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damla damla

little/nothing short of..

(deyim) azar azar ;yavas yavas

(Astronomi) tay (takımyıldızı)

Ertesi sabah Beyaz Ördek, yavrularını arayarak göletin etrafında dolandı durdu; isimleriyle seslendi, aradı taradı ama onlara dair hiçbir ize rastlayamadı. - The next morning the White Duck wandered round the pond, looking for her little ones; she called and she searched, but could find no trace of them.

(deyim) tanri gibi ululanan degersiz kimse

(deyim) baska birsey degil

{i} eksik miktar

{e} çıkarılmak üzere

{i} en az derece

{s} içermeyen

{i} daha az şey

Onun daha az şeyi kabulleneceğinden emin değildim. - I wasn't sure that he would settle for anything less.

Şimdi hakkında endişelenecek daha az şeyimiz var. - Now we have one less thing to worry about.

biraz: Give me a little time. Bana biraz zaman verin

z. daha az: less attractive daha az çekici. Eat less! Daha az ye! s. daha az: Eat less cake! Daha az kek ye! i. daha az: He gave me less

{s} eksik

Şişe içinde kalan sadece bir miktar süt vardı. - There was only a little milk left in the bottle.

{s} en ufak

En ufak mutluluk bile bana çok görülüyor. - I am grudged even the least bit of happiness.

adi

(Kanun) özürlü

Onlar aşağı yukarı aynı boyuttalar. - They are more or less the same size.

Tom ve Mary aşağı yukarı aynı bedendeler. - Tom and Mary are more or less the same size.

{e} eksi

{i} daha küçük şey

adl.daha az şey/kimse

{i} en az miktar

least common denomi nator en küçük ortak payda

least common multiple en küç

{i} en önemsiz kimse/şey

en cüzi

en önemsiz kimse veya şey

ortalama seviye

{s} en ufak, en küçük, en az, asgari. z. en az derecede

{s} en küçük

Onun kitapla ilgili en küçük bir fikri yoktu. - He didn't have the least idea of the book.

O en küçük ortak paydaya itiraz etmeye çalışıyor. - He's trying to appeal to the least common denominator.

zerre kadar

Ben fizikle zerre kadar ilgilenmiyorum. - I'm not in the least interested in physics.

Diğer alternatiflerin ihtimalini düşünmek için zerre kadar istekli olmadığına inanamıyorum. - I can't believe that you aren't at least willing to consider the possibility of other alternatives.

daha az bir

Mücizeden daha az bir şey değildi. - It was nothing less than a miracle.

Tom üç haftadan daha az bir süre önce Boston'a vardı. - Tom arrived in Boston less than three weeks ago.

edat eksi

iki kimse veya şeyin küçüğü

(Askeri) THAN-CARLOAD LOT: PARÇA NAKLİYAT PARTİSİ; PERAKENDE NAKLİYAT PARTİSİ

lesser

{s} daha küçük

Kendini diğerleriyle karşılaştırırsan, kendini beğenmiş ya da umudu kırık olabilirsin; her zaman için kendinden daha büyük ya da daha küçük insanlar olacaktır. - If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

lesser

{s} daha az

İki kötülükten daha az olanını seç. - Of two evils, choose the lesser.

Türkçe - Türkçe

little teriminin Türkçe Türkçe sözlükte anlamı
LESS: (Osmanlı Dönemi) Dâim olan. Devamlı olan

İngilizce - İngilizce

little teriminin İngilizce İngilizce sözlükte anlamı

Not much, only a little: only a small amount (of)

We had very little to do.

Not much

She spoke little and listened less.

Insignificant, trivial

It's of little importance.

Small in size

This is a little table.

Used with the name of place, especially of a country, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers are from that place

In the forties, hurdy-gurdy men could still be heard in all those East Coast cities with strong Italian neighbourhoods: New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Boston. A visit to Baltimore's Little Italy at that time was like a trip to Italy itself.

Very young

That's the biggest little kid I've ever seen.

Younger

This is my little sister.

