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Minor vs Landmark - What's the difference?

minor | landmark |

As a proper noun minor

is .

As a noun landmark is

a recognizable natural or man-made feature used for navigation.

As a verb landmark is

(us) to officially designate a site or building as a landmark.

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

    *

    External links

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    landmark

    English

    Alternative forms

    * land mark

    Noun

    (wikipedia landmark) (en noun)
  • A recognizable natural or man-made feature used for navigation.
  • * Anyone have any weird landmarks they often remember seeing along roads in the olden days? — [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/misc.transport.road/msg/59ea1e6fe80efd60]
  • A notable location with historical, cultural, or geographical significance.
  • * ''Putting together a list of landmarks for Bangalore was not the easiest task." — [http://www.rediff.com/travel/1996/banland.htm]
  • A major, important event.
  • * He called the overthrow of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and the recent elections in Afghanistan landmark events in the history of liberty. — [http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/18/bush.troops/]

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (US) To officially designate a site or building as a landmark.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=March 25, author=Jeff Vandam, title=Preservationists’ Rallying Cry, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=“Permitted demolition or stripping rarely occurs on landmarked buildings,” she said. Ms. de Bourbon also noted that the city already requires the Buildings Department to hold permits for 40 days for “calendared” properties — those currently under landmarks consideration — so the commission has a chance to designate them.}}