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minim n. 液量單位,一滴,微量 液量單位,一滴,微量 minim n 1: a British imperial capacity measure ( liquid or dry) equal to 1/ 60th fluid dram or 0. 059194 cubic centimeters 2: a United States liquid unit equal to 1/ 60 fluidram 3: a musical note having the time value of half a whole note [ synonym: { half note}, { minim}] Minim \ Min" im\, a. Minute. " Minim forms." -- J. R. Drake. [ 1913 Webster]
Minim \ Min" im\, n. [ F. minime, L. minimus the least, smallest, a superl. of minor: cf. It. minima a note in music. See { Minor}, and cf. Minimum.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. Anything very minute; as, the minims of existence; -- applied to animalcula; and the like. [ 1913 Webster] 2. The smallest liquid measure, equal to about one drop; the sixtieth part of a fluid drachm, equal to one four- hundred- eightieth of a fluid ounce, or 0. 06161 milliliter ( U. S. measure) or 0. 05919 milliliters ( British measure). [ 1913 Webster PJC] 3. ( Zool.) A small fish; a minnow. [ Prov. Eng.] [ 1913 Webster] 4. A little man or being; a dwarf. [ Obs.] -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 5. ( Eccl. Hist.) One of an austere order of mendicant hermits or friars founded in the 15th century by St. Francis of Paola. [ 1913 Webster] 6. ( Mus.) A time note, formerly the shortest in use; a half note, equal to half a semibreve, or two quarter notes or crotchets. [ 1913 Webster] 7. A short poetical encomium. [ Obs.] -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster]
Minnow \ Min" now\, n. [ OE. menow, cf. AS. myne; also OE. menuse, OF. menuise small fish; akin to E. minish, minute.] [ Written also { minow}.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. ( Zool.) A small European fresh- water cyprinoid fish ({ Phoxinus laevis}, formerly { Leuciscus phoxinus}); sometimes applied also to the young of larger kinds; -- called also { minim} and { minny}. The name is also applied to several allied American species, of the genera { Phoxinus}, { Notropis}, or { Minnilus}, and { Rhinichthys}. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Zool.) Any of numerous small American cyprinodont fishes of the genus { Fundulus}, and related genera. They live both in fresh and in salt water. Called also { killifish}, { minny}, and { mummichog}. [ 1913 Webster] 106 Moby Thesaurus words for " minim": accidental, ace, atom, bit, breve, breve rest, crotchet, crumb, dab, demisemiquaver, dole, dominant, dominant note, dot, double whole note, dram, dribble, driblet, drop, droplet, dwarf, eighth note, eighth rest, enharmonic, enharmonic note, farthing, flat, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, gnat, gobbet, grain, granule, groat, hair, half note, half rest, handful, hemidemisemiquaver, iota, jot, little, little bit, lota, microbe, microorganism, midge, minimum, minutia, minutiae, mite, modicum, molecule, mote, musical note, natural, note, nutshell, ounce, particle, patent note, pause, pebble, pinch, pinhead, pinpoint, pittance, point, quarter note, quarter rest, quaver, report, responding note, rest, scrap, scruple, semibreve, semiquaver, shaped note, sharp, sixteenth note, sixteenth rest, sixty- fourth note, smidgen, smitch, snip, snippet, speck, spiccato, spoonful, spot, staccato, sustained note, tercet, thimbleful, thirty- second note, tiny bit, tittle, tone, trifling amount, triplet, trivia, vanishing point, whit, whole note
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