Minor

of minor importance

a minor poet

Here we se thre proposicions, or sentences, whereof the first is called Maior, that is to saie, the proposicion at large. the seconde is called Minor, that is to saie, the seuerall proposicion. the thirde is called conclusio.

It is my intention to wait a few years before I publish any minor poems.

There is now such an immense "microliterature" on hepatics that, beyond a certain point I have given up trying to integrate (and evaluate) every minor paper published—especially narrowly floristic papers.

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

She suffered a minor injury.

There was minor bruising.

He has a minor case of puppy love.

We now know on authority of Dr. Briggs that every case of vaccination is "a minor case of smallpox," and that every such case of smallpox "should be carefully watched until all danger is passed".

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

...a certaine Fraction, which may be the difference betwixt a Tone major and a Tone minor, which we nominate a Schism...

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.

The minor mode of D is tender.

The first chorus: ‘Behold the Lamb of God’, with its dark minor chords, brings threatening clouds over us.

Modern harmonists are unwilling to acknowledge that the minor triad is less consonant than the major.

After harmony was introduced into music during the late Middle Ages, major and minor triads emerged as the principal chords. The major triad, as C E G, was regarded with especial favor, because it occurs naturally in the harmonic series, as on bugles, and can be expressed by the simple ratios, 4:5:6. A system of tuning for the diatonic scale known today as just intonation gained support in the 16th century, because its principal triads, C E G, F A C, and G B D, had these just ratios. But an important minor triad, D F A, is harsh in just intonation, and other unsatisfactory triads result when this tuning is extended to the complete chromatic scale.

The first voice of the fugue that Elizabeth had played... came to him, inverted mockingly and in a minor key.

Tufnel: It's part of a trilogy, really, a musical trilogy that I'm doing in D... minor which I always find is really the saddest of all keys, really. I don't know why but it makes people weep instantly to play it... This piece is called "Lick My Love Pump".

He was a moralist in a minor key, more concerned that people should say ‘tinned peaches’ and not ‘tin peaches’, than that they should worry about nuclear disarmament.

The minor requirements only involve about 20 hours of classes.

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

He whipt her with a foxes taile, Barnes minor,

Espionage... was a field that had sophisticated itself since the distant time when Patullo Minor... had enthralled his school-fellows with his hazardous escapades.

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.

Josquin works in minor prolation—that is, works in which the signature indicates that a semibreve is equal to two minims, often have a 3 as a medial signature for a few measures, indicating that until the 3 is canceled by the reappearance of a sign for minor prolation, there are to be 3 minims to a semibreve.

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

In every other, the minor will be preferred by me to the major vote.

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.

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.

He was only a minor when he succeeded his father to the barony.

King Richard the second... for the first tenne yeares of his raigne, was a Minor.

He plays in the minors.

She hasn't won a minor since the Sichuan Open.

The play is considered one of his minors.

Mr Gloss'em, who is a shining character in the theatrical world, at least among the minors of the metropolis.

I got a minor in English Lit.

I became an English minor.

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

Let A be a non-zero matrix of rank r over a field. Then A has a non-zero r-minor and all s-minors of A are zero for s > r.

He... to þe menours ordre went

And so musten oure clerkis argue whan þai aleggen for her lordeschip þe lyuynge of her patrons & sayntis, & sayen þus: "Seynt thomas & seynt hwe & seynt Swiþune wer þus lordis, & in þis þai suyd cristis lyuynge & his lore; þerfor we may lefulli be þus lordis." And I wote wel þat gabriel schal blow his horne or þai han preuyd þe mynor; þat is, þat þes seyntes or patrons in þis suyden þe lore or þe life of ihesu criste.

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

Penalties... First Period... all minors.

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

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

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

Let my minor pass, you fellows!... Here, Chudleigh, just make room there.