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Minor vs Piddling - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between minor and piddling

is that minor is of little significance or importance while piddling is insignificant, negligible, paltry, trivial, useless.

As verbs the difference between minor and piddling

is that minor is to choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university while piddling is present participle of lang=en.

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)
  • 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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    piddling

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Insignificant, negligible, paltry, trivial, useless.
    • After all the work I'd done, he gave me a piddling amount of money.
    The ignoble hucksterage of piddling tithes. — Milton.

    Verb

    (head)