What's the difference between eeny and minuscule?

Eeny


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When accused of muttering it while reciting Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Mo, during filming of BBC2s Top Gear, he said he had not, that he would absolutely never use "the most racist word of them all".
  • (2) Following a string of controversies about offensive remarks, Clarkson was put on final warning by the BBC in May, after unbroadcast Top Gear footage of him mumbling the N-word during the rhyme “Eeny, meeny, miny moe” was leaked.
  • (3) In the footage, published on the newspaper's website , Clarkson appears to recite the beginning of the children's nursery rhyme "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe..." before appearing to mumble: "Catch a nigger by his toe."
  • (4) He also asked who had approved the scene when Clarkson is shown choosing between two cars by reciting the words to the nursery rhyme "eeny, meeny, miny, moe" and apparently mumbling the N-word.
  • (5) TheTop Gear host apologised and asked for forgiveness following the clip of him reciting the nursery rhyme "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe" and using the N-word being made public on Thursday.
  • (6) The presenter was forced to apologise last week, issuing a video "begging for forgiveness", following claims that he had used the word while he recited the nursery rhyme, Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe in a clip that was not used on the show.
  • (7) The incident comes after the Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson survived calls for his resignation , when an unbroadcast clip surfaced of him stumbling over the nursery rhyme Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe.
  • (8) However, MediaGuardian understands that the rhyme "eeny, meeny, miny, moe" was not scripted.
  • (9) That includes me and anyone who works there.” The presenter was forced to apologise and given a final warning by the BBC earlier this year after an online video emerged of him saying the N-word while reciting the nursery rhyme Eeny, Meeny, Miny Moe in a non-broadcast outtake from Top Gear.
  • (10) Clarkson was forced to apologise on Thursday night, when he asked viewers for forgiveness following the revelation of a clip of him reciting the nursery rhyme "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe; catch a nigger by the toe" in unaired footage obtained by the Daily Mirror.
  • (11) A week later British TV host Jeremy Clarkson was caught on camera reciting a version of "eeny, meeny, miny, moe" from his childhood (" before racism was bad " as The Office's David Brent once put it) in which he continues muttering "catch a nigger by the toe".
  • (12) That episode was made just before the controversial "eeny, meeny, miny, mo" footage, which was not broadcast at the time but was leaked to the Daily Mirror earlier this week.
  • (13) Clarkson was embroiled in controversy last week when it was claimed he used the N-word while reciting the nursery rhyme Eeny, Meeny, Miny Moe during filming of the BBC2 show.

Minuscule


Definition:

  • (n.) Any very small, minute object.
  • (n.) A small Roman letter which is neither capital nor uncial; a manuscript written in such letters.
  • (a.) Of the size and style of minuscules; written in minuscules.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lloyds TSB, Cheltenham & Gloucester and Nationwide have SVRs of 2.5% while the Woolwich transfers existing customers to a tracker of base rate plus 0.95% - a pay rate of a minuscule 1.44%.
  • (2) "I don't know what the cost is but compared with the rewards it is absolutely minuscule," he said.
  • (3) If he was on the verge of becoming a "national treasure" to the minuscule percentage of the nation who could identify him by name were they shown a picture of him, this latest episode will have reminded them that there really are bigger and better idiots in public life to get behind.
  • (4) The bacterium is spread by minuscule insects that infect trees while feeding off the leaves.
  • (5) When you take out a share of those 31 homes for shared ownership, 80% market rent homes, and starter homes, each of which developers will prioritise as they are more lucrative, the number left for genuinely affordable social rent is minuscule, if it exists at all.
  • (6) Bill-O said that there were roughly 200 more white police shooting victims in 2013 than black police shooting victims, but that argument’s a non-starter when you consider there are about 185 million more white people in the United States , even if you call the problem “minuscule” .
  • (7) "It's possible, but the chance of that is absolutely minuscule," says Dr Stephen Woodward of the University of Aberdeen, who has been studying forest pathology for 30 years.
  • (8) We are living in a golden era for species-hunters, if you like your species minuscule and obscure.
  • (9) When they drive you from the detention centre to the courthouse, this is what happens: reveille even before the communal breakfast, stewing in your own sweat while hunched over in the "beaker" [a minuscule isolation cell for special prisoners inside the prisoner transport lorry], transport through the Moscow traffic jams – a minimum of two hours.
  • (10) The $465 application fee, while minuscule to most middle-class Americans, has played a large role in preventing young undocumented immigrants from applying for work permits.
  • (11) We studied 35 adult human cadaver specimens for histologic and infrared photographic transillumination evidence of what we have identified as the minuscule submucous cleft palate.
  • (12) Compared to the streaming video services, BitTorrent's portion of traffic is minuscule, at just over 4%.
  • (13) In all but the most minuscule number of cases, those pills would have done nothing more harmful than inflict some loss of sleep.
  • (14) Ironically, Ken Livingstone's policy of letting developers build high-density and tall (in exchange for a minuscule trickle of "social" housing) may have helped turf him out of power, a possibility that Labour might do well to ponder.
  • (15) Given the other benefits of estrogen replacement therapy, this risk is extremely small and can be reduced to a minuscule level by encouraging postmenopausal women to eat judiciously and well and to engage in a regular and meaningful exercise program.
  • (16) In a town like Beverly Hills, with almost no industry and a minuscule tax base, what makes civic initiatives possible is also what denies many people their freedom: tickets, and lots of them.
  • (17) If your prime minister gives me talk about democracy, parliament and constitutions, he, his parliament and his constitution may not last very long.” Russell Caplan London • The size of the Greek economy being minuscule in comparison to the major economies in the EU, the only threat to world finance of a Syriza victory is political.
  • (18) He said the Advanced Detecting Equipment (ADE) he developed at his Somerset farm could pick up the most minuscule traces of explosives, drugs, ivory and even money.
  • (19) In the p-AF, both caused a small increase (delta = 1.5); however, this increase was minuscule compared with the large increase in the d-AF (delta = 41).
  • (20) The number of true refugees is minuscule: it’s a few days of flights into Heathrow.