What's the difference between tinny and tiny?

Tinny


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to, abounding with, or resembling, tin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Everything he sang about is still true today," said Oluwole, a taxi driver waiting for petrol as a tape played Fela on a tinny loop.
  • (2) ‘W e voted for you to go home.” Those were the words flung at 34-year-old Tinni Guha Roy, a former member of the GB rowing team, on a London train in the aftermath of Britain’s EU referendum.
  • (3) Then he broke down, his voice audibly cracking across the tinniness of the loudspeaker.
  • (4) Tinny iPhone powered, accompanied renditions of Flower of Scotland and the Proclaimers on a loop (my request for the Krankies' Fandabidozi for some themed relief went ignored).
  • (5) No more does British public transport throb to the strains of LMFAO's Sexy and I Know It , played on the tinny mobiles of hooded young men.
  • (6) Mick Jones from the Clash was Grant's cousin, and we'd blast his tapes from the tinny stereo, singing along to the words while debating the sentiment.
  • (7) But it simply underlined how incredibly tinny they were as candidates.
  • (8) In my opinion, it has a dry, tinny, bitter aftertaste.
  • (9) Labor always rejected concerns by the fishing industry that it was "locking up oceans", saying less than 2% of commercial fisheries' catches would be affected by the new protected areas and recreational fishers would not be affected at all because the parks were hundreds of kilometres offshore and therefore well out of reach of a fisherman in a tinnie.
  • (10) On the shore you’ll see a few people drinking tinnies and fishing with their mates, and you think ‘who’s happier here?’” Perhaps because of this, relations between crew and guests are unusual, if not unheard of.
  • (11) From time to time, Syrova's words were punctuated by tinny clinks from the women's handcuffs as they crossed and uncrossed their arms.
  • (12) The famously good Congolese music is everywhere, from the throbbing clubs of the Matonge district to the tinny transistor radios of people in the street.
  • (13) The bullets sounded tinny and distant, like in an old arcade game.
  • (14) "The thrill," said one, whose first download was by Smashing Pumpkins, "even when I listened to the music through my mum's tinny computer speakers."
  • (15) Their relationship has played out in the press as a tinny, 21st-century retread of Liz Taylor and Richard Burton – the Hollywood insider and the Welsh upstart, with the gender roles reversed.
  • (16) The first, very serious score was replaced by tinny, faux-heroic music, which made the film funny again.
  • (17) Under the tinny roof of Songkhla’s commercial port, on Thailand’s south-east coast, the imperial-blue cargo boat that brought Myint Thein back to shore is unloading its catch, barrel by barrel.
  • (18) John Grant (Gary Bond), a cultured schoolteacher travelling from his isolated bush schoolhouse to Sydney, gets trapped on a stopover that turns into a never-ending alcoholic bender in a wild outback mining town populated entirely by drunken ockers who gamble, guzzle tinnies, fist-fight and hunt kangaroos for sport.
  • (19) The execution of the film, too, is a world away from the DayGlo tinniness of most 1980s family films.
  • (20) The novel is also a vehicle for much insiderish fun: drive-by shootings at the editor of the New Statesman Jason Cowley (who becomes a type of car, “slick, tinny, and noisy”); Private Eye editor Ian Hislop (who, given that he went to court to reveal a super-injunction Marr had used to hide his affair with another political journalist, gets nicer treatment than one might expect), is “earnestly and very solemnly working his way through a huge cream cake”.

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 ?

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