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secondary
English
Etymology
From Middle English secundarie, from Latin secund?rius (“of the second class or quality”), from secundus (whence the English second) + -?rius (whence the English suffix -ary); compare the French secondaire, the Italian secondario, the Occitan secundari, the Portuguese secundario, and the Spanish secundario.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?s?k?nd(?)??/
- (US) IPA(key): /?s?k?n?d??i/
Adjective
secondary (not generally comparable, comparative more secondary, superlative most secondary)
- Next in order to the first or primary; of second place in origin, rank, etc.
- Originating from a deputy or delegated person or body
- (organic chemistry) Derived from a parent compound by replacement of two atoms of hydrogen by organic radicals
- (geology) Produced by alteration or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rock mass.
- (geology) Developed by pressure or other causes.
- (anatomy) Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird.
- (medicine) Dependent or consequent upon another disease, or occurring in the second stage of a disease.
- Bright's disease is often secondary to scarlet fever.
- the secondary symptoms of syphilis
- Of less than primary importance.
- (education) Related to secondary education, i.e. schooling between the ages of (approximately) 11 and 18.
- (manufacturing) Relating to the manufacture of goods from raw materials.
- (of a color) Formed by mixing primary colors.
- Yellow is a secondary light color, though a primary CMYK color.
- (taxonomy, not comparable) Representing a reversion to an ancestral state.
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
secondary (plural secondaries)
- (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the ulna (forearm) of a bird.
- (aviation) A radar return generated by the response of an aircraft's transponder to an interrogation signal broadcast by a radar installation, containing additional encoded identification and situational data not available from a simple primary return.
- (military) The second stage of a multistage thermonuclear weapon, which generates a fusion explosion when imploded as an indirect result of the fission explosion of the primary; in a few extremely large weapons, the secondary may itself implode a fusion tertiary.
- (finance) An act of issuing more stock by an already publicly traded corporation.
- (American football, Canadian football) The defensive backs.
- (electronics) An inductive coil or loop that is magnetically powered by a primary in a transformer or similar.
- One who occupies a subordinate or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy.
- the secondary, or undersheriff, of the city of London
- (astronomy) A secondary circle.
- (astronomy) A satellite.
- (education) A secondary school.
- There are four secondaries in this district, each with several thousand pupils.
- Anything secondary or of lesser importance.
Translations
Middle English
Adjective
secondary
- Alternative form of secundarie
Noun
secondary
- Alternative form of secundarie
secondary From the web:
- what secondary consumer
- what secondary colors
- what secondary school
- what secondary consumer eats rabbits
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- what secondary consumer eats grasshoppers
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:
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- 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
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