different between miniature vs exiguous
miniature
English
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Etymology
Borrowed from Italian miniatura (“manuscript illumination”), from miniare (“to illuminate”), from Latin mini? (“to colour red”), from minium (“red lead”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?m?n(?)?t??(?)/
- (US) IPA(key): /?m?n(i)?t???/, /?m?n(i)?t????/
Noun
miniature (plural miniatures)
- Greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale.
- A small version of something; a model of reduced scale.
- A small, highly detailed painting, a portrait miniature.
- The art of painting such highly detailed miniature works.
- An illustration in an illuminated manuscript.
- A musical composition which is short in duration.
- (chess) A chess game which is concluded with very few moves.
- (role-playing games, board games) A token in a game representing a unit or character.
- Lettering in red; rubric distinction.
- A particular feature or trait.
Derived terms
- miniaturist
- mini-
- mini
Translations
Adjective
miniature (comparative more miniature, superlative most miniature)
- Smaller than normal.
Derived terms
- miniature poodle
- miniaturism
Translations
Verb
miniature (third-person singular simple present miniatures, present participle miniaturing, simple past and past participle miniatured)
- (transitive) To make smaller than normal; to reproduce in miniature.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian miniatura.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mi.nja.ty?/
Noun
miniature f (plural miniatures)
- miniature
- (computing) thumbnail (a miniature preview of a larger image)
Synonyms
- (thumbnail): vignette, aperçu
Further reading
- “miniature” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Noun
miniature f
- plural of miniatura
Anagrams
- minuteria
- ruminiate
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exiguous
English
Etymology
From Latin exiguus (“strict, exact”), from exigere (“to measure against a standard”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???z??ju.?s/, /???z??ju.?s/
Adjective
exiguous (comparative more exiguous, superlative most exiguous)
- scanty; meager
- 1889 — Robert Louis Stevenson, The Wrong Box ch XIII
- The herdboy in the broom, already musical in the days of Father Chaucer, startles (and perhaps pains) the lark with this exiguous pipe.
- 1912 — G. K. Chesterton, Manalive ch VII
- The path on which I then planted my feet was quite unprecedentedly narrow. I had never had to walk along a thoroughfare so exiguous.
- 1998 — Michael Ignatieff, Rebirth of a Nation: An Anatomy of Russia. New Statesman, Feb 6.
- They are entering the market, setting up stalls on snowy streets, moonlighting to supplement exiguous incomes.
- 2012 — Rodger Cohen, Scottexalonia Rising, New York Times, Nov. 26., Op. Ed.
- National politics, as President François Hollande of France is only the latest to discover, is often no more than tweaking at the margins in the exiguous political space left by markets and other global forces.
- 1889 — Robert Louis Stevenson, The Wrong Box ch XIII
Derived terms
- exiguate
- exiguity
- exiguously
- exiguousness
- unexiguous
Related terms
- exigency
Translations
exiguous From the web:
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