'a tiny grain'的English词汇
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noun
noun
- A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle.
- (metonymic, chiefly US) The legal system as a whole.
- (metonymic, chiefly US) The beginning or end of legal proceedings.
- (historical) Rent.
- (historical) An old Saxon and Welsh form of tenure by which an estate passed, on the holder's death, to all the sons equally; also called gavelkind.
- A mason's setting maul.
- A wooden mallet, used by a courtroom judge, or by a committee chairman, struck against a sounding block to quieten those present, or by an auctioneer to accept the highest bid at auction.
- a small mallet used by a presiding officer or a judge
verb
noun
- A small weight; one twentieth of a grain.
- (sometimes used adverbially) Anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle.
- Any of many minute arachnids which, along with the ticks, comprise subclass Acari (syn. Acarina).
- (colloquial, often as a term of endearment) A small or naughty person, or one people take pity on; rascal.
- A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing.
- A lepton, a small coin used in Judea in the time of Christ.
- any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods
- a slight but appreciable amount
verb
noun
noun
- a small piece
- a small lump or protuberance
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- (euphemistic or vulgar slang) The clitoris.
- (computing, colloquial) A pointing stick.
- (Internet slang) Alternative spelling of noob.
- A small knob or lump.
- The essence or core of an issue, argument etc.
- (theater) A passage of Shakespearean blank verse.
verb
noun
- a small piece
- the part of a check that is retained as a record
- the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking)
- a short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost
- a torn part of a ticket returned to the holder as a receipt
- A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes.
- The smallest remainder of a smoked cigarette; a butt.
- A pen with a short, blunt nib.
- (electronics, radio frequency circuits) A length of transmission line or waveguide that is connected at one end only.
- The remaining part of the docked tail of a dog
- (wiki jargon) An article providing only minimal information and intended for later development.
- An unequal first or last interest calculation period, as a part of a financial swap contract
- Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump.
- (programming) A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior.
- An old and worn horseshoe nail.
- Stub iron.
- (typography, in tabular matter) A row heading in a table (with horizontal reference, whereas a column heading has vertical reference).
- (computing, middleware) A procedure that translates requests from external systems into a format suitable for processing and then submits those requests for processing.
verb
- extinguish by crushing
- clear of weeds by uprooting them
- pull up (weeds) by their roots
- strike (one's toe) accidentally against an object
- (transitive) To remove most of a tree, bush, or other rooted plant by cutting it close to the ground.
- (transitive) To jam, hit, or bump, especially a toe.
- (transitive) To remove a plant by pulling it out by the roots.
noun
adj
noun
- A very small piece of matter, a fragment; especially, the smallest possible part of something.
- (grammar) 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).
- (linguistics) A part of speech which cannot be inflected.
- (physics) Any of various physical objects making up the constituent parts of an atom; an elementary particle or subatomic particle.
- A little bit.
- (Christianity) In the Roman Catholic church, a crumb of consecrated bread; also the smaller breads used in the communion of the laity.
- a body having finite mass and internal structure but negligible dimensions
- a function word that can be used in English to form phrasal verbs
- (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything
noun
- a small fragment
- a small amount of solid food; a mouthful
- a small piece or quantity of something
- a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
- a short performance that is part of a longer program
- the cutting part of a drill; usually pointed and threaded and is replaceable in a brace or bitstock or drill press
- piece of metal held in horse's mouth by reins and used to control the horse while riding
- an instance of some kind
- a unit of measurement of information (from binary + digit); the amount of information in a system having two equiprobable states
- the part of a key that enters a lock and lifts the tumblers
- an indefinitely short time
- (in the plural, informal, sports) Fractions of a second.
- (informal) A small fraction above a whole number.
- (slang) A gag or put-on; a humorous conceit, especially when insistently presented as true.
- The cutting iron of a plane.
- The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.
- An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc.
- A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.
- (mathematics, computing) A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
- The bevelled front edge of an axehead along which the cutting edge runs.
- Ellipsis of bit part.
- A portion of something.
- A replaceable tip for a hand tool or power tool, comprising the portion that drives a fastener.
