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Minor vs Reader - What's the difference?

minor | reader |

As nouns the difference between minor and reader

is that minor is a person who is below the legal age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities while reader is a person who reads a publication.

As a adjective minor

is of little significance or importance.

As a verb minor

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

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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    reader

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who reads a publication.
  • A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience.
  • A proofreader.
  • (chiefly, British) A university lecturer below a professor.
  • Any device that reads something.
  • a card reader''''', ''a microfilm '''reader
  • A book of exercises to accompany a textbook.
  • A literary anthology.
  • A lay or minor cleric who reads lessons in a church service.
  • A newspaper advertisement designed to look like an news article rather than a commercial solicitation.
  • Derived terms

    * early reader

    Anagrams

    * * * English agent nouns