fritter vs granule

fritter

noun
  • A fragment; a shred; a small piece. 

  • A dish made by deep-frying food coated in batter. 

verb
  • To break into small pieces or fragments. 

  • To cut (meat etc.) into small pieces for frying. 

  • To sinter. 

  • To squander or waste time, money, or other resources; e.g. occupy oneself idly or without clear purpose, to tinker with an unimportant part of a project, to dally, sometimes as a form of procrastination. 

granule

noun
  • A tiny grain, a small particle. 

  • A small structure in a cell. 

  • a small mark in the photosphere of the sun caused by convection currents. See also Wikipedia:Granule (solar physics). 

  • A particle from 2 to 4 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale 

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