tiny

«tiny» in Mova's school dictionary: Very, very small: "a tiny ant" — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (tiny, tinier, tiniest)

meaning for a pupil

Very, very small: "a tiny ant". tree →

sense in the lessons

In science, tiny things like germs and cells can only be seen with a microscope. In maths, tiny means very small amounts or numbers. In stories, tiny shows something cute or fragile. Phrases: tiny bit, tiny little.

examples

• An ant is tiny. tree →
• Germs are too tiny to see. tree →
• The baby has tiny fingers. tree →
• There's a tiny hole in my sock. tree →
• Only a tiny bit of cake is left. tree →
• A tiny seed grows into a tall tree. tree →
• The kitten made a tiny sound. tree →
• Sand grains are tiny pieces of rock. tree →
• Only under their feet was a tiny dry spot. tree →

note

Comparatives: tinier, tiniest (y → ie). "Tiny" is stronger than "small" or "little". Tiny things can still matter a lot, like germs or a tiny spark that starts a fire.

In the corpora

• A newborn baby needs feeding every two or three hours, day and night, because its stomach is tiny.
• Most people think tiny kind lies are OK, but big lies that hurt people or hide important things are not.
• A pixel is one tiny dot of a digital picture.
• Forced perspective is a camera trick: something close to the camera looks huge and something far away looks tiny.
• In the 1933 film King Kong the giant gorilla was a small model moved by hand a tiny bit at a time.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «tiny» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.