Litter vs Small - What's the difference?

In intransitive terms the difference between litter and small

is that litter is to be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter while small is to become small; to dwindle.

As an adjective small is

not large or big; insignificant; few in numbers or size.

As an adverb small is

in a small fashion.

As a proper noun Small is

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litter

English

Noun

(wikipedia litter)

(countable) A platform mounted on two shafts, or a more elaborate construction, designed to be carried by two (or more) people to transport one (in luxury models sometimes more) third person(s) or (occasionally in the elaborate version) a cargo, such as a religious idol.

* Shakespeare

There is a litter ready; lay him in 't.

(countable) The offspring of a mammal born in one birth.

* D. Estrange

A wolf came to a sow, and very kindly offered to take care of her litter .

(uncountable) Material used as bedding for animals.

(uncountable) Collectively, items discarded on the ground.

* Jonathan Swift

Strephon / Stole in, and took a strict survey / Of all the litter as it lay.

(uncountable) Absorbent material used in an animal's litter tray

(uncountable) Layer of fallen leaves and similar organic matter in a forest floor.

A covering of straw for plants.

* Evelyn

Take off the litter from your kernel beds.

Synonyms

* (platform designed to carry a person or a load): palanquin, sedan chair, stretcher, cacolet * (items discarded on the ground): waste, rubbish, garbage (US), trash (US), junk

Derived terms

* cat litter * litter bin * litter bug, litterbug * litter frog

Verb

(en verb)

To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).

* By tossing the bottle out the window, he was littering .

To strew with scattered articles.

* Jonathan Swift

the room with volumes littered round

To give birth to, used of animals.

* Sir Thomas Browne

We might conceive that dogs were created blind, because we observe they were littered so with us.

* Shakespeare

The son that she did litter here, / A freckled whelp hagborn.

To produce a litter of young.

* Macaulay

A desert where the she-wolf still littered .

To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.

* Bishop Hacke

Tell them how they litter their jades.

* Dryden

For his ease, well littered was the floor.

To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.

* Habington

The inn where he and his horse littered .

Derived terms

* litterer

Anagrams

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Verb

(roa-jer-verb)

to wrestle

Derived terms

small

English

Adjective

(er)

Not large or big; insignificant; few in numbers or size.

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(figuratively) Young, as a child.

(writing, incomparable) Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written letters.

Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.

* Carlyle

A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man.

Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.

a small space of time

Synonyms

* (not large or big) little, microscopic, minuscule, minute, tiny; see also * little, wee (Scottish), young * (of written letters) lowercase, minuscule

Antonyms

* See also * (not large or big) capital, big, generous (said of an amount of something given), large * adult, grown-up, old * (of written letters) big, capital, majuscule, uppercase

Derived terms

* small arm * small arms * small beer * small calorie * small-cell lung cancer * small change * small claims court * smallclothes * smaller European elm bark beetle * small forward * small fry * smallgoods * smallholder * smallholding * small hours * small intestine * smallish * small-minded * smallmouth * smallmouth bass * smallmouth black bass * smallness * small potatoes * smallpox * smalls * small-scale * small screen * small stuff * smallsword * small talk * small-time * * small wonder * twice as small * twice as small as

Adverb

(er)

In a small fashion.

* (William Shakespeare), (w, A Midsummer Night's Dream) , Act I, scene 2, line 49:

That's all one: you shall play it in a mask, and / you may speak as small as you will.

In or into small pieces.

* 2009 , Ingrid Hoffman, CBS Early Morning for September 28, 2009 (transcription)

That's going to go in there. We've got some chives small chopped as well.

(obsolete) To a small extent.

* (rfdate) (William Shakespeare), Sonnets , "Lucrece", line 1273

It small avails my mood.

Derived terms

* writ small

Noun

(en noun)

Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back.

(UK, in the plural) Underclothes.

Derived terms

* small of the back

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To make little or less.

To become small; to dwindle.

* Thomas Hardy

And smalled till she was nought at all.

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