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Minimize vs Emerging - What's the difference?

minimize | emerging |

As verbs the difference between minimize and emerging

is that minimize is to make (something) as small or as insignificant as possible while emerging is .

As an adjective emerging is

becoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising.

As a noun emerging is

emergence.

minimize

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (non-Oxford British spelling)

Verb

(minimiz)
  • To make (something) as small or as insignificant as possible.
  • (computing, transitive, graphical user interface) To remove (a window) from the main display area, collapsing it to an icon or caption.
    • I didn't close anything, but I minimized all the windows so I could see the desktop.

    emerging

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Becoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising.
  • *{{quote-magazine, title=Towards the end of poverty
    • , date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • emergence
  • * 1857 , Pamphlets on Biology: Kofoid collection
    • We must endeavour to realize a succession of gradual sinkings or depressions into deep water, alternating with gradual emergings into shallows, and eventually a gradual continued lifting of the whole district