Trickle vs Little - What's the difference?
trickle | little |
A very thin river.
A very thin flow; the act of trickling .
to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously
to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously
* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21
To move or roll slowly.
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Small in size.
Insignificant, trivial.
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(of a sibling) Younger.
* 1871 October 18, The One-eyed Philosopher [pseudonym], "Street Corners", in Judy: or the London serio-comic journal , volume 9, page 255 [http://books.google.com/books?id=_B4oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA255]:
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Small in amount or number, having few members.
Short in duration; brief.
Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous.
* Tennyson
Not much.
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Not at all.
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, title= Not much, only a little: only a small amount (of).
As a noun trickle
is a very thin river.As a verb trickle
is to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously.As an adjective little is
small in size.As an adverb little is
not much.As a determiner little is
not much, only a little: only a small amount (of).As a proper noun Little is
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English
Noun
(en noun)- The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle .
- The tap of the washbasin in my bedroom is leaking and the trickle drives me mad at night.
Verb
(trickl)- The doctor trickled some iodine on the wound.
- Here the water just trickles along, but later it becomes a torrent.
- The film was so bad that people trickled out of the cinema before its end.
- Her white night-dress was smeared with blood, and a thin stream trickled down the man's bare chest which was shown by his torn-open dress.
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Anagrams
*little
English
(wikipedia little)Adjective
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- If you want to find Little' France, take any turning on the north side of Leicester square, and wander in a zigzag fashion Oxford Streetwards. The ' Little is rather smokier and more squalid than the Great France upon the other side of the Manche.
- In the forties, hurdy-gurdy men could still be heard in all those East Coast cities with strong Italian neighbourhoods: New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Boston. A visit to Baltimore's Little Italy at that time was like a trip to Italy itself.
- a little sleep
- The long-necked geese of the world that are ever hissing dispraise, / Because their natures are little .
Usage notes
Some authorities regard both littler' and '''littlest''' as non-standard. The OED says of the word little: "''the adjective has no recognized mode of comparison. The difficulty is commonly evaded by resort to a synonym (as smaller, smallest); some writers have ventured to employ the unrecognized forms littler, littlest, which are otherwise confined to dialect or imitations of childish or illiterate speech.''" The forms '''lesser''' and ' least are encountered in animal names such as lesser flamingo and least weasel.Antonyms
* (small) large, big * (young) big * (younger) bigAdverb
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Antonyms
* muchDeterminer
- There is little water left.
- We had very little to do.
