Mite

Noun

 * 1) A minute arachnid, of the order Acarina, of which there are many species; as, the cheese mite, sugar mite, harvest mite, etc. See Acarina.
 * 2) A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing. The name is also applied to the lepton, a small coin used in Palestine in the time of Christ.
 * 3) A small weight; one twentieth of a grain.
 * 4) Anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle. Sometimes used adverbially.
 * 5) * 1959 Frances Cavanah, Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance, Project Gutenberg, :
 * "Those trousers are a mite too big, but you'll soon grow into them."

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:particle

Adjectives for Mite
wee; musical; round-bellied; microscopic.

Thesaurus
ace, arachnid, arthropod, atom, bairn, bawbee, beetle, bit, bug, cat flea, caterpillar, centipede, cherub, chigoe, child, chilopod, chit, cockroach, crab, crown, crumb, dab, daddy longlegs, darling, diplopod, dog flea, dole, dollar, dot, dram, dribble, driblet, drop, droplet, dwarf, farthing, fiver, flea, fleck, florin, fly, flyspeck, fourpence, fourpenny, fragment, gnat, gobbet, grain, granule, grayback, groat, guinea, hair, half crown, half dollar, half rations, halfpenny, handful, harvestman, hexapod, innocent, insect, iota, jigger, jot, kid, kitten, lamb, lambkin, larva, little, little bit, little bugger, little fellow, little guy, little innocent, little one, little tad, little tot, lota, louse, mag, maggot, meg, mere subsistence, microbe, microorganism, midge, millepede, millipede, minim, minimum, minutia, minutiae, modicum, molecule, monkey, mote, new pence, nipper, nit, np, nutshell, nymph, offspring, ounce, p, parasite, particle, pebble, peewee, pence, penny, pinch, pinhead, pinpoint, pittance, point, pony, pound, quid, red bug, roach, sand flea, scorpion, scrap, scrimption, scruple, shaver, shilling, short allowance, short commons, sixpence, smidgen, smitch, snip, snippet, speck, spider, spoonful, spot, starvation wages, tad, tarantula, tenner, thimbleful, threepence, threepenny bit, thrippence, tick, tiny bit, tittle, tot, trifling amount, trivia, tuppence, twopence, vanishing point, vermin, wee tot, weevil, whit

Etymology
mite: from mite: from  from  from. Akin to miza:,  mite:,  mide:.

Pronunciation

 * Homophones: might
 * Homophones: might
 * Homophones: might

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 蟎, 螨
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: roztoč
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: ,


 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 壁蝨
 * Lithuanian:
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Polish: roztocze, roztocz
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: клещ
 * Spanish:

Anagrams

 * emit
 * item
 * time

Noun

 * 1) mite (insect)
 * 2) moth, particularly one whose larva destroys something stored by humans

Derived terms

 * antimite

Etymology
from mitte:, of  origin, from  mite:, ult. from. Akin to mite:,  miza:,  mide:.

Anagrams

 * émit, émît

Adjective

 * 1) mild
 * 2) moderate (price)
 * 3) balmy (climate)
 * 4) meek (animal)

Anagrams

 * temi

Noun
mite