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单词 tittle
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Definition of tittle in English:

tittle

nounˈtɪt(ə)lˈtɪdl
  • 1A tiny amount or part of something.

    一点点,微量

    the rules have not been altered one jot or tittle since

    从此以后这些规则丝毫未有改变。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • If you then could have inquired asking the Saviour how comprehensive is this inspiration, He would answer you that, ‘not a jot or a tittle of the law shall pass away until all be fulfilled.’
    • The truth is, it doesn't matter, not a jot, not a tittle.
    • Every jot and tittle of civilized dining etiquette is but an act of civil religious piety.
    • You sway to a pulse in the very fabric of being, a pulse that awakens a celestial symphony of tones, as every jot and tittle sings its song with mathemagical purity - each song utterly selfish, their harmonic blending utterly selfless.
    • It seemed an odd sort of voyeurism, titillation without a tittle of anything much going on, boredom elevated to a modern art form.
    • OK, the purple shadow, peach tip gloss, bronze foundation and 50 coats of mascara are a tittle glam, but I don't look right.
    • The couple happily ushered me in, poured me an enormous whisky and denied every jot and tittle of the rumour.
    • Think, for example, of Whitman's insistence on celebrating every jot and tittle of the created world.
    • If you challenge it or any of the matters I am trying to say in it, then you have done nothing but verify every jot and tittle of it, and there is little hope.
    • What's more, the assumption that foreign ships picking people up and letting them off in the US should have to obey every jot and tittle of US law is an extreme imperialist idea.
    • They (to switch to the gender-free plural) are also wont to niggle and squiggle over every jot and tittle.
    • Laboring over every jot and tittle - the life work of our paper-pushing peace processors - is quite mad.
    • I don't agree with every jot and tittle of his response, but I don't differ from it enough to write a separate post.
    • Those aspects work ‘well enough for survival’, but not necessarily one whit, jot or tittle better.
    • I cannot see a tittle of evidence so far in this case that the United States as a government has failed in any way in that respect.
    • The boy soon recovered his senses, and told me, readily and consistently, the following tale, which I again heard him repeat before the magistrate, in a different sequence, but without a tittle of variation.
    • How can we as a faith community keep credibility among the youth of today if we cling to every jot and tittle of an outmoded social code while thousands die of leprosy and hunger?
    • Nor are the Democrats saying that every jot and tittle of all its complex tables of inflows and outflows are sacrosanct today.
    • You just get a tittle better, then you stay consistent with that.
    • His play slipped a tittle as the season wore on.
    Synonyms
    bit, tiny amount, scrap, shred, speck, iota, particle, ounce, whit, jot, jot or tittle, atom, crumb, morsel, fragment, grain, drop, hint, touch, trace, suggestion, whisper, suspicion, scintilla, spot, mite, modicum
    Irish stim
    informal smidgen, smidge
    1. 1.1archaic A small written or printed stroke or dot, indicating omitted letters in a word.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin titulus (see title), in medieval Latin 'small stroke, accent'; the phrase jot or tittle is from Matt. 5:18.

  • see jot, T

Rhymes

acquittal, belittle, brittle, committal, embrittle, it'll, kittle, little, remittal, skittle, spittle, victual, whittle

Definition of tittle in US English:

tittle

nounˈtɪdlˈtidl
  • 1A tiny amount or part of something.

    一点点,微量

    the rules have not been altered one jot or tittle since

    从此以后这些规则丝毫未有改变。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • What's more, the assumption that foreign ships picking people up and letting them off in the US should have to obey every jot and tittle of US law is an extreme imperialist idea.
    • The couple happily ushered me in, poured me an enormous whisky and denied every jot and tittle of the rumour.
    • Nor are the Democrats saying that every jot and tittle of all its complex tables of inflows and outflows are sacrosanct today.
    • If you then could have inquired asking the Saviour how comprehensive is this inspiration, He would answer you that, ‘not a jot or a tittle of the law shall pass away until all be fulfilled.’
    • How can we as a faith community keep credibility among the youth of today if we cling to every jot and tittle of an outmoded social code while thousands die of leprosy and hunger?
    • It seemed an odd sort of voyeurism, titillation without a tittle of anything much going on, boredom elevated to a modern art form.
    • Laboring over every jot and tittle - the life work of our paper-pushing peace processors - is quite mad.
    • You just get a tittle better, then you stay consistent with that.
    • The truth is, it doesn't matter, not a jot, not a tittle.
    • They (to switch to the gender-free plural) are also wont to niggle and squiggle over every jot and tittle.
    • Those aspects work ‘well enough for survival’, but not necessarily one whit, jot or tittle better.
    • I don't agree with every jot and tittle of his response, but I don't differ from it enough to write a separate post.
    • His play slipped a tittle as the season wore on.
    • If you challenge it or any of the matters I am trying to say in it, then you have done nothing but verify every jot and tittle of it, and there is little hope.
    • You sway to a pulse in the very fabric of being, a pulse that awakens a celestial symphony of tones, as every jot and tittle sings its song with mathemagical purity - each song utterly selfish, their harmonic blending utterly selfless.
    • The boy soon recovered his senses, and told me, readily and consistently, the following tale, which I again heard him repeat before the magistrate, in a different sequence, but without a tittle of variation.
    • I cannot see a tittle of evidence so far in this case that the United States as a government has failed in any way in that respect.
    • Think, for example, of Whitman's insistence on celebrating every jot and tittle of the created world.
    • Every jot and tittle of civilized dining etiquette is but an act of civil religious piety.
    • OK, the purple shadow, peach tip gloss, bronze foundation and 50 coats of mascara are a tittle glam, but I don't look right.
    Synonyms
    bit, tiny amount, scrap, shred, speck, iota, particle, ounce, whit, jot, jot or tittle, atom, crumb, morsel, fragment, grain, drop, hint, touch, trace, suggestion, whisper, suspicion, scintilla, spot, mite, modicum
    1. 1.1archaic A small written or printed stroke or dot, indicating omitted letters in a word.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin titulus (see title), in medieval Latin ‘small stroke, accent’; the phrase jot or tittle is from Matt. 5:18.

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