{n} a small space, share or part, mere trifle

{a} in a small degree or quantity

{a} small, diminutive, trifling, not much

Little Armenia Little Bighorn Battle of the Little Entente Little League little magazine Little Missouri River Little Richard Little Rock Little St. Bernard Pass little theatre Little Turtle Malcolm Little Tsan Usdi Little John

Below average in some dimension Negative or harmless connotation

(of a voice) faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice"

Short in duration; brief; as, a little sleep

From a 3/4 Tag or other applicable formations Outsides 1/4 Right & Counter Rotate 1/4 as Centers Step & Fold A R-H 3/4 Tag ends in Parallel R-H Waves, a L-H 3/4 Tag ends in Parallel R-H Two-Faced Lines

In a small quantity or degree; not much; slightly; somewhat; often with a preceding it

Small in force or efficiency; not strong; weak; slight; inconsiderable; as, little attention or exertion;little effort; little care or diligence

not much; "he talked little about his family"

cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters" not fully grown; "what a big little boy you are"; "small children" not much; "he talked little about his family

(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"; "Mickey Mouse regulations"; "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"

not much; "he talked little about his family

of short duration or distance; "a brief stay in the country"; "in a little while"; "it's a little way away"

not fully grown; "what a big little boy you are"; "small children"

From one-quarter tag or three-quarter tag: Outsides Quarter Right, or as directed They then Counter Rotate 1/4 while the centers Step and Fold Ends in parallel waves or lines The quartering direction for the outsides may be specified, as in "Left Little" or "Right Little" [outsides go left or right, respectively ]

That which is little; a small quantity, amount, space, or the like

younger brother or sister; "little brother"

adj [not much (give me a ~ soup)] sedikit 2 adj [small/not big] kecil 3 adv [not much (I see her ~ these days)] sedikit

a small amount or duration; "he accepted the little they gave him" 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" (of a voice) faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice" lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e

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"; "a small voice"

(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 is left"

a small amount or duration; "he accepted the little they gave him"

cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters"

Code that removes all steps except for quarter steps from a song Often used to allow a less skilled player to play with a more advanced player on mixes that don't allow players to choose different difficulties

Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous

{s} small, tiny; young; few, not many; not much, sparse; some; short, brief; petty; unimportant, minor

not at all; slightly

Small in dignity, power, or importance; not great; insignificant; contemptible

Thomas Moore published a volume of amatory poems in 1808, under the name of Thomas Little “When first I came my proper name was Little– now I'm Moore ” Hood: The Wee Man Little Little by little Gradually; a little at a time Many a little makes a mickle The real Scotch (Atasözü) is: “A wheen o' mickles mak's a muckle,” where mickle means little, and muckle much; but the Anglo-Saxon micel or mycel means “much,” so that, if the Scotch (Atasözü) is accepted, we must give a forced meaning to the word “mickle ”

Thomas Moore published a volume of amatory poems in 1808, under the name of Thomas Little “When first I came my proper name was Little- now I'm Moore ” Hood: The Wee Man Little Little by little Gradually; a little at a time Many a little makes a mickle The real Scotch (Atasözü) is: “A wheen o' mickles mak's a muckle,” where mickle means little, ad muckle much; but the Anglo-Saxon micel or mycel means “much,” so that, if the Scotch (Atasözü) is accepted, we must give a forced meaning to the word “mickle ”

Small in quantity or amount; not much; as, a little food; a little air or water

lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e

{i} few; small amount; short distance; short period of time

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

A small degree or scale; miniature

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"

lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e e cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters"

small

Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: likewise a small act of folly unto him that is esteemed for wisdom and honour. - As dead flies give perfume a bad smell, so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.

I have small change with me. - I have a little money with me.

The place near the Little Bighorn River, the site of Custer's Last Stand

Little Boy

The nickname of the nuclear bomb dropped over Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945

Little Christmas

January 6th, the Feast of the Epiphany

Little Dipper

A bright circumpolar asterism of the northern sky, said to resemble a ladle or cart. It is part of the constellation Ursa Minor and includes the northern pole star Polaris

Little Englander

someone unaware of the world outside England

Little Englander

someone who advocated an end to the British Empire

Little Englander

a bigoted and nationalistic English person

Little League

an organization that sponsors and organizes baseball and softball leagues for children

Little Red Riding Hood

A fairy tale of many different versions, especially the ones by Charles Perrault and more recently the Brothers Grimm, about a young girl who walks though the forest to visit her grandmother and encounters the Big Bad Wolf (or another vicious wolf, which may be a werewolf in archaic versions)

Little Red Riding Hood

The fictional girl who is the protagonist and title character in this story

Little Rock

The capital and largest city of the US state of Arkansas with a population of 191,930 in the city proper and 685,488 in the metropolitan area in 2009. The Combined Metropolitan Statistical area had 862,520 people according to census estimates in 2009

