hot
little
short-term
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soon
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temporariness
bit by bit
second
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tininess
in small doses
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flat
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lightly
overnight
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thinly
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bitty
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teeny
teensy
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while
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patch
piece
time
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a tad
epsilon
scant
abridge
instant
decrease
near-term
bit
small
less
a bit
somewhat
jot
some time
semilong
subpicosecond
stretch
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tithe
fleetingness
durationally
ephemerality
hourlong
no big whoop
-'s
relative quantity
ephemeralness
much
moment
flitting
shirttail
age
pennyworth
pickle
in no time
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mite
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minute
fine-tooth comb
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corpuscle
atom
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fine-toothed comb
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molecule
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little
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soon
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wee
weensy
itsy-bitsy
teensy-weensy
itty-bitty
teeny-weeny
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bitty
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hourlong
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a bit
durationally
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briefness
while
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patch
piece
time
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epsilon
scant
bit
less
somewhat
jot
some time
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CliffsNotes version
tithe
fleetingness
ephemerality
no big whoop
relative quantity
ephemeralness
moment
shirttail
age
pennyworth
pickle
mote
particle
morsel
mite
scintilla
minute
fine-tooth comb
tract
speck
corpuscle
atom
subfraction
fine-toothed comb
molecule
instant
abridge
decrease
adj
- Used to emphasize the short duration or small quantity of something
- Stolen.
- Not covered by funds on account.
- Extremely fast or with great speed.
- Sexually aroused; randy.
- Very good, remarkable, exciting.
- Feeling the sensation of heat, especially to the point of discomfort.
- Feverish.
- Of great current interest; provoking current debate or controversy.
- Very physically and/or sexually attractive.
- Active, in use or ready for use (like a bullet or a firing range), turned on (like a microphone or camera).
- Sexual or sexy; involving sexual intercourse or sexual excitement.
- Popular; in demand.
- Easily provoked to anger.
- Uncomfortable, difficult to deal with; awkward, dangerous, unpleasant.
- Fresh; just released.
- Having or giving off a high temperature.
- Characterized by police presence or activity.
- Very close to finding or guessing something to be found or guessed.
- Spicy, pungent, piquant, as some chilis and other spices are.
- Loud, producing a strong electric signal for the amplifier.
- Extremely attracted to.
- Electrically charged.
- Radioactive.
- Performing strongly; having repeated successes.
adv
verb
noun
adj
- limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
- (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some
- low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal
adj
- (of children and animals) young, immature
- (informal) small and of little importance
- (of a voice) faint
- lowercase
- small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context)
adv
noun
- A very small degree of a quantity, or variety of meaning
- Something that blocks light, particularly in a window.
- A variety of a colour/color, in particular one obtained by adding black (compare tint).
- An aspect that is reminiscent of something.
- A ghost or specter; a spirit.
- A subtle variation in a concept.
- A postage stamp showing an obvious difference in colour/color to the original printing and needing a separate catalogue/catalog entry.
- Subtle insults.
- A candle-shade.
- A cover around or above a light bulb, a lampshade.
- Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked.
verb
- To shield (someone or something) from light.
- To reduce (a window) so that only its title bar is visible.
- To alter slightly.
- To move slightly from one's normal fielding position.
- To vary or approach something slightly, particularly in color.
- To darken, particularly in drawing.
- To surpass by a narrow margin.
- To throw shade, to subtly insult someone.
- To shield oneself from light.
noun
- A short, indeterminate amount of time.
- The agent of a party to an honour dispute whose role was to try to resolve the dispute or to make the necessary arrangements for a duel.
- An additional helping of food.
- Something that is number two in a series.
- A second-class honours degree.
- One-sixtieth of a minute; the SI unit of time, defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of caesium-133 in a ground state at a temperature of absolute zero and at rest.
- A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree.
- The interval between two adjacent notes in a diatonic scale (either or both of them may be raised or lowered from the basic scale via any type of accidental).
- A manufactured item that, though still usable, fails to meet quality control standards.
