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Tiny vs Cramped - What's the difference?

tiny | cramped |

As adjectives the difference between tiny and cramped

is that tiny is very small while cramped is uncomfortably restricted in size, or financially.

As a noun tiny

is a small child; an infant.

As a verb cramped is

past tense of cramp.

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

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    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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    cramped

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (cramp)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Uncomfortably restricted in size, or financially.
  • *
  • *:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
  • Overcrowded or congested.
  • Tight because of or like suffering a cramp.
  • Illegible.