small indefinite quantity vs stone's throw

stone's throw vs small indefinite quantity

small indefinite quantity and stone's throw both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
small indefinite quantity	Yes	No	No	No
stone's throw	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, stone's throw is a hyponym of small indefinite quantity; that is, stone's throw is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than small indefinite quantity:

small indefinite quantity: an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude
stone's throw: a short distance

Other hyponyms of small indefinite quantity include helping, portion, serving, mouthful, taste, crumb, dab, splash, splatter, bit, spot, hair's-breadth, hair, hairsbreadth, whisker, modicum, scattering, sprinkling, shoe string, shoestring, spray, spraying, nose, step, little, schtick, schtik, shtick, shtik, shade, tad, lower limit, minimum, morsel, handful, smattering, couple, drib, driblet, drop, dollop, dreg, diddley, diddly-shit, diddly-squat, diddly, diddlyshit, diddlysquat, doodly-squat, jack, shit, squat, nip, shot, hint, suggestion, tint, trace, iota, scintilla, shred, smidge, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, tittle, whit, tot, hint, jot, mite, pinch, soupcon, speck, tinge, touch.

small indefinite quantity (noun)	stone's throw (noun)
an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude	a short distance

Difference between small indefinite quantity and stone's throw

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