minim en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
Borrowed from French minime.
Meanings
- A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
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A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, ¹⁄₆₀ fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.
He thanked me with a smiling nod, measured out a few minims of the red tincture and added one of the powders.
1886, Robert Louis Stephenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:
- A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.
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Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.
the minims of existence
- The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
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A little man or being; a dwarf.
These as a line thir^([sic]) long dimension drew, Streaking the ground with sinuous trace; not all Minims of Nature; some of Serpent kinde Wondrous in length and corpulence […]
1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- A small fish; a minnow.
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A short poetical encomium.
To make one minim of thy poor handmaid
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| minom | alternative | lexicographic | |
| minims | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| minum | alternative | lexicographic |
Deriveds
semiminim · minimometer · minim rest · minim confusion
Relateds
Translations (23)
pt mínima (half note) · el μισό (half note) · pl półnuta (half note) · fi puolinuotti (half note) · sv halvnot (half note) · ru полови́нная но́та (half note) · cmn 二分音符 (half note) · ja 二分音符 (half note) · hi अर्धमात्रिक (half note) · gl branca (half note) · gd punc geal (half note) · de halbe Note (half note) · fr blanche (half note) · nl halve noot (half note) · is hálfnóta (half note) · ko 이분음표 (half note) · ar بَيْضَاء (half note) · vi nốt trắng (half note) · bg половина нота (half note) · yue 二分音符 (half note) · mi ororua (half note) · es blanca (half note) · hu fél (half note)