- (MLE) A gun.
- (BDSM) A gag of a style similar to a bridle.
- (computing) The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.
- (historical) A unit of currency and coin of the British West Indies worth six black dogs, originally equal to one-eighth of a Spanish dollar but later increasingly debased to one tenth, one eleventh, one twelfth, etc.
- (information theory) A unit of measure for information entropy.
- A rotary cutting tool, fitted to a drill, brace, or router, used to bore or drill holes or to remove material from the profile of the workpiece.
- (historical) A unit of currency of the Dutch West Indies in the early 20th century, worth one fifth of a cent.
- Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree. See also a bit.
- Synonym of microbitcoin.
- (historical, US and Canada) A unit of currency worth one eighth of a dollar, originally of a Spanish dollar but later also US or Canadian; also, a coin with this value, in particular the silver Spanish real.
- (slang) A prison sentence, especially a short one.
- A small amount of something.
- (informal) Specifically, a small amount of time.
- (information theory, cryptography) Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.
- A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC).
adj
verb
noun
- a small fragment
- (law) the unlawful act of capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment
- a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted overhead in one rapid motion
- obscene terms for female genitals
- the act of catching an object with the hands
- A quick grab or catch.
- (weightlifting) A competitive weightlifting event in which a barbell is lifted from the platform to locked arms overhead in a smooth continuous movement.
- A piece of some sound, usually music or conversation.
- A short period.
- (aviation) Rapid, uncommanded jerking or oscillation of the ailerons of some aircraft at high Mach numbers, resulting from shock wave formation at transonic speeds.
- (vulgar slang) The vulva.
verb
- to make grasping motions
- take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom
- to grasp hastily or eagerly
- (transitive, informal) To steal.
- (transitive, informal) To do something quickly in the limited time available.
- (transitive) To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony.
- (intransitive) To attempt to seize something suddenly.
- (transitive) To grasp and remove quickly.
- (transitive, informal, figurative, by extension) To take (a victory) at the last moment.
noun
verb
noun
- a very small quantity of something
- small piece of e.g. bread or cake
- a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
- A small piece which breaks off from baked food (such as cake, biscuit or bread).
- A mixture of sugar, cocoa and milk, used to make industrial chocolate.
- The soft internal portion of bread, surrounded by crust.
- Ellipsis of crumb rubber.
- (slang) A body louse (Pediculus humanus).
- (figuratively) A bit, small amount.
- A small piece of any other solid substance.
- (slang) A nobody; a worthless person.
verb
noun
- A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter.
- Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls and many other birds of prey, which serves as a waste disposal mechanism for indigestible parts of food, such as fur and bones.
- A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns.
- (heraldry) A roundel sable (black circular spot).
- One of the short conductive tubes in a Pelletron particle accelerator.
- a solid missile discharged from a firearm
- a small rounded mass of a substance
verb
adj
noun
verb
- form into grains
- paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood
- thoroughly work in
- become granular
- (transitive) To make granular; to form into grains.
- (transitive) To feed grain to.
- To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
- (tanning) To soften leather.
- To yield fruit.
- (tanning) To remove the hair or fat from a skin.
- (intransitive) To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
noun
- the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance)
- the direction, texture, or pattern of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric
- the smallest possible unit of anything
- a cereal grass
- foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
- 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
- the side of leather from which the hair has been removed
- dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn
- a relatively small granular particle of a substance
- 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams
- Temper; natural disposition; inclination.
- The metric, carat, or pearl grain of ¹⁄₄ carat used for measuring precious stones and pearls, now exactly 50 mg.
- An iron fish spear or harpoon, with a number of points half-barbed inwardly.
- (uncountable) A linear texture of a material or surface.
- (countable, uncountable) The crops from which grain is harvested.
- (photography, videography) Visual texture in processed photographic film due to the presence of small particles of a metallic silver, or dye clouds, developed from silver halide that have received enough photons.
- One of the branches of a valley or river.
- (botany) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock.
- (in the plural) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum.
