minor

minor

underage person
Not to be confused with:miner – a person who works in a mine; a mechanical device used in mining

mi·nor

M0311200 (mī′nər)adj.1. Lesser or smaller in amount, extent, or size.2. Lesser in importance, rank, or stature: a minor politician.3. Lesser in seriousness or danger: a minor injury.4. Law Not having reached legal adulthood.5. Chiefly British Relating to or being the younger or junior of two pupils with the same surname.6. Of or relating to a secondary area of academic specialization.7. Logic Dealing with a more restricted category.8. Music a. Relating to or being a minor scale.b. Less in distance by a half step than the corresponding major interval.c. Based on a minor scale: a minor key.n.1. One that is lesser in comparison with others of the same class.2. Law One who has not reached legal adulthood.3. a. A secondary area of specialized academic study, requiring fewer courses or credits than a major.b. One studying in a secondary area of specialization: She is a physics minor.4. Logic a. A minor premise.b. A minor term.5. Music A minor key, scale, or interval.6. minors Sports The minor leagues of a sport, especially baseball.intr.v. mi·nored, mi·nor·ing, mi·nors To pursue academic studies in a minor field: minored in music.

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[Middle English minour, from Old French menour and from Latin minor (Old French, from Latin); see mei- in Indo-European roots.]

minor

(ˈmaɪnə) adj1. lesser or secondary in amount, extent, importance, or degree: a minor poet; minor burns. 2. of or relating to the minority3. (Law) below the age of legal majority4. (Music, other) music a. (of a scale) having a semitone between the second and third and fifth and sixth degrees (natural minor). See also harmonic minor scale, melodic minor scaleb. (of a key) based on the minor scalec. (postpositive) denoting a specified key based on the minor scale: C minor. d. (of an interval) reduced by a semitone from the majore. (of a chord, esp a triad) having a minor third above the rootf. (esp in jazz) of or relating to a chord built upon a minor triad and containing a minor seventh: a minor ninth. See also minor key, minor mode5. (Logic) logic (of a term or premise) having less generality or scope than another term or proposition6. (Education) education US of or relating to an additional secondary subject taken by a student7. (immediately postpositive) Brit the younger or junior: sometimes used after the surname of a schoolboy if he has an older brother in the same school: Hunt minor. 8. (Music, other) (postpositive) bell-ringing of, relating to, or denoting a set of changes rung on six bells: grandsire minor. n9. a person or thing that is lesser or secondary10. (Law) a person below the age of legal majority11. (Education) education US and Canadian a subsidiary subject in which a college or university student needs fewer credits than in his or her major12. (Music, other) music a minor key, chord, mode, or scale13. (Logic) logic a minor term or premise14. (Mathematics) maths a. a determinant associated with a particular element of a given determinant and formed by removing the row and column containing that elementb. Also called: cofactor or signed minor the number equal to this reduced determinant15. (Roman Catholic Church) (capital) another name for Minoritevb (Education) education (usually foll by: in) US to take a minor[C13: from Latin: less, smaller; related to Old High German minniro smaller, Gothic minniza least, Latin minuere to diminish, Greek meiōn less]

mi•nor

(ˈmaɪ nər)

adj. 1. lesser, as in size, extent, or amount, or being or noting the lesser of two: a minor share. 2. lesser, as in seriousness, importance, or rank: a minor wound; a minor role. 3. under full legal age. 4. of or pertaining to a student's academic minor. 5. a. (of a musical interval) smaller by a chromatic half step than the corresponding major interval. b. (of a chord) containing a minor third. c. based on a minor scale: a minor key. 6. of or pertaining to the minority. n. 7. a person under full legal age. 8. a subject or course of study pursued secondarily to a major subject or course. 9. a minor musical interval, chord, scale, etc. 10. the minors, the minor leagues. v.i. 11. to choose or study as a secondary academic subject or course: to minor in biology. [1250–1300; Middle English < Latin: smaller, less; akin to Old English min small, Skt mīnāti (he) diminishes]

minor

Past participle: minored
Gerund: minoring

Imperative
minor
minor

Present
I minor
you minor
he/she/it minors
we minor
you minor
they minor

Preterite
I minored
you minored
he/she/it minored
we minored
you minored
they minored

Present Continuous
I am minoring
you are minoring
he/she/it is minoring
we are minoring
you are minoring
they are minoring

Present Perfect
I have minored
you have minored
he/she/it has minored
we have minored
you have minored
they have minored

Past Continuous
I was minoring
you were minoring
he/she/it was minoring
we were minoring
you were minoring
they were minoring

Past Perfect
I had minored
you had minored
he/she/it had minored
we had minored
you had minored
they had minored

Future
I will minor
you will minor
he/she/it will minor
we will minor
you will minor
they will minor

Future Perfect
I will have minored
you will have minored
he/she/it will have minored
we will have minored
you will have minored
they will have minored

Future Continuous
I will be minoring
you will be minoring
he/she/it will be minoring
we will be minoring
you will be minoring
they will be minoring

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been minoring
you have been minoring
he/she/it has been minoring
we have been minoring
you have been minoring
they have been minoring

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been minoring
you will have been minoring
he/she/it will have been minoring
we will have been minoring
you will have been minoring
they will have been minoring

