Tiny

Tiny, a synonym for small or little, may refer to:

  • Tiny (car), a British cyclecar manufactured by Nanson, Barker & Co at Esholt, Yorkshire between 1912 and 1915
  • Tiny, Ontario, a township in south-central Ontario, Canada
  • Tara Tiny, a city car built in India

People:

  • Τiny K
  • Tiny Tim (musician) (1932-1996), American musician
  • Tommy "Tiny" Lister Jr. (born 1958), American actor and wrestler
  • Tiny Bonham (1913-1949), American baseball player
  • Tiny Bradshaw (1905-1958), American jazz and rhythm and blues bandleader, singer, composer, and musician
  • Tiny Broadwick (1893-1978), a pioneering parachutist
  • Tameka "Tiny" Cottle, (born 1975), American singer-songwriter and former member of Xscape
  • Tiny Grimes (1916-1989), American jazz and R&B guitarist
  • Tiny Kox (born 1953), Dutch politician
  • Big Tiny Little (born 1930), American pianist
  • Tiny Lund (1929-1975), American race car driver
  • Kendal (Tiny) Pinder, American basketball player
  • Tiny Rowland (1917-1998), British businessman and chairman of the Lonrho conglomerate from 1962 to 1994
  • Tiny Ron Taylor, American film actor and former basketball player
  • Tiny Sandford (1894-1961), film actor
  • Tiny Timbrell (1917-1992), Canadian guitarist
  • Tiny Wharton (1927-2005), Scottish football referee
  • Nate "Tiny" Archibald (born 1948), American basketball player
  • Xu "Tiny" Linyin (born 1986), Chinese beach volleyball player

Computers:

  • Tiny BASIC, a dialect of the computer programming language BASIC
  • Tiny Encryption Algorithm, in cryptography, a block cipher notable for its simplicity of description and implementation
  • Tiny Computers, a defunct UK computer manufacturer.
  • Tiny programming language, an extremely simplistic programming language used in computer science courses covering compiler construction
  • TinyMCE, platform-independent web-based JavaScript/HTML WYSIWYG editor
  • TinyMUD, a MUD server
  • MU*, a family of MUD servers often called the Tiny family

Characters:

  • Tiny Tim (A Christmas Carol), a fictional character from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
  • Tiny (Rob Zombie), a character from the Rob Zombie horror films House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects
  • Tiny Tiger, a character from the Crash Bandicoot video game series
  • Tiny Kong, a character from the Donkey Kong video game series
  • Tiny, a character from the video game Commandos 2: Men of Courage
  • Tiny (comics), a comic strip character from The Topper
  • Tiny - Stone Giant, a character from the video game Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos and derivative games

Music:

  • "Tiny Dancer", a 1971 song by Elton John with lyrics by Bernie Taupin
  • Tiny Dynamine, a 1985 EP by Scottish rock group Cocteau Twins
  • Tiny Mix Tapes (or tinymixtapes), a music webzine
  • Tainy, a reggaeton producer from Puerto Rico

Television:

  • Tiny Planets, a 2000s UK children's animated television series
  • Tiny Toon Adventures, a 1990s American children's animated television series
  • Tiny, a young teranodon on the PBS Kids animated series Dinosaur Train

Famous quotes containing the word tiny:

    “A tree the span of two arms starts from a tiny seedling.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    Lao-tzu.

    “My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.”
    —Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

    “It’s a family joke that when I was a tiny child I turned from the window out of which I was watching a snowstorm, and hopefully asked, ‘Momma, do we believe in winter?’”
    —Philip Roth (20th century)