- (historical) The French grain of ¹⁄₉₂₁₆ livre, equivalent to 53.11 mg at metricization and equal to exactly 54.25 mg from 1812–1839 as part of the mesures usuelles.
- (countable) A single particle of a substance.
- (dialectal, anatomy) The fangs of a tooth.
- (materials) A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.
- (countable) A single seed of grass food crops.
- (dialectal, anatomy) The groin; crotch.
- A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant; an offshoot.
- (countable, chiefly historical) Any of various small units of length originally notionally based on a grain's width, variously standardized at different places and times.
- (uncountable) The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
- The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
- (dialectal) A fork in a river valley or ravine.
- A blade of a sword, knife, etc.
- (founding) A thin piece of metal, used in a mould to steady a core.
- (uncountable) Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
- (countable, historical) The carat grain of ¹⁄₄ carat as a measure of gold purity, creating a 96-point scale between 0% and 100% purity.
- An arm of a cross.
- A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple.
- (dialectal) The branch of a family; clan.
- (astronautics) The solid piece of fuel in an individual solid-fuel rocket engine.
- The English grain of ¹⁄₅₇₆₀ troy pound or ¹⁄₇₀₀₀ pound avoirdupois, now exactly 64.79891 mg.
- (dialectal) A branch or arm of a stream, inlet, or sea.
noun
adj
- (music) Characterised by the repetition and gradual alteration of short phrases.
- (art) Characterised by the use of simple form or structures.
- The smallest possible amount, quantity, or degree.
- (mathematics, technical) Among elements of some collection, such that no other element is greater (with respect to some given partial order).
- the least possible
noun
noun
- A small, hard particle.
- A type of callus, usually on the feet or hands.
- (Commonwealth, but not Australia or New Zealand, uncountable) Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region.
- (Jamaica, MLE, slang, firearms, uncountable) Bullets, ammunition, charge and discharge of firearms.
- (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, uncountable) Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.
- (US, Canada) Something (e.g., acting, humour, music, or writing) which is deemed old-fashioned or intended to induce emotion.
- (Internet, euphemistic) pornography; porn
- (Jamaica, slang, uncountable) Money.
- A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop.
- (veterinary medicine) Skin hyperplasia with underlying fibroma between both digits of cattle.
- (veterinary medicine) An inflammatory disease of a horse's hoof, at the caudal part of the sole.
- (uncountable) A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and refreezing, often in mountain spring conditions.
- tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times
- the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal
- ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food
- a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes
- whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn
- something sentimental or trite
- (Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region — wheat in Great Britain or oats in Scotland and Ireland)
verb
- (US, Canada) To preserve using coarse salt, e.g. corned beef.
- (US, Canada) To provide (an animal) with corn (typically maize; or, in Scotland, oats) for feed.
- (US, Canada) To granulate; to form (a substance) into grains.
- (Jamaica, MLE, slang) To shoot up with bullets as by a shotgun (corn).
- preserve with large-grained rock salt
- feed (cattle) with corn
noun
- A small portion
- A tenuous connection.
- Something small and unimportant.
- A distant kinship.
- (by extension) The tail-end or periphery of something.
- 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.
- fabric forming the tail of a shirt
- a brief addendum at the end of a newspaper article
noun
verb
noun
noun
- A small cask.
- Any of various historically designated quantities of goods to be sold by the tub (butter, oysters, etc).
- (humorous or derogatory) Any structure shaped like a tub, such as a certain old form of pulpit, a short broad boat, etc.
- (mining) A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft.
- The contents or capacity of such a vessel.
- (automotive) The bare body shell of an automobile (minus the doors, hood, trunk lid, fenders, etc.) which is lowered onto the chassis at the time of assembly, or in the case of modern unibody designed vehicles, is itself a monocoque around which the rest of the vehicle is built.
- (nautical, informal) A slow-moving craft.
- A bathtub.
- A flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in.
- (slang) A corpulent or obese person.
- a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body
- the amount that a tub will hold
- a large open vessel for holding or storing liquids
verb
noun
- a small contrasting part of something
- 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 piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body
- sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment)
- a connection intended to be used for a limited time
- a piece of cloth used as decoration or to mend or cover a hole
- a protective cloth covering for an injured eye
- a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation
- (printing, historical) An overlay used to obtain a stronger impression.
