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scintilla
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a tiny or scarcely detectable amount [syn: shred , whit , iota , tittle , smidgen , smidgeon , smidgin , smidge ] a sparkling glittering particles
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Scintilla was a communist circle created in Rome in 1940, as one of a number of attempts to refound the Communist Party of Italy (PCd'I) banned since 1926. Most of its leaders would later contribute to creating the dissident-communist Movimento Comunista ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, "spark, glimmer," hence "least particle, trace," from figurative use of Latin scintilla "particle of fire, spark, glittering speck, atom," probably from PIE *ski-nto- , from root *skai- "to shine, to gleam" (cognates: Gothic skeinan , Old English ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A small spark or flash. 2 A small or trace amount.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scintilla \Scin*til"la\, n. [L.] A spark; the least particle; an iota; a tittle. --R. North.
Usage examples of scintilla.
Dad said later that Scintilla had been a truly great fighter for the cause but his drive had left him when they eradicated his best friend and partner.
There was a way in which she isolated a digit for sharp regard, using a magnifier and a square of dark cardboard, and there were hangnails flying and shreds and grains of dead skin and fragments of nail, scintillas, springing in the air.
Warm scintillas of light reflected off tall glasses and cutlery set around the long table, and cedar panelling, studded with silver buttons, on the walls and central square column lent a soft ambience to the proceedings.
But there is no scintilla of doubt that the inestimable Master Cawdor will be here with us in two shakes of a lamb's tail.
Here she was going through all these mental gymnastics, and for all she knew, he didn't feel the tiniest scintilla of attraction for her.
And he held her close, and she knew that whatever trials lay ahead of them, she would face them at his side, unafraid and filled with a sense of determination that came of knowing, without the faintest scintilla of a doubt, that the path she had chosen was the right one, the one she had been born to follow.
If you would best use these reconstituted snippets and scintillae of your lives, I urge you to hold up the realities portrayed here to the mirror of fantasy.
But persist he did, and at length was reward with scintillae like unto those I had made.
The smears, smudges, underlinings, and ossified toast scintillae left by their previous owners may strike daintier readers as a little icky, like secondhand underwear.
A pair of the glittering scintillae, the crimson and the gold, attended the twitching android.
It sits there admiring itself, without a scintilla of self-criticism, unable to look at hard troths along that highway.