English to French Meaning of scintilla - Scintilla

Scintilla :

Scintilla

noun

étincelle, flocon, Scintilla, cran

Scintilla :: scintillaScintillas :: scintillas

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Definitions of scintilla in English

Noun(1) a tiny or scarcely detectable amount(2) a sparkling glittering particle

Examples of scintilla in English

(1) Regarding your high class comment about me in your May 19, 2004 posting, why don't you have a scintilla of honesty and print the attached story from the Boston Globe which sets the record straight.(2) There can be surely not a scintilla of doubt that the whole grisly situation is the very quintessence of irresponsibility.(3) Without a scintilla of regret or moral thought, your party has embraced corporate crooks, polluters and other moral rot.(4) Why do people yearn so desperately to believe that there is some kind of incredible profusion of words for such things among hunter-gatherer peoples, when they have never been shown a single scintilla of quantitative evidence?(5) A scintilla of reasonable doubt might be expected about the efficacy and justice of a punishment now rejected by 71 countries.(6) None of them showed a scintilla of professional rivalry.(7) Even for a softcore sleaze tease like this, there is an appallingly distinct lack of intelligence all around, with not a scintilla of artistic integrity to be found in a single scene.(8) While it was perfectly legitimate for the society to criticise the treatment choice there was not a scintilla of evidence to support their claim.(9) a scintilla of doubt(10) Well, Larry, but it seems to be a scintilla of hope.(11) But what was overwhelmingly obvious about the coverage was that a terrible family tragedy was being exploited, without a scintilla of compassion for communal loss, for the sole purpose of newspaper sales.(12) Out go the twitching nostrils, flailing arms and sniffy declamations about a cheeky scintilla of vanilla and oodles of gunsmoke.(13) Apart from squandering the resources of a prodigiously gifted cast, the film's greatest shortcoming must be its inability to generate the merest scintilla of dramatic tension around its central narrative thread.(14) Now, there's been not a scintilla of evidence for that.(15) Had there been even the slightest scintilla of evidence then she would have been charged.(16) In victory, they must hold on to at least a scintilla of humility, lest they get too cocky - and ripe for a takedown.

(1) computer scientist ::

informaticien

(2) research scientist ::

chercheur

(3) mad scientist ::

scientifique fou

(4) rocket scientist ::

scientifique de fusée

(5) social scientist ::

sociologue

(6) political scientist ::

politologue

(7) chief scientist ::

directeur scientifique

(8) environmental scientist ::

spécialiste de l'environnement

(9) medical scientist ::

scientifique médical

(10) information scientist ::

scientifique de l'information

Synonyms

Noun

1. particle ::

particule

2. iota ::

iota

3. jot ::

iota

4. whit ::

brin

5. atom ::

atome

6. speck ::

grain

7. bit ::

bit

8. trace ::

trace

9. ounce ::

once

10. shred ::

déchiqueter

11. crumb ::

miette

12. fragment ::

fragment

13. grain ::

grain

14. drop ::

laissez tomber

15. spot ::

place

16. modicum ::

minimum

17. hint ::

allusion

18. touch ::

toucher

19. suggestion ::

suggestion

20. whisper ::

chuchotement

21. suspicion ::

soupçon

22. smidgen ::

smidgen

23. tad ::

TAD

Different Forms

scintilla, scintillas

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