Minifies vs Minified - What's the difference?
minifies | minified |
(minify)
To make smaller.
* 1887 , Philip Schaff, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 4: Augustine: The Writings Against the Manichaeans and Against the Donatists, "Bibliography: Modern Works"
* 1942 , Lloyd C. Douglas, Green Light , Pocket Books Inc., page 170:
To reduce in apparent size, as for example objects viewed through a lens or mirror shaped so as to increase the field of view, such as a convex or aspheric mirror or a Fresnel lens
* 1935 , Lloyd C. Douglas, Green Light , Houghton Mifflin, Chapter 10:
(computing) To remove white space and unnecessary characters from a web page's source code in order to reduce its size and improve download time.
* 2008 , Steve Souders, High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers, O'Reilly, page 69:
As verbs the difference between minifies and minified
is that minifies is (minify) while minified is (minify).minifies
English
Verb
(head)minify
English
Verb
- Schneckenburger strives to make it appear that Baur unduly minifies the Christian element in Manichæism.
- There must be something in the appeal of the Gothic that minifies one group of values leaving other considerations untouched, or actually magnifying them.
- But, mused Parker, this theory of one's perplexities being diminished by the vastly superior height of these Gothic arches cannot have any foundation in fact, for the same inverted telescope that minifies' my burdens also ' minifies my capacity to carry them, leaving me exactly of the same stature as before.
- When code is minified , all comments are removed, as well as unneeded whitespace characters (space, newline, and tab).