- A small, usually contrasting but always somehow different or distinct, part of something else (location, time, size)
- A piece of any size, used to repair something for a temporary period only, or that it is temporary because it is not meant to last long or will be removed as soon as a proper repair can be made, which will happen in the near future.
- (computing) A piece of data intended to modify a computer file by replacing a part of it.
- A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.
- A local region of professional responsibility.
- A small piece of anything used to repair damage or a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.
- (historical) A small piece of black silk stuck on the face or neck to heighten beauty by contrast, worn by ladies in the 17th and 18th centuries; an imitation beauty mark.
- A butterfly of the genus Chlosyne.
- (medicine) A cover worn over a damaged eye, an eyepatch.
- (medicine) A piece of material used to cover a wound.
- A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, especially upon an old garment to cover a hole.
- (specifically) A small area, a small plot of land or piece of ground.
- (firearms) A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.
- (firearms) A small piece of material that is manually passed through a gun barrel to clean it.
- (music) A sound setting for a musical synthesizer (originally selected by means of a patch cable).
- (often patch cable, patch cord, etc.; see also patch panel) A cable connecting two pieces of electrical equipment.
- (medicine) An adhesive piece of material, impregnated with a drug, which is worn on the skin, the drug being slowly absorbed over a period of time.
verb
- provide with a patch; also used metaphorically
- to join or unite the pieces of
- mend by putting a patch on
- repair by adding pieces
- To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
- To fix or improve a computer program without a complete upgrade.
- To mend with pieces; to repair by fastening pieces on.
- To make a quick and possibly temporary change to a program.
- (generally with the particle "up") To repair or arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner
- To join or unite the pieces of; to patch the skirt.
- To make out of pieces or patches, like a quilt.
- To connect two pieces of electrical equipment using a cable.
- To employ a temporary, removable electronic connection, as one between two components in a communications system.
noun
verb
noun
- a small contrasting part of something
- 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
- 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
- (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 small, unspecified amount or quantity.
- 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.
verb
- 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
- (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.
adj
noun
noun
- A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle.
- (metonymic, chiefly US) The legal system as a whole.
- (metonymic, chiefly US) The beginning or end of legal proceedings.
- (historical) Rent.
- (historical) An old Saxon and Welsh form of tenure by which an estate passed, on the holder's death, to all the sons equally; also called gavelkind.
- A mason's setting maul.
- A wooden mallet, used by a courtroom judge, or by a committee chairman, struck against a sounding block to quieten those present, or by an auctioneer to accept the highest bid at auction.
- a small mallet used by a presiding officer or a judge
verb
noun
- A small weight; one twentieth of a grain.
- (sometimes used adverbially) Anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle.
- Any of many minute arachnids which, along with the ticks, comprise subclass Acari (syn. Acarina).
- (colloquial, often as a term of endearment) A small or naughty person, or one people take pity on; rascal.
- A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing.
- A lepton, a small coin used in Judea in the time of Christ.
- any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods
- a slight but appreciable amount
verb
noun
noun
- a small piece
- a small lump or protuberance
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- (euphemistic or vulgar slang) The clitoris.
- (computing, colloquial) A pointing stick.
- (Internet slang) Alternative spelling of noob.
- A small knob or lump.
- The essence or core of an issue, argument etc.
- (theater) A passage of Shakespearean blank verse.
verb
noun
- a small piece
- the part of a check that is retained as a record
- the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking)
- a short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost
- a torn part of a ticket returned to the holder as a receipt
- A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes.
- The smallest remainder of a smoked cigarette; a butt.
- A pen with a short, blunt nib.
- (electronics, radio frequency circuits) A length of transmission line or waveguide that is connected at one end only.
- The remaining part of the docked tail of a dog
- (wiki jargon) An article providing only minimal information and intended for later development.
- An unequal first or last interest calculation period, as a part of a financial swap contract
- Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump.
