Minim
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
minim
n 1: a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal
to 1/60th fluid dram or 0.059194 cubic centimeters
2: a United States liquid unit equal to 1/60 fluidram
3: a musical note having the time value of half a whole note
[syn: {half note}, {minim}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Minim \Min"im\, n. [F. minime, L. minimus the least, smallest, a
superl. of minor: cf. It. minima a note in music. See
{Minor}, and cf. Minimum.]
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1. Anything very minute; as, the minims of existence; --
applied to animalcula; and the like.
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2. The smallest liquid measure, equal to about one drop; the
sixtieth part of a fluid drachm, equal to one
four-hundred-eightieth of a fluid ounce, or 0.06161
milliliter (U. S. measure) or 0.05919 milliliters (British
measure).
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3. (Zool.) A small fish; a minnow. [Prov. Eng.]
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4. A little man or being; a dwarf. [Obs.] --Milton.
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5. (Eccl. Hist.) One of an austere order of mendicant hermits
or friars founded in the 15th century by St. Francis of
Paola.
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6. (Mus.) A time note, formerly the shortest in use; a half
note, equal to half a semibreve, or two quarter notes or
crotchets.
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7. A short poetical encomium. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Minnow \Min"now\, n. [OE. menow, cf. AS. myne; also OE. menuse,
OF. menuise small fish; akin to E. minish, minute.] [Written
also {minow}.]
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1. (Zool.) A small European fresh-water cyprinoid fish
({Phoxinus laevis}, formerly {Leuciscus phoxinus});
sometimes applied also to the young of larger kinds; --
called also {minim} and {minny}. The name is also applied
to several allied American species, of the genera
{Phoxinus}, {Notropis}, or {Minnilus}, and {Rhinichthys}.
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2. (Zool.) Any of numerous small American cyprinodont fishes
of the genus {Fundulus}, and related genera. They live
both in fresh and in salt water. Called also {killifish},
{minny}, and {mummichog}.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
106 Moby Thesaurus words for "minim":
accidental, ace, atom, bit, breve, breve rest, crotchet, crumb,
dab, demisemiquaver, dole, dominant, dominant note, dot,
double whole note, dram, dribble, driblet, drop, droplet, dwarf,
eighth note, eighth rest, enharmonic, enharmonic note, farthing,
flat, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, gnat, gobbet, grain, granule,
groat, hair, half note, half rest, handful, hemidemisemiquaver,
iota, jot, little, little bit, lota, microbe, microorganism, midge,
minimum, minutia, minutiae, mite, modicum, molecule, mote,
musical note, natural, note, nutshell, ounce, particle,
patent note, pause, pebble, pinch, pinhead, pinpoint, pittance,
point, quarter note, quarter rest, quaver, report, responding note,
rest, scrap, scruple, semibreve, semiquaver, shaped note, sharp,
sixteenth note, sixteenth rest, sixty-fourth note, smidgen, smitch,
snip, snippet, speck, spiccato, spoonful, spot, staccato,
sustained note, tercet, thimbleful, thirty-second note, tiny bit,
tittle, tone, trifling amount, triplet, trivia, vanishing point,
whit, whole note
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