minor
suomi-englanti sanakirjaminor englannista suomeksi
vähäinen
vähäpätöinen
sivuaine
pieni, pikku
nuorempi
alaikäinen
molli-
Substantiivi
Verbi
minor englanniksi
Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option, particularly:
(coi)
1551, Thomas Wilson, ''The Rule of Reason...'', sig. F8:
- Here we se thre proposicions, or sentences, whereof the first is called Maior, that is to saie, the proposicion at large. the seconde is called Minor, that is to saie, the seuerall proposicion. the thirde is called conclusio.
1819 January 2, (w), letter:
- It is my intention to wait a few years before I publish any minor poems.
(RQ:Schuster Hepaticae)
(ux)
Not serious, not involving risk of death, permanent injury, dangerous surgery, or extended hospitalization.
1899 October, Edward Pollock Anshutz, ''Homoepathic Envoy'', Vol. 10, No. 8, p. 58:
- We now ''know'' on authority of Dr. Briggs that every case of vaccination is "a minor case of smallpox," and that every such case of smallpox "should be carefully watched until all ''danger'' is passed".
Smaller by a diatonic semitone than the equivalent interval.
{{quote-text|en|year=1653|translator=Lord Brouncker|author=Rene Descartes|title=Excellent Compendium of Musick|page=30
Incorporating a third interval|interval above the tonic or root note, tending to produce a dark, discordant, sad, or pensive effect.
{{quote-text|en|year=1772|author=William Jones|chapter=On the Arts, Commonly Called Imitative|title=Poems...|page=209
{{quote-journal|en|year=1843|month=March|journal=United States Magazine & Democratic Review|page=273
{{quote-text|en|year=1880|author=Edmund Gurney|title=The Power of Sound|page=271
{{quote-journal|en|year=1948|month=November|author=J.M. Barbour|title=Music and Ternary Continued Fractions|journal=American Mathematical Monthly|volume=55|issue=9|page=545
{{quote-text|en|year=1951|author=Carson McCullers|chapter=The Sojourner|title=O. Henry Prize Stories of 1951|page=200
{{quote-text|en|year=1984|author=Christopher Guest; et al.|title=This Is Spin̈al Tap
{{quote-journal|en|date=October 23 1995|author=John Walsh|titleurl=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/the-pragmatic-entertainer-who-said-the-unsayable-1578974.html|title=The Pragmatic Entertainer Who Said the Unsayable|journal=The Independent|page=3
Of or related to a minor, a secondary area of undergraduate study.
Of or related to a minor, a determinate obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns from a matrix.
Acting as the subject of the second premise of a categorical syllogism, which then also acts as the subject of its conclusion.
(ux)usually mistakenly credited to Aristotle(mdas)is Socrates; the major term is mortal.
c. 1593, Henry Chettle, ''Kind-harts Dreame'', sig. C2:
- He whipt her with a fox-'s|es taile, Barnes minor,And he whipt her with a fox-'s|es taile, Barnes maior.
{{quote-text|en|year=1978|author=John Innes Mackintosh Stewart|title=Full Term|page=250
Of or related to the relationship between the longa and the breve in a score.
{{quote-text|en|year=1779|translator=William Waring|author=Jean-Jacques Rousseau|title=Complete Dictionary of Music|page=243
1969, Arthur Mendel, "Some Preliminary Attempts at Computer-Assisted Style Analysis in Music", ''Computers and the Humanities'', Vol. 4, No. 1, p. 45:
- (w) works in minor prolation—that is, works in which the signature indicates that a semibreve is equal to two minims, often have a 3 as a medial signature for a few measures, indicating that until the 3 is canceled by the reappearance of a sign for minor prolation, there are to be 3 minims to a semibreve.
(quote-book)|title=His Majesties Answer to a Printed Book Entituled A Remonstrance...|page=13
1796 December 27, (w), letter:
- In every other, the minor will be preferred by me to the major vote.
Having little worth or ability; paltry; mean.
(RQ:Noire Thug-A-Licious)
Including both directed and undirected edges.
A child, a person who has not reached the of majority, of consent|consent, etc. and is legally subject to fewer responsibilities and less accountability and entitled to fewer legal rights and privileges.
{{quote-book|en|year=1612|author=John Davies|title=A Discouerie of the True Causes Why Ireland Was Neuer Entirely Subdued...|page=88
A lesser person or thing, a person, group{{, or thing of minor rank or in the leagues.
{{quote-text|en|year=1821|author=Pierce Egan|title=Real Life in London...|volume=I|page=92
(ellipsis of), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), etc.
A formally recognized secondary area of undergraduate study, requiring fewer credits than the equivalent major.
A person who is completing or has completed such a course of study.
A determinant of a matrix obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns.
{{quote-text|en|year=1850|author=James Joseph Sylvester|title=London, Edinburgh, & Dublin Philosophical Magazine...|volume=37|page=366
{{quote-text|en|year=1986|author=C.W. Norman|title=Undergraduate Algebra|page=315
(alternative case form of): a Franciscan friar, a Clarist nun.
{{quote-text|en|year=1447|author=Osbern Bokenham|title=Legendys of Hooly Wummen|section=l. 10520
(ellipsis of) ''or'' (l).
{{quote-book|en|year=c. 1450|author=Anonymous|title=The Clergy May Not Hold Property|page=31
{{quote-text|en|date=July 31 1890|title=Sporting Life|location=Philadelphia|page=1
(ellipsis of): a penalty requiring a player to leave the ice for 2 minutes unless the opposing team scores.
{{quote-journal|en|date=December 30 1924|journal=Gazette|location=Montreal|page=14
{{quote-journal|en|date=May 16 1903|journal=Sporting News|location=Tasmania|page=4
(ellipsis of): a lesser score formerly gained by certain actions.
{{quote-journal|en|date=February 5 1883|journal=York Herald|page=8
{{quote-book|en|year=1927|author=Milton Cooper Work|title=Contract Bridge|page=11
Any of various noctuid moths in Europe and Asia, chiefly in the (taxfmt) and ''Mesoligia'' genera.
A ant|leaf-cutter worker ant intermediate in size between a minim and a media.
An adolescent, a person above the legal age of puberty but below the of majority.
{{quote-text|en|year=1864|title=Eton School Days|page=82
(short for)
(phrasal verb)
(l)
(ant)
((comparative of)) smaller
(apocopic form of)
(comparative of):
(Q)
cheaper
younger
subordinate, minor, inferior in rank
(noun form of)