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# tiny

«tiny» in Mova's school dictionary: **Very, very small: "a tiny ant"** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (tiny, tinier, tiniest)

### meaning for a pupil

Very, very small: "a tiny ant". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tiny/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science, tiny things like germs and cells can only be seen with a microscope. In maths, tiny means very small amounts or numbers. In stories, tiny shows something cute or fragile. Phrases: tiny bit, tiny little.

### examples

- An ant is tiny. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tiny/#x1)
- Germs are too tiny to see. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tiny/#x2)
- The baby has tiny fingers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tiny/#x3)
- There's a tiny hole in my sock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tiny/#x4)
- Only a tiny bit of cake is left. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tiny/#x5)
- A tiny seed grows into a tall tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tiny/#x6)
- The kitten made a tiny sound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tiny/#x7)
- Sand grains are tiny pieces of rock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tiny/#x8)
- Only under their feet was a tiny dry spot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tiny/#x9)

### note

Comparatives: tinier, tiniest (y → ie). "Tiny" is stronger than "small" or "little". Tiny things can still matter a lot, like germs or a tiny spark that starts a fire.

### In the corpora

- [A newborn baby needs feeding every two or three hours, day and night, because its stomach is tiny.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/6/)
- [Most people think tiny kind lies are OK, but big lies that hurt people or hide important things are not.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/37-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so/9/)
- [A pixel is one tiny dot of a digital picture.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/20-photography-and-phone-cameras/12/)
- [Forced perspective is a camera trick: something close to the camera looks huge and something far away looks tiny.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/21-filters-edits-and-fake-photos/14/)
- [In the 1933 film King Kong the giant gorilla was a small model moved by hand a tiny bit at a time.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/25-special-effects-and-stunts/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tiny» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tiny/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.