Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small diacritic mark, such as an accent, vowel mark, or dot over an i.
- n. The tiniest bit; an iota.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To prate idly; whisper.
- n. A stroke over a word or letter to show abbreviation; a dot over a letter, as in i. Compare iota and jot. See tilde, a Spanish form of the same word.
- n. A very small thing; a minute object or quantity; a particle; a whit.
Wiktionary
- n. A small, insignificant amount (of something); a vanishing scintilla; a measly crumb; a minute speck.
- n. Any small dot, stroke, or diacritical mark, especially if part of a letter, or if a letter-like abbreviation; in particular, the dots over the Latin letters term and term.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A particle; a minute part; a jot; an iota.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a tiny or scarcely detectable amount
Etymologies
- Middle English titil, from Medieval Latin titulus, diacritical mark, from Latin, title, superscription.
Examples
“I have to say the not inclding BATMAN in the tittle is an awesome move.”
It's All in a Name - Batman: The Dark Knight « FirstShowing.net
“And just an FYI, I'm from Latin America and the films tittle is being translated to BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT.”
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“Being in the big leagues and to win a batting tittle is amazing.”
“Those that love to boast of their business and make a noise about it, and that waste their time in tittle-tattle, in telling and hearing new things, like the Athenians, and, under pretence of improving themselves by conversation, neglect the work of their place and day, they waste what they have, and the course they take tends to penury, and will end in it.”
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
“The tittle is The Foodie Handbook: The (almost) Definitive Guide to Gastronomy.”
“The phrase "one iota" survives today in common English and means exactly what it meant to St. Matthew: a tiny amount. gerash, called κεραια or keraia in Greek; this was called a "tittle" in Elizabethan”
“What their success says to me is that if there's a mass audience out there for their kind of tittle tattle, so there is for something with a bit more bite.”
“When you are in government, seeking to defend your record and persuade a sceptical electorate of your fitness to carry on, the risks of engaging in the kind of tittle-tattle favoured by many blogs will always outweigh any possible advantages.”
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“The prime-mark is the [[Hebrew]] '' gerash '', called '' 'κεραια' '' or '' keraia '' in Greek; this was called a "tittle" in Elizabethan [[English]].”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tittle’.
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[Open] Correctly-spelled words that look like m...
Thanks to everyone who added to this list. (I moved it to a new URL, so all the words added on the first day are credited to me—sorry about that.)
(Here’s the original list with a slo...orignal, refect, collum, lightening, manakin, neumatic, mutch, miosis, radicle, tryptic, kyack, apatite and 117 more...
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Words that sound dirty but aren't.
When you want to be pedantic AND childish.
titular, masticate, condiment, titmouse, penal, formication, social intercourse, assassination, cacophony, lucubrate, rectify, banal and 117 more...
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CCle
all those wonderful Britsy words that end with a double consonant followed by 'le'
doddle, bobble, dibble, whiffle, waffle, diddle, piddle, jiggle, straggle, boggle, fiddle, skeedaddle and 122 more...
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Words for everyday things
tittle, lunule, crepuscular ray, ferrule, gynecomastia, muntin, akimbo, skeuomorph, paresthesia, obdormition, phosphene, armscye and 9 more...
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Not Much
smidgeon, iota, scintilla, dab, bit, trace, touch, soupçon, crumb, dash, drop, whit and 18 more...
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[Open] Quanta
Words that describe a smallest possible amount, trace, or degree; a fundamental unit; an irreducible constituent; a smallest, indivisible constituent part or unit; a least possible positive value; ...
gangerh It prevents a lowercase 'i' form being a lowercase 'l'
Thank you Wordplayer for this gem. Jan 8, 2012
sionnach There is only one letter I in Irish; but i is undotted in the traditional uncial Gaelic script to avoid confusion of the tittle with the buailte overdot found over consonants. Modern texts replace the buailte with a h, and use the same antiqua-descendant fonts, which have a tittle, as other Latin-alphabet languages. However, bilingual road signs use dotless i in lowercase Irish text to better distinguish i from í.
roadsign Apr 12, 2008
mollusque That would be tittlelessness. Dec 4, 2007
bilby No truth In that at all, just tIttle tattle. Dec 4, 2007
mollusque So those people who never manage to get the dot over the i are tittlelaters? Dec 4, 2007
bilby I'm dotless. Dec 4, 2007
robshort It's also the word for the dot on the letter "i." Dec 4, 2007
arby Knowledge to the certainty of which no authority could add, or take away, one jot or tittle. — Huxley Apr 18, 2007