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tiny

[tahy-nee]

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adjective, -ni·er, -ni·est.

very small; minute; wee.

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

Related forms

ti·ni·ly, adverb

ti·ni·ness, noun

Synonyms
little, diminutive, teeny.

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Tiny houses have been a fringe curiosity for a decade or more, but devotees believe the concept's time has finally arrived.

College degrees, once the possession of a tiny elite of professional and.

Water vapour condenses to form thousands of tiny water droplets which scatter light.

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Tiny houses have been a fringe curiosity for a decade or more, but devotees believe the concept's time has finally arrived.

College degrees, once the possession of a tiny elite of professional and.

Water vapour condenses to form thousands of tiny water droplets which scatter light.

New research shows that tiny female parasitic wasps are able to change the smell of the plants they live in to attract a mate.

Because photons impart momentum, physicists were able to demonstrate the potential of light to supply a tiny wing's lift.

The millions of tiny polyps that compose the coral ensnare and devour tiny organisms.

Tiny beachfront lot accommodates plenty of outdoor living.

Annoyingly tiny fridges may not be restricted to hotels or dorm rooms much longer.

More than seven million acres of trees have been killed by the tiny insects, complicating experts' efforts to reduce wildfires.

Most science professors would be dismayed if their college offered them a tiny closet as their designated research space.

Cavendish suspended a tiny lead dumb-bell by a thread and positioned it between two weights the size of bowling-balls.

Space-industry belt-tightening and ever shrinking technology are combining to give tiny satellites a big future, scientists say.

Washing machine wastewater carries tiny pieces of plastic to the oceans, where they wind up in sea life.

Right now, these metamaterials take the form of tiny metal coils and rods.

Style expert reveals her clever storage solutions for tiny spaces.

Bandits are tiny bungee cords with a built-in plastic hook.

Both of those traits are tiny signals of larger cultural influences.

For the signalling nanoparticles the team used tiny golden rods.

Scientists are using transmitters the size of three or four grains of rice, powered by a tiny hearing-aid battery, to track bees.

Tiny magnetic atoms of chromium display superfluidity-and the possibility of exotic quantum phases.

Soon, there were other rooms adjoining the old travel trailer, then a second story with a patio and tiny third floor.

Style expert reveals her clever storage solutions for tiny spaces more.

Small and simple, the tiny twist is a minimal pencil sharpener.

Try manually advancing the main dial in tiny increments.

The unusual properties of tiny particles contain huge promise.

On their third day, at the entrance to a small and moist cave, the scientists first saw one of the tiny lizards skitter past.

Tiny devices may soon perform surgery, administer drugs and help diagnose disease.

Rogone's innovations will strike a personal chord with museum visitors, as a growing number of families care for tiny babies.

Mature plants bear large clusters of tiny flowers among the leaves.

It is so tiny you'll have to squint to see the letters.

The work of this tiny verb is not glamorous, but the act of thinking can lead to something important: ideas.

To calculate the heart rate the camera detects tiny changes in the colour of the skin.

In quantum teleportation tiny units of computer information, called quantum bits, are transferred from one place to another.

Tiny and ubiquitous, the fruit fly is a helpful model for the study of memory.

These tiny fig wasps work their way inside the fruit and pollinate it, laying their eggs inside and then dying inside.

S pecies of this genus produce clusters of tiny flowers with a sweet, delicate fragrance.

Computers that run on chips made from tiny magnets may be as energy-efficient as physics permits.

The data are stored on hard drives as tiny magnetic patches.

The death penalty hardly acts as a deterrent, since only a tiny proportion of murderers are arrested, tried and convicted.

Tiny microbes that live inside termites may one day help cure the world's energy woes, according to scientists.

Indeed, they have already been used to manufacture tiny transistors.

His broad face, with its flat nose and tiny eyes, was recognized everywhere.

Good news for patio and balcony gardeners and homeowners with tiny gardens.

So it's a little unnerving to imagine that soon one of his hazel-green eyes will have a tiny wireless.

Early on, this savings is so tiny that it is hardly noticeable, but over the life of the mortgage it adds up.

The tiny clusters of cells in question are known as blastocysts.

