Definition of tiny in English:

tiny

adjectivetiniest, tinier ˈtʌɪniˈtaɪni

Very small.
极小的，微小的
a tiny hummingbird
丁点大的蜂鸟。
Example sentencesExamples
- This was to be exchanged after six weeks for the coveted, customising tiny diamond.
- In different times, we would have known nothing about the tragedy of these tiny lives.
- The few short frames of that tiny figure in an anorak being led by the hand to his death have become iconic.
- All along the river bed, women have dug down and spend hours scooping up water from tiny pools.
- The end result is that a tiny minority is allowed to lay claim to public opinion.
- Why do we spend so much on things that give us tiny increases in comfort at the expense of so many other people?
- The couple are planning to deck the hallway ceiling with hundreds of tiny lights.
- Is this absence of black some kind of sad rebellion being staged within my tiny mind?
- They are only up to five millimetres long and burrow into the silt in tiny pods.
- Pollen is dust gathered by bees from stamens and collected from the hives as tiny pellets.
- The railways may be in turmoil, but business is booming for one tiny bus and coach company.
- He's painstakingly twisting tiny hoops of iron wire together to form a shirt of mail.
- At the time we were doing this small tour of tiny venues around the UK for hardcore fans.
- The instinctive lure of this tiny jewel of land would unerringly bring them back.
- The soft tissues under the skin are full of tiny blood vessels called capillaries.
- Saffron is made up of tiny filaments that are the dried pollen stigmas of the saffron flower.
- On one wall there are tiny marks where in the past someone pinned up a picture.
- We can live crowded together in vast cities or as tiny groups in remote deserts.
- If they do then it will revolutionise ideas about how much tiny babies can learn.
- They want to justify creaming off a tiny minority into the top first class institutions.
Synonyms
minute, small-scale, scaled-down, mini, baby, toy, pocket, fun-size, petite, dwarfish, knee-high, miniature, minuscule, microscopic, nanoscopic, infinitesimal, micro, diminutive, pocket-sized, reduced, Lilliputian
trivial, trifling, negligible, insignificant, unimportant, minor, of no account, of no consequence, of no importance, not worth bothering about, not worth mentioning, inconsequential, minimal, inappreciable, imperceptible, nugatory, petty
token, nominal
paltry, inadequate, insufficient, meagre, derisory, pitiful, pathetic, miserable
Scottish wee
North American vest-pocket
informal teeny, teeny-weeny, teensy, teensy-weensy, weeny, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, eensy, eensy-weensy, tiddly, pint-sized, bite-sized, piddling, piffling, measly, mingy, poxy
British informal titchy
North American informal little-bitty, nickel-and-dime

nounPlural tinies ˈtʌɪni

informal

A very young child.
〈非正式〉幼童
books that will make tinies and parents laugh out loud
Example sentencesExamples
- In his flat-cum-studio, appropriately enough in Tooting, and over a lot of caffeine, which you shouldn't really give to kids because it makes them mentalists, I delve deeper into the murky world of tinies ' music.
- This has nothing to do with biblical tales for tinies, but is the name of a weekly street party that can be heard by ships far out to sea.
- The problem is that most people had my experience as a child and thus lack the treatment of the day as a festival for the tinies.
- If tinies, I am a bully, if grown-ups a statistic.
- In the Troupe of the Year awards, which were given out at the same event, the babies came third, the dinkies came fifth, the tinies finished fourth and the juniors came fifth.
- Before the afternoon was out, a class of tinies had a new and uproarious catchphrase.
- Chav parents get the child benefits and the free accommodation without even having to pretend to raise their offspring, the State and the social-workers get lots of tinies to try out their theories on.
- The huge, and free, Penguin Village welcomes tinies aged 3-12 into a world of bouncy castles, football, climbing frames, basketball and theatre.
- It's just as well that there won't be a new Harry Potter film for the tinies this Christmas.
- We now appreciate that he prefers forward-looking 21 st-century celebrations in a brand new dome filled with grateful tinies, to weepy, regressive events featuring Churchilliana and old women.
- We know perfectly well that TV for tinies can't possibly be educational because study after study shows that the more TV a pre-schooler watches, the less language skills they have.
- These scenes are dizzyingly well done and the film maintains a real feeling of perspective in its sunny, alternative version of New York, which conceals menace for tinies in the world's tallest city.
- Even the tinies of them looked every centimetre a ‘cricketer’ with all the trappings befitting a test player.
- The national school children gave a recital on thin whistle and the pre-school tinies paraded with the flags of the nations.
Synonyms
youngster, young one, little one, boy, girl

