English Dictionary

minor

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈmaɪ.nəɹ/

名詞

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(law) A child, a person who has not reached the age of majority, consent, etc. and is legally subject to fewer responsibilities and less accountability and entitled to fewer legal rights and privileges.

日本語の意味

未成年者。法的に、成年に達していないために一定の権利や責任が限定される子供・若者を指す。

The lawyer explained that the minor could not enter into the contract without parental consent.

弁護士は、未成年者は親の同意なしに契約を結ぶことができないと説明した。

意味（1）

(law) A child, a person who has not reached the age of majority, consent, etc. and is legally subject to fewer responsibilities and less accountability and entitled to fewer legal rights and privileges.

King Richard the second... for the first tenne yeares of his raigne, was a Minor.

意味（2）

A lesser person or thing, a person, group, or thing of minor rank or in the minor leagues.

Mr Gloss'em, who is a shining character in the theatrical world, at least among the minors of the metropolis.

意味（3）

(music) Ellipsis of minor interval, scale, mode, key, chord, triad, etc.

意味（4）

(Canada, US, education) A formally recognized secondary area of undergraduate study, requiring fewer course credits than the equivalent major.

I got a minor in English Lit.

意味（5）

(Canada, US, education, uncommon) A person who is completing or has completed such a course of study.

I became an English minor.

意味（6）

(mathematics) A determinant of a square matrix obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns.

...the whole of a system of rth minors being zero...

意味（7）

(Catholicism) Alternative letter-case form of Minor: a Franciscan friar, a Clarist nun.

He... to þe menours ordre went

意味（8）

(logic) Ellipsis of minor term or minor premise.

And so musten oure clerkis argue whan þai aleggen for her lordeschip þe lyuynge of her patrons & sayntis, & sayen þus: Seynt thomas & seynt hwe & seynt Swiþune wer þus lordis, & in þis þai suyd cristis lyuynge & his lore; þerfor we may lefulli be þus lordis. And I wote wel þat gabriel schal blow his horne or þai han preuyd þe mynor; þat is, þat þes seyntes or patrons in þis suyden þe lore or þe life of ihesu criste.

意味（9）

(baseball) Ellipsis of minor league: the lower level of teams.

It is certain that the major leagues must depend upon the minors for their recruits.

意味（10）

(ice hockey) Ellipsis of minor penalty: a penalty requiring a player to leave the ice for 2 minutes unless the opposing team scores.

Penalties... First Period... all minors.

意味（11）

(Australian football) Synonym of behind: a one-point kick.

Brown from a mark on the magazine wing put up the first minor.

意味（12）

(rugby, historical) Ellipsis of minor point: a lesser score formerly gained by certain actions.

At half-time the score was—one goal, three tries, and four minors.

意味（13）

(bridge) Ellipsis of minor suit; a card of a minor suit.

Many find it easier to remember 20 for Minors, 30 for Majors and 35 for No Trump.

意味（14）

(entomology) Any of various noctuid moths in Europe and Asia, chiefly in the Oligia and Mesoligia genera.

意味（15）

(entomology) A leaf-cutter worker ant intermediate in size between a minim and a media.

意味（16）

(campanology) Changes rung on six bells.

意味（17）

(Scotland law, obsolete) An adolescent, a person above the legal age of puberty but below the age of majority.

意味（18）

(mathematics, rare, obsolete) Synonym of subtrahend, the amount subtracted from a number.

意味（19）

(UK, rare, obsolete) The younger brother of a pupil.

Let my minor pass, you fellows!... Here, Chudleigh, just make room there.

minors （ plural ）