Little in a sentence as a noun

Dutch person here with a little insight what's to come for you guys.

" If it's an investor, the answer is "A lot." If it's a customer, the answer is "A little.

These are little belt packs you carry around while wired-up and that record your ECG for 24-48 hours at a time.

When I'm done reading applications, I'll add a little tweak to HN to make the fonts super big for all the users over 80.

He hands out little yellow stickies with his name on them, reminding people "who runs the company" when they disagree with him.

To function well in society, it's beneficial to understand a little about how they work, and how to make them do things.

Little in a sentence as an adjective

Craning her neck to stare at that stupid dim little screen instead of just looking around at the beautiful neighborhood I lived in.

They even managed to time things well: the weekend of my grandmother's funeral, after A had been told about it, they dropped their little bomb on me.

To this day I have no idea what ticked that guy off to single us out like that but I decided I did not want to live in a country where I had such little rights.

With a little schooling you can get into various Finance, Scientific or Engineering disciplines without too much fuss.

It's a little early to say for sure, but I predict this will do more to hurt Apple's reputation in the tech community than anything they've done before.

After WW2, the Allies condemned and executed a number of German and Japanese officers who had done little more than follow orders.

Little in a sentence as an adverb

There is very little residue in our society of the old-fashioned principled belief that it is wrong to have vast centralized power with very few checks upon it.

Many years ago, before the creation of the Web, a small group of us used to meet at a little wooden church just off the Stanford campus to discuss a little-known idea called nanotechnology.

It was a little bit challenging, but then I wouldn't have to waste the time of writing it out, and I wasn't handicapped like all of those suckers who had to go through the motions no matter how simple the problem was.

You 150-odd ex-Amazon folks here will of course realize immediately that #7 was a little joke I threw in, because Bezos most definitely does not give a **** about your day.#6, however, was quite real, so people went to work.

But when your service says "oh yes, I'm fine", it may well be the case that the only thing still functioning in the server is the little component that knows how to say "I'm fine, roger roger, over and out" in a cheery droid voice.

Little definitions

noun

a small amount or duration; "he accepted the little they gave him"

adjective

limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a little dining room"; "a little house"; "a small car"; "a little (or small) group"

See also: small

adjective

(quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some; "little rain fell in May"; "gave it little thought"; "little time is left"; "we still have little money"; "a little hope remained"; "there's slight chance that it will work"; "there's a slight chance it will work"

See also: slight

adjective

(of children and animals) young, immature; "what a big little boy you are"; "small children"

See also: small

adjective

(informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"

adjective

(of a voice) faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice"

See also: small

adjective

low in stature; not tall; "he was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"; "a little man"

See also: short

adjective

lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters"

See also: minuscule small

adjective

small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context); "a nice little job"; "bless your little heart"; "my dear little mother"; "a sweet little deal"; "I'm tired of your petty little schemes"; "filthy little tricks"; "what a nasty little situation"

adverb

not much; "he talked little about his family"