| 单词 | miniscule |
| 释义 | miniscule (once / 101891 pages) 1adj 2adjn Miniscule is a variant of minuscule, meaning “very tiny.” Ants, grains of sand, and portion sizes at fancy restaurants might all be described as miniscule. Mini- means small, as in the words minimal and miniskirt. That’s why it’s in the word miniscule too, right? Wrong. It’s there because enough people spelled the word incorrectly that dictionary editors have given in. The traditional spelling is minuscule, with a u instead of a second i; minuscule is derived from the Latin word minus meaning “less.” Sticklers are surely convinced that the newfangled spelling illustrates the miniscule amount of respect that English speakers have for their own language. WORD FAMILYminiscule USAGE EXAMPLESIf we look at the number of cases they handle in a year and look at the percentage involving student-athletes, it’s miniscule, which is good. Seattle Times(Dec 16, 2016) According to the coroner, the tragedy was the result of a "miniscule misjudgement or a slight error of execution" in playing an attempted pull shot. BBC(Nov 28, 2016) Many do stay, but the percentage is miniscule compared to the wipeouts. New York Times(Nov 04, 2016) 1 adj very small 2Syn minuscule little, small limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent 1adj lowercase Syn little, minuscule, small lowercase relating to small (not capitalized) letters that were kept in the lower half of a compositor's type case 2adj of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries Syn|Ant minuscular, minuscule lowercase relating to small (not capitalized) letters that were kept in the lower half of a compositor's type case majuscule of or relating to a style of writing characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters; 4th to 8th centuries uppercaserelating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case majuscularof the nature of a majuscule or written in majuscules 3n the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case Syn|Ant|Hyper lower-case letter, lowercase, minuscule, small letter capital, capital letter, majuscule, upper-case letter, uppercase one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis character, grapheme, graphic symbol a written symbol that is used to represent speech 4n a small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts Syn|Hyper minuscule cursive, cursive script, longhand, running hand rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper |
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