little

Значение

Adj

1. Small in size.
2. Small in size.
3. Insignificant, trivial.
4. Insignificant, trivial.
5. Very young, of childhood age.
6. Younger.
7. Used with the name of a place, especially of a country or its capital, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers are from that place.
8. Used with the name of a place, especially of a country or its capital, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers are from that place.
9. Having few members.
10. Operating on a small scale.
11. Short in duration; brief.
12. Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow, shallow, contracted; mean, illiberal, ungenerous.

Adv

1. Not much.
2. Not at all.

Det

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

Pron

Not much; not a large amount.

Noun

1. A small amount.
2. (informal) A child, particularly an infant.
3. An adult in a child-like role, or in the more junior of two paired roles.
4. An adult in a child-like role, or in the more junior of two paired roles.
5. An adult in a child-like role, or in the more junior of two paired roles.
6. Short for little go (“type of examination”).

Пишется через дефис как

lit‧tle

Произносится как (IPA)

/ˈlɪtl̩/

Этимология

From Middle English litel, from Old English lyttel, lȳtel, from Proto-West Germanic *lūtil, from Proto-Germanic *lūtilaz (“tending to stoop, crouched, little”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewd- (“to bend, bent, small”), equivalent to lout + -le. Cognate with Dutch luttel, regional German lütt and lützel, Saterland Frisian litje, West Frisian lyts, Low German lütt, lüttje. Related also to Old English lūtan (“to bow, bend low”); and perhaps to Old English lytiġ (“deceitful”), Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌿𐍄𐍃 (liuts, “deceitful”), 𐌻𐌿𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (lutjan, “to deceive”); compare also Icelandic lítill (“little”), Faroese lítil, Swedish liten, Danish liden, lille, Gothic 𐌻𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌹𐌻𐍃 (leitils), which appear to have a different root vowel. More at lout.

Предложения

Fly by night and you waste little time .

Летать ночью, и вы тратите немного времени.

Give them a little third degree .

Дайте им немного третьей степени.

One can imagine these two , covered with sand , running up the little street in the bright sunlight .

Можно представить, что эти двое, покрытые песком, бегут по маленькой улице в ярком солнечном свете.

They took little food and slept at their oars .

Они взяли немного еды и спали в своих веслах.

I'm feeling a little tipsy .

Я чувствую себя немного навеселе.

Passive recreation typically requires little management and can be provided at very low costs .

Пассивный отдых обычно требует небольшого управления и может быть предоставлена ​​с очень низкими затратами.

Great braggers , little doers .

Отличные рубцы, маленькие деверс.

According to Victor Vassiliev, Arnold worked comparatively little on topology for topology's sake .

По словам Виктора Василььева, Арнольд сравнительно мало работал над топологией ради топологии.