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been minoring
you had been minoring
he/she/it had been minoring
we had been minoring
you had been minoring
they had been minoring

Conditional
I would minor
you would minor
he/she/it would minor
we would minor
you would minor
they would minor

Past Conditional
I would have minored
you would have minored
he/she/it would have minored
we would have minored
you would have minored
they would have minored

minor

A field of study that a student is not specializing in and which requires fewer credits, or a student studying such a field. To minor in something is to study it as as a secondary field.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	minor - a young person of either sex; "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngster"child, kid, nipper, tiddler, youngster, tike, shaver, small fry, nestling, fry, tykechild's body - the body of a human childjuvenile, juvenile person - a young person, not fully developedbairn - a child: son or daughterbuster - a robust childchangeling - a child secretly exchanged for another in infancychild prodigy, infant prodigy, wonder child - a prodigy whose talents are recognized at an early age; "Mozart was a child prodigy"foster child, foster-child, fosterling - a child who is raised by foster parentsscamp, imp, monkey, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag - one who is playfully mischievouskiddy - a young childorphan - a child who has lost both parentspeanut - a young child who is small for his agepicaninny, piccaninny, pickaninny - (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black childposter child - a child afflicted by some disease or deformity whose picture is used on posters to raise money for charitable purposes; "she was the poster child for muscular dystrophy"kindergartener, kindergartner, preschooler - a child who attends a preschool or kindergartensilly - a word used for misbehaving children; "don't be a silly"sprog - a childbambino, toddler, yearling, tot - a young childurchin - poor and often mischievous city childstreet child, waif - a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned; "street children beg or steal in order to survive"
Adj.	1.	minor - of lesser importance or stature or rank; "a minor poet"; "had a minor part in the play"; "a minor official"; "many of these hardy adventurers were minor noblemen"; "minor back roads"major - of greater importance or stature or rank; "a major artist"; "a major role"; "major highways"
	2.	minor - lesser in scope or effect; "had minor differences"; "a minor disturbance"major - greater in scope or effect; "a major contribution"; "a major improvement"; "a major break with tradition"; "a major misunderstanding"
	3.	minor - inferior in number or size or amount; "a minor share of the profits"; "Ursa Minor"major - greater in number or size or amount; "a major portion (a majority) of the population"; "Ursa Major"; "a major portion of the winnings"
	4.	minor - of a scale or mode; "the minor keys"; "in B flat minor"music - an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous mannermajor - of a scale or mode; "major scales"; "the key of D major"
	5.	minor - not of legal age; "minor children" nonaged, underagelaw, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"major - of full legal age
	6.	minor - of lesser seriousness or danger; "suffered only minor injuries"; "some minor flooding"; "a minor tropical disturbance"major - of greater seriousness or danger; "a major earthquake"; "a major hurricane"; "a major illness"
	7.	minor - of your secondary field of academic concentration or specializationmajor - of the field of academic study in which one concentrates or specializes; "his major field was mathematics"
	8.	minor - of the younger of two boys with the same family name; "Jones minor"Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdomjunior - younger; lower in rank; shorter in length of tenure or service
	9.	minor - warranting only temporal punishment; "venial sin"venialtheology, divinity - the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truthpardonable - admitting of being pardoned
	10.	minor - limited in size or scope; "a small business"; "a newspaper with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket-size country"pocket-size, pocket-sized, small, small-scale, modestlimited - small in range or scope; "limited war"; "a limited success"; "a limited circle of friends"

minor

adjective1. small, lesser, subordinate, smaller, light, slight, secondary, petty, inferior, trivial, trifling, insignificant, negligible, unimportant, paltry, inconsequential, inconsiderable, nickel-and-dime (U.S. slang) She is known for a number of minor roles in films.
small important, great, major, serious, heavy, grand, significant, considerable, substantial, superior, weighty, consequential, appreciable2. unknown, obscure, little-known, lightweight, insignificant, unimportant, small-time (informal), minor-league (U.S.), two-bit (U.S. informal) a minor poet and wannabe actornoun1. child, youth, teenager, infant, adolescent, kid (informal), teen (informal), munchkin (informal, chiefly U.S.), littlie (Austral. informal) The approach has virtually ended cigarette sales to minors.

minor

adjective1. Below another in standing or importance:inferior, junior, lesser, low, lower, minor-league, petty, secondary, small, subaltern, subordinate, under.Informal: smalltime.2. Law. Not yet a legal adult:underage.nounLaw. One who is not yet legally of age:child, juvenile.Law: infant.

Translations

未成年人较小的辅修次要的副修科目

minor

(ˈmainə) adjective1. less, or little, in importance, size etc. Always halt when driving from a minor road on to a major road; She has to go into hospital for a minor operation. 較小的，次要的 较小的，次要的 2. (American) a secondary subject that a student chooses to study at university or college. Her major is in physics, but she has a minor in computer science. (美)副修科目 副修科目 verb (American) to study something as a minor subject. He is minoring in French. (美)副修 辅修 noun a person who is not yet legally an adult. 未成年人 未成年人miˈnority (miˈno-) , (mӕiˈno-) noun a small number; less than half. Only a minority of people live in the countryside; a racial/political minority. 少數 少数be in the minority to be in the smaller of two groups. Women were in the minority at the meeting. 居於少數 少数派

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