- (programming) A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior.
- An old and worn horseshoe nail.
- Stub iron.
- (typography, in tabular matter) A row heading in a table (with horizontal reference, whereas a column heading has vertical reference).
- (computing, middleware) A procedure that translates requests from external systems into a format suitable for processing and then submits those requests for processing.
verb
- extinguish by crushing
- clear of weeds by uprooting them
- pull up (weeds) by their roots
- strike (one's toe) accidentally against an object
- (transitive) To remove most of a tree, bush, or other rooted plant by cutting it close to the ground.
- (transitive) To jam, hit, or bump, especially a toe.
- (transitive) To remove a plant by pulling it out by the roots.
noun
adj
noun
- A very small piece of matter, a fragment; especially, the smallest possible part of something.
- (grammar) 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).
- (linguistics) A part of speech which cannot be inflected.
- (physics) Any of various physical objects making up the constituent parts of an atom; an elementary particle or subatomic particle.
- A little bit.
- (Christianity) In the Roman Catholic church, a crumb of consecrated bread; also the smaller breads used in the communion of the laity.
- a body having finite mass and internal structure but negligible dimensions
- a function word that can be used in English to form phrasal verbs
- (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything
noun
- a small fragment
- a small amount of solid food; a mouthful
- a small piece or quantity of something
- a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
- a short performance that is part of a longer program
- the cutting part of a drill; usually pointed and threaded and is replaceable in a brace or bitstock or drill press
- piece of metal held in horse's mouth by reins and used to control the horse while riding
- an instance of some kind
- a unit of measurement of information (from binary + digit); the amount of information in a system having two equiprobable states
- the part of a key that enters a lock and lifts the tumblers
- an indefinitely short time
- (in the plural, informal, sports) Fractions of a second.
- (informal) A small fraction above a whole number.
- (slang) A gag or put-on; a humorous conceit, especially when insistently presented as true.
- The cutting iron of a plane.
- The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.
- An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc.
- A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.
- (mathematics, computing) A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
- The bevelled front edge of an axehead along which the cutting edge runs.
- Ellipsis of bit part.
- A portion of something.
- A replaceable tip for a hand tool or power tool, comprising the portion that drives a fastener.
- (MLE) A gun.
- (BDSM) A gag of a style similar to a bridle.
- (computing) The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.
- (historical) A unit of currency and coin of the British West Indies worth six black dogs, originally equal to one-eighth of a Spanish dollar but later increasingly debased to one tenth, one eleventh, one twelfth, etc.
- (information theory) A unit of measure for information entropy.
- A rotary cutting tool, fitted to a drill, brace, or router, used to bore or drill holes or to remove material from the profile of the workpiece.
- (historical) A unit of currency of the Dutch West Indies in the early 20th century, worth one fifth of a cent.
- Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree. See also a bit.
- Synonym of microbitcoin.
- (historical, US and Canada) A unit of currency worth one eighth of a dollar, originally of a Spanish dollar but later also US or Canadian; also, a coin with this value, in particular the silver Spanish real.
- (slang) A prison sentence, especially a short one.
- A small amount of something.
- (informal) Specifically, a small amount of time.
- (information theory, cryptography) Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.
- A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC).
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- a small fragment
- (law) the unlawful act of capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment
- a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted overhead in one rapid motion
- obscene terms for female genitals
- the act of catching an object with the hands
- A quick grab or catch.
- (weightlifting) A competitive weightlifting event in which a barbell is lifted from the platform to locked arms overhead in a smooth continuous movement.
- A piece of some sound, usually music or conversation.
- A short period.
- (aviation) Rapid, uncommanded jerking or oscillation of the ailerons of some aircraft at high Mach numbers, resulting from shock wave formation at transonic speeds.
- (vulgar slang) The vulva.
verb
- to make grasping motions
- take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom
- to grasp hastily or eagerly
- (transitive, informal) To steal.
- (transitive, informal) To do something quickly in the limited time available.
- (transitive) To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony.
- (intransitive) To attempt to seize something suddenly.
- (transitive) To grasp and remove quickly.
