minor

Significado (inglés)

Adj

1. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
2. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
3. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
4. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
5. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
6. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
7. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
8. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
9. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
10. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
11. (obsolete) Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
12. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
13. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option, particularly

Noun

1. A child, a person who has not reached the age of majority, consent, etc. and is legally subject to fewer responsibilities and less accountability and entitled to fewer legal rights and privileges.
2. A lesser person or thing, a person, group, or thing of minor rank or in the minor leagues.
3. Ellipsis of minor interval, scale, mode, key, chord, triad, etc.
4. A formally recognized secondary area of undergraduate study, requiring fewer course credits than the equivalent major.
5. A person who is completing or has completed such a course of study.
6. A determinant of a square matrix obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns.
7. Alternative letter-case form of Minor: a Franciscan friar, a Clarist nun.
8. Ellipsis of minor term or minor premise.
9. Ellipsis of minor league: the lower level of teams.
10. Ellipsis of minor penalty: a penalty requiring a player to leave the ice for 2 minutes unless the opposing team scores.
11. Synonym of behind: a one-point kick.
12. Ellipsis of minor point: a lesser score formerly gained by certain actions.
13. Ellipsis of minor suit; a card of a minor suit.
14. Any of various noctuid moths in Europe and Asia, chiefly in the Oligia and Mesoligia genera.
15. A leaf-cutter worker ant intermediate in size between a minim and a media.
16. Changes rung on six bells.
17. (obsolete) An adolescent, a person above the legal age of puberty but below the age of majority.
18. (obsolete) Synonym of subtrahend, the amount subtracted from a number.
19. (obsolete) The younger brother of a pupil.

Verb

Used in a phrasal verb: minor in.

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈmaɪ.nəɹ/

Etimoloxía (inglés)

From Middle English minor, menor, menour, etc., from Latin minor (“lesser; young; young person”) both directly and via Norman and Middle French menor, menour, etc. Doublet of minus but not mini-. Cognate with minister, minify, Minorca, Menshevik, and possibly minnow. Compare Latin minimum and minuō, Old High German minniro, Cornish minow.

Oracións

His wife and son had minor injuries .

A library was also established at that time and other minor changes were made .