Derivatives

tinily

adverb

Even then, Athena just smiled tinily at him, then went back to her business.
Example sentencesExamples
- There is absolutely no doubting his exceptional ability in collating and correlating vast amounts of data and information (the bibliography runs to 30 tinily typeset pages).
- I contend that most great concepts can be explained in a single well-written page (or like the old crib sheets we were allowed to bring into college finals - tinily written).
- His summers here were spent in continual battle with loosening shingles, hidden leaks, rotting wood, and creeping damp; as the house struggled purposefully to return to the earth, he struggled tinily to prevent it.
- While making strange contrasts, everything is entangled tinily, and grandiosly, like in the childhood memories when reality seems to be glittering full if vivid colours.

tininess

noun

Twenty-five years later, both these men were at this dinner party, which gives you an idea of the tininess of this world.
Example sentencesExamples
- We'd all sat down at the enormous round table by the time she arrived, eleven of us, chattering away, and she arrived, this tiny white-haired lady, and nestled into a space next my brother, exaggerating her tininess.
- He's amazingly short and shrimpy and I think that even I, in my tininess, am probably bigger than he is.
- A certain homespun, unassuming, untidy tininess had become a virtue in itself.
- ‘I wanted to show the murrelet all alone in the wide wide sea and give it this feeling of poignancy and vulnerability and tininess,’ says Bateman.

Origin

Late 16th century: extension of obsolete tine, 'small, diminutive', of unknown origin.

Rhymes

briny, Heine, liny, piny, shiny, spiny, whiny

Definition of tiny in US English:

tiny

adjectiveˈtaɪniˈtīnē

Very small.
极小的，微小的
a tiny hummingbird
丁点大的蜂鸟。
Example sentencesExamples
- Saffron is made up of tiny filaments that are the dried pollen stigmas of the saffron flower.
- All along the river bed, women have dug down and spend hours scooping up water from tiny pools.
- He's painstakingly twisting tiny hoops of iron wire together to form a shirt of mail.
- The few short frames of that tiny figure in an anorak being led by the hand to his death have become iconic.
- This was to be exchanged after six weeks for the coveted, customising tiny diamond.
- In different times, we would have known nothing about the tragedy of these tiny lives.
- At the time we were doing this small tour of tiny venues around the UK for hardcore fans.
- Pollen is dust gathered by bees from stamens and collected from the hives as tiny pellets.
- They are only up to five millimetres long and burrow into the silt in tiny pods.
- The couple are planning to deck the hallway ceiling with hundreds of tiny lights.
- We can live crowded together in vast cities or as tiny groups in remote deserts.
- The instinctive lure of this tiny jewel of land would unerringly bring them back.
- Why do we spend so much on things that give us tiny increases in comfort at the expense of so many other people?
- On one wall there are tiny marks where in the past someone pinned up a picture.
- The end result is that a tiny minority is allowed to lay claim to public opinion.
- Is this absence of black some kind of sad rebellion being staged within my tiny mind?
- The soft tissues under the skin are full of tiny blood vessels called capillaries.
- The railways may be in turmoil, but business is booming for one tiny bus and coach company.
- If they do then it will revolutionise ideas about how much tiny babies can learn.
- They want to justify creaming off a tiny minority into the top first class institutions.
Synonyms
minute, small-scale, scaled-down, mini, baby, toy, pocket, fun-size, petite, dwarfish, knee-high, miniature, minuscule, microscopic, nanoscopic, infinitesimal, micro, diminutive, pocket-sized, reduced, lilliputian

Origin

Late 16th century: extension of obsolete tine, ‘small, diminutive’, of unknown origin.