- Second base.
- Something that is next in rank, quality, precedence, position, status, or authority.
- One who supports or seconds a motion, or the act itself, as required in certain meetings to pass judgement etc.
- A chance or attempt to achieve what should have been done the first time, usually indicating success this time around. (See second-guess.)
- The place that is next below or after first in a race or contest.
- A Cub Scout appointed to assist the sixer.
- The second gear of an engine.
- One who supports another in a contest or combat, such as a dueller's assistant.
adv
verb
- To climb after a lead climber.
- To assist or support; to back.
- To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (See under [[#Etymology 3]] for translations.)
- To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (This may come from the English adjective above.)
- To accompany by singing as the second performer.
- To follow in the next place; to succeed.
- To transfer temporarily to alternative employment.
adj
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
adv
- Used to emphasize the smallness of the measurement.
- Completely.
- Without allowance for accrued interest.
- Bluntly.
- In the mile race, Smith's time was 3:58.56, and Brown's was four minutes flat.
- Directly; flatly.
- Exactly, precisely.
- So as to be flat.
noun
- A flat tyre/flat tire.
- A rectangular wooden structure covered with masonite, lauan, or muslin, often produced in standard modules, that is used to build wall surfaces on stage. Flats can be painted and outfitted with doors and/or windows to depict a building or other part of a scene. It's a hard-surfaced alternative to a backcloth orbackdrop.
- An area of level ground (sometimes covered with water).
- A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
- An early kind of toy soldier having a flat design.
- The palm of the hand, with the adjacent part of the fingers.
- A large mail piece measuring at least 8 1/2 by 11 inches, such as catalogs, magazines, and unfolded paper enclosed in large envelopes.
- A flat (i.e. plane) mirror
- The flat side of a blade, as opposed to the sharp edge.
- A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension.
- A flat, glossy children's book with few pages.
- A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions.
- A railroad car without a roof, and whose body is a platform without sides; a platform car or flatcar.
- An apartment, usually on one level and usually consisting of more than one room.
- Level ground in general.
- A note played a semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ placed after the letter representing the note (e.g., B♭) or in front of the note symbol (e.g. ♭♪).
- A type of ladies' shoe with a very low heel.
- Level horse-racing ground, as contrasted with courses incorporating jumps, or the racing done on such ground.
- A wide, shallow container or pallet.
- A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
- A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
- A cheater's die with the edges shaved to make certain rolls more likely.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies that spread their wings open when they land.
- A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolour painting.
- A flat sheet for use on a bed.
- the area in the centre of a racecourse.
- A type of flat-soled running shoe without spikes.
verb
- To make a flat call; to call without raising.
- To fall from the pitch.
- To become flat or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
- To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
- To dash or throw
- To dash, rush
adj
- Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft.
- Unable to emit power; dead.
- Smooth; having no protrusions, indentations or other surface irregularities, or relatively so.
- Lacking acidity without being sweet.
- Not having an inflectional ending or sign, such as a noun used as an adjective, or an adjective as an adverb, without the addition of a formative suffix; or an infinitive without the sign "to".
- Absolute; downright; peremptory.
- Without variation in tone or hue (uniform), and dull (not glossy).
- Without variation in level, quantity, value, tone etc.
- Of fees, fares etc., fixed; unvarying.
- Lowered by one semitone.
- Without spin; spinless.
- Having small or invisible breasts and/or buttocks.
- At a consistently depressed level; consistently lacklustre.
- Flattening at the ends.
- With all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the drink no longer fizzes or contains any bubbles.
- Exact.
- In a horizontal line or plane; not sloping.
- Lacking liveliness or action; depressed; uninteresting; dull and boring.
- Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be.
- Without variations in pitch.
- Deflated, especially because of a puncture.
- Having no variations in height.
- Lacking in depth, substance, or believability; underdeveloped; one-dimensional.
noun
- A brief interval.
- A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
- In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity it was defined as a combination of words having no more than eight syllables in all. It was later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma.
- The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
- A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.