- (transitive, informal, figurative, by extension) To take (a victory) at the last moment.
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- a very small quantity of something
- small piece of e.g. bread or cake
- a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
- A small piece which breaks off from baked food (such as cake, biscuit or bread).
- A mixture of sugar, cocoa and milk, used to make industrial chocolate.
- The soft internal portion of bread, surrounded by crust.
- Ellipsis of crumb rubber.
- (slang) A body louse (Pediculus humanus).
- (figuratively) A bit, small amount.
- A small piece of any other solid substance.
- (slang) A nobody; a worthless person.
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- A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter.
- Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls and many other birds of prey, which serves as a waste disposal mechanism for indigestible parts of food, such as fur and bones.
- A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns.
- (heraldry) A roundel sable (black circular spot).
- One of the short conductive tubes in a Pelletron particle accelerator.
- a solid missile discharged from a firearm
- a small rounded mass of a substance
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- (music) Characterised by the repetition and gradual alteration of short phrases.
- (art) Characterised by the use of simple form or structures.
- The smallest possible amount, quantity, or degree.
- (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 small, hard particle.
- A type of callus, usually on the feet or hands.
- (Commonwealth, but not Australia or New Zealand, uncountable) Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region.
- (Jamaica, MLE, slang, firearms, uncountable) Bullets, ammunition, charge and discharge of firearms.
- (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, uncountable) Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.
- (US, Canada) Something (e.g., acting, humour, music, or writing) which is deemed old-fashioned or intended to induce emotion.
- (Internet, euphemistic) pornography; porn
- (Jamaica, slang, uncountable) Money.
- A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop.
- (veterinary medicine) Skin hyperplasia with underlying fibroma between both digits of cattle.
- (veterinary medicine) An inflammatory disease of a horse's hoof, at the caudal part of the sole.
- (uncountable) A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and refreezing, often in mountain spring conditions.
- tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times
- the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal
- ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food
- a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes
- whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn
- something sentimental or trite
- (Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region — wheat in Great Britain or oats in Scotland and Ireland)
verb
- (US, Canada) To preserve using coarse salt, e.g. corned beef.
- (US, Canada) To provide (an animal) with corn (typically maize; or, in Scotland, oats) for feed.
- (US, Canada) To granulate; to form (a substance) into grains.
- (Jamaica, MLE, slang) To shoot up with bullets as by a shotgun (corn).
- preserve with large-grained rock salt
- feed (cattle) with corn
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- A small portion
- A tenuous connection.
- Something small and unimportant.
- A distant kinship.
- (by extension) The tail-end or periphery of something.
- 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.
- fabric forming the tail of a shirt
- a brief addendum at the end of a newspaper article
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- A small cask.
- Any of various historically designated quantities of goods to be sold by the tub (butter, oysters, etc).
- (humorous or derogatory) Any structure shaped like a tub, such as a certain old form of pulpit, a short broad boat, etc.
- (mining) A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft.
- The contents or capacity of such a vessel.
- (automotive) The bare body shell of an automobile (minus the doors, hood, trunk lid, fenders, etc.) which is lowered onto the chassis at the time of assembly, or in the case of modern unibody designed vehicles, is itself a monocoque around which the rest of the vehicle is built.
- (nautical, informal) A slow-moving craft.
- A bathtub.
- A flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in.
- (slang) A corpulent or obese person.
- a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body
- the amount that a tub will hold
- a large open vessel for holding or storing liquids
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- a small contrasting part of something
- 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 piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body
- sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment)
- a connection intended to be used for a limited time
- a piece of cloth used as decoration or to mend or cover a hole
- a protective cloth covering for an injured eye
- a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation
- (printing, historical) An overlay used to obtain a stronger impression.
- A small, usually contrasting but always somehow different or distinct, part of something else (location, time, size)
- A piece of any size, used to repair something for a temporary period only, or that it is temporary because it is not meant to last long or will be removed as soon as a proper repair can be made, which will happen in the near future.
- (computing) A piece of data intended to modify a computer file by replacing a part of it.
- A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.
- A local region of professional responsibility.
