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particle, speck, corpuscle, atom, molecule, mote | a tiny piece of anything | |
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particle | a function word that can be used in English to form phrasal verbs | |
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particle, subatomic particle | a body having finite mass and internal structure but negligible dimensions | |
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particle, grammatical particle | a type of function word that qualifies or imparts meaning (tense, aspect, case, etc) to a word or phrase; traditionally, the parts of speech that cannot undergo inflection (such as conjunctions and prepositions) |