Little Russia

The territory of the former Russian Empire inhabited by Ukrainians, approximately corresponding to modern central and eastern Ukraine

Little Russia

The former Imperial Russian administrative subdivisions in north central Ukraine

Little Russian

inhabitant of Little Russia, Ukrainian

A well-defined ethnical line is all that separates the Slovaks from the Magyars and the Little Russians.

little Eichmann

Someone who is like the Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann, someone who seems ordinary but does "evil"

little Eichmann

A zealous member of an immoral or evil entity

little Eichmanns

plural form of little Eichmann

little Hitler

An unnecessarily or pretentiously dictatorial person - a jobsworth

Editorial writers were saying last week that Egypt's Nasser was getting too big for his boots. . . . The tabloid New York Daily News asked: What has this little Hitler ever done to make himself noteworthy?.

little Hitlers

plural form of little Hitler

little auk

A dovekie, a bird of the species Alle alle

little auks

plural form of little auk

little black book

An address book, especially one in which the details of previous lovers are recorded

little bluestem

A grass, Schizachyrium scoparium, native to North America

little bluestems

plural form of little bluestem

little boy

A male child, especially one younger than ten years of age

little boy's room

The toilets for men

little boy's rooms

plural form of little boy's room

little boys

plural form of little boy

little boys' room

Alternative spelling of little boy's room

little boys' rooms

plural form of little boys' room

little brother

A sibling's younger brother (used especially by children, or by parents in speaking to their children)

little brown fucking machine

A Filipino woman regarded as a sex object

LBFM is Navy speak for Little Brown Fucking Machine. They are the bar girls sailors meet in all the ports in the Orient. The term is generic for bar girls.

little brown fucking machines

plural form of little brown fucking machine

plural form of little emperor

A small amount at a time

little emperor

In contemporary China, a child with no siblings who is regarded as overly protected and spoiled. (Seen as belonging to a generation which is a product of China's "one-child" policy.)

The Chinese have a special name for those tots: xiao huangdi, or little emperors..

little emperors

plural form of little finger

the outermost and smallest finger of the hand, next to the ring finger, farthest from the thumb

little fingers

little girl

A female child, especially one younger than ten years of age

little girl

A weak-willed person

Laurie tells him to stop being such a little girl and do something bad for once.

little girl's room

The toilets for women; a ladies' room

little girl's rooms

plural form of little girl's room

little girls

plural form of little girl

little girls' room

Alternative spelling of little girl's room

little girls' rooms

Plural form of little girls' room or of little girl's room

little grebe

a small freshwater bird of Europe

little grebes

plural form of little grebe

little green man

A Martian

little green man

One of the supposed extraterrestrial occupants of UFOs

little green men

plural form of little green man

little gull

A small migratory gull, Larus minutus, from Northern Europe and Asia

little gulls

plural form of little gull

little head

The glans of the penis

Obsessed with Heidi's cleavage, the pervert within may start thinking with his little head instead of his big one.

little ladies

plural form of little lady

little lady

The wife or fiancée

Very often husbands would patronise my boutique and pick out something for the little lady and, in passing, pick out something for themselves.

little man in the boat

The clitoris

little of the creature

A small drink of alcoholic spirits

And when he met her, he told her what he came about, and said that he never would mind what the women prayed for, but it was greatly against his health to be obliged to drink his wine and whiskey raw, and he'd a longing desire for a little of the creature neatly mixed up with lemon and sugar, and water .

little one

A term of endearment, especially toward children

little ones

plural form of little one (A term of endearment toward children.)

little owls

plural form of little owl

little penguin

The smallest species of penguin, scientific name Eudyptula minor, found in New Zealand, southern Australia, and the Chatham Islands

little penguins

plural form of little penguin

little pitcher

A child

Promise not to tell, or I shall be teased to death, she added, anxiously, entirely forgetting the two little pitchers gifted with eyes as well as ears, who had been watching the whole performance from afar.

little pitchers

plural form of little pitcher

little pitchers have big ears

Small children often overhear more of what is said than adults realize or desire

I suppose he might say pushed or went woowoo, but took a shit is, I fear, very much in the ballpark (little pitchers have big ears, after all).

little pitchers have long ears

Alternative form of little pitchers have big ears

little sister

A sibling's younger sister (used especially by children or by parents in speaking to their children)

little slick

An ace and a two as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em

little slick

An ace and a queen as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em

little spotted kiwi

A kiwi, Apteryx owenii

little spotted kiwis

plural form of little spotted kiwi

little tinamou

A tinamou, Crypturellus soui

little tinamous

plural form of little tinamou

little toe

The smallest toe of the human foot

little toes

plural form of little toe

little woman

wife

My little woman, said her husband dubiously, are you quite sure you're better? Or are you, Sophia, about to break out in a fresh direction?.

