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Runt vs Petite - What's the difference?

runt | petite | Related terms |

Runt is a related term of petite.


As a noun runt

is the smallest animal of a litter, or,.

As an adjective petite is

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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.

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    petite

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of a woman: fairly short and of slim build.
  • Of women's clothing: of small size.
  • Small, little; insignificant; petty.
  • * 1662 , Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Systems of the World (Dialogue Two)
    • The Earth, the Sun, and Stars, what things are they in nature? are they petite things not worth our notice, or grand and worthy of consideration?

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