Minor vs Intermediate - What's the difference?

minor | intermediate |

As a proper noun minor

is .

As an adjective intermediate is

being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.

As a noun intermediate is

anything in an intermediate position.

As a verb intermediate is

to mediate, to be an intermediate.

minor

English

Alternative forms

* minour (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)

Of little significance or importance.

The physical appearance of a candidate is a minor factor in recruitment.

There is now such an immense "microliterature" on hepatics that, beyond a certain point I have given up trying to integrate (and evaluate) every minor paper published—especially narrowly floristic papers.

(music) Of a scale which has lowered scale degrees three, six, and seven relative to major, but with the sixth and seventh not always lowered

a minor scale.

(music) being the smaller of the two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number

Synonyms

* See also * See also

Antonyms

* major

Noun

(en noun)

A person who is below the legal age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities.

It is illegal to sell weapons to minors under the age of eighteen.

A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who has chosen such a secondary concentration.

* I had so many credit hours of English, it became my minor .

* I became an English minor .

(mathematics) determinant of a square submatrix

Antonyms

* (law) adult * major

Verb

(en verb)

To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.

* I had so many credit hours of English, I decided to minor in it.

Anagrams

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intermediate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.

{{quote-Fanny Hill, part=3 , which covered his belly to the navel and gave it the air of a flesh brush; and soon I felt it joining close to mine, when he had drove the nail up to the head, and left no partition but the intermediate hair on both sides.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The machine of a new soul , passage=The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.}}

Synonyms

* See also

Noun

(en noun)

Anything in an intermediate position.

An intermediary.

(chemistry) Any substance formed as part of a series of chemical reactions that is not the end-product.

Verb

(intermediat)

to mediate, to be an intermediate

to arrange, in the manner of a broker

Central banks need to regulate the entities that intermediate monetary transactions.

Derived terms

* intermediation *