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Minim vs Minium - What's the difference?

minim | minium |

As nouns the difference between minim and minium

is that minim is a half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem while minium is cinnabar, especially when used as a pigment; vermilion.

minim

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (music) A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
  • A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, 1/60 fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 ?L or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.
  • *
  • A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.
  • Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.
    • the minims of existence
  • A small fish; a minnow.
  • A little man or being; a dwarf.
    • (Milton)
  • A short poetical encomium.
    • (Spenser)

    See also

    * crotchet * quaver * semibreve English palindromes ----

    minium

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Red lead.