minnow

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Any of certain small fish.

   “I wonder King George is let venture down on this coast, where he might be snapped up in a moment like a minnow by a her'n, so near as we be to the field of Boney's vagaries!”

2. isim The common minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus), a small freshwater fish of the carp family Cyprinidae which has a green back with black elongated blotches, commonly swimming in large shoals.
3. isim Chiefly with a qualifying word: That fish or any of a number of other (small) fish from the family Cyprinidae.
4. isim Any of those fish or other small (usually freshwater) fish from other families.
5. isim Synonym of galaxiid (“any member of the family Galaxiidae of mostly small freshwater fish of the Southern Hemisphere”); specifically, the common galaxias, inanga, or jollytail (Galaxias maculatus).
6. isim Synonym of stickleback (family Gasterosteidae).
7. isim A person or thing of relatively little consequence, importance, or value.

   “Let him denie that there was another shewe made of the little minnow his Brother, Dodrans Dicke, at Peter-houſe, called, Duns furens. Dick Harvey in a frenſie.”

8. isim a team that is considered less skilled and not expected to win many, if any, of its matches.
9. isim An artificial bait in the form of a small fish.

   “[…] I have (which I will show you) an artificial minnow, that will catch a trout as well as an artificial fly, and it was made by a handsome woman that had a fine hand, and a live minnow lying by her: […]”

10. sıfat Very small; tiny.
11. fiil To fish for minnows (noun sense 1 and subsenses).
12. fiil To fish, especially for trout, using minnows as bait.