particle

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A very small piece of matter, a fragment; especially, the smallest possible part of something.

   “Be content with the knowledge that, ere the voyage had ended, both she and I were desperately and unreasoningly in love with one another. Heaven knows that I can make the admission now without one particle of vanity.”

2. isim Any of various physical objects making up the constituent parts of an atom; an elementary particle or subatomic particle.

   “What, he asked himself, does quantum theory have to say about the familiar properties of particles such as position?”

3. isim A part of speech that has no inherent lexical definition but must be associated with another word to impart meaning, often a grammatical category: for example, the English word to in a full infinitive phrase (to eat) or O in a vocative phrase (O Canada), or as a discourse marker (mmm).

   “As for syntax and morphology, the Belter Creole can be categorized as an analytic or isolating language as it uses a high quantity of particles and does not show cases of morphological inflection. […] An interrogative particle ke is placed at the end of a question.”

4. isim A part of speech which cannot be inflected.

   “322. The parts of speech which are neither declined nor conjugated, are called by the general name of particles. 323. They are adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.”

5. isim In the Roman Catholic church, a crumb of consecrated bread; also the smaller breads used in the communion of the laity.
6. isim A little bit.

   “"That doesn't make a particle of difference", replied Charlotte. "Not a particle."”