Das englische Wort für klein ist
small

Englische Definition

Übersetzungen für klein und ihre Definitionen

small	©
1. Adjektiv:
2. [1] von der Größe: klein
3. [2] vom Alter: jung, klein
4. [3] gering
5. [4] kleinlich
6. [5] schmal (Taille)
[1] A small group was in front of them.
Eine kleine Gruppe war vor ihnen.
[2] That's a very small child!
Das ist ein sehr kleines/junges Kind!
[3] A small number of cars.
Eine geringe Zahl an Autos.

small	©
1. adj. Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.
A small serving of ice cream.
A small group.
He made us all feel small.
2. adj. (figuratively) Young, as a child.
Remember when the children were small?
3. adj. (writing, incomparable) Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written letters.
4. adj. Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.
5. adj. Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.
a small space of time
6. adj. topics, en, Size
7. adv. In a small fashion.
8. adv. In or into small pieces.
9. adv. (obsolete) To a small extent.
10. subst. (rare) Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back.
11. v. (obsolete, transitive) To make little or less.
12. v. (intransitive) To become small; to dwindle.

little	©
1. Adjektiv:
2. [1] klein
3. [2] niedrig, gering
4. [3] kurz
5. [4] wenig
[1] Yesterday we found a little cat.
Gestern fanden wir eine kleine Katze.

little	©
1. adj. Small in size.
This is a little table.
2. adj. Insignificant, trivial.
It's of little importance.
3. adj.          (offensive) (Used to belittle a person.)
Listen up, you little shit.
4. adj. Very young.
Did he tell you any embarrassing stories about when she was little?
That's the biggest little boy I've ever seen.
5. adj. (of a sibling) Younger.
This is my little sister.
6. adj. Used with the name of place, especially of a country, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers are from that place.
7. adj. Small in amount or number, having few members.
little money;  little herd
8. adj. Short in duration; brief.
I feel better after my little sleep.
9. adj. Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous.
10. adv. Not much.
This is a little known fact.  She spoke little and listened less.
11. adv. Not at all.
I was speaking ill of Fred; little did I know that he was right behind me, listening in.
12. det. Not much, only a little: only a small amount (of).
There is little water left.
We had very little to do.
13. pron. Not much; not a large amount.
Little is known about his early life.
14. subst. (BDSM, slang) The participant in ageplay who acts out the younger role.

short	©
1. Adjektiv:
2. [1] kurze Distanz
3. [2] niedrig
4. [3] kurze Zeitspanne
[1] She is only two centimetres shorter than Jerome.
Sie ist nur zwei Zentimeter kürzer als Jerome.
5. Substantiv:
6. [1] Elektrotechnik: Kurzschluss
7. [1] Elektrotechnik: kurzschließen, einen Kurzschluss verursachen

short	©
1. adj. Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
2. adj. (of a person) Of comparatively little height.
3. adj. Having little duration; opposite of long.
Our meeting was a short six minutes today. Every day for the past month it's been at least twenty minutes long.
4. adj. (followed by for) Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).
“Phone” is short for “telephone” and "asap" short for "as soon as possible".
5. adj. (cricket, of a fielder or fielding position) that is relatively close to the batsman.
6. adj. (cricket, of a ball) that bounced relatively far from the batsman.
7. adj. (golf, of an approach shot or putt) that falls short of the green or the hole.
8. adj. (of pastries and metals) Brittle, crumbly, especially due to the use of too much shortening. (See shortbread, shortcake, shortcrust.)
9. adj. Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant.
He gave a short answer to the question.
10. adj. Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
a short supply of provisions
11. adj. Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking.
to be short of money
The cashier came up short ten dollars on his morning shift.
12. adj. Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
an account which is short of the truth
13. adj. (obsolete) Not distant in time; near at hand.
14. adj. Being in a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.
I'm short General Motors because I think their sales are plunging.
15. adv. Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
They had to stop short to avoid hitting the dog in the street.
He cut me short repeatedly in the meeting.
The boss got a message and cut the meeting short.
16. adv. Unawares.
The recent developments at work caught them short.
17. adv. Without achieving a goal or requirement.
His speech fell short of what was expected.
18. adv. (cricket, of the manner of bounce of a cricket ball) Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal; opposite of full.
19. adv. (finance) With a negative ownership position.
We went short most finance companies in July.
20. subst. A short circuit.
21. subst. A short film.
22. subst. Used to indicate a short-length version of a size
38 short suits fit me right off the rack.
Do you have that size in a short.
23. subst. (baseball) A shortstop.
Jones smashes a grounder between third and short.
24. subst. (finance) A short seller.
The market decline was terrible, but the shorts were buying champagne.
25. subst. (finance) A short sale.
He closed out his short at a modest loss after three months.
26. subst. A summary account.
27. subst. (phonetics) A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
28. subst. (programming) An integer variable shorter than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
29. v. To cause a short circuit in (something).
30. v. (intransitive) Of an electrical circuit, to short circuit.
31. v. To shortchange.
32. v. To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.
This is the third time I've caught them shorting us.
33. v. (transitive, business) To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.
34. v. (obsolete) To shorten.
35. prep. Deficient in.
We are short a few men on the second shift.
He's short common sense.
36. prep. (finance) Having a negative position in.
I don't want to be short the market going into the weekend.

