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[tahy-nee] Example Sentences Origin

ti·ny

[tahy-nee]
adjective, ti·ni·er, ti·ni·est.
very small; minute; wee.

Origin:
1590–1600; late Middle English tine very small (< ?) + -y1

ti·ni·ly, adverb
ti·ni·ness, noun


little, diminutive, teeny.

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Tiny is always a great word to know.
So is lollapalooza. Does it mean:
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
Example Sentences
  • Small fragments cannot be treated in the same way, as they are often too tiny to be connected with metal hardware.
  • To calculate the heart rate the camera detects tiny changes in the colour of the skin.
  • Soon, there were other rooms adjoining the old travel trailer, then a second story with a patio and tiny third floor.
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World English Dictionary
tiny (ˈtaɪnɪ)
 
adj , tinier, tiniest
very small; minute
 
[C16 tine, of uncertain origin]
 
'tinily
 
adv
 
'tininess
 
n

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Word Origin & History

tiny
c.1400, tyne "very small," perhaps from tine.
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Computing Dictionary

Tiny definition


1. A language which provides concurrency through message-passing to named message queues.
2. A tool written by Michael Wolfe at Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology for examining array data dependence algorithms and program transformations for scientific computations.
Extended Tiny was used to implement the Omega test. Michael Wolfe has also made extensions to his version of tiny.
(1994-12-12)

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