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English
Etymology
From Middle French particule, and its source, Latin particula (“small part, particle”), diminutive of pars (“part, piece”).
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Noun
particle (plural particles)
- A very small piece of matter, a fragment; especially, the smallest possible part of something.
- (physics) Any of various physical objects making up the constituent parts of an atom; an elementary particle or subatomic particle.
2011, Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw, The Quantum Universe, Allen Lane, published 2011, page 55:What, he asked himself, does quantum theory have to say about the familiar properties of particles such as position?
2012 March-April, Jeremy Bernstein, “A Palette of Particles”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 146:The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.
- (linguistics) 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).
1965 June 4, Shigeyuki Kuroda, “Generative grammatical studies in the Japanese language”, in DSpace@MIT, retrieved 2014-02-24, page 38:In English there is no grammatical device to differentiate predicational judgments from nonpredicational descriptions. This distinction does cast a shadow on the grammatical sphere to some extent, but recognition of it must generally be made in semantic terms. It is maintained here that in Japanese, on the other hand, the distinction is grammatically realized through the use of the two particles wa and ga.
1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 133:Traditional grammar typically recognises a number of further categories: for example, in his Reference Book of Terms in Traditional Grammar for Language Students, Simpson (1982) posits two additional word-level categories which he refers to as Particle, and Conjunction. Particles include the italicised words {...}
(a) He put his hat on
(b) If you pull too hard, the handle will come off
(c) He was leaning too far over the side, and fell out
(d) He went up to see the manager
- (linguistics) A part of speech which cannot be inflected.
- 1844, E. A. Andrews: First Lessions in Latin; or Introduction to Andrews and Stoddard's Latin Grammar. (6th edition, Boston), p.91 (at books.google)
- 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.
- 1894 (2008), B. L. Gildersleeve & G. Lodge: Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar (reprint of the 3rd edition by Dover, 2008), p.9. (at books.google)
- The Parts of Speech are the Noun (Substantive and Adjective), the Pronoun, the Verb, and the Particles (Adverb, Preposition, and Conjunction)
- (Christianity) In the Roman Catholic church, a crumb of consecrated bread; also the smaller breads used in the communion of the laity.
- A little bit.
1952, E.B. White, Charlotte's Web, page 89:"That doesn't make a particle of difference", replied Charlotte. "Not a particle."
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body with very small size
- Albanian: grimcë (sq) f
- Arabic: جُسَيْم (ar) m (jusaym)
- Armenian: մասնիկ (hy) (masnik)
- Asturian: partícula f
- Azerbaijani: zərrə (az), hissəcik
- Bashkir: киҫәксә (kiśəksə), бөртөк (börtök)
- Belarusian: часці́ца f (čascíca)
- Bengali: কণা (bn) (kona)
- Bulgarian: части́ца (bg) f (častíca)
- Burmese: အမှုန်အမွှား (my) (a.hmun-a.hmwa:), အမှုန် (my) (a.hmun)
- Carpathian Rusyn: части́ця f (častýcja)
- Catalan: partícula (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 粒子 (zh) (lìzi)
- Czech: částice (cs) f
- Danish: partikel (da) c, lille del c
- Dutch: deeltje (nl) n, partikel (nl) n
- Estonian: osake (et)
- Finnish: hiukkanen (fi), partikkeli (fi)
- French: particule (fr) f
- Galician: partícula (gl) f
- Georgian: ნაწილაკი (nac̣ilaḳi)
