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- noun Plural form of
minim .
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Examples
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The little ants known as minims tend the gardens, and they can be also found riding atop the leaves being brought home by the big ants.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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The little ants known as minims tend the gardens, and they can be also found riding atop the leaves being brought home by the big ants.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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The little ants known as minims tend the gardens, and they can be also found riding atop the leaves being brought home by the big ants.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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However, the monks, called minims, of St. Francesco di
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Skrritch nodded and began to clean her other eye, shooing away the distraught minims.
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Entomologists have puzzled for a long time over why the minims would waste their time hitching rides like this.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Counterpoint is largely note against note, and the textures are dense and busy throughout, with motion most consistently in minims and semibreves.
Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009
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Cantus-firmus writing is rarer in Lassus than in Palestrina, but on occasion Lassus could revert to the kind of cantus-firmus procedure used by Josquin and Obrecht; Homo cum in honore esset six voices; published 1566 has a soggetto cavato as cantus firmus on the text ‘Nosce te ipsum’, heard successively in breves, semibreves and minims.
Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009
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So, a woman will lift her head from the sieve of her hands and stare at the minims sung by a tree, a sudden gift.
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The hitchhiking minims patrol the leaves or perch on top, their mandibles open.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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