particle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle French particule, and its source, Latin particula (“small part, particle”), diminutive of pars (“part, piece”). Semantically displaced native Old English grot whence modern English groat.
Inflected forms:
form: particles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A very small piece of matter, a fragment; especially, the smallest possible part of something.
pos: noun
examples: Be content with the knowledge that, ere the voyage had ended, both she and I were desperately and unreasoningly in love with one another. Heaven knows that I can make the admission now without one particle of vanity.
Not every exasperated petty bourgeois could have become Hitler, but a particle of Hitler is lodged in every exasperated petty bourgeois.
gloss: Any of various physical objects making up the constituent parts of an atom; an elementary particle or subatomic particle.
pos: noun
examples: What, he asked himself, does quantum theory have to say about the familiar properties of particles such as position?
The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.
gloss: A part of speech that has no inherent lexical definition but must be associated with another word to impart meaning, often a grammatical category: for example, the English word to in a full infinitive phrase (to eat) or O in a vocative phrase (O Canada), or as a discourse marker (mmm).
pos: noun
examples: In English there is no grammatical device to differentiate predicational judgments from nonpredicational descriptions. This distinction does cast a shadow on the grammatical sphere to some extent, but recognition of it must generally be made in semantic terms. It is maintained here that in Japanese, on the other hand, the distinction is grammatically realized through the use of the two particles wa and ga.
Traditional grammar typically recognises a number of further categories: for example, in his Reference Book of Terms in Traditional Grammar for Language Students, Simpson (1982) posits two additional word-level categories which he refers to as Particle, and Conjunction. Particles include the italicised words {...} / (a) He put his hat on / (b) If you pull too hard, the handle will come off / (c) He was leaning too far over the side, and fell out / (d) He went up to see the manager
As for syntax and morphology, the Belter Creole can be categorized as an analytic or isolating language as it uses a high quantity of particles and does not show cases of morphological inflection. […] An interrogative particle ke is placed at the end of a question.
gloss: A part of speech which cannot be inflected.
pos: noun
examples: 322. The parts of speech which are neither declined nor conjugated, are called by the general name of particles. 323. They are adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.
The Parts of Speech are the Noun (Substantive and Adjective), the Pronoun, the Verb, and the Particles (Adverb, Preposition, and Conjunction)[.]
gloss: In the Roman Catholic church, a crumb of consecrated bread; also the smaller breads used in the communion of the laity.
pos: noun
gloss: A little bit.
pos: noun
examples: "That doesn't make a particle of difference", replied Charlotte. "Not a particle."
Related words: part
particular
particulate
Derived words: adparticle
adverbial particle
alpha particle
angel particle
antiparticle
anti-particle
astroparticle
beta particle
bioparticle
cascade particle
charged-particle
charged particle
composite particle
cosmoparticle
delta particle
Dirac particle
ferroparticle
fundamental particle
gamma particle
geoparticle
God particle
gravitationally interacting massive particle
Higgs particle
Hitler particle
holoparticle
hot particle
immunoparticle
infraparticle
interparticle
intraparticle
J/psi particle
Janus particle
K-particle
lambda particle
lipoviroparticle
macroparticle
Majorana particle
microparticle
monoparticle
multiparticle
multi-particle
nanoparticle
nobiliary particle
Oh-My-God particle
OMG particle
paraparticle
particle accelerator
particle-antiparticle
particle beam
particle-board
particle board
particled
particle decay
particle energy
particle horizon
particle mechanics
particle physics
particle shower
particle statistics
particle theory
particle verb
particle zoo
Planck particle
point particle
pseudoparticle
psi particle
quasiparticle
radioparticle
retroparticle
ribonucleoparticle
sentence-final particle
solar energetic particle
sparticle
strongly interacting massive particle
subparticle
superparticle
super weakly interacting massive particle
supraparticle
tau particle
ultrafine particle
unparticle
upsilon particle
virtual particle
V particle
wave-particle
wave-particle duality
wavicle
weakly interacting massive particle
W particle
X17 particle
Z particle
α-particle
β-particle
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: pjesëz
lang: Arabic
word: أَدَاة
roman: ʔadāh
lang: Arabic
word: حَرْف
roman: ḥarf
lang: Armenian
word: եղանակավորող բառ
roman: eġanakavoroġ baṙ
lang: Azerbaijani
word: ədat
lang: Belarusian
word: часці́ца
roman: čascíca
lang: Belarusian
word: часьці́ца
roman: časʹcíca
lang: Bengali
word: হরফ
roman: horoph
lang: Bulgarian
word: части́ца
roman: častíca
lang: Burmese
word: ပစ္စည်း
roman: paccany:
lang: Catalan
word: partícula
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 助詞 /助词
roman: zhùcí
lang: Czech
word: částice
lang: Czech
word: partikule
lang: Danish
word: partikel
lang: Dutch
word: partikel
lang: Esperanto
word: partikulo
lang: Estonian
word: partikkel
lang: Finnish
word: partikkeli
lang: French
word: particule
lang: Galician
word: partícula
lang: German
word: Partikel
lang: German
word: Redeteilchen
lang: Greek
word: μόριο
roman: mório
lang: Hebrew
word: מִלִּית
roman: milít
lang: Hungarian
word: partikula
lang: Icelandic
word: smáorð
lang: Interlingua
word: particula
lang: Irish
word: páirteagal
lang: Irish
word: mír
lang: Italian
word: particella
lang: Japanese
word: 助詞
roman: joshi
lang: Japanese
word: 助辞
roman: joji
lang: Japanese
word: てにをは
roman: tenioha
lang: Kazakh
word: демеулік
roman: demeulık
lang: Khmer
word: និបាត
roman: nibaat
lang: Khmer
word: អព្យយ
roman: ʼappyĕəʼyĕəʼ
lang: Korean
word: 조사
roman: josa
lang: Kyrgyz
word: частица
roman: castitsa
lang: Kyrgyz
word: бөлүкчө
roman: bölükcö
lang: Lao
word: ອະນຸພາກ
roman: ʼa nu phāk
lang: Latvian
word: partikula
lang: Lithuanian
word: dalelytė
lang: Macedonian
word: честичка
roman: čestička
lang: Māori
word: weu
lang: Māori
word: pūtūmua
lang: Māori
word: pūmahi
lang: Mongolian
word: сул үг
roman: sul üg
lang: Norman
word: partitchule
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: partikkel
lang: Pannonian Rusyn
word: словко
roman: slovko
lang: Pannonian Rusyn
word: партикула
roman: partikula
lang: Iranian Persian
word: حَرْف
roman: harf
lang: Polish
word: partykuła
lang: Portuguese
word: partícula
lang: Romanian
word: particulă
lang: Russian
word: части́ца
roman: častíca
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: mion-fhacal
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: чѐстица
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: čèstica
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: rijèčca
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: rèčca
lang: Slovak
word: častica
lang: Slovene
word: členek
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: partikla
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: časćica
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: partikla
lang: Spanish
word: partícula
lang: Swedish
word: partikel
lang: Tagalog
word: kataga
lang: Tajik
word: ҳиссача
roman: hissača
lang: Thai
word: อนุภาค
roman: à-nú-pâak
lang: Turkish
word: edat
lang: Turkish
word: ilgeç
lang: Ukrainian
word: ча́стка
roman: částka
lang: Uzbek
word: yuklama
lang: Vietnamese
word: trợ từ
lang: Vietnamese
word: tiểu từ
lang: Welsh
word: geiryn