name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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name
A surname.
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noun
Any small dot, stroke, or diacritical mark, especially if part of a letter, or of a letter-like abbreviation; in particular, the dots over the Latin letters i and j.
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Topics: media, publishing, typography
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noun
A small, insignificant amount (of something); a modicum or speck.
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Usage: broadly
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verb
To chatter.
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Usage: Scotland
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noun
a tiny or scarcely detectable amount
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: shred, scintilla, whit, iota, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, smidge
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Broader terms: small indefinite quantity, small indefinite amount
History
From Middle English tytle, titel, titele, from Anglo-Norman titil, titule and Medieval Latin titulus (“small stroke, diacritical mark, accent”), from Latin titulus (“title”). Doublet of tilde, titer/titre, title, titlo, and titulus.
From Middle English titillen, tytyllen, perhaps variants of Middle English tutelen (“to whisper, chatter”), from tutel (“mouth”), from Old English *tūtel, *tȳtel, related to Old Frisian tūte (“mouth”). Compare Middle English touten (“to jut out, project, protrude”), Middle English toute (“projection, mound, hill”), Middle Dutch tûte (whence modern Dutch tuit (“spout, nozzle, nose, point, peak, summit”)), Old Norse túta (“a teat-like prominence”), Danish tude (“spout”).
Across languages
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