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puny
English
Etymology
From Middle French puisné. See puisne.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /pju?ni/
- Rhymes: -u?ni
Adjective
puny (comparative punier, superlative puniest)
- Of inferior size, strength or significance; small, weak, ineffective.
- Breezes laugh to scorn our puny speed.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:scrawny
Translations
Noun
puny (plural punies)
- (obsolete, Oxford University slang) A new pupil at a school etc.; a junior student.
- (obsolete) A younger person.
- 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State and the Profane State
- who had rather others should make a ladder of his dead corpse to scale a city by it, than a bridge of him whilst alive for his punies to give him the go-by
- 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State and the Profane State
- (obsolete) A beginner, a novice.
- (archaic) An inferior person; a subordinate.
Synonyms
- (new pupil): fresher, freshman, new bug, novi (Tonbridge School), shadow (Westminster School)
- (beginner): newb, rookie, tenderfoot; see also Thesaurus:beginner
- (subordinate): junior, underling, vassal
See also
- punny – relating to a pun
Catalan
Etymology
From Old Occitan, from Latin pugnus, from Proto-Indo-European *pu?nos, *pu?nos, from *pew?-, *peu?- (“prick, punch”).
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?pu?/
Noun
puny m (plural punys)
- fist
Related terms
- punyal
- punyeta
Further reading
- “puny” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “puny” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “puny” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “puny” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
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microscopic
English
Etymology
micro- +? -scopic
Pronunciation
- (US) enPR: 'm?kr?'sk?p?k, IPA(key): /?ma?k???sk?p?k/
- Rhymes: -?p?k
Adjective
microscopic (comparative more microscopic, superlative most microscopic)
- Of, or relating to microscopes or microscopy; microscopal
- So small that it can only be seen using a microscope.
- Very small; minute
- Carried out with great attention to detail.
- Able to see extremely minute objects.
- Why has not man a microscopic eye?
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:tiny
Antonyms
- macroscopic
Related terms
- microscope
- macroscopic
- telescopic
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- naked-eye
Interlingua
Adjective
microscopic (not comparable)
- microscopic
Related terms
- microscopia
- microscopio
Romanian
Etymology
From French microscopique.
Adjective
microscopic m or n (feminine singular microscopic?, masculine plural microscopici, feminine and neuter plural microscopice)
- microscopic
Declension
microscopic From the web:
- what microscopic machine is copying the gene
- what microscopic finding is manifested by glomerulonephritis
- what microscopic forces cause bending
- what microscopic creatures live on humans
- what microscopic bug is biting me
- what microscopic structures are located in the cortex
- what microscopic tissue is the lungs composed of
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