Particle vs Inch - What's the difference?
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A very small piece of matter, a fragment; especially, the smallest possible part of something.
(linguistics, sensu lato) A part of speech which can not be declined, an adverb, preposition, conjunction or interjection
* 1844 , E. A. Andrews: First Lessions in Latin; or Introduction to Andrews and Stoddard's Latin Grammar. (6th edition, Boston), p.91 (
* 1894 (2008), B. L. Gildersleeve & G. Lodge: Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar (reprint of the 3rd edition by Dover, 2008), p.9. (
(linguistics, sensu stricto) A word that has a particular grammatical function but does not obviously belong to any particular part of speech, such as the word to in English infinitives or O as the vocative particle.
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(physics) Any of various physical objects making up the constituent parts of an atom; an elementary particle or subatomic particle.
* 2011 , & Jeff Forshaw, The Quantum Universe , Allen Lane 2011, p. 55:
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A unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot, or exactly 2.54 centimetres.
(meteorology) The amount of water which would cover a surface to the depth of an inch, used as a measurement of rainfall.
The amount of an alcoholic beverage which would fill a glass or bottle to the depth of an inch.
(figuratively) A very short distance.
* Shakespeare
(followed by a preposition) To advance very slowly, or by a small amount (in a particular direction).
* 1957 , :
*:The window blind had been lowered — Zooey had done all his bathtub reading by the light from the three-bulb overhead fixture—but a fraction of morning light inched under the blind and onto the title page of the manuscript.
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To drive by inches, or small degrees.
* Dryden
To deal out by inches; to give sparingly.
(Scotland) A small island
* Sir Walter Scott, Rosabelle
As nouns the difference between particle and inch
is that particle is a very small piece of matter, a fragment; especially, the smallest possible part of something while inch is a unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot, or exactly 2.54 centimetres.As a verb inch is
to advance very slowly, or by a small amount (in a particular direction).particle
English
(wikipedia particle)Noun
(en noun)at books.google)
- 322. The parts of speech which are neither declined nor conjugated, are called by the general name of particles . 323. They are adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.
at books.google)
- The Parts of Speech are the Noun (Substantive and Adjective), the Pronoun, the Verb, and the Particles (Adverb, Preposition, and Conjunction)[.]
- In English there is no grammatical device to differentiate predicational judgments from nonpredicational descriptions. This distinction does cast a shadow on the grammatical sphere to some extent, but recognition of it must generally be made in semantic terms. It is maintained here that in Japanese, on the other hand, the distinction is grammatically realized through the use of the two particles wa and ga.
- Traditional grammar typically recog-
nises a number of further categories: for example, in his Reference Book of
Terms in Traditional Grammar for Language Students'', Simpson (1982) posits
two additional word-level categories which he refers to as ''Particle'', and
''Conjunction''. Particles include the italicised words in (58) below:
(58) (a) He put his hat ''on''
(b) If you pull too hard, the handle will come ''off''
(c) He was leaning too far over the side, and fell ''out''
(d) He went ''up to see the manager
- What, he asked himself, does quantum theory have to say about the familiar properties of particles such as position?
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Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* aspect particle * modal particle * particle accelerator * particle beam * particle board * particle physics * tachyonic particleinch
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (ang) ynce, from (etyl) . Compare ounce.Noun
(es)- "Don't move an inch !"
- Beldame, I think we watched you at an inch .
Derived terms
* every inch * * inch-perfectVerb
(es)- Fearful of falling, he inched along the window ledge.
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- He gets too far into the soldier's grace / And inches out my master.
Derived terms
* inch along * inch forward * inch up * inchwormSee also
* thou * milEtymology 2
From Gaelic (innis)Noun
(es)- The blackening wave is edged with white; / To inch and rock the sea-mews fly.
