Tiny \Ti"ny\, a. [Compar. Tinier; superl. Tiniest.]
[Probably fr. tine, teen, trouble, distress, vexation.]
Very small; little; puny.
[1913 Webster]
When that I was and a little tiny boy. --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
tiny
adj : very small; "diminutive in stature"; "a lilliputian chest of
drawers"; "her petite figure"; "tiny feet"; "the
flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy"
[syn: bantam, diminutive, lilliputian, midget,
petite, flyspeck]
[also: tiniest, tinier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
62 Moby Thesaurus words for "tiny":
Lilliputian, bantam, bitsy, bitty, cursory, dainty, delicate,
depthless, diminutive, dwarf, dwarfish, elfin, few, fine, footling,
inconsequential, inconsiderable, infinitesimal, insignificant,
itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, lilliputian, little, low, meager, micro,
microscopic, midget, mini, miniature, minikin, minim, minuscular,
minuscule, minute, negligible, no great shakes, paltry, peewee,
petite, petty, picayune, picayunish, pint-sized, pocket,
pocket-size, pocket-sized, puny, pygmy, shallow, short, skin-deep,
slight, small, superficial, teensy-weensy, teeny, teeny-weeny,
trifling, trivial, wee, weeny
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Tiny
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)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
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