- A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
verb
adv
- In a very short (but unspecified) amount of time.
- During or throughout the night, especially during the evening or night just past.
noun
- An overnight stay, especially in a hotel or other lodging facility.
- Viewership ratings for a television show that are published the morning after it is broadcast, and may be revised later on.
- Items delivered or completed overnight.
adj
- Complete before the next morning.
- Occurring between dusk and dawn.
- Of an activity or event in which participants stay overnight.
verb
noun
- a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition
- a small contrasting part of something
- a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation
- a piece of cloth used as decoration or to mend or cover a hole
- a short set of commands to correct a bug in a computer program
- a connection intended to be used for a limited time
- sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment)
- a protective cloth covering for an injured eye
- a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body
verb
noun
- a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition
- a separate part of a whole
- an item that is an instance of some type
- a portion of a natural object
- a musical work that has been created
- an instance of some kind
- an artistic or literary composition
- a portable gun
- a serving that has been cut from a larger portion
- a distance
- a work of art of some artistic value
- a share of something
- game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games
verb
noun
- A quantity of availability of duration.
- The property of a system which allows it to have more than one distinct configuration.
- The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
- The end of someone's life, conceived by the speaker as having been predestined.
- The hour of childbirth.
- A numerical indication of a particular moment.
- A particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something (especially with prepositional phrase or imperfect subjunctive).
- How much of a day has passed; the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device.
- An instance or occurrence.
- A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension.
- The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.
- The serving of a prison sentence.
- An era; (with the, sometimes in plural) the current era, the current state of affairs.
- Ratio of comparison.
- The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division.
- Closing time.
- Time out; temporary, limited suspension of play.
- A person's youth or young adulthood, as opposed to the present day.
- A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression.
- An experience.
- Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy.
intj
- The umpire's call in prizefights, etc.
- Reminder by the umpire for the players to continue playing after their pause.
- A call by a bartender to warn patrons that the establishment is closing and no more drinks will be served.
verb
noun
- A short period.
- A competitive weightlifting event in which a barbell is lifted from the platform to locked arms overhead in a smooth continuous movement.
- Rapid, uncommanded jerking or oscillation of the ailerons of some aircraft at high Mach numbers, resulting from shock wave formation at transonic speeds.
- A quick grab or catch.
- The vulva.
- A piece of some sound, usually music or conversation.
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.
adj
- Lasting for a short moment; momentary; short-lived.
- Present; current; extant.
- Very quickly and easily prepared.
- Of the current month.
- Occurring immediately; immediate; present.
noun
- A very short period of time; a moment.
- A single, usually precise, point in time.
- A beverage or food which has been pre-processed to reduce preparation time, especially instant coffee.
adv
verb
noun
noun
- Specifically, a small amount of time.
- A gag of a style similar to a bridle.
- A small amount of something.
- 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.
adj
verb
adj
- Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.
- Young, as a child.
- Humiliated or insignificant.
- Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written or printed letters.
- Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.
- That is small (the manufactured size).
- Evincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.
- Synonym of little (“of an industry or institution(s) therein: operating on a small scale, unlike larger counterparts”)
noun
- Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back.
- One who fits an item of that size.
- One of several common sizes to which an item may be manufactured.
- An item labelled or denoted as being that size.
adv
verb
noun
- A segment or length of material.
- The ability to lengthen when pulled.
- An act of stretching.
- A jail or prison term.
- Term of address for a tall person.
- A segment of a journey or route.
- A length of time.
- Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.
- The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
- A stretch limousine.
- The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
- A jail or prison term of one year's duration.
- A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.
- A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
- A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.
- A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
verb
- To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
- To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
- To lengthen when pulled.
- To lengthen by pulling.
- To pull tight.
- To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles
- To extend to a limit point
- To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
- To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
- To increase.
- To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.
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.
suffix
- Used to indicate a quantity of something, especially of time.
- Attached to a noun or noun phrase linked to a genitive of, forming a double genitive.
