Meaning of minor | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. comparative degree of pequeño: smaller
3. 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.
4. comparative degree of joven: younger
5. A lesser person or thing, a person, group, or thing of minor rank or in the minor leagues.
6. Ellipsis of minor interval, minor scale, minor mode, minor key, minor chord, or minor triad.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
7. superlative degree of pequeño: smallest
8. A formally recognized secondary area of undergraduate study, requiring fewer course credits than the equivalent major.
   Canada, US
9. superlative degree of joven: youngest
10. A person who is completing or has completed such a course of study.
    Canada, US, uncommon
11. A determinant of a square matrix obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns.
12. Alternative letter-case form of Minor: a Franciscan friar, a Clarist nun.
    alt-of
13. Ellipsis of minor term or minor premise.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
14. Ellipsis of minor league (“the lower level of teams”).
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
15. Ellipsis of minor penalty (“a penalty requiring a player to leave the ice for 2 minutes unless the opposing team scores”).
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
16. Synonym of behind: a one-point kick.
    Australian
17. Ellipsis of minor point (“a lesser score formerly gained by certain actions”).
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, historical
18. Ellipsis of minor suit, a card of a minor suit.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
19. Any of various noctuid moths in Europe and Asia, chiefly in the Oligia and Mesoligia genera.
20. A leaf-cutter worker ant intermediate in size between a minim and a media.
21. Changes rung on six bells.
22. An adolescent, a person above the legal age of puberty but below the age of majority.
    obsolete
23. Synonym of subtrahend, the amount subtracted from a number.
    obsolete, rare
24. The younger brother of a pupil.
    UK, obsolete, rare
25. Short for graph minor
    abbreviation, alt-of

Equivalents

Examples

“No, he can't get a mortgage or sell the house. He's still a minor. For the most part, he can't sign a legally binding contract.”

“He was only a minor when he succeeded his father to the barony.”

“King Richard the second... for the first tenne yeares of his raigne, was a Minor.”

“He plays in the minors.”

“She hasn't won a minor since the Sichuan Open.”

“The play is considered one of his minors.”

“Mr Gloss'em, who is a shining character in the theatrical world, at least among the minors of the metropolis.”

“I got a minor in English Lit.”

“I became an English minor.”

“...the whole of a system of rth minors being zero...”

“Let A be a non-zero matrix of rank r over a field. Then A has a non-zero r-minor and all s-minors of A are zero for s > r.”

“He... to þe menours ordre went”

“And so musten oure clerkis argue whan þai aleggen for her lordeschip þe lyuynge of her patrons & sayntis, & sayen þus: "Seynt thomas & seynt hwe & seynt Swiþune wer þus lordis, & in þis þai suyd cristis lyuynge & his lore; þerfor we may lefulli be þus lordis." And I wote wel þat gabriel schal blow his horne or þai han preuyd þe mynor; þat is, þat þes seyntes or patrons in þis suyden þe lore or þe life of ihesu criste.”

“It is certain that the major leagues must depend upon the minors for their recruits.”

“Penalties... First Period... all minors.”

“Brown from a mark on the magazine wing put up the first minor.”

“At half-time the score was—one goal, three tries, and four minors.”

“Many find it easier to remember 20 for Minors, 30 for Majors and 35 for No Trump.”

“Let my minor pass, you fellows!... Here, Chudleigh, just make room there.”

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