minor

Betekenis (Engels)

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.

Concepten

minderjarige

onbelangrijk

mineur

bijvak

minder

minderjarig

🔞

luizig

onbeduidend

onbetekenend

onnozel

😇

beuzelachtig

junior

bijkomend

gering

goedaardig

incidenteel

kind

🧒

Synoniemen

insignificant

small

unimportant

trivial

secondary

trifling

petty

underage

🔞

slight

little

younger

child

🧒

negligible

smaller

light

subordinate

marginal

lower

less

paltry

venial

youth

youngster

inconsequential

inconsiderable

junior

accessory

small-scale

under age

nonaged

kid

🧒

tyke

fry

immaterial

incidental

inferior

lesser

minority

modest

nestling

nipper

of no account

piddling

pocket-size

puny

shaver

small fry

subsidiary

tiddler

tiny

trifle

young

pocket-sized

tike

non-serious

humble

minor subject

nickel-and-dime

niggling

jr.

nonessential

nugatory

offspring

accidental

girl

👧

petit

gentle

purportless

person not grown up

potty

not of age

remote

scanty

scarce

scrimp

second

2nd

footling

second best

minor premise

short

slender

fine

fiddling

fewer

slight injury

faint

small-time

sub

easy

extremely small

subtle

supplementary

teenage

teenaged

teenager

less important

infeior

tributary

very young in age

detail

trite

delicate

collateral

cheap

boy

👦

under-age

unessential

borderline

unimposing

unimpressive

uninfluential

baseborn

wisp

worthless

minor term

base

youngest

young people

lad

juvenile

auxiliary

irrelevant

lightweight

intermediary

low

insufficient

lowercase

low-level

lowly

infant

mean

menial

mere

miniature

adolescent

minor scale

Junior

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/ˈmaɪ.nəɹ/

Etymologie (Engels)

Overgenomen van Middelengels: minor

Verwant aan Latijn: minimum

Verwant aan Oudhoogduits: minniro

Verwant aan Cornish: minow

In summary

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.

Zinnen

His wife and son had minor injuries .

Zijn vrouw en zoon hadden lichte verwondingen.

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

Op dat moment werd ook een bibliotheek vastgesteld en er werden andere kleine wijzigingen aangebracht.

The rim is otherwise relatively sharply defined , with only a minor amount of wear .

De rand is anders relatief scherp gedefinieerd, met slechts een kleine hoeveelheid slijtage.

This tension together with some minor injuries made Souness less keen to keep him .

Deze spanning maakte samen met enkele lichte verwondingen Souness minder graag willen hem houden.