Minor vs Meager - What's the difference?
minor | meager |
Of little significance or importance.
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(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
(music) being the smaller of the two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number
A person who is below the legal age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities.
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
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.
Having little flesh; lean; thin.
Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent; paltry; scanty; inadequate; unsatisfying.
* {{quote-book
, year=1607
, author=Thomas Walkington
, title=The Optick Glasse of Humors, or, The touchstone of a golden temperature, or ...
, page=54
* {{quote-book
, year=1637
, author=William Shakespeare
, title=The most excellent Historie of the Merchant of Venice: With the extreame crueltie of Shylocke ...
, page=E5
As adjectives the difference between minor and meager
is that minor is of little significance or importance while meager is having little flesh; lean; thin.As verbs the difference between minor and meager
is that minor is to choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university while meager is to make lean.As a noun minor
is a person who is below the legal age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities.As a proper noun Minor
is {{surname|lang=en}.minor
English
Alternative forms
* minour (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
- a minor scale.
Synonyms
* See also * See alsoAntonyms
* majorNoun
(en noun)- It is illegal to sell weapons to minors under the age of eighteen.
Antonyms
* (law) adult * majorVerb
(en verb)Anagrams
*External links
* (projectlink) * ----meager
English
(wikipedia meager)Alternative forms
* meagre (Commonwealth English)Adjective
(er)- A meager piece of cake in one bite.
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citation, passage=Nor none of thee thou pale and common drudge tween man and man: but thou, thou meager lead which rather threatnest then dost promise ought...}}