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tittle

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /?t?t.?l/

Etymology 1

From Medieval Latin titulus (small stroke, diacritical mark, accent), from Latin titulus (title). Doublet of tilde, title, and titulus.

Noun

tittle (plural tittles)

  1. A small, insignificant amount (of something); a modicum or speck.
  2. (typography) Any small dot, stroke, or diacritical mark, especially if part of a letter, or if a letter-like abbreviation; in particular, the dots over the Latin letters i and j.
    • 1590, Bales, The Arte of Brachygraphie (quoted in Daid King's 2001 'The Ciphers of the Monks'):
      The foure pricks or tittles are these. The first is a full prick or period. The second is a comma or crooked tittle.
    • 1987, Andrea van Arkel-De Leeuw van Weenen, Möðruvallabók, AM 132 Fol: Index and concordance, page xii:
      (the page calls both "a superscript sign (hooklike)" and also a diacritical abbreviation of "er" (er#Icelandic) "tittles")
Synonyms
  • See also Thesaurus:modicum.
Related terms
  • iota
  • titlo
Translations

Etymology 2

Verb

tittle (third-person singular simple present tittles, present participle tittling, simple past and past participle tittled)

  1. (Scotland) To chatter.
Related terms
  • tattle
  • tittle-tattle

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granule

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin granulum, diminutive of Latin granum (grain); for more, see grain.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /???anju?l/
  • (US) IPA(key): /???ænjul/, /???ænj?l/

Noun

granule (plural granules)

  1. A tiny grain, a small particle.
  2. (biology) A small structure in a cell.
  3. (geology) A particle from 2 to 4 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
  4. (astronomy) a small mark in the photosphere of the sun caused by convection currents. See also Wikipedia:Granule (solar physics).

Related terms

  • grain
  • granular
  • granularity
  • granulate
  • granulation

Translations

Further reading

  • granule in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • granule in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

  • langure, unregal

French

Pronunciation

  • Homophones: granulent, granules

Verb

granule

  1. first-person singular present indicative of granuler
  2. third-person singular present indicative of granuler
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of granuler
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of granuler
  5. second-person singular imperative of granuler

Spanish

Verb

granule

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of granular.
  2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of granular.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of granular.
  4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of granular.

granule From the web:

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  • what granules do basophils have
  • what granules do neutrophils contain
  • what granule cell
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