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TINY
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Irregular inflected forms: tinier , tiniest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Very small
Example:
the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy
Synonyms:
bantam; diminutive; flyspeck; lilliputian; midget; petite; tiny
Classified under:
Similar:
little; small (limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent)
Derivation:
tininess (the property of being very small in size)
Context examples:
But if she die in truth, then all cease; the tiny wounds of the throats disappear, and they go back to their plays unknowing ever of what has been.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
A tiny branch of air tubes in the lungs.
(Bronchiole, NCI Dictionary)
The mole has tiny covered eyes that are believed to be able to distinguish night from day, and not much else.
(Mole, NCI Thesaurus)
A form of the anticancer drug cytarabine that is contained inside very tiny, fat-like particles.
(Cytarabine liposome, NCI Dictionary)
I confess, however, I added, that this tiny human figure puzzles me.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A tiny piece of a cell found in the blood that breaks off from a large cell found in the bone marrow.
(Platelet, NCI Dictionary)
It was a tiny house, with a little garden behind and a lawn about as big as a pocket handkerchief in the front.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
He held out the tiny glass, and I half filled it from the water-bottle on the washstand.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
A family of molecules released from platelets (tiny pieces of cells that are found in the blood and that help the blood clot).
(PDGF, NCI Dictionary)
It seemed to me that something like a wink quivered for an instant over one of Mr. Baynes’s tiny eyes.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