little women

plural form of little woman

little wonder

Alternative form of small wonder

Attributive form of little finger, noun

Of a computer, storing the most significant byte of a multibyte number at a higher address than the least significant byte; that is, "little end" first

little-finger

little-go

A private lottery, especially when illegal

little-go

The first exam taken at university towards a BA degree, discontinued during the twentieth century

the interrogators were able to recognize this as, “There was a question just like that on my little-go.”.

little-owl

Attributive form of little owl, noun

little auk

(Hayvan Bilim, Zooloji) A small black-and-white sea bird (Alle alle) of the Arctic and northern Atlantic oceans, having a short bill and a stout body. Also called little auk

constellation of stars in northern skies

The little finger, often called the pinky in American English and pinkie in Scottish English (from the Dutch word pink, meaning little finger), is the most ulnar and usually smallest finger of the human hand, opposite the thumb, next to the ring finger. It is also called the anti-thumb, the fifth finger, the baby finger, or the fourth finger colloquially

Little Armenia

or Lesser Armenia Ancient kingdom, southeastern coast of Anatolia. After initial struggles with the Byzantine Empire, it was established in Cilicia by the Armenian Rubenid dynasty in the 12th century and developed contacts with the West. It was influenced by cultural contacts with Crusaders and with Venetian and Genoese merchants. It was conquered by the Muslim Mamlk dynasty in 1375

Little Bear

Little Bighorn

a river in the US state of Montana, where General Custer fought against and was killed by Native Americans led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse in the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876

Little Bighorn River

A river, about 145 km (90 mi) long, rising in the Bighorn Mountains of northern Wyoming and flowing north to the Bighorn River in southern Montana. Sioux and Cheyenne warriors defeated the forces of Gen. George A. Custer in the Little Bighorn valley on June 25, 1876

Little Bo Peep

a character in a nursery rhyme (=old song or poem for young children) . She is a young girl who loses the sheep that she is supposed to be taking care of. The rhyme goes: Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep/And doesn't know where to find them;/Leave them alone, and they'll come home,/Bringing their tails behind them

Little Boy Blue

a character in a nursery rhyme (=an old song or poem for young children) . He is a young boy who is dressed in blue and goes to sleep instead of taking care of the cows and sheep. The rhyme goes: Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn,/The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn;/But where is the boy that looks after the sheep?/He's under a haycock, fast asleep

Little Corporal

Napoleon

Little House on the Prairie

a book for children by the US writer Laura Ingalls Wilder, which describes her life as a child in the Midwest in the 19th century, when her family were among the first white people to live there. It is also the name of a popular US television programme of the 1970s, which was based on Wilder's books

Little Ice Age

The period from 1400 to 1800, characterized by expansion of mountain glaciers and cooling of global temperatures, especially in the Alps, Scandinavia, Iceland, and Alaska

Little John

one of Robin Hood's followers, in old English stories. He is called Little John as a joke because he is so big and strong

Little League

The Little League is an organization of children's baseball teams that compete against each other in the United States. a baseball league for children in the US. International baseball organization for children and youth, started in 1939 in Williamsport, Pa. , by Carl E. Stotz and brothers Bert and George Bebble. The league originally included boys aged 8-12; girls were admitted in 1974. It now includes two upper divisions for youths aged 13-15 and 16-18. In the junior division the game is played on a field two-thirds the size of a professional baseball diamond. A season comprises about 15 games. The organization expanded rapidly after World War II; by the 1990s there were about 2.5 million players in some 30 countries. The Little League World Series is held in Williamsport each year in August

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Little Lord Fauntleroy. the main character in the 19th century children's book Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886) by Frances Hodgson Burnett. He is an American boy who becomes an English lord when his father dies, and has long blond curly hair, neat clothes, and behaves well and politely

Little Miss Muffet

a character from a nursery rhyme (=an old song or poem for young children) . She is a young girl who is frightened by a spider and runs away. The rhyme goes: Little Miss Muffet/Sat on a tuffet,/Eating her curds and whey;/There came a great spider,/Who sat down beside her,/And frightened Miss Muffet away

