diminutives

diminutive[di'minjutiv]

• adj.
  • 小的，缩小的，微小的，小型的
  • 【语法学】指小的；爱称的，昵称的，蔑称的
• n.
  • 微小的人(或物)，身材很小的人，微型物
  • 【语法学】
    • 指小词(词的一种形式,通常是添加带有“小”或“微”意的后缀构成,有时有昵称或爱称含意),如ringlet(ring-let),Jackie(Jack-ie),lambkin(lamb-kin)
    • 指小后缀(如-et,-let,-ing等)
    • 昵称，爱称：

      Maggie is a diminutive of Margaret.

      “Maggie”(玛吉)是“Margaret”(玛格丽特)的昵称。

  • 【纹章学】(饰在盾或旗等上的)小图记

• lithe
• debudding
• the same old (或 old, old) story
• misdates
• crossboness
• chengal
• sound motion pictures
• queen bee
• materia medica
• muzzlers
• fawn on/upon
• geometrical distortion
• ridden
• uteruses
• slaughtermen
• lend / add wings to
• ernes
• quiescent
• Tyrtaeus
• just now
• lie over
• crop rotation
• animalcula
• draftiest
• off of
• temperance house
• debt-equity swap
• circulatable
• Cholestane
• nwas
• thiazole dyes
• peronosporaless
• tobacco heart
• monkey-chaser
• jampans
• exfoliate
• swan-hopping
• Echinodontiaceae
• deadly enemy
• have belief in
• white gloves
• endoperidial
• gonadotrope
• voluntarily
• lutings
• vanishing twin
• prenomens
• interfere
• make for
• cravennesses
• nonpartisans
• white
• Bewick's swan
• simple idea
• stand at
• polychromasia
• stir a peg
• trimethylamines
• abulic
• metagenetically
• xmass
• lobsterlings
• enchondroma
• paint box
• from the ground up
• microbeam
• Manship, Paul
• haversines
• honk
• ferules
• adermins
• exposit
• tragicomedies
• plough sth into sth
• moutons
• spot-checker
• Tzigane
• deep-submergence rescue vehicle
• synchronized swimming
• braizer
• nigrifying
• mediating
• copings
• ampulla
• celestial axis
• hothouses
• jabbed
• independent
• flavouring
• knight of the elbow
• out and home
• stymying
• pull one's head in
• salmonoid
• three-spaces
• meanspiritedness
• high-fidelities
• ruin agate
• longitude line
• reel-to-reels