Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A being of the smallest size.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete A being of the smallest size.
- n. dated The youngest pupil in a school having a particular surname.
- n. anatomy The little finger; the fifth digit, or that corresponding to it, in either the manus or pes.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A being of the smallest size.
- n. (Anat.) The little finger; the fifth digit, or that corresponding to it, in either the manus or pes.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the fifth digit; the little finger or little toe
Etymologies
- Latin. See minim. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“10A: A minimus is the smallest one (toe) - the monotonous professor in me thought this was something to do with paleography”
“One of the few authors willing to venture a guess was Glenn Cooper, a thriller author with whom I share an audiobooks narrator: "I'd say that audio revenues are a de minimus portion of my publishing revenues, certainly less than 1%.”
The Huffington Post: Karen Dionne: Can You Hear Me Now? An Author Talks Audiobooks
“De minimus" investments may be made in hedge funds and private equity funds, so long as the banking entity does not have more than 3 percent of total ownership of the fund and that investment does not represent more than 3 percent of its Tier 1 capital.”
“Volcker Rule: modified from its initial form to include multiple exceptions for permitted activities, as well as "de minimus" allowances for investments in hedge funds and private equity.”
“You can't just assume away some of these sources as de minimus," said Tom Singer, a senior policy analyst for the Natural Resources Defense Council who focuses on emissions reporting in New Mexico.”
“Seek to balance the de minimus labor and environmental requirements that China places on "State Owned Enterprises", or SOEs, with the responsible ones placed on non-state owned enterprises operating outside China.”
“Real racism has been reduced to de minimus levels while charges of racism seem to increase.”
“There remains a long line of unfortunate and flawed Supreme Court precedents regarding the broad scope of the powers granted to Congress under both the Commerce Clause (a de minimus level for activities to "substantially affect" interstate commerce) and the Necessary and Proper Clause (bootstraps supplied by regulatory schemes).”
The Wall Street Journal: Ballots, Not Judges, Will Decide This
“So now in addition to the “ends justify the means” and “de minimus non curat lex” apologia for RW dictatorships, we have an implicit “no true Scotsman” argument: “No real RW gummint has secret police and a surveillance state” (even if they torture and kill their dissidents and anyone else that gets in their way).”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Competing Explanations for the Oppressive Nature of Socialism
“For example, an agency could decide that the violation was de minimus.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Comment on Kerry-Lieberman Climate Bill
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘minimus’.
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anatomy etcetera
Funny sounding things found in bodies. Might be split up into several lists later...
zona incerta, mucous membrane, secretomotor, tear film, tear sac, duodenum, horripilation, peduncle, pelvic outlet, canal of Schlemm, visceral, chromosomal cross... and 189 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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135 Offensive Shakespearean Terms
135 Offensive Shakespearean Terms =)
artless, baggage, barnacle, bawdy, beef-witted, bladder, boil-brained, bootless, brazen, cankerblossom, churlish, churrish and 123 more...
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It Has a Name??
Yes. Yes it does.
aglet, armsaye, scroop, rowel, ferrule, rasceta, chanking, philtrum, frenulum, keeper, agelast, punt and 285 more...
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MISSGIVEN TITLES
words that i might put in my projects's titlte
medium, effigy, cineclub, ∞, guide, biscuit, voodoo, friends, spirit, palindrome, premium, minimus and 73 more...
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Ye Olde Shouting Match
From a list of insulting words that you might encounter in a Middle English shouting match.
The list was given to me by my English teacher.bawdy, bunch-backed, canker-blossom, brazen, clay-brained, clotpole, churlish, dog-hearted, crutch, distempered, empty-hearted, cutpurse and 78 more...
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Human Anatomical Terms
Human bits 'n' pieces.
vas deferens, incus, crypts of lieberkühn, patella, pancreas, scaphoid, appendix, rectum, caecum, vagina, hip, ear and 46 more...
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herotuesday's Words
butyraceous, thrasonical, turgid, ululate, irenic, punctilio, discombobulate, ecdysiast, formicate, favonian, agnate, erubescence and 614 more...
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Odd Words
Weird words you'd never think of using.
minimus, quimp, grawlix, nittles, jarns, chanking, chantepleure, dibble, eugeria, groak, libberwort, pilgarlic and 8 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for minimus.
reesetee To be played by Danny DeVito? Dec 17, 2007
bilby Also, a Disney character. Dec 17, 2007
mollusque Also, a being of the smallest size (MW3); and, a tiny coin, a minim; an ulcerative disease of the vulva; designating the youngest of several pupils with the same surname, e.g., Jonson minimus (OED2). Plural minimi. Dec 17, 2007
reesetee Oy. Feb 23, 2007
uselessness In the as-yet-unannounced film Gladiator II, this is the name of protagonist Maximus's dagger-wielding arch enemy. To be played by Danny DeVito. Feb 23, 2007
reesetee In anatomy, the smallest finger or toe. Feb 23, 2007