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tininess

/tahy-nee/US // ˈtaɪ ni //UK // (ˈtaɪnɪ) //

小型化,小巧玲珑,小型,小巧

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    ti·ni·er, ti·ni·est.

    • : very small; minute; wee.

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Examples

  • Thinning and prescribed burns both generally cover around tens of thousands of acres per year, a tiny fraction of what the Little Hoover Commission recommended.

  • Kurtz and Franz found that tiny crustaceans called copepods got better at warding off parasitic tapeworm larvae with repeated exposure — but the results were inconsistent.

  • These tiny marine snails, or thecosomes, migrate up to surface waters at night to feed and sink to deeper waters during the day to hide from predators.

  • Every time you rip those muscles, tiny bone molecules build up.

  • However on the publisher side, it seems we’re looking at an even higher concentration of ad spending with a tiny number of companies.

  • Mr. Bachner found it by wandering through the market and identified a craftsmen here who works in a tiny booth.

  • It was in a tiny dark overheated little bar called Niagara, and three women read before me, younger and one not so much younger.

  • Twin girls, Greta and Grace, run around the floor in circles, wearing pink playsuits with tiny pink wings attached.

  • Bob Cratchit, the clerk who is the father of Tiny Tim and who meekly serves Scrooge, is paid fifteen shillings a week.

  • Civilians left flowers as well as a tiny frosted Christmas tree that had two red ornaments.

  • He thrust his tiny tuft of beard between his teeth—a trick he had when perplexed or thoughtful.

  • The tiny frown reappeared between her eyes, lingered a trifle longer than before, and vanished.

  • The sudden pall of darkness in this strange house of mystery was just a tiny bit awesome.

  • This tiny person spent little or none of his time in the tree-tops, but chose to stay near the ground.

  • One of the first out-goings of admiration towards form is the child's praise of "tiny" things.