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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tiny mark, drop |
| Synonyms: | atom, circle, dab, droplet, fleck, flyspeck, grain, iota, jot, mite, mote, particle, period, pinpoint, point, speck, spot, tittle |
| Main Entry: | acid |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lysergic acid diethylamide, LSD |
| Synonyms: | California sunshine, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, Owsley's acid, black tabs, blotter, blue Owsley, blue acid, blue dot, candy*, cubes, dot, electric Kool Aid, green dragon, hallucinogen, instant Zen, magic mushrooms, mescalin, microdots, mushrooms, orange sunshine, peyote, purple haze, strawberry fields, sugar cubes, yellow sunshine |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | atom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | smallest part of something |
| Synonyms: | bit, crumb, dot, fragment, grain, iota, jot, minimum, mite, modicum, molecule, morsel, mote, ounce, particle, scintilla, scrap, shred, smidgen, speck, spot, tittle, trace, whit |
| Notes: | atom comes from Greek atomos 'uncut, indivisible' - based on a- 'not' and temneir 'to cut' and it is the smallest unit of matter that retains the characteristics of an element; a molecule is the smallest unit of matter that retains the characteristics of a compound |
| Main Entry: | bead |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | droplet, blob |
| Synonyms: | bean, bubble, dab, dot, driblet, drop, globule, grain, particle, pea, pellet, pill, shot, speck, spherule, stone |
| Main Entry: | bit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tiny piece |
| Synonyms: | atom, butt, chicken feed, chip, chunk, crumb, dab, dash, division, dollop, dose, dot, driblet, droplet, end, excerpt, flake, fraction, fragment, grain, iota, item, jot, lick*, lump, mite, modicum, moiety, molecule, morsel, niggle, parcel, part, particle, peanuts, pinch, portion, sample, scale, scintilla, scrap, section, segment, shard, share, shaving, shred, slice, sliver, smidgen, snatch, snip, snippet, specimen, speck, splinter, sprinkling, stub, stump, taste, tittle, trace, trickle |
| Notes: | a bit is a single unit of computer information and a byte is a sequence of adjacent bits, usually eight, operated on as a unit by a computer |
| Antonyms: | whole |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | blob |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | drop, spot |
| Synonyms: | ball, bead, blot, blotch, bubble, dab, daub, dot, droplet, glob, globule, splash, splotch |
| Main Entry: | check |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | symbol for ticking off |
| Synonyms: | X, cross, dot, line, mark, score, sign, stroke, tick |
| Main Entry: | fleck |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spot, pinpoint mark |
| Synonyms: | bit, dot, mite, mote, patch, pinpoint, speck, speckle, stipple, streak, stripe |
| Main Entry: | fleck |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mark with spots |
| Synonyms: | bespeckle, besprinkle, dapple, dot, dust, maculate, mottle, speckle, stipple, streak, variegate |
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