单词	tiny
释义	Definition of tiny in English: tiny adjectivetiniest, tinier ˈtʌɪniˈtaɪni Very small. 极小的，微小的 a tiny hummingbird 丁点大的蜂鸟。 Example sentencesExamples This was to be exchanged after six weeks for the coveted, customising tiny diamond. In different times, we would have known nothing about the tragedy of these tiny lives. The few short frames of that tiny figure in an anorak being led by the hand to his death have become iconic. All along the river bed, women have dug down and spend hours scooping up water from tiny pools. The end result is that a tiny minority is allowed to lay claim to public opinion. Why do we spend so much on things that give us tiny increases in comfort at the expense of so many other people? The couple are planning to deck the hallway ceiling with hundreds of tiny lights. Is this absence of black some kind of sad rebellion being staged within my tiny mind? They are only up to five millimetres long and burrow into the silt in tiny pods. Pollen is dust gathered by bees from stamens and collected from the hives as tiny pellets. The railways may be in turmoil, but business is booming for one tiny bus and coach company. He's painstakingly twisting tiny hoops of iron wire together to form a shirt of mail. At the time we were doing this small tour of tiny venues around the UK for hardcore fans. The instinctive lure of this tiny jewel of land would unerringly bring them back. The soft tissues under the skin are full of tiny blood vessels called capillaries. Saffron is made up of tiny filaments that are the dried pollen stigmas of the saffron flower. On one wall there are tiny marks where in the past someone pinned up a picture. We can live crowded together in vast cities or as tiny groups in remote deserts. If they do then it will revolutionise ideas about how much tiny babies can learn. They want to justify creaming off a tiny minority into the top first class institutions. Synonyms minute, small-scale, scaled-down, mini, baby, toy, pocket, fun-size, petite, dwarfish, knee-high, miniature, minuscule, microscopic, nanoscopic, infinitesimal, micro, diminutive, pocket-sized, reduced, Lilliputian trivial, trifling, negligible, insignificant, unimportant, minor, of no account, of no consequence, of no importance, not worth bothering about, not worth mentioning, inconsequential, minimal, inappreciable, imperceptible, nugatory, petty token, nominal paltry, inadequate, insufficient, meagre, derisory, pitiful, pathetic, miserable Scottish wee North American vest-pocket informal teeny, teeny-weeny, teensy, teensy-weensy, weeny, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, eensy, eensy-weensy, tiddly, pint-sized, bite-sized, piddling, piffling, measly, mingy, poxy British informal titchy North American informal little-bitty, nickel-and-dime nounPlural tinies ˈtʌɪni informal A very young child. 〈非正式〉幼童 books that will make tinies and parents laugh out loud Example sentencesExamples In his flat-cum-studio, appropriately enough in Tooting, and over a lot of caffeine, which you shouldn't really give to kids because it makes them mentalists, I delve deeper into the murky world of tinies ' music. This has nothing to do with biblical tales for tinies, but is the name of a weekly street party that can be heard by ships far out to sea. The problem is that most people had my experience as a child and thus lack the treatment of the day as a festival for the tinies. If tinies, I am a bully, if grown-ups a statistic. In the Troupe of the Year awards, which were given out at the same event, the babies came third, the dinkies came fifth, the tinies finished fourth and the juniors came fifth. Before the afternoon was out, a class of tinies had a new and uproarious catchphrase. Chav parents get the child benefits and the free accommodation without even having to pretend to raise their offspring, the State and the social-workers get lots of tinies to try out their theories on. The huge, and free, Penguin Village welcomes tinies aged 3-12 into a world of bouncy castles, football, climbing frames, basketball and theatre. It's just as well that there won't be a new Harry Potter film for the tinies this Christmas. We now appreciate that he prefers forward-looking 21 st-century celebrations in a brand new dome filled with grateful tinies, to weepy, regressive events featuring Churchilliana and old women. We know perfectly well that TV for tinies can't possibly be educational because study after study shows that the more TV a pre-schooler