dictionary definitions for "tiny"


From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:

  tiny
      adj : very small; "diminutive in stature"; "a lilliputian chest of
            drawers"; "her petite figure"; "tiny feet"; "the
            flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy"
            [syn: bantam, diminutive, lilliputian, midget,
            petite, flyspeck]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tiny \Ti"ny\, a. [Compar. Tinier; superl. Tiniest.]
     [Probably fr. tine, teen, trouble, distress, vexation.]
     Very small; little; puny.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           When that I was and a little tiny boy.   --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 Sep 2003) [foldoc]:

  Tiny
  
     1. A language which provides concurrency through
     message-passing to named message queues.
  
     2. A tool written by Michael Wolfe <mwolfe@cse.ogi.edu> at
     Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology for
     examining array data dependence algorithms and {program
     transformation}s for scientific computations.
  
     Extended Tiny was used to implement the Omega test.
     Michael Wolfe has also made extensions to his version of tiny.
  
     (1994-12-12)
  


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