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marginal | tiny |

As adjectives the difference between marginal and tiny

is that marginal is (uncomparable) of, relating to, or located at or near a margin or edge; also figurative usages of location and margin (edge) while tiny is very small.

As nouns the difference between marginal and tiny

is that marginal is something that is while tiny is a small child; an infant.

marginal

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • (uncomparable) Of, relating to, or located at or near a margin or edge; also figurative usages of location and margin (edge) .
    • The marginal area at the edge of the salt-marsh has its own plants.
    In recent years there has been an increase in violence against marginal groups.
  • # Written in the margin of a book.
  • There were more marginal notes than text.
  • #* 1999 , R. I. Page, Introduction to English Runes , Boydell Press, page 198:
  • The early pages had marginal notes most of which were lost when rats nibbled away the manuscript edges.
  • # (geography) Sharing a border; geographically adjacent.
  • Monmouthshire is a Welsh county marginal to England.
  • (comparable) Determined by a small margin; having a salient characteristic determined by a small margin.
  • # Of a value, or having a characteristic that is of a value, that is close to being unacceptable or leading to exclusion from a group or category.
  • His writing ability was marginal at best.
  • ''Having reviewed the test, there are two students below the required standard and three more who are marginal .
  • # (of land) Barely productive.
  • He farmed his marginal land with difficulty.
  • # (politics, chiefly, UK, Australia, NZ, of a constituency) Subject to a change in sitting member with only a small change in voting behaviour, this usually being inferred from the small winning margin of the previous election.
  • In Bristol West, Labour had a majority of only 1,000, so the seat is considered highly marginal this time around.
  • #* 2002 , Andrew Geddes, Jonathan Tonge, Labour?s Second Landslide: The British General Election 2001 , page 79,
  • In ‘battleground’ seats with the Conservatives, Liberal Democrat vote shares increased most in the most marginal seats.
  • #* 2007 , Robert Waller, Byron Criddle, The Almanac of British Politics , page 58,
  • In Outer London, Harrow East is now a more marginal Labour hold than Harrow West.
  • #* 2010 , Nick Economou, Zareh Ghazarian, Australian Politics For Dummies , unnumbered page,
  • The pendulum lists the seats from least marginal' to most '''marginal''' for the government on one side, and least '''marginal''' to most ' marginal for the opposition on the other side.
  • (economics, uncomparable) Pertaining to changes resulting from a unit increase in production or consumption of a good.

    • Derived terms

    * comarginal * marginal cost * marginal utility * postmarginal * submarginal

    Related terms

    * margin

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that is .
  • A constituency won with a small margin.

    • Anagrams

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    tiny

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Very small.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Catherine Clabby
    • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Focus on Everything , passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny' creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying ' tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field. A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that.}}

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * huge, large, big

    Derived terms

    * tinyness

    Noun

    (tinies)
  • A small child; an infant.
  • *1924 , (Ford Madox Ford), Some Do Not…'', Penguin 2012 (''Parade's End ), p. 28:
  • *:‘You know I loved your husband like a brother, and you know I've loved you and Sylvia ever since she was a tiny .’
  • * 1982 , Young children in China (page 84)
    • 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).
  • Anything very small.
  • * 1956 , Victoria Sackville-West, Even More For Your Garden (page 102)
    • Might I now add a plea for the smaller irises, the tinies ? They, also, should be divided up and replanted just now.

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