different between miniature vs toy

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)

1. Greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale.
2. A small version of something; a model of reduced scale.

3. A small, highly detailed painting, a portrait miniature.
4. The art of painting such highly detailed miniature works.
5. An illustration in an illuminated manuscript.
6. A musical composition which is short in duration.

7. (chess) A chess game which is concluded with very few moves.
8. (role-playing games, board games) A token in a game representing a unit or character.

9. Lettering in red; rubric distinction.
10. A particular feature or trait.

Derived terms

• miniaturist
• mini-
• mini

Translations

Adjective

miniature (comparative more miniature, superlative most miniature)

1. 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)

1. (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)

1. miniature
2. (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

1. plural of miniatura

Anagrams

• minuteria
• ruminiate

English

Etymology

From Middle English toye (“amorous play, piece of fun or entertainment”), probably from Middle Dutch toy, tuyg (“tools, apparatus, utensil, ornament”) as in Dutch speel-tuig (“play-thing, toy”), from Old Dutch *tiug, from Proto-Germanic *teug? (“stuff, matter, device, gear, lever”, literally “that which is drawn or pulled”), from Proto-Germanic *teuhan? (“to lead, bring, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull, lead”). Cognate with German Spielzeug (“toy”), Danish legetøj (“play-thing, toy”). Related to tug, tow.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

toy (plural toys)

1. Something to play with, especially as intended for use by a child. [from 16th c.]

2. A thing of little importance or value; a trifle. [from 16th c.]

   • he had deflowered the abbess, and as many besides of the nuns as he could, and leaves him withal rings, jewels, girdles, and such toys to give them still, when they came to visit him.

3. A simple, light piece of music, written especially for the virginal. [16th-17th c.]
4. (obsolete) Love play, amorous dalliance; fondling. [16th-18th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.i:

     Then seemed him his Lady by him lay, / And to him playnd, how that false winged boy, / Her chast hart had subdewd, to learne Dame pleasures toy.

5. (obsolete) A vague fancy, a ridiculous idea or notion; a whim. [16th-17th c.]
   • , vol.1, III.i.2:

     Though they do talk with you, and seem to be otherwise employed, and to your thinking very intent and busy, still that toy runs in their mind, that fear, that suspicion, that abuse, that jealousy […].

   • What if a toy take 'em i'th' heels now, and they all run away.

   • Nor light and idle toys my lines may vainly swell.

6. (slang, derogatory) An inferior graffiti artist.
   • 2009, Gregory J. Snyder, Graffiti Lives: Beyond the Tag in New York's Urban Underground (page 40)

     It is incorrect to say that toys tag and masters piece; toys just do bad tags, bad throw-ups, and bad pieces.

   • 2011, Adam Melnyk, Visual Orgasm: The Early Years of Canadian Graffiti (page 45)

     I was a toy until I met Sear, who moved here from Toronto and showed me the book Subway Art.

7. (obsolete) An old story; a silly tale.
8. (Scotland, archaic) A headdress of linen or wool that hangs down over the shoulders, worn by old women of the lower classes; called also toy mutch.
9. A sex toy (object or device to give sexual pleasure).

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:toy

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

toy (third-person singular simple present toys, present participle toying, simple past and past participle toyed)

1. (intransitive) To play (with) in an idle or desultory way.
2. (intransitive) To ponder or consider.

3. (slang, transitive) To stimulate with a sex toy.
   • 2013, Jonathan Everest, Lady Loverly's Chattel

     He could see her hand go to her slit, and soon she was toying herself along, breathing heavily.

Translations

See also

• game

Anagrams

• Tyo, yot

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *toy (“feast”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toj/

Noun

toy (definite accusative toyu, plural toylar)

1. wedding

Declension

Crimean Tatar

Noun

toy

1. wedding feast
2. banquet

Faroese

Etymology

From Danish tøj, from Middle Low German tüg.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??i?/, /t?œi?/

Noun

toy n (genitive singular toys, uncountable)

1. fabric

Declension

Middle French

Alternative forms

• toi

Pronoun

toy

1. (in the singular, less formal) you

Synonyms

• (plural or polite singular): vous

Related terms

• te
• tu

Turkish

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish ????, attested in Turkic from the 11th century.

Adjective

toy

1. immature, naive

Etymology 2

Noun

toy (definite accusative toyu, plural toylar)

1. great bustard; Otis tarda

See also

• tay

References

• Ni?anyan, Sevan (2002–) , “toy1”, in Ni?anyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) , “???”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1264

Uzbek

Noun

toy (plural toylar)

1. foal