- Used to form the plurals of numerals, letters, some abbreviations and some nouns, usually because the omission of an apostrophe would make the meaning unclear or ambiguous.
- Used to form the plural of nouns that correctly take just an "s" in the plural. See greengrocer’s apostrophe.
- In the absence of a specified object, used to indicate “the house/place/establishment of”.
- Possessive marker, indicating that an object belongs to the noun or noun phrase bearing the marker.
- Used to indicate various other kinds of relationship, such as source or origin, object of an action, subject depicted, etc.
- Indicates a purpose or a user.
noun
- The smallest portion of time; an instant.
- Weight or importance.
- A fit; a brief tantrum.
- A brief, unspecified amount of time.
- A quantitative measure of the shape of a set of points.
- A petit mal episode; such a spell.
- (As in "X moment") An embarrassing event, supposed to be characteristic of some person, group, or situation.
- An infinitesimal change in a varying quantity; an increment or decrement.
- A definite period of time, specifically one-tenth of a point, or one-fortieth or one-fiftieth of an hour.
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
- That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; specifically the size of that part.
- The number of full years, months, days, hours, etc., that someone, or something, has been alive.
- Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities.
- The people who live during a particular period.
- A long time.
- The shortest geochronologic unit, being a period of thousands to millions of years; a subdivision of an epoch (or sometimes a subepoch).
- One of the twelve divisions of a Great Year, equal to roughly 2000 years and goverened by one of the zodiacal signs; a Platonic month.
- The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.
- A generation.
- A period of one hundred years; a century.
- The right of the player to the left of the dealer to pass the first round in betting, and then to come in last or stay out; also, the player holding this position; the eldest hand.
- An advanced period of life; the latter part of life; the state of being old, old age, senility; seniority.
- One of the stages of life.
- The whole duration of a being, whether human, animal, plant, or other kind, being alive.
- A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.
- A great period in the history of the Earth.
verb
- To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
- To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt.
- To categorize by age.
- To indicate that a person has been alive for a certain period of time, especially a long one.
- To be viewed or turn out in some way after a certain time has passed.
- To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age.
noun
- A small or indefinite quantity or amount (of something); a little, a bit, a few. Usually in partitive construction, frequently without "of"; a single grain or kernel of wheat, barley, oats, sand or dust.
- A difficult situation; peril.
- A sweet, vinegary pickled chutney popular in Britain.
- A mildly mischievous loved one.
- A penis.
- A bath of dilute sulphuric or nitric acid, etc., to remove burnt sand, scale, rust, etc., from the surface of castings, or other articles of metal, or to brighten them or improve their colour.
- In an optical landing system, the hand-held controller connected to the lens, or apparatus on which the lights are mounted.
- Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
- A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown
- A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.)
- A pipe for smoking methamphetamine.
- The brine used for preserving food.
- A rundown.
- A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
verb
- To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
- To eat sparingly.
- To pilfer.
- To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.
- To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment.
- To serialize.
noun
- Anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle.
- A lepton, a small coin used in Palestine in the time of Christ.
- A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing.
- A small weight; one twentieth of a grain.
- Any of many minute arachnids which, along with the ticks, comprise subclass Acarina (aka Acari).
- A small or naughty person, or one people take pity on; rascal.
noun
- A short but unspecified time period.
- A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
- An old coin, a half farthing.
- A nautical or a geographic mile.
- A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
- A point in time; a moment.
- A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour).
- A fixed part of a module.
- A unit of purchase on a telephone or other similar network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent in gross form to sixty seconds' use of the network.
- A while or a long unspecified period of time
adj
verb
noun
- Continued or protracted duration, length, extent
- Part of the proper of the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist for many Christian denominations, used instead of the alleluia during Lenten or pre-Lenten seasons, in a Requiem Mass, and on a few other penitential occasions.
- A series of connected body organs, such as the digestive tract.
- A commentator's view or perspective on a subject.
- A brief treatise or discourse on a subject.
- An area or expanse.
- A small booklet such as a pamphlet, often for promotional or informational uses.
adj
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