Atom - English meaning

noun

A small piece, part, or quantity of something.

Usage examples:

Give the duck a bit of bread

verb

Past of bite.

verb

Put a bit into the mouth of (a horse).

Usage examples:

However, they can experience behavioral problems when ridden, many coming back to bad experiences w…

noun

A small fragment of bread, cake, or biscuit.

Usage examples:

She brushed some cake crumbs off her dress

verb

Cover (food) with breadcrumbs.

Usage examples:

While the sweet potato is cooking, crumb the fish

noun

A very small piece that has fallen from bread , cookies, or cake

Usage examples:

The floor was covered with crumbs after breakfast.

noun

A small round mark or spot.

Usage examples:

A symbol depicted in coloured dots

verb

Mark with a small spot or spots.

Usage examples:

Wet spots of rain began to dot his shirt

noun

A dowry from which only the interest or annual income was available to the husband.

noun

A numerical quantity that is not a whole number (e.g. 1/2, 0.5).

Usage examples:

The mathematics computation subtest assesses skills in computing with whole numbers, fractions, mix…

noun

A number that results from dividing one whole number (= a number with no part of a number after it) by another

Usage examples:

1/4 and 0.25 are different ways of representing the same fraction., counterfeits are sold at a frac…

noun

A small part or amount of something

Usage examples:

The company's computers only represent a fraction of the market.

noun

A small part broken off or separated from something.

Usage examples:

Small fragments of pottery

verb

Break or cause to break into fragments.

Usage examples:

Lough erne fragmented into a series of lakes

noun

A small piece or part, esp. one that is broken off of something

Usage examples:

A bone fragment, a fragment of indian pottery, she read a fragment of the story.

noun

Wheat or any other cultivated cereal used as food.

Usage examples:

He now had two patches of grain and maize while apricots, cherries, plums and quince hung heavily f…

verb

Give a rough surface or texture to.

Usage examples:

Her fingers were grained with chalk dust

noun

A seed from a plant, esp. a grass such as wheat, or the crop from such a plant

Usage examples:

[ c ] wheat and rye are two common grains used in making bread., [ u ] grain is one of the main exp…

noun

A small compact particle of a substance.

Usage examples:

Granules of sugar

noun

A small piece like a grain of something

Usage examples:

Coffee granules

noun

The ninth letter of the greek alphabet ( ι, ι ), transliterated as ‘i’.

noun

An extremely small amount

Usage examples:

I haven't seen one iota of evidence to support his claim.

noun

The ninth letter of the greek alphabet

verb

Write (something) quickly.

Usage examples:

When you've found the answers, jot them down

noun

A very small amount.

Usage examples:

You didn't care a jot

verb

To write something quickly in a short note

Usage examples:

[ m ] the guard jotted down the van’s license plate number.

noun

A minute arachnid which has four pairs of legs when adult, related to the ticks. many kinds live in the soil and a number are parasitic on plants or animals.

Usage examples:

All of these arthropods are known predators of insect eggs; on at least 17 plants, adult mites were…

adverb

A little; slightly.

Usage examples:

I haven't eaten yet and i'm feeling a mite peckish

noun

A small quantity of a particular thing, especially something desirable or valuable.

Usage examples:

His statement had a modicum of truth

noun

A small amount

Usage examples:

He achieved a modicum of success.

noun

A group of atoms bonded together, representing the smallest fundamental unit of a chemical compound that can take part in a chemical reaction.

Usage examples:

It works by affecting a molecule called nitric oxide, which expands blood vessels.

noun

The smallest unit into which a substance can be divided without chemical change, usually a group of two or more atoms

noun

A small piece or amount of food; a mouthful.

Usage examples:

Juliet pushed a morsel of toast into her mouth

noun

A very small piece of food

Usage examples:

She ate every last morsel on her plate.

noun

A tiny piece of a substance; a speck.

Usage examples:

The tiniest mote of dust

noun

Something, especially a piece of dust, that is so small it is almost impossible to see

noun

A unit of weight of one sixteenth of a pound avoirdupois (approximately 28 grams).

Usage examples:

Melt three ounces of butter in a large frying pan

noun

Another term for snow leopard.

noun

A minute portion of matter.

Usage examples:

Tiny particles of dust

noun

An extremely small piece of something

Usage examples:

Dust particles

noun

A word or a part of a word that has a grammatical purpose but often has little or no meaning

Usage examples:

In the sentence "i tidied up the room", the adverb "up" is a particle.

noun

A tiny trace or spark of a specified quality or feeling.

Usage examples:

A scintilla of doubt

noun

A very small amount of something

Usage examples:

There's not a scintilla of truth in what he says.

noun

A small piece or amount of something, especially one that is left over after the greater part has been used.

Usage examples:

I scribbled her address on a scrap of paper

verb

Discard or remove from service (a redundant, old, or inoperative vehicle, vessel, or machine), especially so as to convert it to scrap metal.

Usage examples:

A bold decision was taken to scrap existing plant

verb

Engage in a minor fight or quarrel.

Usage examples:

The older boys started scrapping with me

noun

A strip of material, such as paper, cloth, or food, that has been torn, cut, or scraped from something larger.

Usage examples:

Her dress was torn to shreds

verb

Tear or cut into shreds.

Usage examples:

The tender inside leaves can be shredded finely for tasty salads and braised red cabbage is fantast…

verb

To cut or tear something into small pieces

Usage examples:

Shred some lettuce into the salad bowl., he shredded documents to get rid of them., there isn’t a s…

noun

A tiny spot.

Usage examples:

The figure in the distance had become a mere speck

verb

Mark with small spots.

Usage examples:

Their skin was specked with goose pimples

noun

A smoked ham of a type produced in north-eastern italy.

Usage examples:

Add the radicchio, thyme, speck, prosciutto, and chicken stock and cook for another eight to ten mi…

noun

A small round or roundish mark, differing in colour or texture from the surface around it.

Usage examples:

Ladybirds have black spots on their red wing covers

verb

Short for spotlight.

verb

A point located with respect to surface features of some region

verb

Colour slightly.

Usage examples:

A mass of white blossom tinged with pink

noun

A trace of a colour.

Usage examples:

There was a faint pink tinge to the sky

verb

Find or discover by investigation.

Usage examples:

Police are trying to trace a white van seen in the area

noun

A mark, object, or other indication of the existence or passing of something.

Usage examples:

Remove all traces of the old adhesive

noun

Each of the two side straps, chains, or ropes by which a horse is attached to a vehicle that it is pulling.

Usage examples:

The horses pulling the carriage suddenly snapped the traces and bolted off

noun

A very small part or amount.

Usage examples:

The last whit of warmth was drawn off by the setting sun

adjective

Short for whitsuntide.

noun

Not any amount

Usage examples:

There's not a whit of sense in that head of his!