What's the difference between little and tiny?

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.

Tiny


Definition:

  • (superl.) Very small; little; puny.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A tiny studio flat that has become a symbol of London's soaring property prices is to be investigated by planning, environmental health and fire safety authorities after the Guardian revealed details of its shoebox-like proportions.
  • (2) Numerous slender sarcotubules, originating from the A-band side terminal cisternae, extend obliquely or longitudinally and form oval or irregular shaped networks of various sizes in front of the A-band, then become continuous with the tiny mesh (fenestrated collar) in front of the H-band.
  • (3) There was an upstream "HTF" island (Hpa II tiny fragments) followed by four direct repeats of the "chorion box" enhancer.
  • (4) Only "a tiny minority" of countries presently control space technologies, which play a major role in everything from broadcasting to weather forecasting, agriculture, health and environmental monitoring, the document notes.
  • (5) At the bottom is a tiny harbour where cafe Itxas Etxea – bare brick walls and wraparound glass windows – is serving txakoli, the local white wine.
  • (6) Children as young as 18 months start by sliding on tiny skis in soft supple boots, while over-threes have more formal lessons in the snow playground.
  • (7) Bargain of the week Charming but teeny-tiny one-bedroom period cottage, £55,000, with williamsonandhenry.com .
  • (8) The power users and early adopters of these apps, the ones you're most likely to see tapping their thumbs over a tiny screen, are under 25.
  • (9) As Bernard Levin noted in 1977 when she was playing Lady Macbeth and Lady Plyant in Congreve's The Double Dealer at the National: "She is tiny.
  • (10) Tiny, tiny... rodents – some soft and grey, some brown with black stripes, in paintings, posters, wallcharts, thumb-tacked magazine clippings and poorly executed crayon drawings, hurling themselves fatally in their thousands over the cliff of their island home; or crudely taxidermied and mounted, eyes glazed and little paws frozen stiff – on every available surface.
  • (11) You float a tiny distance above, suspended by the repulsion between atoms.
  • (12) Electron microscopy reveals that the cells of this layer represent rather poorly differentiated smooth muscle cells which contain only a few tiny myofilaments and can therefore hardly contribute actively to the process of closure.
  • (13) They’re all basically the same, but the tiny, barely discernible differences between them consume vast amounts of energy and generate heartache for everyone involved.
  • (14) Systemic amyloid deposition was only seen in patients who had been haemodialysed for more than 13 years and consisted of sparse tiny deposits in blood vessel walls.
  • (15) In fact, these contain tiny components embedded in paper tapes, with 16,000 LED lights on each.
  • (16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Barclays This season LifeSkills created with Barclays have teamed up with Tinie Tempah and the Premier League to give young people the chance to fulfil their passions and work at a range of famous football clubs and music venues.
  • (17) They also frequently show rows of RR-stained sub-plasmalemmal tiny vesicles.
  • (18) Even Battersea's tiny 503 theatre, which gets not a penny of public money, has had a surer instinct for new plays – Katori Hall's The Mountaintop won at the Olivier awards last March – than Hampstead, which currently receives £930,000 from Arts Council England alone.
  • (19) The Normandie Design is plum in the middle of the amiable chaos of South American city life, in Santa Efigênia, where the streets are thronged with tiny electronics stores – great if you fancy a fake Chinese iPhone.
  • (20) But will any of these familiar pictures in the news or the stories they illustrate prove as consequential as this abstract, colourful and ethereal picture of the tracks of tiny particles called neutrinos ?