| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. A rather short period: space, spell3, time, while. See BIG. 2. A small portion of food: crumb, morsel, mouthful, piece. Informal : bite. See BIG. 3. A tiny amount: crumb, dab1, dash, dot, dram, drop, fragment, grain, iota, jot, minim, mite, modicum, molecule, ort, ounce, particle, scrap1, scruple, shred, smidgen, speck, tittle, trifle, whit. Chiefly British : spot. See BIG. 4. Informal. A particular kind of activity: Slang : routine. See ACTION. 5. A usually brief detail of news or information: item, paragraph, piece, squib, story. See WORDS.
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