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diminutive

/dih-min-yuh-tiv/US // dɪˈmɪn yə tɪv //UK // (dɪˈmɪnjʊtɪv) //

缩略语,矮小的,缩微,矮小

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : small; little; tiny: a diminutive building for a model-train layout.
    • : Grammar. pertaining to or productive of a form denoting smallness, familiarity, affection, or triviality, as the suffix -let, in droplet from drop.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a small thing or person.
    • : Grammar. a diminutive element or formation.
    • : Heraldry. a charge, as an ordinary, smaller in length or breadth than the usual.

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Examples

  • With the future of their species at stake, three diminutive astronauts — Brittany, Alph, and Captain Charlie — set off in a treehouse-sized spaceship, hoping to filch every last piece of fruit they can find on PNF-404’s surface.

  • Hydrogen’s diminutive size lets electrons get closer to the nodes of the lattice, augmenting their interactions with the vibrations.

  • In 2011, scientists found the sculptors — the diminutive males of what was then a new species of Torquigener pufferfish.

  • Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a diminutive yet towering women’s rights champion who became the court’s second female justice, died Friday at her home in Washington.

  • From the diminutive Pathfinder rover back in 1997 to the twin sisters Spirit and Opportunity, and the still-roaming Curiosity—the effective older sibling of Perseverance in design and scale.

  • Her style, much like her diminutive nickname, is best described as “Hamptons twee”—preppy and peppy.

  • Tyrion, now on the lam for patricide by crossbow, is destined for an unknown foreign port like a diminutive Edward Snowden.

  • Similar to the Space Shuttle in appearance, the diminutive X-37B is about a quarter the size of the old shuttles.

  • Edmund Morgan, 97 Diminutive, almost elfin in appearance, he bestrode his field like a colossus.

  • The diminutive history teacher turned soldier once said he learned his trade in the bush.

  • A light-colored mulatto boy, in dress coat and bearing a diminutive silver tray for the reception of cards, admitted them.

  • A very diminutive man, instructing his young son, told him if he neglected his learning he would never grow tall.

  • Its diminutive size and its unpopularity, however, prevent its general culture in this country.

  • Yet this diminutive building served the needs of the place from the days of Edward VI.

  • Its very diminutive stove stands near to its extremely small door, which is in close proximity to its unusually little window.