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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
miniaturise .
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They work as a kind of miniaturised fry-up, and as an improvement on nature: inedible shells rendered crisp and crunchy, buttressed by sausagemeat, with a lovely cooked egg.
Life and style | guardian.co.uk Oliver Thring 2010
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They work as a kind of miniaturised fry-up, and as an improvement on nature: inedible shells rendered crisp and crunchy, buttressed by sausagemeat, with a lovely cooked egg.
Life and style | guardian.co.uk Oliver Thring 2010
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The story also emphasises again how sad was the loss of Beagle 2, since it DID carry exactly the right instrument (a miniaturised mass spectrometer) to measure isotopes of gases in the Martian atmosphere and distinguish between organic and inorganic sources.
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The LA-based artist is obsessed with Superman mythology, specifically the bit where our hero discovers that an entire city, Kandor, from his home planet, Krypton, has been miniaturised and preserved in a bell jar, which he then stores in his Arctic hideout, The Fortress Of Solitude.
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And Foley's production piles on the sight gags: chairs and tables spin across the stage every time a train passes, the robbery is re-created by miniaturised cars colliding on a vertical wall, and, when the thieves fall out, a trick-knife is embedded in the boxer's bonce, and the pill-popper is apparently run through with a non-musical stave.
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Performed in French, English and Mandarin, the piece offers us Chinese calligraphy and dance, beautiful images of miniaturised, high-speed trains and traditional bicycles, and swift transitions from Pierre's studio flat to stations, airports and bars.
Blue Dragon - review 2011
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Collishaw has both magnified and miniaturised what's there (and what is not), just as the grounds themselves are full of staggering reversals of scale.
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The bathroom here is tiny, only large enough for a toilet, a basin, a miniaturised bathtub.
The Bathing Ritual 2010
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It runs all the way from a 40ft work by Neudecker to Freddie Robins's miniaturised tableau of Ariadne abandoned by Theseus, her heart bleeding ruby pinpricks in a dolls 'house-sized grotto.
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A miniaturised electronic warfare system — say a variant of a radar warning receiver and a claymore mine — could wait for that signature to become close and explode.
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