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Runt vs Microscopic - What's the difference?

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Runt is a related term of microscopic.


As a noun runt

is the smallest animal of a litter, or,.

As an adjective microscopic is

microscopic.

runt

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The smallest animal of a litter, or,
  • The smallest child in the family, as in "the runt of the family."
  • Undersized or stunted plant, animal or person.
  • (computing) An Ethernet packet that does not meet the medium's minimum packet size of 64 bytes.
  • (typography) A single word (or portion of a hyphenated word) that appears as the last line of a paragraph.
  • A breed of pigeon related to the carrier pigeon.
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) A hardened stem or stalk of a plant.
  • (Halliwell)
    Neither young poles nor old runts are durable. — Holland.

    Anagrams

    * turn ----

    microscopic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, or relating to microscopes or microscopy; microscopal.
  • We supply all microscopic stains and other materials.
  • So small that it can only be seen using a microscope.
  • The water was full of microscopic organisms.
  • Very small; minute
  • Compared to the galaxy, we are microscopic in scale.
  • Carried out with great attention to detail.
  • The police carried out a microscopic search of the crime scene.
  • Able to see extremely minute objects.
  • Why has not man a microscopic eye? — Alexander Pope.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * macroscopic

    See also

    * naked-eye