different between minor vs dependent
minor
English
Alternative forms
- minour (obsolete)
Etymology
Middle English, borrowed from Latin minor (“less, smaller, inferior”). Compare Latin minu?, Old High German minniro.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ma?.n?(?)/
- Homophones: miner, mynah (non-rhotic accents)
- Rhymes: -a?n?(?)
Adjective
minor (comparative more minor, superlative most minor)
- Lesser in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance; comparatively unimportant.
- (medicine) Not serious or involving risk to life.
- (medicine) Not serious or involving risk to life.
- (music):
- (of a scale) Having intervals of a semitone between the second and third degrees, and (usually) the fifth and sixth, and the seventh and eighth.
- (of an interval) Characteristic of a minor scale and less by a semitone than the equivalent major interval.
- Having a minor third above the root.
- Having a minor third above the root.
- (usually postpositive) (of a key or mode) Based on a minor scale and tending to produce a sad or pensive effect.
- (of a scale) Having intervals of a semitone between the second and third degrees, and (usually) the fifth and sixth, and the seventh and eighth.
- Not having reached majority.
- Synonym: underage
- (Britain, dated) Indicating the younger of two brothers, following a surname in public schools.
- (Canada, US, education) Of or relating to an academic subject requiring fewer courses than a major.
- (logic):
- (of a term) Occurring as the subject of the conclusion of a categorical syllogism.
- (of a premise) Containing the minor term in a categorical syllogism.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:insignificant
- See also Thesaurus:small
Antonyms
- major
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Noun
minor (plural minors)
- A person who is below the age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities.
- Antonym: adult
- (British slang, dated) A younger brother (especially at a public school).
- (music):
- Ellipsis of minor scale.
- Ellipsis of minor interval.
- Ellipsis of minor key.
- (campanology) Bell changes rung on six bells.
- (Canada, US, sports, in the plural) The minor leagues in baseball or American football.
- (Canada, US, education) A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university.
- The student who has chosen such a secondary concentration.
- The student who has chosen such a secondary concentration.
- (mathematics) A determinant of a square submatrix.
- (logic):
- Ellipsis of minor term.
- Ellipsis of minor premise.
- (bridge) Ellipsis of minor suit.
- (entomology):
- A small drab moth which has purplish caterpillars that feed on grass.
- A small worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony, sized between a minim and a media.
Antonyms
- major
Derived terms
- minoress
Translations
Verb
minor (third-person singular simple present minors, present participle minoring, simple past and past participle minored) (intransitive)
- Used in a phrasal verb: minor in.
Translations
References
- “minor”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- “minor”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
- Minor in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Anagrams
- Miron, Morin, morin
Indonesian
Etymology
From Latin minor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?min?r]
- Hyphenation: mi?nor
Adjective
minor
- minor.
- Antonym: mayor
Related terms
Further reading
- “minor” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Interlingua
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mi?nor/
Adjective
minor (not comparable)
- (comparative degree of parve) smaller
Adjective
le minor
- the smallest
Synonyms
- (smallest): minime
Italian
Adjective
minor
- Apocopic form of minore
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?mi.nor/, [?m?n?r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?mi.nor/, [?mi?n?r]
Etymology 1
From Proto-Italic *minw?s. Doublet of minu?.
Adjective
minor (neuter minus, positive parvus); third declension
- comparative degree of parvus:
- less, lesser, inferior, smaller
- cheaper
- younger
- less, lesser, inferior, smaller
Inflection
Third-declension comparative adjective.
Antonyms
- maior
Descendants
Noun
minor m (genitive min?ris); third declension
- subordinate, minor, inferior in rank
- person under age (e.g. 25 years old), minor
- (poetic, in the plural) children; descendants, posterity
- (poetic, in the plural) children; descendants, posterity
Inflection
Third-declension noun.
Etymology 2
From minae (“threats, menaces”) +? -or (verbal suffix). Doublet of min?.
Verb
minor (present infinitive min?r?, perfect active min?tus sum); first conjugation, deponent
- (literally, poetic) jut forth, protrude, project
- (transferred sense) [+ablative] threaten, menace
Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- (adjective) minor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- (verb) minor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- minor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- minor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- minor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- minor in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- minor in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Romanian
Etymology
From French mineur, from Latin minor.
Adjective
minor m or n (feminine singular minor?, masculine plural minori, feminine and neuter plural minore)
- minor
Declension
Swedish
Noun
minor
- indefinite plural of mina
minor From the web:
- what minors go well with psychology
- what minor means
- what minority groups are there
- what minors need to fly
- what minor should i choose
- what minors go well with nursing
- what minor goes well with education
- what minors go well with biology
dependent
English
Etymology
Originally dependant, from French dépendant, present participle of dépendre (“to depend”) (in English assimilated to Latin d?pend?ns).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??p?nd?nt/
- Hyphenation: de?pend?ent
Adjective
dependent (comparative more dependent, superlative most dependent)
- Relying upon; depending upon.
- (statistics) Having a probability that is affected by the outcome of a separate event.
- 2005, Alejandro Balbás, Rosario Romera, Esther Ruiz, Recent Advances in Applied Probability, Springer, page 49:
- Within the GMM framework, the distribution of returns conditional on the market return can be both serially dependent and conditionally heteroscedastic.
- 2006, M.M. Rao and Randall J. Swift, Probability Theory with Applications (Second Edition), Springer, page 87:
- Is it possible to find events A, B of ? so that A and B are independent? The answer to this simple and interesting problem is no. A probability space (?,?,P) is called a “dependent probability space” if there are no nontrivial independent events in ?, (?,?,P) is called an independent space otherwise.
- 2005, Alejandro Balbás, Rosario Romera, Esther Ruiz, Recent Advances in Applied Probability, Springer, page 49:
- (of Scottish Gaelic, Manx and Irish verb forms) Used in questions, negative sentences and after certain particles and prepositions.
- (medicine) Affecting the lower part of the body, such as the legs while standing up, or the back while supine.
- Hanging down.
Antonyms
- independent
Hyponyms
- language-dependent
- redshift-dependent
- system-dependent
- order-dependent
Translations
Noun
dependent (plural dependents)
- (US) One who relies on another for support
- With two children and an ailing mother, she had three dependents in all.
- (grammar) An element in phrase or clause structure that is not the head. Includes complements, modifiers and determiners.
- (grammar) The aorist subjunctive or subjunctive perfective: a form of a verb not used independently but preceded by a particle to form the negative or a tense form. Found in Greek and in the Gaelic languages.
Synonyms
- dependant (UK)
Related terms
- dependee
- depender
Translations
Antonyms
- independent
Derived terms
- co-dependent
- depending
Related terms
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin d?pend?ns.
Adjective
dependent (masculine and feminine plural dependents)
- dependent
- Antonym: independent
Derived terms
- dependència
- dependentment
Related terms
- dependre
- independent
Further reading
- “dependent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “dependent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “dependent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “dependent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Ladin
Noun
dependent m (plural dependenc)
- employee
Latin
Verb
d?pendent
- third-person plural present active indicative of d?pende?
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French dépendant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de.pen?dent/
Adjective
dependent m or n (feminine singular dependent?, masculine plural dependen?i, feminine and neuter plural dependente)
- dependent
Declension
Antonyms
- independent
Related terms
- dependen??
dependent From the web:
- what dependent variable
- what dependents get a stimulus check
- what dependents qualify for stimulus
- what dependent variable mean
- what dependent mean
- what dependent clause
- what dependents get stimulus
- what dependent clause mean
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