Minor
Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body.
Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third.
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.
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.
A Minorite; a Franciscan friar.
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Minor Quotations
Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.
Vince Lombardi
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
Stephen Hawking
God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle.
Giacomo Casanova
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
Ambrose Bierce
Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.
Katharine Hepburn
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
Gaston Bachelard
We are minor in everything but our passions.
Elizabeth Bowen
Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her.
Tony Blair
Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
Arthur Miller
Minor Translations
minor in French is insignifiant, petiot, mineur
minor in Italian is insignificante
minor in Spanish is menor
minor in Swedish is moll, mindre
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