different between tiny vs runt

English

Alternative forms

• tyny (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English tine, tyne (“very small”) + -y. Perhaps from tine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta?ni/

• Rhymes: -a?ni

Adjective

tiny (comparative tinier, superlative tiniest)

1. Very small.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:tiny

Antonyms

• huge
• great

Derived terms

• tininess
• tinily

Translations

Noun

tiny (plural tinies)

1. A small child; an infant.
   • 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not…, Penguin 2012 (Parade's End), p. 28:

     ‘You know I loved your husband like a brother, and you know I've loved you and Sylvia ever since she was a tiny.’

   • 1982, Young children in China (page 84)

     The lessons we saw have been well suited to the age of the children as regards music, singing and moving (and stories about animals for the tinies and more abstract themes for the older children).

2. Anything very small.

Translations

Anagrams

• tiyn

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

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Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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