Little Missouri River

River, northwestern U.S. It rises in northeastern Wyoming and flows northeast across the southeastern corner of Montana and the northwestern corner of South Dakota. It continues north into North Dakota, turning east to empty into the Missouri River after a course of 560 mi (900 km). The Theodore Roosevelt National Park lies along its shores in North Dakota

Little Pee Dee River

A river, about 169 km (105 mi) long, of southern North Carolina and northern South Carolina flowing south then southeast to the Pee Dee River

Little Red Riding Hood

a character in the old children's story Little Red Riding Hood, who is a young girl. In the story the Big Bad Wolf eats Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother and puts on her clothes. When Little Red Riding Hood goes to visit her grandmother she is surprised by her appearance and says, "Oh, Grandma, what big teeth you have!", and the wolf replies, "All the better to eat you with" and swallows Little Red Riding Hood. A woodcutter (=someone whose job is to cut down trees) kills the wolf, cuts open its stomach, and saves Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother

Little Richard

orig. Richard Wayne Penniman born Dec. 5, 1932, Macon, Ga., U.S. U.S. rhythm and blues singer and pianist. Born into a strict religious family, he sang and played piano in church but was later ejected from his home by his father, reportedly for homosexual behaviour. He performed in nightclubs, traveled with a medicine show, and recorded as a blues artist from the early 1950s. His first big hit came with "Tutti Frutti" (1956), an energetic performance that, with his penchant for the outrageous, set a standard for the emerging rock idiom. Similar hits followed, including "Long Tall Sally," "Lucille," and "Good Golly, Miss Molly." In 1957 he underwent a religious conversion and was later ordained a minister. He soon returned to music, becoming a regular attraction in Las Vegas, and he continued to tour and appear in films with much success. He was an original inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Little Saint Bernard Pass

A mountain pass through the Savoy Alps between Italy and France south of Mont Blanc. It rises to 2,189.9 m (7,180 ft)

Little Shop of Horrors

title of both a movie and a Broadway stage musical

Little St. Bernard Pass

Mountain pass, Savoy Alps. Situated southwest of the Italian border in southeastern France, it connects Bourg-St.-Maurice, France, with La Thuile, Italy. Hannibal probably led the Carthaginian army over the pass on his way toward Rome in 218 BC. It was the principal route across the Alps into Gallia Comata, a province of Gaul, until Montgenèvre Pass was opened in 77 BC. Beside the pass is a hospice founded in the 11th century by St. Bernard of Menthon

Little Tennessee River

A river, about 217 km (135 mi) long, of northeast Georgia, southwest North Carolina, and eastern Tennessee, where it joins the Tennessee River

Little Turtle

born 1752, near Fort Wayne, Ind. died July 14, 1812, Fort Wayne, Ind., U.S. American Indian leader. Chief of the Miami tribe, he led raids on settlements in the Northwest Territory in the early 1790s. Defeated by Gen. Anthony Wayne at the Battle of Fallen Timbers (1794), he was obliged to sign the Treaty of Greenville (1795), which ceded to the U.S. much of Ohio and parts of Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan. He then advocated peace and prevented the Miami from joining the Shawnee confederacy of Tecumseh

Little Women

{i} novel written by Louisa May Alcott which was published in 1868 that tells the story of the lives and loves of four sisters growing up during the American Civil War

A little or a little bit means to a small extent or degree. He complained a little of a nagging pain between his shoulder blades He was a little bit afraid of his father's reaction If you have to drive when you are tired, go a little more slowly than you would normally

If something happens little by little, it happens very gradually. In the beginning he had felt well, but little by little he was becoming weaker = gradually

A little of something is a small amount of it, but not very much. You can also say a very little. Mrs Caan needs a little help getting her groceries home A little food would do us all some good I shall be only a very little time. Little is also a pronoun. They get paid for it. Not much. Just a little. Little is also a quantifier. Pour a little of the sauce over the chicken I'm sure she won't mind sparing us a little of her time

If you do something a little, you do it for a short time. He walked a little by himself in the garden

You use little to indicate that something is not serious or important. irritating little habits Harry found himself getting angry over little things that had never bothered him before

lit·tle littler littlest ADJECTIVE USES ; The comparative littler and the superlative littlest are sometimes used in spoken English for meanings 1., 3., and 4., but otherwise the comparative and superlative forms of the adjective little are not used