minor	©
1. Adjektiv:
2. [1] kleiner
3. [2] übertragen unbedeutend, unwichtig
4. Substantiv:
5. [1] Recht: minderjähriger Mensch
6. [2] Bildung: nebensächliches Schulfach oder Studienfach
7. [3] Musik: nicht Dur

minor	©
1. adj. Of little significance or importance.
The physical appearance of a candidate is a minor factor in recruitment.
2. adj. (music) Of a scale which has lowered scale degrees three, six, and seven relative to major, but with the sixth and seventh not always lowered
a minor scale
3. adj. (music) being the smaller of the two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number
4. subst. A person who is below the legal age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities.
It is illegal to sell weapons to minors under the age of eighteen.
5. subst. A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who has chosen such a secondary concentration.
I had so many credit hours of English, it became my minor.
I became an English minor.
6. subst. (mathematics) determinant of a square submatrix
7. subst. (British slang) A younger brother (especially at a public school).
8. subst. (zoology) A small worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony, sized between a minim and a media.
9. subst. (logic) The term of a syllogism which forms the subject of the conclusion.
10. v. To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.

puny	©
1. kümmerlich, schwächlich

puny	©
1. adj. Of inferior size, strength or significance; small, weak, ineffective.
2. subst. (obsolete) A new pupil at a school etc.; a junior student.
3. subst. (obsolete) A younger person.
4. subst. (obsolete) A beginner, a novice.
5. subst. (archaic) An inferior person; a subordinate.

tenuous	©
1. dünn, dürftig
2. schwach (Argument)

tenuous	©
1. adj. Thin in substance or consistency.
The aether was thought to be of tenuous strands.
Far from being amicable, the numbers seemed to turn their backs on each other, and I couldn't find a pair with even the most tenuous connection.
2. adj. insubstantial
His argument was not convincing in the debate, considering how tenuous it was.

petty	©

petty	©
1. adj. (obsolete except in set phrases) Little, small, secondary in rank or importance.
petty officer, petty cash
2. adj. Insignificant, trifling, or inconsiderable.
a petty fault
3. adj. Narrow-minded, small-minded.
4. adj. Begrudging in nature, especially over insignificant matters.
That corporation is only slightly pettier than they are greedy, and they are overdue to reap the consequences.
5. subst. (usually plural) A little schoolboy, either in grade or size.
6. subst. (now) A class or school for young schoolboys.
7. subst. (dialect) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.

wee	©
1. pinkeln, pissen

wee	©
1. adj. (Scotland, Northern Ireland, North England, NZ) Small, little.
You looked a little cold, so I lit a wee fire.
2. subst. A short time or short distance.
3. subst. (colloquial) Urine.
4. subst. (colloquial) An act of urination.
I need to have a wee
5. v. (colloquial) To urinate.
6. pron. obsolete emphatic of we

modest	©
1. bescheiden

modest	©
1. adj. Not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements; unpretentious, humble.
2. adj. Small, moderate in size.
He earns a modest amount of money.
Her latest novel was a modest success.
3. adj. Pure and delicate from a sense of propriety.
modest thoughts or language
4. adj. (especially of behaviour or clothing) Intending to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others.

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