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7 definitions found 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. `` His picture in little.'' --Shak. A little, to or in a small degree; to a limited extent; somewhat; for a short time. `` Stay a little.'' --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. `` Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear.'' --Shak.] [OE. litel, lutel, AS l?tel, l[=i]tel, l?t; akin to OS littil D. luttel LG l["u]tt, OHG. luzzil MHG. l["u]tzel; and perh. to AS lytig deceitful, lot deceit, Goth. liuts deceitful, lut?n to deceive; cf also Icel. l[=i]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 `` The poor sleep little.'' --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["o]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['e] 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 WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: little adj 1: limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a little dining room"; "a small house"; "read the small print"; "a little (or small) group" [syn: {small}] [ant: {large}, {large}] 2: (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 hope remained"; "little time is left"; "we still have little money"; "a little hope remained"; "a little time isleft" [syn: {little(a)}] [ant: {much(a)}] 3: of short duration; "a brief stay in the country"; "in a little while" [syn: {brief}] 4: very young; "a little child"; "small children" [syn: {small}] 5: of little importance or influence or power; of minor status; "a minor, insignificant bureaucrat"; "the little man"; "peanut politicians"; "a crowd of small writers had vainly attempted to rival Addison"- Macaulay [syn: {insignificant}, {peanut}, {small}] 6: (informal terms) 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" [syn: {fiddling}, {footling}, {lilliputian}, {niggling}, {piddling}, {piffling}, {petty}, {picayune}, {trivial}] 7: (of a voice) faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice" [syn: {small}] 8: contemptibly narrow in outlook; "a little mind consumed with trivia"; "petty little comments"; "disgusted with the pettiness of small minds" [syn: {petty}, {small}, {small-minded}] 9: younger and (at least formerly) smaller than another though relative size is not the issue; "little brother" [syn: {little(a)}, {younger}] [ant: {big(a)}] 10: lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters" [syn: {minuscule}, {small}] 11: used of persons or behavior; characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity; "a small miserly man" [syn: {mean}, {mingy}, {miserly}, {small}, {tight}] n : a small amount or duration; "he accepted the little they gave him" adv : not much "he talked little about his family" From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Little, KY Zip code(s): 41346 From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [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).
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