particle

par·ti·cle

P0087500 (pär′tĭ-kəl)n.1. A very small piece or part; a tiny portion or speck.2. A very small or the smallest possible amount, trace, or degree: not a particle of doubt.3. Physics a. A body whose spatial extent and internal motion and structure, if any, are irrelevant in a specific problem.b. An elementary particle.c. A subatomic particle.4. Linguistics a. An uninflected item that has grammatical function but does not clearly belong to one of the major parts of speech, such as up in He looked up the word or to in English infinitives.b. In some systems of grammatical analysis, any of various short function words, including articles, prepositions, and conjunctions.5. Ecclesiastical A portion or fragment of the Eucharistic host.6. Archaic A small part of something written, such as a clause of a document.

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[Middle English, from Latin particula, diminutive of pars, part-, part; see part.]

particle

(ˈpɑːtɪkəl) n1. an extremely small piece of matter; speck2. a very tiny amount; iota: it doesn't make a particle of difference. 3. (Grammar) a function word, esp (in certain languages) a word belonging to an uninflected class having suprasegmental or grammatical function: the Greek particles "mēn'" and "de" are used to express contrast; questions in Japanese are indicated by the particle "ka"; English "up" is sometimes regarded as an adverbial particle. 4. (Linguistics) a common affix, such as re-, un-, or -ness5. (General Physics) physics a body with finite mass that can be treated as having negligible size, and internal structure6. (General Physics) See elementary particle7. (Roman Catholic Church) RC Church a small piece broken off from the Host at Mass8. (Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) archaic a section or clause of a document[C14: from Latin particula a small part, from pars part]

par•ti•cle

(ˈpɑr tɪ kəl)

n. 1. a minute portion, piece, or amount; a very small bit: a particle of dust. 2. one of the extremely small constituents of matter, as an atom, proton, quark, or gluon. 3. a clause or article, as of a document. 4. Gram. any of various small, usu. uninflected words or affixes having functional or relational rather than lexical use and in some languages constituting a form class: in English often applied to words like to used in forming the infinitive or the word following the verb in a phrasal verb, as up in get up. 5. a small piece of the Host given to each lay communicant in a Eucharistic service. [1350–1400; Middle English < Latin particula]

par·ti·cle

(pär′tĭ-kəl)1. A very small piece of solid matter; a speck: particles of dust.2. An elementary or subatomic particle.

particle

A short uninflected word used in conjunction with another word, such as “up” in “turn up.”

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	particle - (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anythingcorpuscle, mote, speck, molecule, atomgrain - a relatively small granular particle of a substance; "a grain of sand"; "a grain of sugar"grinding - material resulting from the process of grinding; "vegetable grindings clogged the drain"material, stuff - the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object; "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread"chylomicron - a microscopic particle of triglycerides produced in the intestines during digestion; in the bloodstream they release their fatty acids into the bloodflyspeck - a tiny dark speck made by the excrement of a flyidentification particle - a tiny particle of material that can be added to a product to indicate the source of manufacture
	2.	particle - a body having finite mass and internal structure but negligible dimensionssubatomic particlevirion - (virology) a complete viral particle; nucleic acid and capsid (and a lipid envelope in some viruses)alpha particle - a positively charged particle that is the nucleus of the helium atom; emitted from natural or radioactive isotopesbeta particle - a high-speed electron or positron emitted in the decay of a radioactive isotopebody - an individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects; "heavenly body"boson - any particle that obeys Bose-Einstein statistics but not the Pauli exclusion principle; all nuclei with an even mass number are bosonsdeuteron - the nucleus of deuterium; consists of one proton and one neutron; used as a bombarding particle in acceleratorselementary particle, fundamental particle - (physics) a particle that is less complex than an atom; regarded as constituents of all matterfermion - any particle that obeys Fermi-Dirac statistics and is subject to the Pauli exclusion principleion - a particle that is electrically charged (positive or negative); an atom or molecule or group that has lost or gained one or more electronsmagnetic monopole - a hypothetical particle with a single magnetic pole instead of the usual twomicelle - an electrically charged particle built up from polymeric molecules or ions and occurring in certain colloidal electrolytic solutions like soaps and detergentsprion - (microbiology) an infectious protein particle similar to a virus but lacking nucleic acid; thought to be the agent responsible for scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the nervous systemvirino - (microbiology) a hypothetical infectious particle thought to be the cause of scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the central nervous system; consists of nucleic acid in a protective coat of host cell proteinsscintilla - a sparkling glittering particlesuperstring - a hypothetical particle that is the elementary particle in a theory of space-timethermion - an electrically charged particle (electron or ion) emitted by a substance at a high temperature
	3.	particle - a function word that can be used in English to form phrasal verbsclosed-class word, function word - a word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has little identifiable meaning

particle

noun bit, piece, scrap, grain, molecule, atom, shred, crumb, mite, jot, speck, mote, whit, tittle, iota Particles of food can get stuck between the teeth.

particle

nounA tiny amount:bit, crumb, dab, dash, dot, dram, drop, fragment, grain, iota, jot, minim, mite, modicum, molecule, ort, ounce, scrap, scruple, shred, smidgen, speck, tittle, trifle, whit.Chiefly British: spot.

Translations

微粒

particle

(ˈpaːtikl) noun a very small piece. a particle of dust. 微粒 微粒