minor road
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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
minor/ˈmʌɪnə(r)/
▶adjective
- 1 having little importance, seriousness, or significance.
- 2 Music (of a scale) having intervals of a semitone between the second and third degrees, and (usually) the fifth and sixth, and the seventh and eighth. Contrasted with major.
■ (of an interval) characteristic of a minor scale and less by a semitone than the equivalent major interval.
■ [often postpos.] (of a key or mode) based on a minor scale: Concerto in A minor.
- 3 Brit. dated (appended to a surname in public schools) indicating the younger of two brothers: Smith minor.
- 4 Logic (of a term) occurring as the subject of the conclusion of a categorical syllogism.
■ (of a premise) containing the minor term in a categorical syllogism.
- 1 a person under the age of full legal responsibility.
- 2 Music a minor key, interval, or scale.
■ Bell-ringing a system of change-ringing using six bells.
- 3 (minors) N. Amer. the minor leagues in baseball or American football.
- 4 N. Amer. a student's subsidiary subject or course.
- 5 Logic a minor term or premise.
- 6 a small drab moth which has purplish caterpillars that feed on grass. [Genus Oligia.]
– origin ME (orig. denoting a Franciscan friar, suggested by the Latin name Fratres Minores, ‘Lesser Brethren’, chosen by St Francis): from L., ‘smaller, less’.
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