Iota vs Tiny - What's the difference?
iota | tiny |
The ninth, and smallest, letter of the Greek alphabet.
A jot; a very small, inconsiderable quantity.
* Burke
Very small.
*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=
, magazine=(American Scientist), title= 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)
Anything very small.
* 1956 , Victoria Sackville-West, Even More For Your Garden (page 102)
As nouns the difference between iota and tiny
is that iota is a bank account that earns interest and pays it to a third party, generally a charity; the principal is typically being held in escrow by the accountholder while tiny is a small child; an infant.As an adjective tiny is
very small.iota
English
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(en noun)- As a Greek numeral, iota represents ten.
- There are twelve iotas on that page.
- They never depart an iota from the authentic formulas of tyranny and usurpation.
Synonyms
* (jot) See also .Anagrams
* ----tiny
English
Adjective
(er)Catherine Clabby
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
* See alsoAntonyms
* huge, large, bigDerived terms
* tinynessNoun
(tinies)- 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).
- Might I now add a plea for the smaller irises, the tinies ? They, also, should be divided up and replanted just now.
