Mite vs Chlordimeform - What's the difference?
mite | chlordimeform |
A minute arachnid, of the order Acarina, of which there are many species; as, the cheese mite, sugar mite, harvest mite, etc. See Acarina.
A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing.
*1803 , William Blake,
*:One mite wrung from the lab'rer's hands
*:Shall buy and sell the miser's lands;
A lepton, a small coin used in Palestine in the time of Christ.
A small weight; one twentieth of a grain.
Anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle. Sometimes used adverbially.
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, title= * 1959 , Frances Cavanah, Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance , Project Gutenberg, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17315/17315-8.txt]:
An acaricide active mainly against the motile forms of mites and ticks and against eggs and early instars of some Lepidoptera insects; it is no longer widely used.
As nouns the difference between mite and chlordimeform
is that mite is a minute arachnid, of the order Acarina, of which there are many species; as, the cheese mite, sugar mite, harvest mite, etc. See Acarina while chlordimeform is an acaricide active mainly against the motile forms of mites and ticks and against eggs and early instars of some Lepidoptera insects; it is no longer widely used.mite
English
(wikipedia mite)Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=“Well,” I says, “I cal'late a body could get used to Tophet if he stayed there long enough.” ¶ She flared up; the least mite of a slam at Doctor Wool was enough to set her going.}}
- "Those trousers are a mite too big, but you'll soon grow into them."
