Definitions
a function word that can be used in English to form phrasal verbs
Word origin
From Middle French particule, and its source, Latin particula (“small part, particle”), diminutive of pars (“part, piece”). Semantically displaced native Old English grot whence modern English groat.
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“Not every exasperated petty bourgeois could have become Hitler, but a particle of Hitler is lodged in every exasperated petty bourgeois.”
“What, he asked himself, does quantum theory have to say about the familiar properties of particles such as position?”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Small grammar word”8 letters
02“Tiny bit of matter”8 letters
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