minim

5 definitions found

minim - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Minim \Min"im\, a.
     Minute. "Minim forms." --J. R. Drake.
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  Minim \Min"im\, n. [F. minime, L. minimus the least, smallest, a
     superl. of minor: cf. It. minima a note in music. See
     Minor, and cf. Minimum.]
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     1. Anything very minute; as, the minims of existence; --
        applied to animalcula; and the like.
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     2. The smallest liquid measure, equal to about one drop; the
        sixtieth part of a fluid drachm, equal to one
        four-hundred-eightieth of a fluid ounce, or 0.06161
        milliliter (U. S. measure) or 0.05919 milliliters (British
        measure).
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     3. (Zool.) A small fish; a minnow. [Prov. Eng.]
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     4. A little man or being; a dwarf. [Obs.] --Milton.
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     5. (Eccl. Hist.) One of an austere order of mendicant hermits
        or friars founded in the 15th century by St. Francis of
        Paola.
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     6. (Mus.) A time note, formerly the shortest in use; a half
        note, equal to half a semibreve, or two quarter notes or
        crotchets.
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     7. A short poetical encomium. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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  Minnow \Min"now\, n. [OE. menow, cf. AS. myne; also OE. menuse,
     OF. menuise small fish; akin to E. minish, minute.] [Written
     also minow.]
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     1. (Zool.) A small European fresh-water cyprinoid fish
        (Phoxinus laevis, formerly Leuciscus phoxinus);
        sometimes applied also to the young of larger kinds; --
        called also minim and minny. The name is also applied
        to several allied American species, of the genera
        Phoxinus, Notropis, or Minnilus, and Rhinichthys.
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     2. (Zool.) Any of numerous small American cyprinodont fishes
        of the genus Fundulus, and related genera. They live
        both in fresh and in salt water. Called also killifish,
        minny, and mummichog.
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minim - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  minim
      n 1: a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal
           to 1/60th fluid dram or 0.059194 cubic centimeters
      2: a United States liquid unit equal to 1/60 fluidram
      3: a musical note having the time value of half a whole note
         [syn: half note, minim]

minim - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  106 Moby Thesaurus words for "minim":
     accidental, ace, atom, bit, breve, breve rest, crotchet, crumb,
     dab, demisemiquaver, dole, dominant, dominant note, dot,
     double whole note, dram, dribble, driblet, drop, droplet, dwarf,
     eighth note, eighth rest, enharmonic, enharmonic note, farthing,
     flat, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, gnat, gobbet, grain, granule,
     groat, hair, half note, half rest, handful, hemidemisemiquaver,
     iota, jot, little, little bit, lota, microbe, microorganism, midge,
     minimum, minutia, minutiae, mite, modicum, molecule, mote,
     musical note, natural, note, nutshell, ounce, particle,
     patent note, pause, pebble, pinch, pinhead, pinpoint, pittance,
     point, quarter note, quarter rest, quaver, report, responding note,
     rest, scrap, scruple, semibreve, semiquaver, shaped note, sharp,
     sixteenth note, sixteenth rest, sixty-fourth note, smidgen, smitch,
     snip, snippet, speck, spiccato, spoonful, spot, staccato,
     sustained note, tercet, thimbleful, thirty-second note, tiny bit,
     tittle, tone, trifling amount, triplet, trivia, vanishing point,
     whit, whole note