- German: Teilchen (de) n, Partikel (de) n or f
- Greek: μόριο (el) n (mório)
- Hebrew: חֶלְקִיק (he) m (khelkik), גַרגִיר (he) m (gargir)
- Hindi: कण (hi) m (kaṇ)
- Hungarian: részecske (hu)
- Interlingua: particula
- Irish: cáithnín m
- Italian: granello (it) m, pezzetto (it) m
- Japanese: 粒子 (ja) (りゅうし, ryūshi)
- Kazakh: бөлшек (bölşek), бүртік (bürtık)
- Khmer: ចុណ្ណភាព (connaʼphiəp)
- Korean: 입자(粒子) (ipja), 립자(粒子) (ripja) (North Korea)
- Kyrgyz: бөлүкчө (ky) (bölükcö)
- Lao: ອະນຸພາກ (ʼa nu phāk)
- Latin: particula f
- Latvian: daļiņa f
- Lithuanian: dalelė f
- Macedonian: честичка f (čestička)
- Maori: paku, pakuriki, korakora, matūriki
- Norman: partitchule f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: partikkel (no) m
- Ottoman Turkish: مار (mar)
- Persian: ذره (fa) (zarre)
- Polish: cząstka (pl) f
- Portuguese: partícula (pt) f
- Romanian: particulă (ro) f
- Russian: части́ца (ru) f (častíca), крупи́ца (ru) f (krupíca)
- Sanskrit: कण (sa) m (kaṇa)
- Scottish Gaelic: bìdeag f, criomag f, mìr m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: чѐстица f
- Roman: čèstica (sh) f
- Slovak: častica f
- Slovene: delček m, delec m
- Spanish: partícula (es) f
- Swahili: chembechembe (sw), punje (sw)
- Swedish: partikel (sv) c
- Tajik: зарра (tg) (zarra)
- Thai: อนุภาค (th) (à-nú-pâak)
- Tibetan: རྡུལ་ཕྲན (rdul phran)
- Turkish: parçacık (tr)
- Ukrainian: части́нка (uk) f (častýnka), ча́стка (uk) f (částka), части́ця f (častýcja)
- Uyghur: زەررە (zerre)
- Uzbek: zarra (uz), boʻlak (uz)
- Vietnamese: hạt (vi)
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physical object making up the constituent parts of an atom
word that does not obviously belong to any particular part of speech
- Arabic: أَدَاة f (ʔadāh), حَرْف (ar) m (ḥarf)
- Armenian: եղանակավորող բառ (hy) (eġanakavoroġ baṙ)
- Azerbaijani: ədat
- Belarusian: часці́ца f (čascíca)
- Bengali: হরফ (bn) (horoph)
- Bulgarian: части́ца (bg) f (častíca)
- Burmese: ပစ္စည်း (my) (paccany:)
- Catalan: partícula (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 助詞/助词 (zh) (zhùcí)
- Czech: částice (cs) f
- Danish: partikel (da) c
- Dutch: partikel (nl) n
- Esperanto: partikulo (eo)
- Estonian: partikkel
- Finnish: partikkeli (fi)
- French: particule (fr) f
- Galician: partícula (gl) f
- German: Partikel (de) f or n, Redeteilchen n
- Greek: μόριο (el) n (mório)
- Hebrew: מִלִּית (he) f (milít)
- Hungarian: partikula (hu)
- Icelandic: smáorð (is) n
- Interlingua: particula
- Irish: páirteagal m, mír f
- Italian: particella (it) f
- Japanese: 助詞 (ja) (じょし, joshi), 助辞 (ja) (じょじ, joji), てにをは (ja) (tenioha)
- Kazakh: демеулік (demeulık)
- Khmer: និបាត (km) (nibaat), អព្យយ (km) (ʼappyĕəʼyĕəʼ)
- Korean: 조사(助詞) (ko) (josa)
- Kyrgyz: частица (castitsa), бөлүкчө (ky) (bölükcö)
- Lao: ອະນຸພາກ (ʼa nu phāk)
- Latvian: partikula (lv) f
- Lithuanian: dalelytė f
- Macedonian: честичка f (čestička)
- Maori: weu, pūtūmua, pūmahi
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: сул үг (mn) (sul üg)
- Norman: partitchule f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: partikkel (no) m
- Persian: حرف (fa) (harf)
- Polish: partykuła (pl) f
- Portuguese: partícula (pt) f
- Romanian: particulă (ro) f
- Russian: части́ца (ru) f (častíca)
- Scottish Gaelic: mion-fhacal m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: чѐстица f
- Roman: čèstica (sh) f, rijèčca (sh) f, rèčca f
- Slovak: častica f
- Slovene: členek (sl) m
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: partikla f
- Upper Sorbian: časćica f, partikla f
- Spanish: partícula (es) f
- Swedish: partikel (sv) c
- Thai: อนุภาค (th) (à-nú-pâak)
- Turkish: edat (tr), ilgeç (tr)
- Ukrainian: ча́стка (uk) f (částka)
- Uzbek: yuklama (uz)
- Vietnamese: trợ từ (vi)
- Welsh: geiryn m
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