second.
- Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree. See also a bit.
- The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.
- Specifically, a small amount of time.
adj
verb
noun
- A little bit; a small amount.
- The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
- The children's game of tag.
- A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
- An act of borrowing or stealing something.
- The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
- The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
- A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
- A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
- The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.
- The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
- A disposal of the ball during a game, i.e. a kick or a handball.
- An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
- The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers.
- A relationship of close communication or understanding.
- Form; standard of performance.
verb
- To make intimate physical contact with a person.
- To cause to be briefly in contact with something.
- To deal with in speech or writing; briefly to speak or write (on or upon something).
- To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with.
- To perform, as a tune; to play.
- To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
- To come into physical contact, or to be in physical contact.
- To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect.
- To concern, to have to do with.
- To make physical contact with a thing.
- To lay hands on (someone suffering from scrofula) as a form of cure, as formerly practised by English and French monarchs.
- To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
- To imbue or endow with a specific quality.
- To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
- To bring (a sail) so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- To physically disturb; to interfere with, molest, or attempt to harm through contact.
- To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
- To give royal assent to by touching it with the sceptre.
- To be on the level of; to approach in excellence or quality.
- Of a ship or its passengers: to land, to make a short stop (at).
- To physically affect in specific ways implied by context.
- To consume, or otherwise use.
- To sexually excite with the fingers; to finger or masturbate.
- To keep the ship as near (the wind) as possible.
- To affect emotionally; to bring about tender or painful feelings in.
- To mark (a file or document) as having been modified.
- To obtain money from, usually by borrowing (from a friend).
- To disturb the mental functions of; to make somewhat insane; often followed with "in the head".
- To come close to; to approach.
noun
- A small part of the whole.
- A small but present amount of a quality, a hint.
- 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
- 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.
adj
noun
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
- A small sum of money.
- A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the euro.
- A hundredth of a semitone or half step.
- A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢.
- A unit of reactivity equal to one hundredth of a dollar.
- A coin having face value of one cent (in either of the above senses).
adv
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
noun
- A small part or proportion.
- 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 contribution to one's religious community or congregation of worship (notably to the LDS church)
verb
- To enforce or collect a tithe upon someone or something.
- To enforce or collect a tithe.
- To pay something as a tithe.
- To pay a tithe; to pay a 10% tax
- To pay a tithe upon something.
- To take one-tenth or a tithe of something
- 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).
- To pay or offer as a levy in the manner of a tithe or religious tax.
- To impose a tithe upon someone or something.
adv
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 number.
- That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.
- A couple-close.
- Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.
- One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery, called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.
- Two of the same kind connected or considered together.
- A turning effect created by forces that sum to zero in magnitude but produce a non-zero external torque.
verb
- To cause (two animals) to copulate, to bring (two animals) together for mating.
- To join in sexual intercourse; to copulate.
- To join (two things) together, or (one thing) to (another).
det
adj
noun
- A small amount of money.
- A measurement of illicit drugs (usually marijuana) sold in ten dollar bags.
- A defensive formation with six defensive backs, one of whom is a dimeback.
- An assist.
- A coin worth one-tenth of a Canadian dollar.
- Ten dollars.
- Payment responsibility.
- A beautiful woman (10 on a 10-point scale).
- A playing card with the rank of ten.
- A coin worth one-tenth of a U.S. dollar.
- A thousand dollars.
- A ten year prison sentence.
verb
noun
- A small portion
- The tail-end or periphery of something.
- Something small and unimportant.
- A distant kinship.
- The single or split (then rather plural) bottom part of a shirt, below the waist, especially in the back, which, when not tucked into trousers or other vestment, hangs over the wearer's tail-end, like a tail.
- A tenuous connection.
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 little bit.
- A part of speech which cannot be inflected.
- A very small piece of matter, a fragment; especially, the smallest possible part of something.
- Any of various physical objects making up the constituent parts of an atom; an elementary particle or subatomic particle.
- A part of speech that has no inherent lexical definition but must be associated with another word to impart meaning, often a grammatical category: for example, the English word to in a full infinitive phrase (to eat) or O in a vocative phrase (O Canada), or as a discourse marker (mmm).
- In the Roman Catholic church, a crumb of consecrated bread; also the smaller breads used in the communion of the laity.
noun
noun
- A small, barely detectable amount.
- An instruction to the database engine as to how a query should be executed, for example whether to use an index or not.
- An implicit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.
- A clue.
- Information in a computer-based font that suggests how the outlines of the font's glyphs should be distorted in order to produce, at specific sizes, a visually appealing pixel-based rendering; an instance of hinting.
verb
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.
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.
adj
noun
- A small amount, especially of money.
- An instance of a transgender or non-binary person presenting as the gender corresponding to their sex assigned at birth instead of that corresponding to their internal gender identity (for instance, a trans woman dressed as a man).
- A dull or uninteresting appearance or situation, unremarkable.
- A fabric, usually of thick cotton or wool, having a dull brownish yellow, dull grey, or dun colour.
- Often in the plural form drabs: apparel, especially trousers, made from this fabric.
- The colour of this fabric.
- A box used in a saltworks for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
adj
noun
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
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.
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
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