different between tivy vs tiny

English

Etymology

See tantivy.

Adverb

tivy (not comparable)

1. With great speed; a huntsman's word or sound.
   • 1670, John Dryden, Songs: 1, from Tyrannick Love, Act 4, Scene 1, 1995 [Pearson Education], Paul Hammond (editor), The Poems of John Dryden: Volume 1: 1649-1681, 2014, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 229,

     In the bright moonshine while winds whistle loud,

     Tivy, tivy, tivy, we mount and we fly,

     All racking along in a downy white cloud:

     And lest our leap from the sky should prove too far,

     We slide on the back of a new-falling star.

Anagrams

• Vity

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