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tiny

adj
/ˈtaɪni/

Etymology

From Middle English tine, tyne (“very small”) + -y. Perhaps from tine.

  1. inherited from tine

Definitions

  1. Very small.

  2. A small child

    A small child; an infant.

    • ‘You know I loved your husband like a brother, and you know I've loved you and Sylvia ever since she was a tiny.’
    • The lessons we saw have been well suited to the age of the children as regards music, singing and moving (and stories about animals for the tinies and more abstract themes for the older children).

  3. Anything very small.

    • Might I now add a plea for the smaller irises, the tinies? They, also, should be divided up and replanted just now.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. A township in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada.

    2. An unincorporated community in Dickenson County, Virginia, United States.

    3. A nickname.

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at tiny. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at tiny. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at tiny

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA