Mite
[maɪt]
Definition
(noun.) any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods.
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Definition
(n.) A minute arachnid, of the order Acarina, of which there are many species; as, the cheese mite, sugar mite, harvest mite, etc. See Acarina.
(n.) A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing. The name is also applied to a small coin used in Palestine in the time of Christ.
(n.) A small weight; one twentieth of a grain.
(n.) Anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Particle, atom, monad, corpuscle, molecule.
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Definition
n. an acaridan arachnid esp. one of the smaller forms as the cheese-mite &c.
n. the minutest or smallest of coins about one-fourth of a farthing: anything very small even a person: a very little quantity.
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Examples
- I am sure my fancy raised up something round that blue-eyed mite of a child, which etherealized, and made a very angel of her. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I don't know what he was; but he had not the least mite of skin on his long, thin, straight nose. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- She is not such a mite now, but she is deaf and dumb. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Me wants me Bhaer, said the mite, slamming down her book and running to meet him. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Rosabella offered her mite at once. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Upon the bed lay a similar gruesome thing, but smaller, while in a tiny cradle near-by was a third, a wee mite of a skeleton. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The old maid was too poor to give much, though she straitened herself to privation that she might contribute her mite when needful. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I loved that stupid mite in a passionate way that she could no more deserve than I can remember without feeling ashamed of, though I was but a child. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The cake ain't hurt a mite, and everything looks lovely. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- You never sit and tell me stories about Doady, when his shoes were worn out, and he was covered with dust--oh, what a poor little mite of a fellow! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Emmy ran round the square and, coming up to the sweep, gave him her mite too. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- From all, moreover, as the parable of the buried talent witnesses, and as the incident of the widow's mite enforces, he demands the utmost. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- With her husband and her poor little mite of a baby to love and their home to strive for, what a good creature Caddy was! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He shows that there are parasitic mites (Acaridae), belonging to distinct sub-families and families, which are furnished with hair-claspers. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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