单词 | tiny |
释义 | tiny (once / 157 pages) adj Tiny means very small. Atoms are tiny. Hawaii is tiny, in comparison to the continental US. If you wear a size five shoe as an adult, you could be said to have tiny feet. Throughout the world there are stories about tiny mythical heroes, such as Tom Thumb, a tiny baby, who grew into a tiny child then a man so tiny he was no larger than an average man's thumb. One of the things that people love about doll houses are seeing all the artifacts we live with day to day replicated in miniature, or tiny, form. WORD FAMILYtiny: tinier, tiniest, tinily, tininess USAGE EXAMPLESTo live outside the tiny cosmos of our own desires. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) At her workbench, she uses a microscope while cutting and removing tiny bits of metal with a sharp blade called a graver. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) Each of those contains a tiny embryo skeleton. Science Magazine(Jan 02, 2017) adj very small tiny feet Syn bantam, diminutive, flyspeck, lilliputian, midget, petite little, small limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent |
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