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tiny | penny |

As an adjective tiny

is very small.

As a noun tiny

is a small child; an infant.

As a proper noun penny is

a diminutive of the female given name penelope.

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

    * See also

    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.

    Anagrams

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    penny

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (lb) In the United Kingdom and Ireland, a copper coin worth 1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound before decimalisation. Abbreviation: d.
  • *
  • *:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
  • In the United Kingdom, a copper coin worth 1/100 of a pound sterling.
  • (lb) In Ireland, a coin worth 1/100 of an Irish pound before the introduction of the euro. Abbreviation: p.
  • In the US and Canada, a one-cent coin, worth 1/100 of a dollar. Abbreviation: .
  • In various countries, a small-denomination copper or brass coin.
  • A unit of nail size, said to be either the cost per 100 nails, or the number of nails per penny. Abbreviation: d.
  • Money in general.
  • :
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:What penny hath Rome borne, / What men provided, what munition sent?

    • Usage notes

    The plural is used for other cases, in particular when referring to multiple individual coins.

    Synonyms

    * old penny * new penny (old-fashioned ) * (one-cent coin) cent

    Derived terms

    * a bad penny always turns up * bad penny * eightpenny nail * fourpenny nail * * pence * penniless * penny ante * penny arcade * penny dreadful * penny-farthing * penny for one's thoughts * penny pincher * penny wedding * penny whistle * pretty penny * sixpenny nail * tenpenny nail * watch the pennies

    Verb

  • (slang) To jam a door shut by inserting pennies between the doorframe and the door.
    • Zach and Ben had only been at college for a week when their door was pennied by the girls down the hall.
  • (electronics) To circumvent the tripping of an electrical circuit breaker by the dangerous practice of inserting a coin in place of a fuse in a fuse socket.

    • See also

    * d * the penny drops English nouns with irregular plurals ----