Minor

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option, particularly

   “of minor importance”

2. sıfat Underage, not having reached legal majority.

   “The defendant resides at 123 Fake Street with his partner and two minor children.”

3. sıfat Not serious, not involving risk of death, permanent injury, dangerous surgery, or extended hospitalization.

   “She suffered a minor injury.”

4. sıfat Smaller by a diatonic semitone than the equivalent major interval.

   “The musical interval between C and E♭ is a minor third while C to E is a major third.”

5. sıfat Incorporating a minor third interval above the (in scales) tonic or (in chords) root note, (also figurative) tending to produce a dark, discordant, sad, or pensive effect.

   “Beethoven's melancholy Moonlight Sonata is scored in the key of C# minor, using the diatonic scale C♯, D♯, E, F♯, G♯, A, and B, but modulates throughout.”

6. sıfat Of or related to a minor, a secondary area of undergraduate study.

   “The minor requirements only involve about 20 hours of classes.”

7. sıfat Of or related to a minor, a determinate obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns from a matrix.
8. sıfat Acting as the subject of the second premise of a categorical syllogism, which then also acts as the subject of its conclusion.

   “The minor term of John Stuart Mill's famous syllogism—usually mistakenly credited to Aristotle—is Socrates; the major term is mortal.”

9. sıfat The younger of two pupils (or the middle of three) with the same surname.

   “He whipt her with a foxes taile, Barnes minor,”

10. sıfat Of or related to the relationship between the longa and the breve in a score.

    “The minor perfect mode was marked by one single line which crossed three spaces, and the longue was equal to three breves... The minor imperfect mode was marked by a line which crossed two spaces only, and its longue was equal only to two breves.”

11. sıfat Having semibreves twice as long as a minim.
12. sıfat Of or related to a minority party.

    “...that the Minor part of the Lords might joyn with the Major part of the House of Commons...”

13. sıfat Having little worth or ability; paltry; mean.

    “And whenever Dre tore her off some money, she always split it up between his kids. She would've felt real minor taking all his cash and spending it on herself, knowing how needy his babies were.”

14. sıfat Including both directed and undirected edges.
15. isim 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.

    “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.”

16. isim A lesser person or thing, a person, group, or thing of minor rank or in the minor leagues.

    “He plays in the minors.”

17. isim Ellipsis of minor interval, minor scale, minor mode, minor key, minor chord, or minor triad.
18. isim A formally recognized secondary area of undergraduate study, requiring fewer course credits than the equivalent major.

    “I got a minor in English Lit.”

19. isim A person who is completing or has completed such a course of study.

    “I became an English minor.”

20. isim A determinant of a square matrix obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns.

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

21. isim Alternative letter-case form of Minor: a Franciscan friar, a Clarist nun.

    “He... to þe menours ordre went”

22. isim Ellipsis of minor term or minor premise.
23. isim Ellipsis of minor league (“the lower level of teams”).

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

24. isim Ellipsis of minor penalty (“a penalty requiring a player to leave the ice for 2 minutes unless the opposing team scores”).

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

25. isim Synonym of behind: a one-point kick.

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

26. isim Ellipsis of minor point (“a lesser score formerly gained by certain actions”).

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

27. isim Ellipsis of minor suit, a card of a minor suit.

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

28. isim Any of various noctuid moths in Europe and Asia, chiefly in the Oligia and Mesoligia genera.
29. isim A leaf-cutter worker ant intermediate in size between a minim and a media.
30. isim Changes rung on six bells.