Minor vs Smaller - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between minor and smaller

is that minor is of little significance or importance while smaller is comparative of small.

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 verb minor

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

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.

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smaller

English

Adjective

(head)

(small)

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small

English

Adjective

(er)

Not large or big; insignificant; few in numbers or size.

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* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)

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(figuratively) Young, as a child.

(writing, incomparable) Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written letters.

Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.

* Carlyle

A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man.

Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.

a small space of time

Synonyms

* (not large or big) little, microscopic, minuscule, minute, tiny; see also * little, wee (Scottish), young * (of written letters) lowercase, minuscule

Antonyms

* See also * (not large or big) capital, big, generous (said of an amount of something given), large * adult, grown-up, old * (of written letters) big, capital, majuscule, uppercase

Derived terms

* small arm * small arms * small beer * small calorie * small-cell lung cancer * small change * small claims court * smallclothes * smaller European elm bark beetle * small forward * small fry * smallgoods * smallholder * smallholding * small hours * small intestine * smallish * small-minded * smallmouth * smallmouth bass * smallmouth black bass * smallness * small potatoes * smallpox * smalls * small-scale * small screen * small stuff * smallsword * small talk * small-time * * small wonder * twice as small * twice as small as

Adverb

(er)

In a small fashion.

* (William Shakespeare), (w, A Midsummer Night's Dream) , Act I, scene 2, line 49:

That's all one: you shall play it in a mask, and / you may speak as small as you will.

In or into small pieces.

* 2009 , Ingrid Hoffman, CBS Early Morning for September 28, 2009 (transcription)

That's going to go in there. We've got some chives small chopped as well.

(obsolete) To a small extent.

* (rfdate) (William Shakespeare), Sonnets , "Lucrece", line 1273

It small avails my mood.

Derived terms

* writ small

Noun

(en noun)

Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back.

(UK, in the plural) Underclothes.

Derived terms

* small of the back

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To make little or less.

To become small; to dwindle.

* Thomas Hardy

And smalled till she was nought at all.

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