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What (who) is minor - definition
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Minor (music); Minors; Minor (disambiguation); The Minor; The Minor (play)
Minor
·noun A Minorite; a Franciscan friar.
II. Minor ·adj Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third.
III. Minor ·adj Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, ·etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body.
IV. Minor ·noun 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.
V. Minor ·noun 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.
minor
¦ adjective
1. having little importance, seriousness, or significance.
2. Music (of a scale) having intervals of a semitone between the second and third degrees, and (usually) the fifth and sixth, and the seventh and eighth. Contrasted with major.
(of an interval) characteristic of a minor scale and less by a semitone than the equivalent major interval.
[often postposition] (of a key or mode) based on a minor scale: Concerto in A minor.
3. Brit. dated (appended to a surname in public schools) indicating the younger of two brothers: Smith minor.
4. Logic (of a term) occurring as the subject of the conclusion of a categorical syllogism.
(of a premise) containing the minor term in a categorical syllogism.
¦ noun
1. a person under the age of full legal responsibility.
2. Music a minor key, interval, or scale.
Bell-ringing a system of change-ringing using six bells.
3. (minors) N. Amer. the minor leagues in baseball or American football.
4. N. Amer. a student's subsidiary subject or course.
5. Logic a minor term or premise.
6. a small drab moth which has purplish caterpillars that feed on grass. [Genus Oligia.]
¦ verb (minor in) N. Amer. study or qualify in as a subsidiary subject.
Origin
ME (orig. denoting a Franciscan friar, suggested by the Latin name Fratres Minores, 'Lesser Brethren', chosen by St Francis): from L., 'smaller, less'.
minor
(minors, minoring, minored)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
You use minor when you want to describe something that is less important, serious, or significant than other things in a group or situation.
She is known in Italy for a number of minor roles in films...
Western officials say the problem is minor, and should be quickly overcome.
? major
ADJ
2.
A minor illness or operation is not likely to be dangerous to someone's life or health.
Sarah had been plagued continually by a series of minor illnesses...
His mother had to go to the hospital for minor surgery.
? major
ADJ: usu ADJ n
3.
In European music, a minor scale is one in which the third note is three semitones higher than the first.
...the unfinished sonata movement in F minor.
? major
ADJ: n ADJ, ADJ n
4.
A minor is a person who is still legally a child. In Britain and most states in the United States, people are minors until they reach the age of eighteen.
The approach has virtually ended cigarette sales to minors.
N-COUNT
5.
At a university or college in the United States, a student's minor is a subject that they are studying in addition to their main subject, or major.
? major
N-COUNT: oft poss N
6.
At a university or college in the United States, if a student is, for example, a geology minor, they are studying geology as well as their main subject.
? major
N-COUNT: n N
7.
If a student at a university or college in the United States minors in a particular subject, they study it in addition to their main subject.
I'm minoring in computer science.
? major
VERB: V in n
Wikipedia
Minor
Minor may refer to:
- Minor (law), a person under the age of certain legal activities.
- A person who has not reached the age of majority
- Academic minor, a secondary field of study in undergraduate education
Examples of use of minor
1. MINOR DAMAGE The same was true for minor damage to protective thermal blankets on the spacecraft.
2. Rafael said 10 employees sustained minor injuries and two suffered minor to moderate wounds.
3. In my last term, I chose a topic so obscure, the minor works of a minor eighth–century Irish writer.
4. "As far as this being minor, it‘s not minor to me because it hurts," said the 85–year–old Glenn.
5. Stiles faces 21 felony charges, including sexual assault of a minor and use of a minor in producing pornography.