What's the difference between enough and little?

Enough


Definition:

  • (a.) Satisfying desire; giving content; adequate to meet the want; sufficient; -- usually, and more elegantly, following the noun to which it belongs.
  • (adv.) In a degree or quantity that satisfies; to satisfaction; sufficiently.
  • (adv.) Fully; quite; -- used to express slight augmentation of the positive degree, and sometimes equivalent to very; as, he is ready enough to embrace the offer.
  • (adv.) In a tolerable degree; -- used to express mere acceptableness or acquiescence, and implying a degree or quantity rather less than is desired; as, the song was well enough.
  • (n.) A sufficiency; a quantity which satisfies desire, is adequate to the want, or is equal to the power or ability; as, he had enough to do take care of himself.
  • (interj.) An exclamation denoting sufficiency, being a shortened form of it is enough.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There are no oceans wide enough to stop us from dreaming.
  • (2) Enough with Clintonism and its prideful air of professional-class virtue.
  • (3) They retained the ability to make this discrimination when the coloured stimuli were placed against a background bright enough to saturate the rods.3.
  • (4) The cause has been innumerable "VIP movements", as journeys undertaken by those considered important enough for all other traffic to be held up, sometimes for hours, are described in South Asian bureaucratic speak.
  • (5) Ten weeks of iron therapy was not, however, long enough to increase iron stores.
  • (6) Jeremy Corbyn could learn a lot from Ken Livingstone | Hugh Muir Read more High-minded commentators will say that self-respect – as well as Burke’s dictum that MPs are more than delegates – should be enough to make members under pressure assert their independence.
  • (7) It is suggested that children may learn enough to satisfy their parents' expectations by this age or grade.
  • (8) The expectation of life at birth was only 30-35 years, but it was long enough to allow for children to be born and for the populations to expand.
  • (9) Sadler shook her head again when Cameron repeated the much-used statistic that enough water to fill Wembley Stadium three times was being pumped from the Levels each day.
  • (10) "Maybe dullness is associated with psychic pain," Wallace wrote at one point, "because something that's dull or opaque fails to provide enough stimulation to distract people from some other, deeper type of pain that is always there, if only in an ambient low-level way, and which most of us spend nearly all our time and energy trying to distract ourselves from."
  • (11) An effective gonadal shield should reduce the gonadal dose to a level low enough to preserve spermatogenesis in most patients.
  • (12) If you turn the bowl upside down, the whites should be stiff enough not to fall out.
  • (13) Those sort of year-to-year comparisons can be helpful to visualise changes in the market landscape, but in fast-changing markets it's not enough just to quote a single number.
  • (14) The results of the study suggest that perhaps tobramycin of cefotaxime-impregnated PMMA beads would produce local levels of antibiotic high enough to sterilize a given dead space for a period of 28 days.
  • (15) An average size chromomere of the polytene X chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster contains enough DNA in each haploid equivalent strand to code for 30 genes, each 1,000 nucleotides long.
  • (16) Furthermore, the AMDP-3 scale and its manual constitute a remarkable teaching instrument for psychopathology, not always enough appreciated.
  • (17) Such margins would be enough to put the first female president in the White House, but Democrats are guarding against complacency.
  • (18) On taking office Lansley admitted this was not a deep enough cut.
  • (19) He believes the intelligence and security committee (ISC) has enough powers to do its job.
  • (20) It's bad enough that they're so thin,” said Kilbourne.

Little


Definition:

  • (a.) Small in size or extent; not big; diminutive; -- opposed to big or large; as, a little body; a little animal; a little piece of ground; a little hill; a little distance; a little child.
  • (a.) Short in duration; brief; as, a little sleep.
  • (a.) Small in quantity or amount; not much; as, a little food; a little air or water.
  • (a.) Small in dignity, power, or importance; not great; insignificant; contemptible.
  • (a.) Small in force or efficiency; not strong; weak; slight; inconsiderable; as, little attention or exertion;little effort; little care or diligence.
  • (a.) Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous.
  • (n.) That which is little; a small quantity, amount, space, or the like.
  • (n.) A small degree or scale; miniature.
  • (adv.) In a small quantity or degree; not much; slightly; somewhat; -- often with a preceding it.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Prior to oral feeding, little or no ELA was detected in stools and endotoxinemia was ascertained in only six of 45 infants (13%).
  • (2) 8.43am BST A little more from that Field interview on Today.
  • (3) The omission of Crossrail 2 from the Conservative manifesto , in which other infrastructure projects were listed, was the clearest sign yet that there is little appetite in a Theresa May government for another London-based scheme.
  • (4) Not only do they give employers no reason to turn them into proper jobs, but mini-jobs offer workers little incentive to work more because then they would have to pay tax.
  • (5) Some commentators have described his ship, now facing more delays after a decade in development, as little more than a Heath Robinson machine.
  • (6) Marked enhancement of IFN-gamma production by T cells was seen in the presence of as little as 0.3% thymic DC.
  • (7) The origin of the aorta and pulmonary artery from the right ventricle is a complicated and little studied congenital cardiac malformation.
  • (8) Today’s figures tell us little about the timing of the first increase in interest rates, which will depend on bigger picture news on domestic growth, pay trends and perceived downside risks in the global economy,” he said.
  • (9) It is a place that occupies two thirds of our planet but very little is known of vast swaths of it.
  • (10) The authors conclude that H. pylori alone causes little or no effect on an intact gastric mucosa in the rat, that either intact organisms or bacteria-free filtrates cause similar prolongation and delayed healing of pre-existing ulcers with active chronic inflammation, and that the presence of predisposing factors leading to disruption of gastric mucosal integrity may be required for the H. pylori enhancement of inflammation and tissue damage in the stomach.
  • (11) Furthermore, little DNA relatedness was found between the type strain and a strain of C. natalensis.
  • (12) Displacement of a colinear line over the same range without an offset evoked little, if any, response.
  • (13) Little is so far known of the origin of this syndrome.
  • (14) Known as the Little House in the Garden, this temporary structure lasted over 50 years.
  • (15) Little difference exists between the proportion of programs that offer training in first-trimester techniques and the proportion that train in second-trimester techniques.
  • (16) A study of the time-course of the response during aortic stenosis of 30 min duration showed early release of renin from the innervated kidney at a time (5 min) when little release occurred from the denervated one.
  • (17) She loved us and we loved her.” “We would have loved to have had a little grandchild from her,” she says sadly.
  • (18) Likewise, they had little or no effects on the fluorescence anisotropy of TMA-DPH, which is also thought to be located in the interfacial region of the lipid bilayer, either when the probe was located in the outer layer of the plasma membrane or when the probe was located in the inner membrane compartment.
  • (19) Stimulation with these electrodes were effective for inducing voiding with little residual volume after the recovery of bladder reflexes, 3 weeks after experimental spinal cord injury in the dog.
  • (20) Technical manipulations to improve resolution were time consuming and added little to the accuracy of the test.