Minor

['maɪnə] or ['maɪnɚ]

解释:

(adj.) limited in size or scope; 'a small business'; 'a newspaper with a modest circulation'; 'small-scale plans'; 'a pocket-size country' .

(adj.) inferior in number or size or amount; 'a minor share of the profits'; 'Ursa Minor' .

(adj.) lesser in scope or effect; 'had minor differences'; 'a minor disturbance' .

(adj.) not of legal age; 'minor children' .

(adj.) of a scale or mode; 'the minor keys'; 'in B flat minor' .

(adj.) of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization .

(adj.) 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' .

(adj.) of lesser seriousness or danger; 'suffered only minor injuries'; 'some minor flooding'; 'a minor tropical disturbance' .

(adj.) warranting only temporal punishment; 'venial sin' .

(adj.) of the younger of two boys with the same family name; 'Jones minor' .

杜安整理--From WordNet

解释:

(a.) Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body.

(a.) Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A Minorite; a Franciscan friar.

编辑:娜塔莎

同义词及近义词:

a. [1]. Less, smaller.[2]. Inferior, subordinate.[3]. Inconsiderable, petty.

校对:卢埃林

同义词及反义词:

SYN:Less, inferior, junior, younger, unimportant

ANT:Major, greater, superior, elder, senior, main, important

卡洛整理

解释:

adj. smaller: less: inferior in importance degree bulk &c.: inconsiderable: lower: (mus.) smaller by a semitone.—n. a person under age (21 years): (logic) the term of a syllogism which forms the subject of the conclusion.—n. Mī′norite a Franciscan friar.—adj. belonging to the Franciscans.—n. Minor′ity the state of being under age (also Mī′norship): the smaller of two parts of a number: a number less than half:—opp. to Majority.—Minor canon a canon of inferior grade who assists in performing the daily choral service in a cathedral; Minor mode or scale the mode or scale in music which has the third note only three semitones above the key; Minor premise the premise which contains the minor term; Minor prophets the name given to the twelve prophets from Hosea to Malachi inclusive.

克利夫顿录入

娱乐性解释:

adj. Less objectionable.

迭戈手打

例句:

整理:罗伯塔

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