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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tiny \Ti"ny\, adjective [Compar. {Tinier}; superl. {Tiniest}.]
[Probably fr. tine, teen, trouble, distress, vexation.]
Very small; little; puny.
When that I was and a little tiny boy. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
tiny
adjective: very small; "diminutive in stature"; "a lilliputian chest of
drawers"; "her petite figure"; "tiny feet"; "the
flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy"
[syn: {bantam}, {diminutive}, {lilliputian}, {midget},
{petite}, {flyspeck}]
[also: {tiniest}, {tinier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
62 Moby Thesaurus words for "tiny":
Lilliputian, bantam, bitsy, bitty, cursory, dainty, delicate,
depthless, diminutive, dwarf, dwarfish, elfin, few, fine, footling,
inconsequential, inconsiderable, infinitesimal, insignificant,
itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, lilliputian, little, low, meager, micro,
microscopic, midget, mini, miniature, minikin, minim, minuscular,
minuscule, minute, negligible, no great shakes, paltry, peewee,
petite, petty, picayune, picayunish, pint-sized, pocket,
pocket-size, pocket-sized, puny, pygmy, shallow, short, skin-deep,
slight, small, superficial, teensy-weensy, teeny, teeny-weeny,
trifling, trivial, wee, weeny
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
Tiny
1. A language which provides {concurrency} through
{message-passing} to named message {queues}.
2. A tool written by Michael Wolfe at
{Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology} for
examining {array} data dependence {algorithm}s and {program
transformation}s for scientific computations.
{Extended Tiny} was used to implement the {Omega test}.
Michael Wolfe has also made extensions to his version of tiny.
(1994-12-12)
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