- A small piece of anything used to repair damage or a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.
- (historical) A small piece of black silk stuck on the face or neck to heighten beauty by contrast, worn by ladies in the 17th and 18th centuries; an imitation beauty mark.
- A butterfly of the genus Chlosyne.
- (medicine) A cover worn over a damaged eye, an eyepatch.
- (medicine) A piece of material used to cover a wound.
- A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, especially upon an old garment to cover a hole.
- (specifically) A small area, a small plot of land or piece of ground.
- (firearms) A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.
- (firearms) A small piece of material that is manually passed through a gun barrel to clean it.
- (music) A sound setting for a musical synthesizer (originally selected by means of a patch cable).
- (often patch cable, patch cord, etc.; see also patch panel) A cable connecting two pieces of electrical equipment.
- (medicine) An adhesive piece of material, impregnated with a drug, which is worn on the skin, the drug being slowly absorbed over a period of time.
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- provide with a patch; also used metaphorically
- to join or unite the pieces of
- mend by putting a patch on
- repair by adding pieces
- To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
- To fix or improve a computer program without a complete upgrade.
- To mend with pieces; to repair by fastening pieces on.
- To make a quick and possibly temporary change to a program.
- (generally with the particle "up") To repair or arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner
- To join or unite the pieces of; to patch the skirt.
- To make out of pieces or patches, like a quilt.
- To connect two pieces of electrical equipment using a cable.
- To employ a temporary, removable electronic connection, as one between two components in a communications system.
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- a small contrasting part of something
- 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
- 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
- (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 small, unspecified amount or quantity.
- 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.
verb
- 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
- (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.
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- form into grains
- paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood
- thoroughly work in
- become granular
- (transitive) To make granular; to form into grains.
- (transitive) To feed grain to.
- To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
- (tanning) To soften leather.
- To yield fruit.
- (tanning) To remove the hair or fat from a skin.
- (intransitive) To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
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- the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance)
- the direction, texture, or pattern of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric
- the smallest possible unit of anything
- a cereal grass
- foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
- 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
- the side of leather from which the hair has been removed
- dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn
- a relatively small granular particle of a substance
- 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams
- Temper; natural disposition; inclination.
- The metric, carat, or pearl grain of ¹⁄₄ carat used for measuring precious stones and pearls, now exactly 50 mg.
- An iron fish spear or harpoon, with a number of points half-barbed inwardly.
- (uncountable) A linear texture of a material or surface.
- (countable, uncountable) The crops from which grain is harvested.
- (photography, videography) Visual texture in processed photographic film due to the presence of small particles of a metallic silver, or dye clouds, developed from silver halide that have received enough photons.
- One of the branches of a valley or river.
- (botany) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock.
- (in the plural) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum.
- (historical) The French grain of ¹⁄₉₂₁₆ livre, equivalent to 53.11 mg at metricization and equal to exactly 54.25 mg from 1812–1839 as part of the mesures usuelles.
- (countable) A single particle of a substance.
- (dialectal, anatomy) The fangs of a tooth.
- (materials) A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.
- (countable) A single seed of grass food crops.
- (dialectal, anatomy) The groin; crotch.
- A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant; an offshoot.
- (countable, chiefly historical) Any of various small units of length originally notionally based on a grain's width, variously standardized at different places and times.
- (uncountable) The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
- The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
- (dialectal) A fork in a river valley or ravine.
- A blade of a sword, knife, etc.
- (founding) A thin piece of metal, used in a mould to steady a core.
- (uncountable) Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
- (countable, historical) The carat grain of ¹⁄₄ carat as a measure of gold purity, creating a 96-point scale between 0% and 100% purity.
- An arm of a cross.
- A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple.
- (dialectal) The branch of a family; clan.
- (astronautics) The solid piece of fuel in an individual solid-fuel rocket engine.
- The English grain of ¹⁄₅₇₆₀ troy pound or ¹⁄₇₀₀₀ pound avoirdupois, now exactly 64.79891 mg.
- (dialectal) A branch or arm of a stream, inlet, or sea.
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