different between tittle vs granule
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)
- A small, insignificant amount (of something); a modicum or speck.
- (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")
- 1590, Bales, The Arte of Brachygraphie (quoted in Daid King's 2001 'The Ciphers of the Monks'):
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)
- (Scotland) To chatter.
Related terms
- tattle
- tittle-tattle
tittle From the web:
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- what titles has dumbledore held
- what titles has ash barty won
- what titles should be underlined
- what title was given to chief joseph
- what title does camilla have
- what titles does canelo have
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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)
- A tiny grain, a small particle.
- (biology) A small structure in a cell.
- (geology) A particle from 2 to 4 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
- (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
- first-person singular present indicative of granuler
- third-person singular present indicative of granuler
- first-person singular present subjunctive of granuler
- third-person singular present subjunctive of granuler
- second-person singular imperative of granuler
Spanish
Verb
granule
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of granular.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of granular.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of granular.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of granular.
granule From the web:
- what granules are present in granulocytes
- what granules are in neutrophils
- what granules do eosinophils contain
- what granules are extruded from the keratinocytes
- what granules contain glycolipids
- what granules do basophils have
- what granules do neutrophils contain
- what granule cell
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