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minuscule 音标拼音: [m'ɪnəskj ,ul] n. 草写小字,小写字
a. 草写小字的,小写字的 草写小字,小写字草写小字的,小写字的 minuscule adj 1: of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries [ synonym: { minuscule}, { minuscular}] [ ant: { majuscule}] 2: lowercase; " little a"; " small a"; " e. e. cummings' s poetry is written all in minuscule letters" [ synonym: { little}, { minuscule}, { small}] 3: very small; " a minuscule kitchen"; " a minuscule amount of rain fell" [ synonym: { minuscule}, { miniscule}] n 1: the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor' s type case [ synonym: { small letter}, { lowercase}, { lower- case letter}, { minuscule}] [ ant: { capital}, { capital letter}, { majuscule}, { upper- case letter}, { uppercase}] 2: a small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscriptsMinuscule \ Mi* nus" cule\, n. [ L. minusculus rather small, fr. minus less: cf. F. minuscule.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. Any very small, minute object. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A small Roman letter which is neither capital nor uncial; a manuscript written in such letters. [ 1913 Webster]
minuscule \ minuscule\ adj. a. Of or relating to a minuscule[ 2] or of a script written in minuscules[ 2]; of the size and style of minuscules[ 2]; written in minuscules[ 2]; minuscular. [ 1913 Webster WordNet 1. 5] These minuscule letters are cursive forms of the earlier uncials. -- I. Taylor ( The Alphabet). [ 1913 Webster] 38 Moby Thesaurus words for " minuscule": abecedarian, allographic, alphabetic, baby, baby- sized, bantam, banty, capital, compact, diminutive, duodecimo, graphemic, handy, ideographic, lettered, lexigraphic, literal, logogrammatic, logographic, lower- case, majuscule, miniature, miniaturized, minikin, minimal, minuscular, pictographic, pocket, pocket- sized, pony, small- scale, subminiature, toy, transliterated, twelvemo, uncial, upper- case, vest- pocket
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