miniature
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
Greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale.
- 2.
A small version of something; a model of reduced scale.
There was a miniature of a whaling ship in a glass bottle over the mantelpiece.
- 3.
A small, highly detailed painting, a portrait miniature.
- 4.
The art of painting such highly detailed miniature works.
- 5.
An illustration in an illuminated manuscript.
- 6.
A musical composition which is short in duration.
Sacha composed a miniature for strings as a final project at the conservatory.
- 7.
(chess) A chess game which is concluded with very few moves.
- 8.
(roleplaying games, board games) A token in a game representing a unit or character.
Jack had dozens of miniatures of Napoleonic footsoldiers painted in detailed period regalia for his wargames.
- 9.
Lettering in red; rubric distinction.
- 10.
A particular feature or trait.
Tính từ
adjective- 1.
Smaller than normal.
I find miniature dogs annoying; they seem to yap more than full-size dogs.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To make smaller than normal; to reproduce in miniature.
c. 1807, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, letter to Joseph Cottle, cited in Joseph Cottle, Early Recollections, Chiefly Relating to the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge, London: Longman, Rees, 1837, Volume 2, p. 131, Now what the globe is in geography, miniaturing in order to manifest the truth, such is a poem to that image of God, which we were created into […]
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