What's the difference between miniature and tiny?

Miniature


Definition:

  • (v.) Originally, a painting in colors such as those in mediaeval manuscripts; in modern times, any very small painting, especially a portrait.
  • (v.) Greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale.
  • (v.) Lettering in red; rubric distinction.
  • (v.) A particular feature or trait.
  • (a.) Being on a small; much reduced from the reality; as, a miniature copy.
  • (v. t.) To represent or depict in a small compass, or on a small scale.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) ACh released from the vesicular fraction was about 100-fold more than could be accounted for by miniature end-plate potentials; possible causes of this overestimate are discussed.
  • (2) Media made hyperosmotic with sucrose increase the frequency of spontaneously released quanta of transmitter, or miniature excitatory postsynaptic potentials (MEPSPs).
  • (3) Unaltered surface enamel of extracted human teeth was subjected to tests of resistance to dissolution in 10 mM acetic acid at pH 4.0 and 10 mM EDTA at pH 7.4 in a miniature continuous flow system.
  • (4) The EMD was miniaturized by using rare earth magnets in the construction of both external transmitter and internal receiver.
  • (5) A method is described for the accurate, rapid measurement of the unbound fractions of estradiol and of progesterone in small volumes of plasma or serum at 37 degrees C by a miniature method of steady-state gel filtration.
  • (6) In the first of two studies, we randomized 2-d-old miniature piglets to receive bottle-feedings of a swine weaning milk formula with (group F + I) or without (group F) the addition of insulin.
  • (7) In addition, some have become extremely miniaturized.
  • (8) Extracellular recordings of miniature end-plate potentials in frog muscle showed that stimulation in the presence of MECh caused the time constant of the exponential decay of the m.e.p.p.s.
  • (9) The male adult Shiba goat, a miniature Japanese native goat, was used.
  • (10) And Doordash, which uses Starship Technologies miniature self-driving vehicles, is replacing restaurant delivery people.
  • (11) Two field experiments are reported in which highly skilled miniature golf players varying in age were examined during training and competition (Swedish championships).
  • (12) An increase in the activity of ornithine decarboxylase was observed in mixed lymphocyte cultures from genetically defined, major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-nonidentical miniature swine as early as 18 hr after plating.
  • (13) The odds that uroliths submitted for analysis were composed of calcium oxalate was 2 times greater for Miniature Schnauzers than for dogs of other breeds (95% confidence interval = 1.6 to 2.4).
  • (14) Undistorted ventricular pressure wave form was obtained from a miniature transducer implanted in the left ventricular cavity.
  • (15) An ex vivo gastric chamber model based on miniature swine was used.
  • (16) Although some of the features of the TTE-RAS data base were not satisfactory, we consider this new miniaturized system to be a very valuable tool for the rapid identification of the most frequently isolated opportunistic bacteria.
  • (17) The retina was maintained in a nearly physiological state in a miniature "heart-lung" apparatus.
  • (18) A prototype system, termed an acoustic plethysmograph, was built and used to measure the volume of newborn miniature pigs.
  • (19) The intrinsic retinal vasculature of the miniature pig also has numerous characteristics in common with the human retina with regard to the extent of the vascular bed, the size of the blood vessels and the presence of radial peridiscal capillaries.
  • (20) The authors compared a group of 10 children operated by using this miniature apparatus with a control group of 20 children where the standard set up was used.

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 ?