A very small piece of matter, a fragment; especially, the smallest possible part of something.
A part of speech which cannot be inflected.
A little bit.
Any of various physical objects making up the constituent parts of an atom; an elementary particle or subatomic particle.
A part of speech that has no inherent lexical definition but must be associated with another word to impart meaning, often a grammatical category: for example, the English word to in a full infinitive phrase (to eat) or O in a vocative phrase (O Canada), or as a discourse marker (mmm).
In the Roman Catholic church, a crumb of consecrated bread; also the smaller breads used in the communion of the laity.
A small amount of something; a drop in the bucket; a shred.
A narrow high-rise apartment building.
A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which precedes spinning.
Specifically, a splinter caught under the skin.
A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.
Bait made of pieces of small fish. Compare kibblings.
To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit.