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noun
- a small piece or quantity of something
- a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
- an indefinitely short time
- an instance of some kind
- piece of metal held in horse's mouth by reins and used to control the horse while riding
- a unit of measurement of information (from binary + digit); the amount of information in a system having two equiprobable states
- a small amount of solid food; a mouthful
- a small fragment
- a short performance that is part of a longer program
- the part of a key that enters a lock and lifts the tumblers
- the cutting part of a drill; usually pointed and threaded and is replaceable in a brace or bitstock or drill press
noun
- a small piece or quantity of something
- a small contrasting part of something
- a point located with respect to surface features of some region
- a short section or illustration (as between radio or tv programs or in a magazine) that is often used for advertising
- an outstanding characteristic
- a blemish made by dirt
- a section of an entertainment that is assigned to a specific performer or performance
- a business establishment for entertainment
- a slight attack of illness
- a mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the suit)
- a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer
- a playing card with a specified number of pips on it to indicate its value
- an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
verb
noun
- A fragment of something; a particle; a piece; also, a very small amount.
- A thin strip of fruit peel, a vegetable, etc., cut so that it curls.
- A long, narrow piece (especially of fabric) cut or torn off; a strip; specifically, a piece of cloth or clothing.
- A thin strand or wisp, as of a cloud, mist, etc.
- A shard or sherd (“a piece of broken glass or pottery”).
adj
verb
- To become separated into small portions.
- To reduce body weight due to fat and water before a competition.
- 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.
- To reduce (something) by a large percentage; to slash.
- To cut or tear (something) into long, narrow pieces or strips.
- To separate (something) into small portions.
- Chiefly in rock and heavy metal: to play (a musical instrument (especially a guitar) or a piece of music) very fast.
- To cut (fruit peel, a vegetable, etc.) into thin strips that curl.
- To convincingly defeat (someone); to thrash, to trounce.
- To travel swiftly using a snowboard, surfboard, or vehicle.
- To destroy (a document) by cutting or tearing into strips or small pieces that cannot easily be read, especially using a shredder.
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 (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 small thick piece of anything.
- A square bar of wood or iron, with a shoulder at one end, to support the weight of the topmast (on a ship).
- A plug of oakum for the vent of a gun.
- The penis.
- A wooden or metal bar or pin, used to support or steady anything.
- A pointed tool without any sharp edges, used in weaving or knotwork to tighten and form up weaves or complex knots; used in sailing ships to open the strands of a rope before splicing. Compare marlinespike.
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 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 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
- 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 period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition
- 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
- the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance)
- a relatively small granular particle of a substance
- foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
- the side of leather from which the hair has been removed
- a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat
- 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams
- 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams
- dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn
- a cereal grass
- the smallest possible unit of anything
- the direction, texture, or pattern of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric
verb
noun
- the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance)
- the feel of a surface or a fabric
- the essential quality of something
- the musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
- the characteristic appearance of a surface having a tactile quality
noun
- A small amount of something; a drop in the bucket; a shred.
- A narrow high-rise apartment building.
- A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which precedes spinning.
- Specifically, a splinter caught under the skin.
- A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.
- Bait made of pieces of small fish. Compare kibblings.
verb
noun
- The smallest, indivisible constituent part or unit of something.
- 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.
- A very small amount; a whit.
- 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
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
noun
- A small amount of something; a pinch.
- A vasectomy.
- The act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something.
- Something acquired for a low price; a bargain.
- A single cut with scissors, clippers, or similar tool.
- A piece cut out by snipping.
- A white marking on a horse's muzzle, between the nostrils.
- A small or weak person, especially a young one.
- An act or sound of snipping, the sound produced by scissors.
verb
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.
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
verb
- To break into small pieces or fragments.
- To cut (meat etc.) into small pieces for frying.
- To sinter.
- To squander or waste time, money, or other resources; e.g. occupy oneself idly or without clear purpose, to tinker with an unimportant part of a project, to dally, sometimes as a form of procrastination.
noun
- A very small piece of matter, a fragment; especially, the smallest possible part of something.
- A part of speech which cannot be inflected.
- A little bit.
- 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
- A small individual part of something larger; a detail, a point.
- A particular case; an individual thing as opposed to a whole class. (Opposed to generals, universals.)
adj
- Specialised; characteristic of a specific person or thing.
- Of a person, concerned with, or attentive to, details; fastidious.
- Containing a part only; limited.
- Distinguished in some way; special (often in negative constructions).
- Holding a particular estate.
- Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise.
- Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject.
- Specific; discrete; concrete.
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