MINOR
\mˈa͡ɪnə], \mˈaɪnə], \m_ˈaɪ_n_ə]\
Definitions of MINOR
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Legal Glossary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a young person of either sex (between birth and puberty); "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngsters"
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(theology) warranting only temporal punishment; "venial sin"
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limited in size or scope; "a small business"; "a newspaper with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket-size country"
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lesser in scope or effect; "had minor differences"; "a minor disturbance"
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(law) not of legal age; "minor children"
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(music) of a scale or mode; "the minor keys"; "in B flat minor"
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of lesser importance or stature or rank; "a minor poet"; "had a minor part in the play"; "a minor official"; "many of these hardy adventurers were minor noblemen"; "minor back roads"
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of lesser seriousness or danger; "suffered only minor injuries"; "some minor flooding"; "a minor tropical disturbance"
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(British) of the younger of two boys with the same family name; "Jones minor"
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limited in size or scope; "a small business"; "a newspaper with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket-size country"
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lesser in scope or effect; "had minor differences"; "a minor disturbance"
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of lesser importance or stature or rank; "a minor poet"; "had a minor part in the play"; "a minor official"; "many of these hardy adventurers were minor noblemen"; "minor back roads"
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of lesser seriousness or danger; "suffered only minor injuries"; "some minor flooding"; "a minor tropical disturbance"
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a young person of either sex; "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngsters"
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of a scale or mode; "the minor keys"; "in B flat minor"
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of the younger of two boys with the same family name; "Jones minor"
By Princeton University
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Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body.
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Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third.
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A person of either sex who has not attained the age at which full civil rights are accorded; an infant; in England and the United States, one under twenty-one years of age.
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The minor term, that is, the subject of the conclusion; also, the minor premise, that is, that premise which contains the minor term; in hypothetical syllogisms, the categorical premise. It is the second proposition of a regular syllogism, as in the following: Every act of injustice partakes of meanness; to take money from another by gaming is an act of injustice; therefore, the taking of money from another by gaming partakes of meanness.
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A Minorite; a Franciscan friar.
By Oddity Software
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Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body.
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Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third.
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A person of either sex who has not attained the age at which full civil rights are accorded; an infant; in England and the United States, one under twenty-one years of age.
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The minor term, that is, the subject of the conclusion; also, the minor premise, that is, that premise which contains the minor term; in hypothetical syllogisms, the categorical premise. It is the second proposition of a regular syllogism, as in the following: Every act of injustice partakes of meanness; to take money from another by gaming is an act of injustice; therefore, the taking of money from another by gaming partakes of meanness.
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A Minorite; a Franciscan friar.
By Noah Webster.
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In most states, any person under 18 years of age. All minors must be under the care of a competent adult (parent or guardian) unless they are "emancipated"--in the military, married or living independently with court permission. Property left to a minor must be handled by an adult until the minor becomes an adult under the laws of the state where he or she lives.
By Oddity Software
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One of either sex who is under the age of twenty-one.
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Smaller; less; unimportant; as, a minor injury; in music, less by half a step than the corresponding major interval.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Smaller: less: inferior in importance, degree, bulk, etc.: inconsiderable: lower: (music) lower by a semitone: (logic) the term of a syllogism which forms the subject of the conclusion.
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A person under age (21 years).
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. A person of either sex under age; -one not yet twenty-one years old; -the second or particular proposition in a syllogism, which forms the predicate of the intermediate premise, and the subject of the conclusion; -a Minorite; a Franciscan friar.
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