Shrink vs Minify - What's the difference?
shrink | minify |
To cause to become smaller.
To become smaller; to contract.
* Francis Bacon
* Dryden
To cower or flinch.
To draw back; to withdraw.
* Milton
(figuratively) To withdraw or retire, as from danger.
* Alexander Pope
* Jowett (Thucyd.)
shrinkage; contraction; recoil
(slang, sometimes, pejorative) A psychiatrist or therapist; a head-shrinker.
* 1994 , (Green Day),
To make smaller.
* 1887 , Philip Schaff, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 4: Augustine: The Writings Against the Manichaeans and Against the Donatists, "Bibliography: Modern Works"
* 1942 , Lloyd C. Douglas, Green Light , Pocket Books Inc., page 170:
To reduce in apparent size, as for example objects viewed through a lens or mirror shaped so as to increase the field of view, such as a convex or aspheric mirror or a Fresnel lens
* 1935 , Lloyd C. Douglas, Green Light , Houghton Mifflin, Chapter 10:
(computing) To remove white space and unnecessary characters from a web page's source code in order to reduce its size and improve download time.
* 2008 , Steve Souders, High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers, O'Reilly, page 69:
As verbs the difference between shrink and minify
is that shrink is to cause to become smaller while minify is to make smaller.As a noun shrink
is shrinkage; contraction; recoil.shrink
English
Verb
- The dryer shrank my sweater.
- This garment will shrink when wet.
- I have not found that water, by mixture of ashes, will shrink or draw into less room.
- And shrink like parchment in consuming fire.
- Molly shrank away from the blows of the whip.
- The Libya Hammon shrinks his horn.
- What happier natures shrink at with affright, / The hard inhabitant contends is right.
- They assisted us against the Thebans when you shrank from the task.
Synonyms
* (avoid an unwanted task) funk, shirkAntonyms
* (to cause to become smaller) expand, grow, enlarge, stretch * (become smaller) expand, grow, enlarge, stretchNoun
(en noun)- Yet almost wish, with sudden shrink , / That I had less to praise. — Leigh Hunt.
- You need to see a shrink .
- My shrink said that he was an enabler, bad for me.
- I went to a shrink , to analyze my dreams. He said it's lack of sex that's bringing my down.''
Usage notes
* The slang sense was originally pejorative, expressing a distrust of practitioners in the field. It is now not as belittling or trivializing.Synonyms
* head-shrinkerminify
English
Verb
- Schneckenburger strives to make it appear that Baur unduly minifies the Christian element in Manichæism.
- There must be something in the appeal of the Gothic that minifies one group of values leaving other considerations untouched, or actually magnifying them.
- But, mused Parker, this theory of one's perplexities being diminished by the vastly superior height of these Gothic arches cannot have any foundation in fact, for the same inverted telescope that minifies' my burdens also ' minifies my capacity to carry them, leaving me exactly of the same stature as before.
- When code is minified , all comments are removed, as well as unneeded whitespace characters (space, newline, and tab).