(n.) An allowance of food bestowed in charity; a mess of victuals; hence, a small charity gift; a dole.
(n.) A meager portion, quantity, or allowance; an inconsiderable salary or compensation.
Example Sentences:
(1) The massive amount of catalogue being streamed guarantees that they get the massive slice of the pie (that $500 million), and the smaller producers and labels get pittance for their comparatively few streams.
(2) On top of that, given the pittance of offshore projects in the works in the United States, bringing the ships in from abroad can be cost-prohibitive.
(3) And there I was, week after week, paid a pittance to jeer at the Smith regime's imbecilities.
(4) The players' revolt which split tennis asunder, shrivelled 1973's Wimbledon championships to a half-baked botch and kick-started a dramatic overturn in the century-long balance of power between the administrators and administered of any major worldwide sport, was triggered because a temperamental and reasonably good Yugoslavian player, Nikki Pilic, decided to play a well-paid doubles tournament in Montreal instead of (for a pittance) a Davis Cup tie for his country against New Zealand.
(5) The £900,000 that the club paid to the Belgian side Beerschot last year looks a pittance for a defender-cum-midfielder with awesome power and influence.
(6) Instead, they employ landless day labourers for a pittance.
(7) I hope that they will point out to the treasury that for much less than one thousandth part of total government expenditure, they create not just well-being but jobs; that for the pittance saved by cutting a few percentage points from our budget, the damage caused would be disproportionately savage.
(8) As the war began and Nazi racial policies became ever more explicit, more modern and pre-modern works were seized or bought for a pittance from Jewish owners.
(9) How does she survive on a pittance in that pitiless pandemonium?
(10) Art was stolen or bought for a pittance from Jewish collectors who were forced to sell under duress during the Third Reich.
(11) I'm earning a pittance now but we've still got more money each month – for holidays and things.
(12) The money Sir Christopher Kelly wants political parties to get would be a pittance, nationally speaking, and it could save us so much.
(13) They could set up camps outside major cities – preferably to the east of London, where the air is stinkier – but close enough for the workers to commute to and from their jobs, or, if they're indolent scroungers, to today's workhouses AKA supermarkets such as Poundland, where they can work for their pittance.
(14) Relinquishing tax-exempt status would be a pittance for Fifa, which r ecently reported reserves of $1.4bn .
(15) Those with no skills but willing to break their backs underground get a pittance; those who won a lottery of life get paid millions to stay above the ground.
(16) "The usual film model is that the distributor pays the producer a pittance called an advance - and for that takes all rights to the film.
(17) shupiwe An injera worth supporting Little Addis Cafe in the Maboneng Precinct is a delightful little hole-in the-wall, which serves a tasty injera -with-all-the-extras for a pittance.
(18) They often have no changing rooms, no hot water, nowhere to make a cup of tea and they are doing it for a pittance.
(19) the populace of which saw very little benefit of its resources being sold for pittance to us.
(20) Musicians might, for now, challenge the major labels and get a fairer deal than 15% of a pittance, but it seems to me that the whole model is unsustainable as a means of supporting creative work of any kind.
Small
Definition:
(superl.) Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity or degree; diminutive; not large or extended in dimension; not great; not much; inconsiderable; as, a small man; a small river.
(superl.) Being of slight consequence; feeble in influence or importance; unimportant; trivial; insignificant; as, a small fault; a small business.
(superl.) Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; -- sometimes, in reproach, paltry; mean.
(superl.) Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short; as, after a small space.
(superl.) Weak; slender; fine; gentle; soft; not loud.
(adv.) In or to small extent, quantity, or degree; little; slightly.
(adv.) Not loudly; faintly; timidly.
(n.) The small or slender part of a thing; as, the small of the leg or of the back.
(n.) Smallclothes.
(n.) Same as Little go. See under Little, a.
(v. t.) To make little or less.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effect of insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) on growth of small cell lung cancer (SCLC) cell lines was studied.
(2) Such a signal must be due to a small ferromagnetic crystal formed when the nerve is subjected to pressure, such as that due to mechanical injury.
(3) The Na+ ionophore, gramicidin, had a small but significant inhibitory effect on Na(+)-dependent KG uptake, demonstrating that KG uptake was not the result of an intravesicular positive Na+ diffusion potential.
(4) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
(5) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
(6) If Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, who bought the island in 1738, were to return today he would doubtless recognise the scene, though he might be surprised that his small private buildings have grown into a sizable hotel.
(7) We conclude that chronic emphysema produced in dogs by aerosol administration of papain results in elevated pulmonary artery pressure, which is characterized pathologically by medial hypertrophy of small pulmonary arteries.
(8) As the percentage of rabbit feed is very small compared to the bulk of animal feeds, there is a fair chance that rabbit feed will be contaminated with constituents (additives) of batches previously prepared for other animals.
(9) The extent of the infectious process was limited, however, because the life span of the cultures was not significantly shortened, the yields of infectious virus per immunofluorescent cell were at all times low, and most infected cells contained only a few well-delineated small masses of antigen, suggestive of an abortive infection.
(10) The small units described here could be inhibitory interneurons which convert the excitatory response of large units into inhibition.
(11) Early stabilisation may not ensure normal development but even early splinting carries a small risk of avascular necrosis.
(12) Twenty patients with non-small cell bronchogenic carcinoma were prospectively studied for intrathoracic lymphadenopathy using computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
(13) In addition, KM231 could detect a small amount of the antigen ganglioside in human gastric normal and cancerous mucosa and in gastric cancer cell lines by HPTLC-immunostaining.
(14) Two small populations of GLY + neurons were observed outside of the named nuclei of the SOC; one was located dorsal to the LSO, near its dorsal hilus, and the other was identified near the medial pole of the LSO.
(15) Because of the small number of patients reported in the world literature and lack of controlled studies, the treatment of small cell carcinoma of the larynx remains controversial; this retrospective analysis suggests that combination chemotherapy plus radiation offers the best chance for cure.
(16) Only small amounts of 3H oleic acid were converted.
(17) The pH gradient measured with dimethyloxazolidine-2,4-dione and acetylsalicylic acid was very small in both bacteria at a high pH above 8, and was not affected significantly by the addition of CCCP.
(18) The results also indicate that small lesions initially noted only on CT scans of the chest in children with Wilms' tumor frequently represent metastatic tumor.
(19) CT scan revealed a small calcified mass in the right maxillary sinus.
(20) We have previously shown that intratracheally instilled silica (quartz) produces both morphologic evidence of emphysema and small-airway changes, and functional evidence of airflow obstruction.