The seven tiny feathers could fill a key gap in the puzzle of how dinosaurs gave rise to flying birds, a new study says.

To the untrained eye, they're not much to look at--a smattering of tiny squiggles decorating slabs of sandstone.

The tiny coquina clams burrow into the sand as the tide washes them ashore during the summer months.

Lightly filtered shade is cast by intricate canopy of twigs rather than by tiny leaves, which are shed early.

Jason has the long list of publications, but he's tenured and in a tiny subfield.

The result was remarkable: a material consisting of billions of tiny magnets, each rotating in its own cavity.

Now studies of the swords' molecular structure are uncovering the tiny structures that may explain these properties.

Millions of tiny microbes infest the water that carries the detritus of human life and society.

Tiny barbs anchor the seed in the soil and help the awns force the seed downward, putting it in a better position to sprout.

Tiny flowers are tightly clustered on a tall, narrow spike.

When you own stock, you own a tiny piece of a company.

The tiny country is rich, which probably accounts for its.

Breeding seahorses in captivity is a problem, in part because the babies are so tiny it's hard to keep them alive.

The tiny cells in our bodies harbor amazing internal communication networks.

Tiny diamonds etch its design--olive branches with leaves--and, perched symmetrically upon them, eight doves.

Tiny white summer flowers are followed by purple fruits.

Only a tiny fraction of archival material has ever been read, much less digitized.

Admittedly, it has high rainfall and it is a tiny country, but that is exactly the trouble.

The tiny amount of mercury in new energy-efficient light bulbs poses little danger, experts say.

Images capture subjects as vast as a nascent ocean and as tiny as carbon nanotubes.

She also gave me a tiny hairbrush, comb and mirror for my own dollhouse.

If male trees are nearby, female trees will bear clusters of tiny fruits.

I've decided that it's worth it to put up a tiny tree and decorate for the pre.

Small fragments cannot be treated in the same way, as they are often too tiny to be connected with metal hardware.

In the bird embryo these bristles erupt from tiny patches of skin cells called placodes.

Tiny particles known as nanorods may make cooking utensils more efficient, using less time and energy.

In their place beneath the female's brood patch is a tiny bedraggled chick, newly hatched and exhausted from the effort.

The space was supposed to hold a lamppost, but that never showed up, so the tiny square had grown into an eyesore.

All the observation that's been done since beginning of time only amounts to one tiny fraction of the sky.

Their chosen tools for this task are tiny particles of silver.

Watch as a scientist uncovers tiny human bones in a tropical island cave, in what could be a major discovery.

Worn-out proteins, malfunctioning organelles, invading microorganisms: all are swept up by tiny internal.

The tiny differences between individuals in a population provide the raw material for natural.

He supports a wife and disabled child and two dogs in a tiny two-bedroom apartment in.

The bad news, though, is that the lucky survivors are tiny tropical insects that few people care about.

Invented six years ago, the man-made materials are embedded with networks of exceptionally tiny metal wires and loops.

Ocean acidification is taking a toll on tiny shell-building animals.

If you grow up where he did, the pool can be pretty tiny.

Bottled and canned versions require the intervention of a tiny beer-widget.

Tiny amounts of the estrogen used in birth control pills can cause wild fish populations to collapse, according to a new study.

The tiny primitive plants can produce a lot of oil in a little space.

Darling, there's a tiny little succession-reform bill on the way.

In the experiment, a nanotube was attached to a copper wire and encased inside a tiny vacuum chamber.

More complicated than they look, teeth are actually tiny organs.

As the principle goes, the act of measuring a tiny particle destroys it.

Hair is normally maintained through a process that depends on the regeneration of tiny hair follicles.

The discovery of eight tiny galaxies near our own may provide scientists with insights into the structure of the universe.

Tiny subconscious eye movements called microsaccades stave off blindness in.

Gorb and colleagues found that zebra tarantulas secrete tiny bits of silk from nozzlelike structures in their feet.

The tiny lights of fireflies dotting the night sky are a fascinating sight.

Washing machine waste water carries tiny pieces of plastic to the oceans, where.

Combining genetic material can of course bring beneficial new combinations, but even for tiny organisms that are.

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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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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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