Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small diacritic mark, such as an accent, vowel mark, or dot over an i.
- noun The tiniest bit; an iota.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To prate idly; whisper.
- noun A stroke over a word or letter to show abbreviation; a dot over a letter, as in
i . Compareiota and jot. Seetilde , a Spanish form of the same word. - noun A very small thing; a minute object or quantity; a particle; a whit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A particle; a minute part; a jot; an iota.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small,
insignificant amount (of something); a vanishingscintilla ; a measlycrumb ; a minutespeck . - noun Any small dot, stroke, or
diacritical mark, especially if part of aletter , or if a letter-like abbreviation; in particular, the dots over the Latinletters i andj .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a tiny or scarcely detectable amount
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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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 2008
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And just an FYI, I'm from Latin America and the films tittle is being translated to BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT.
It's All in a Name - Batman: The Dark Knight « FirstShowing.net 2008
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Being in the big leagues and to win a batting tittle is amazing.
USATODAY.com 2003
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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) 1721
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The tittle is The Foodie Handbook: The (almost) Definitive Guide to Gastronomy.
Seattle Bon Vivant: 2009
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The tittle is The Foodie Handbook: The (almost) Definitive Guide to Gastronomy.
Seattle Bon Vivant 2009
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The tittle is The Foodie Handbook: The (almost) Definitive Guide to Gastronomy.
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The tittle is The Foodie Handbook: The (almost) Definitive Guide to Gastronomy.
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The tittle is The Foodie Handbook: The (almost) Definitive Guide to Gastronomy.
Books 2009
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Did you know the dot over the letter i is called a tittle?
unknown title 2009
arby commented on the word tittle
Knowledge to the certainty of which no authority could add, or take away, one jot or tittle. — Huxley
April 18, 2007
robshort commented on the word tittle
It's also the word for the dot on the letter "i."
December 4, 2007
bilby commented on the word tittle
I'm dotless.
December 4, 2007
mollusque commented on the word tittle
So those people who never manage to get the dot over the i are tittlelaters?
December 4, 2007
bilby commented on the word tittle
No truth In that at all, just tIttle tattle.
December 4, 2007
mollusque commented on the word tittle
That would be tittlelessness.
December 4, 2007
sionnach commented on the word tittle
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
April 12, 2008
gangerh commented on the word tittle
It prevents a lowercase 'i' form being a lowercase 'l'
Thank you Wordplayer for this gem.
January 8, 2012