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English Dictionary: little	by the DICT Development Group
7 results for little
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
little adv not much; "he talked little about his family" adj limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a little dining room"; "a little house"; "a small car"; "a little (or small) group" Synonym(s): small, little Antonym(s): big, large (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some; "little rain fell in May"; "gave it little thought"; "little time is left"; "we still have little money"; "a little hope remained"; "there's slight chance that it will work"; "there's a slight chance it will work" Synonym(s): little(a), slight Antonym(s): much(a) (of children and animals) young, immature; "what a big little boy you are"; "small children" Synonym(s): little, small (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction" Synonym(s): fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial (of a voice) faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice" Synonym(s): little, small low in stature; not tall; "he was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"; "a little man" Synonym(s): short, little Antonym(s): tall lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters" Synonym(s): little, minuscule, small small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context); "a nice little job"; "bless your little heart"; "my dear little mother"; "a sweet little deal"; "I'm tired of your petty little schemes"; "filthy little tricks"; "what a nasty little situation" n a small amount or duration; "he accepted the little they gave him"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Little \Lit"tle\, n. 1. That which is little; a small quantity, amount, space, or the like. Much was in little writ. --Dryden. There are many expressions, which carrying with them no clear ideas, are like to remove but little of my ignorance. --Locke. 2. A small degree or scale; miniature. [bd] His picture in little.[b8] --Shak. A little, to or in a small degree; to a limited extent; somewhat; for a short time. [bd] Stay a little.[b8] --Shak. The painter flattered her a little. --Shak. {By little and little}, [or] {Little by little}, by slow degrees; piecemeal; gradually.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Little \Lit"tle\, a. [The regular comparative of this word is wanting, its place being supplied by less, or, rarely, lesser. See {Lesser}. For the superlative least is used, the regular form, littlest, occurring very rarely, except in some of the English provinces, and occasionally in colloquial language. [bd] Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear.[b8] --Shak.] [OE. litel, lutel, AS. l[?]tel, l[c6]tel, l[?]t; akin to OS. littil, D. luttel, LG. l[81]tt, OHG. luzzil, MHG. l[81]tzel; and perh. to AS. lytig deceitful, lot deceit, Goth. liuts deceitful, lut[?]n to deceive; cf. also Icel. l[c6]till little, Sw. liten, Dan. liden, lille, Goth. leitils, which appear to have a different root vowel.] 1. Small in size or extent; not big; diminutive; -- opposed to {big} or {large}; as, a little body; a little animal; a little piece of ground; a little hill; a little distance; a little child.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Little \Lit"tle\, adv. In a small quantity or degree; not much; slightly; somewhat; -- often with a preceding it. [bd] The poor sleep little.[b8] --Otway.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Little \Lit"tle\, a. {Little Englander}, an Englishman opposed to territorial expansion of the British Empire. See {Antiimperialism}, above. Hence: {Little Englandism}. {Little-neck clam}, [or] {Little neck} (Zo[94]l.), the quahog, or round clam. {Little peach}, a disease of peaches in which the fruit is much dwarfed, and the leaves grow small and thin. The cause is not known. {Little Rhod"y}, Rhode Island; -- a nickname alluding to its small size. It is the smallest State of the United States. {Little Sisters of the Poor} (R. C. Ch.), an order of women who care for old men and women and infirm poor, for whom special houses are built. It was established at St. Servan, Britany, France, in 1840, by the Abb[82] Le Pailleur. {Little slam} (Bridge Whist), the winning of 12 out of the 13 tricks. It counts 20 points on the honor score. Living picture \Liv"ing pic"ture\ A tableau in which persons take part; also, specif., such a tableau as imitating a work of art.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Little, KY Zip code(s): 41346
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
LITTLE A typeless language used to produce machine-independent software. LITTLE has been used to implement SETL. "Guide to the LITTLE Language", D. Shields, LITTLE Newsletter 33, Courant Inst (Aug 1977).