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• diminutive — Synonyms and related words: Lilliputian, affectionate name, baby, baby sized, bantam, banty, button, byname, chit, cognomen, cognominal, compact, duodecimo, elfin, epithetic, featherweight, fingerling, formal, handy, honorific, hypocoristic, in… …   Moby Thesaurus

• diminutive — adj small, little, Inf. baby, bantam, slight, featherweight; wee, tiny, Lilliputian, elfin, miniature, minute, microscopic, animalculous, infinitesimal; short, Inf. half pint, undersized, puny, runty; homuncular, midget, dwarfish, Med. nanoid,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• first name / diminutive form —    When speakers have agreed to use one another’s first names, there can still remain the question of which form of the name is to be used. ‘I wish to God you wouldn’t call me Wilson,’ says Edward Wilson to Louise Scobie in The Heart of the… …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

• Z scale — Infobox Model Rail Scale name = Z Scale image filename = image caption = widthpx = scale = ratio = 1:220 gauge = 6.5 mm prototype gauge = Standard gauge|Until the 2006 announcement of T scale, Z scale (1:220) was the smallest commercially… …   Wikipedia

• fish scale — 1) any pattern or design resembling fish scales. See fish scales 2) a fish s scale 3) slang for uncut cocaine 4) a diminutive five cent silver coin minted 1865 1947 (Newfoundland) …   Dictionary of ichthyology

• Squamella — Squa*mel la (skw[.a]*m[e^]l l[.a]), n.; pl. {Squamell[ae]} ( l[=e]). [NL., dim. fr. L. squama a scale.] (Bot.) A diminutive scale or bractlet, such as those found on the receptacle in many composite plants; a palea. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Squamellae — Squamella Squa*mel la (skw[.a]*m[e^]l l[.a]), n.; pl. {Squamell[ae]} ( l[=e]). [NL., dim. fr. L. squama a scale.] (Bot.) A diminutive scale or bractlet, such as those found on the receptacle in many composite plants; a palea. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Alessandro Magnasco — also known as il Lissandrino (February 4, 1667–1749), was an Italian Rococo painter from Northern Italy. He is best known for stylized, fantastic, often phantasmagoric genre or landscape scenes.BiographyBorn in Genoa to a minor artist, Stefano… …   Wikipedia

• small — small, little, diminutive, petite, wee, tiny, teeny, weeny, minute, microscopic, miniature can all mean conspicuously below the average in magnitude, especially physical magnitude. Small (opposed to large) and little (opposed to big, great) are… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• small — adjective 1) a small apartment Syn: little, compact, bijou, tiny, miniature, mini; minute, microscopic, minuscule; toy, baby; poky, cramped, boxy; informal teeny, teensy, itsy bitsy, itty bitty …   Thesaurus of popular words

• performing arts — arts or skills that require public performance, as acting, singing, or dancing. [1945 50] * * * ▪ 2009 Introduction Music Classical.       The last vestiges of the Cold War seemed to thaw for a moment on Feb. 26, 2008, when the unfamiliar strains …   Universalium