Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet. See Table at alphabet.
- n. A very small amount; a bit: not an iota of truth to that tale.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The name of the Greek letter I,
ι , corresponding to the Latin and English I, i. In the latter formι , and the Hebrew formthe letter was the smallest of the alphabet. When following a long vowel (as part of a diphthong), in Greek as now written, it is placed under the vowel to which it is attached, being then called iota subscript , as inῳ ,ᾳ . - n. A very small quantity; a tittle; a jot.
Wiktionary
- n. The ninth, and smallest, letter of the Greek alphabet.
- n. A jot; a very small, inconsiderable quantity.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet (ι) corresponding with the English i.
- n. A very small quantity or degree; a jot; a particle.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a tiny or scarcely detectable amount
- n. the 9th letter of the Greek alphabet
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek ἰῶτα (iōta). (Wiktionary)
- Latin iōta, from Greek, of Phoenician origin; see yd in Semitic roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“She is a fresh face on the scene, but the ideas she espouses are certainly not fresh; they deviate not an iota from the Karl Rove memo-of-the-day repeated endlessly by the clones at Fox.”
“Now I know you will likely chose the former wwallace, because you, like most right wingers, act on emotions, balling and crying over how brave you all are, and ignore logic and scientific reason, but it does not diminish one iota from the rest of the worlds capability to discern.”
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“The long centuries that have since rolled by have not subtracted one iota from the wisdom of that advice.”
“If one iota is wanting in the balance of any of these three factors, let her cast her love aside as a spurious article – she will love again; but if the investigation is satisfactory, let her hold it fast, and let nothing take it from her.”
“Genius, devotion, and courage; the adornments of his mind, and the energies of his soul, all exerted to their uttermost stretch, could not roll back one hair's breadth the wheel of time's chariot; that which had been was written with the adamantine pen of reality, on the everlasting volume of the past; nor could agony and tears suffice to wash out one iota from the act fulfilled.”
“She resolved that nothing, come what would, should tempt her to swerve one iota from the straight line of truth; she resolved to be more careful of her private hour; she thought she had scarcely had her full hour a day lately; she resolved to make the Bible her only and her constant rule of life in every thing; – and she prayed, such prayers as a heart thoroughly in earnest can pray, for the seal to these resolutions.”
“Of course, the closest cognate to any of these rephrasings is the well-known term used to designate (also pejoratively) 'the Sicarii' -- the 'iota' and the 'sigma' of the Greek simply having been reversed, a common mistake in the transliteration of Semitic orthography into unrelated languages further afield like English, the 'iota' likewise too generating out of the 'ios' of the Greek singular 'Sicarios.”
“Taking a strong exception to the news article carried in a section of media he said that there was not even an 'iota' of truth involved and appealed that the media should act with more responsibility before going ahead with such stories which damages the image of the institution.”
“Alternative view: the phrase 'not one jot or tittle' has passed into everyday English and is generally understood. 'iota' and 'prime-mark' are terms with which few people are familiar.”
“His "coming out party" has been gloriously trumpeted globally while locally he won't even supply one "iota" of proof to let us home folks know where he was really born.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘iota’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Imprecise Units of Measurement
A list of terms for units of measurement that are less than exact, such as dessert-spoonful.
two shakes, dessert-spoonful, a pinch, a bit, some, smidge, smidgin, dollop, drop, fleck, smack, sprinkling and 187 more...
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501
Classic
aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august, banal, boisterous, dulcet, epitome, impudent, insolent, mellifluous and 401 more...
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501
Classic
aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august, banal, boisterous, dulcet, epitome, impudent, insolent, mellifluous and 401 more...
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501
Classic
aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august, banal, boisterous, dulcet, epitome, impudent, insolent, mellifluous and 401 more...
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501
Classic
aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august, banal, boisterous, dulcet, epitome, impudent, insolent, mellifluous and 401 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2057 more...
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On with their heads!
Words that make other words with the addition of one letter at the beginning. The resulting words are tagged "behead".
men, his, yes, any, iota, limb, aged, laid, land, lead, read, word and 327 more...
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See Table at
A list of words which have the phrase "See Table at" in their definitions. Most of these come from the American Heritage Dictionary, which would have most of its tables at the following words:
dram, Cenozoic, krone, tablespoon, revelation, bismuth, iota, meson, genus, value, Tishri, Paleozoic and 3 more...
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For Summer
analogous, prestidigitation, defenestrate, crux, supercilious, sunglasses, replete, foment, anthropomorphic, iota, intrinsic, prosaic and 29 more...
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carolinacc's list
jettisoned, yearn, chrestomathy, catachresis, elation, gesundheit, ohne, tertium quid, iota, oscillation, argillous, flagrate and 67 more...
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Not Much
smidgeon, iota, scintilla, dab, bit, trace, touch, soupçon, crumb, dash, drop, whit and 19 more...
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essbunny@gmail.com's list
Intrigued by these words...
sphincter, blush, flume, shingle, spurt, pulp, precious, squeal, zest, zeal, cherish, fervor and 35 more...
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Letter to a Christian Nation
Vocab. from "Letter to a Christian Nation" by Sam Harris
impart, pretension, divisive, retrograde, bellicose, languish, parse, corroborate, anesthetize, graven, iota, apostate and 107 more...
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capitalcreative's Words
deviltry, visceral, cassanova, assuage, genesis, hot minute, osmosis, wistful, sublime, loathe, farfetched, newfangled and 283 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, I
irenic, inimical, ignotism, infrangible, internecine, illumine, ingot, imposter, iconoclast, indefeasible, indefatigable, impingement and 184 more...
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