Little things are small in size. Little is slightly more informal than small. We sat around a little table, eating and drinking wine. the little group of art students. = small big

small short-billed auk abundant in arctic regions

You use little to indicate that someone or something is small, in a pleasant and attractive way. She's got the nicest little house not far from the library. a little old lady James usually drives a little hatchback

little angel

good child

little auk

little barley

annual barley native to western North America and widespread in southern United States and tropical America

little bear

a constellation outside the Zodiac that rotates around the North Star

little bighorn

a battle in Montana near the Little Bighorn River between United States cavalry under Custer and several groups of Native Americans (1876); Custer was pursuing Sioux led by Sitting Bull; Custer underestimated the size of the Sioux forces (which were supported by Cheyenne warriors) and was killed along with all his command a river that flows from northern Wyoming into the Bighorn River in southern Montana; site of Custer's Last Stand

little bird told me

someone told me but I will not say who (used when one does not want to reveal where or from whom they got the information)

little black ant

tiny glossy black ant; nests outdoors but invades houses for food

little boy

{i} small boy, boy of small size

little brother

a younger brother; "my little brother just had his 50th birthday

little brown bat

the small common North American bat; widely distributed

gradually, slowly

by a short distance; "they moved it by inches"

a little bit at a time; "the research structure has developed piecemeal"

little chief hare

North American pika

little child

small child, small youngster

little dipper

a cluster of seven stars in Ursa Minor; at the end of the dipper's handle is Polaris

little does he know that

he is totally unaware that -, he has no knowledge of -

little egret

Old World egret

pinkie: the finger farthest from the thumb

{i} hour hand, short hand that indicates the hours on a clock or watch

smallest and thinnest finger on one's hand, finger located furthest from the thumb, pinkie finger

little guy

small man, small fellow

little hand

little leaguer

a player between 8 and 12 years of age who is a member of a little-league team

little magazine

An independent literary magazine that publishes the work of relatively unknown, usually experimental writers. Any of various small, usually avant-garde periodicals devoted to serious literary writings. The name signifies most of all a usually noncommercial manner of editing, managing, and financing. They were published from 1880 through much of the 20th century and flourished in the U.S. and England, though French and German writers also benefited from them. Foremost among them were two U.S. periodicals, Poetry and the more erratic and often more sensational Little Review (1914-29); the English Egoist (1914-19) and Blast (1914-15); and the French transition (1927-38)

little man

little guy, small man; one who lacks ambition; bureaucrat

little missouri

a river that rises in northeastern Wyoming and flows through Montana and South Dakota to join the Missouri River in North Dakota

little mouse

small mouse, small animal from the rodent family

little office

a Roman Catholic office honoring the Virgin Mary; similar to but shorter than the Divine Office

little ones

children; baby animals

little owl

A small European owl (Athene noctua) having streaked brownish plumage

little people

{i} small imaginary creatures, fairies, leprechauns, elves (Folklore); midgets, dwarfs; small children; common people, simple people

little potato

rhizoctinia disease of potatoes

little regard

little consideration, lack of regard

little sister

a younger sister

little skate

most plentiful skate in North American inshore waters in summer; to 21 inches

little slam

The winning of all but one of the tricks during the play of one hand of bridge

little slam

winning all but one of the tricks in a hand of bridge

little theater

a small theater for experimental drama or collegiate or community groups

little toe

The smallest and outermost toe of the human foot

little town

township, small town

adj Describes a computer architecture in which, within a given 16- or 32-bit word, bytes at lower addresses have lower significance (the word is stored `little-end-first') The PDP-11 and VAX families of computers and Intel microprocessors and a lot of communications and networking hardware are little-endian See {big-endian}, {middle-endian}, {NUXI problem} The term is sometimes used to describe the ordering of units other than bytes; most often these are bits within a byte

a way to store the data writing the least-significant byte (LSB) at the lowest address in a word

An ordering of bytes and bits in which the lowest-address byte and lowest-numbered bit are the least-significant (low) byte and bit, respectively Compare endian orientation, big-endian, low and high

A format for storage or transmission of binary data in which the least significant byte (bit) comes first See big-endian

A type of byte ordering (used by IBM-compatible personal computers) in which the most significant bytes are in the higher, or rightmost, storage locations for each multi-byte value Unlike big-endian, the number of byes in each value determines the exact ordering of the bytes For example, the four characters "UNIX" are stored as "NUXI" on a little-endian computer

A common difference between machines is the order in which they store the individual bytes of multi-byte numerical data A little-endian machine stores the lower-order bytes before the higher-order bytes See big-endian

A computer architecture that stores multiple-byte numerical values with the least significant byte (LSB) values first