different between runt vs exiguous

English

Etymology

The OED pronounces this word as "of obscure origin". Some see a connection to Middle Dutch runt (“ox”), but the OED thinks this unlikely.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

runt (plural runts)

1. The smallest animal of a litter.
2. (by extension) The smallest child in the family.

3. Undersized or stunted plant, animal or person.

   Synonym: dwarf

4. (networking) An Ethernet packet that does not meet the medium's minimum packet size of 64 bytes.
5. (typography) A single word (or portion of a hyphenated word) that appears as the last line of a paragraph.
6. A breed of pigeon related to the carrier pigeon.
7. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A hardened stem or stalk of a plant.
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
   • Neither young poles nor old runts are durable. — Holland.
8. A bow.

Derived terms

• kale runt
• runty

Translations

References

Anagrams

• turn

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

runt

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of runnen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of runnen

Anagrams

• turn

Faroese

Adjective

runt

1. nominative/accusative neuter singular of rundur

Adverb

runt

1. around

Old French

Adjective

runt m (oblique and nominative feminine singular runde)

1. Alternative form of reont

Declension

Plautdietsch

Adjective

runt

1. round, circular, spherical

Swedish

Pronunciation

Adjective

runt

1. absolute indefinite neuter form of rund.

Adverb

runt

1. around; aimlessly (about movement)

2. around; at random locations
3. around; in a manner that involves a lot of transportation

See also

• gå runt
• se sig runt
• vända runt

Preposition

runt

1. around; denoting a full circle
2. around; following a path which curves near an object
3. around (a corner)
4. around, near (about time)

   Jag kommer runt tre.

   I'll come around three o'clock.

5. about; all round

Synonyms

• kring
• omkring

Derived terms

• runt om
• runt omkring

Yola

Etymology

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Adjective

runt

1. torn

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Etymology

From Latin exiguus (“strict, exact”), from exigere (“to measure against a standard”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???z??ju.?s/, /???z??ju.?s/

Adjective

exiguous (comparative more exiguous, superlative most exiguous)

1. scanty; meager
   • 1889 — Robert Louis Stevenson, The Wrong Box ch XIII

     The herdboy in the broom, already musical in the days of Father Chaucer, startles (and perhaps pains) the lark with this exiguous pipe.

   • 1912 — G. K. Chesterton, Manalive ch VII

     The path on which I then planted my feet was quite unprecedentedly narrow. I had never had to walk along a thoroughfare so exiguous.

   • 1998 — Michael Ignatieff, Rebirth of a Nation: An Anatomy of Russia. New Statesman, Feb 6.

     They are entering the market, setting up stalls on snowy streets, moonlighting to supplement exiguous incomes.

   • 2012 — Rodger Cohen, Scottexalonia Rising, New York Times, Nov. 26., Op. Ed.

     National politics, as President François Hollande of France is only the latest to discover, is often no more than tweaking at the margins in the exiguous political space left by markets and other global forces.

Derived terms

• exiguate
• exiguity
• exiguously
• exiguousness
• unexiguous

Related terms

• exigency

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