watches, the less language skills they have. These scenes are dizzyingly well done and the film maintains a real feeling of perspective in its sunny, alternative version of New York, which conceals menace for tinies in the world's tallest city. Even the tinies of them looked every centimetre a ‘cricketer’ with all the trappings befitting a test player. The national school children gave a recital on thin whistle and the pre-school tinies paraded with the flags of the nations. Synonyms youngster, young one, little one, boy, girl Derivatives tinily adverb Even then, Athena just smiled tinily at him, then went back to her business. Example sentencesExamples There is absolutely no doubting his exceptional ability in collating and correlating vast amounts of data and information (the bibliography runs to 30 tinily typeset pages). I contend that most great concepts can be explained in a single well-written page (or like the old crib sheets we were allowed to bring into college finals - tinily written). His summers here were spent in continual battle with loosening shingles, hidden leaks, rotting wood, and creeping damp; as the house struggled purposefully to return to the earth, he struggled tinily to prevent it. While making strange contrasts, everything is entangled tinily, and grandiosly, like in the childhood memories when reality seems to be glittering full if vivid colours. tininess noun Twenty-five years later, both these men were at this dinner party, which gives you an idea of the tininess of this world. Example sentencesExamples We'd all sat down at the enormous round table by the time she arrived, eleven of us, chattering away, and she arrived, this tiny white-haired lady, and nestled into a space next my brother, exaggerating her tininess. He's amazingly short and shrimpy and I think that even I, in my tininess, am probably bigger than he is. A certain homespun, unassuming, untidy tininess had become a virtue in itself. ‘I wanted to show the murrelet all alone in the wide wide sea and give it this feeling of poignancy and vulnerability and tininess,’ says Bateman. Origin Late 16th century: extension of obsolete tine, 'small, diminutive', of unknown origin. Rhymes briny, Heine, liny, piny, shiny, spiny, whiny Definition of tiny in US English: tiny adjectiveˈtaɪniˈtīnē Very small. 极小的，微小的 a tiny hummingbird 丁点大的蜂鸟。 Example sentencesExamples Saffron is made up of tiny filaments that are the dried pollen stigmas of the saffron flower. All along the river bed, women have dug down and spend hours scooping up water from tiny pools. He's painstakingly twisting tiny hoops of iron wire together to form a shirt of mail. The few short frames of that tiny figure in an anorak being led by the hand to his death have become iconic. This was to be exchanged after six weeks for the coveted, customising tiny diamond. In different times, we would have known nothing about the tragedy of these tiny lives. At the time we were doing this small tour of tiny venues around the UK for hardcore fans. Pollen is dust gathered by bees from stamens and collected from the hives as tiny pellets. They are only up to five millimetres long and burrow into the silt in tiny pods. The couple are planning to deck the hallway ceiling with hundreds of tiny lights. We can live crowded together in vast cities or as tiny groups in remote deserts. The instinctive lure of this tiny jewel of land would unerringly bring them back. Why do we spend so much on things that give us tiny increases in comfort at the expense of so many other people? On one wall there are tiny marks where in the past someone pinned up a picture. The end result is that a tiny minority is allowed to lay claim to public opinion. Is this absence of black some kind of sad rebellion being staged within my tiny mind? The soft tissues under the skin are full of tiny blood vessels called capillaries. The railways may be in turmoil, but business is booming for one tiny bus and coach company. If they do then it will revolutionise ideas about how much tiny babies can learn. They want to justify creaming off a tiny minority into the top first class institutions. Synonyms minute, small-scale, scaled-down, mini, baby, toy, pocket, fun-size, petite, dwarfish, knee-high, miniature, minuscule, microscopic, nanoscopic, infinitesimal, micro, diminutive, pocket-sized, reduced, lilliputian Origin Late 16th century: extension of obsolete tine, ‘small, diminutive’, of unknown origin.
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