| minor | | |
| n. (person) | 1. child, fry, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster | a young person of either sex.; "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngster" |
| ~ child's body | the body of a human child. |
| ~ juvenile, juvenile person | a young person, not fully developed. |
| ~ bairn | a child: son or daughter. |
| ~ buster | a robust child. |
| ~ changeling | a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy. |
| ~ child prodigy, infant prodigy, wonder child | a prodigy whose talents are recognized at an early age.; "Mozart was a child prodigy" |
| ~ foster-child, foster child, fosterling | a child who is raised by foster parents. |
| ~ scamp, imp, monkey, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag | one who is playfully mischievous. |
| ~ kiddy | a young child. |
| ~ orphan | a child who has lost both parents. |
| ~ peanut | a young child who is small for his age. |
| ~ picaninny, piccaninny, pickaninny | (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child. |
| ~ poster child | a child afflicted by some disease or deformity whose picture is used on posters to raise money for charitable purposes.; "she was the poster child for muscular dystrophy" |
| ~ kindergartener, kindergartner, preschooler | a child who attends a preschool or kindergarten. |
| ~ silly | a word used for misbehaving children.; "don't be a silly" |
| ~ sprog | a child. |
| ~ bambino, toddler, yearling, tot | a young child. |
| ~ urchin | poor and often mischievous city child. |
| ~ street child, waif | a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned.; "street children beg or steal in order to survive" |
| adj. | 2. minor | of lesser importance or stature or rank.; "a minor poet"; "had a minor part in the play"; "a minor official"; "many of these hardy adventurers were minor noblemen"; "minor back roads" |
| ~ peanut, insignificant | of little importance or influence or power; of minor status.; "a minor, insignificant bureaucrat"; "peanut politicians" |
| ~ secondary | not of major importance.; "played a secondary role in world events" |
| adj. | 3. minor | lesser in scope or effect.; "had minor differences"; "a minor disturbance" |
| adj. | 4. minor | inferior in number or size or amount.; "a minor share of the profits"; "Ursa Minor" |
| adj. | 5. minor | of a scale or mode.; "the minor keys"; "in B flat minor" |
| ~ music | an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner. |
| adj. | 6. minor, nonaged, underage | not of legal age.; "minor children" |
| ~ law, jurisprudence | the collection of rules imposed by authority.; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" |
| adj. | 7. minor | of lesser seriousness or danger.; "suffered only minor injuries"; "some minor flooding"; "a minor tropical disturbance" |
| adj. | 8. minor | of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization. |
| adj. | 9. minor | of the younger of two boys with the same family name.; "Jones minor" |
| ~ britain, great britain, u.k., uk, united kingdom, united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland | a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom. |
| ~ junior | younger; lower in rank; shorter in length of tenure or service. |
| adj. | 10. minor, venial | warranting only temporal punishment.; "venial sin" |
| ~ theology, divinity | the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth. |
| ~ pardonable | admitting of being pardoned. |
| adj. | 11. minor, modest, pocket-size, pocket-sized, small, small-scale | limited in size or scope.; "a small business"; "a newspaper with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket-size country" |
| ~ limited | small in range or scope.; "limited war"; "a limited success"; "a limited circle of friends" |
| low gear | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. first, first gear, low, low gear | the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving. |
| ~ auto, automobile, car, motorcar, machine | a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine.; "he needs a car to get to work" |
| ~ gear mechanism, gear | a mechanism for transmitting motion for some specific purpose (as the steering gear of a vehicle). |
| slow down | | |
| v. (change) | 1. decelerate, retard, slow, slow down, slow up | lose velocity; move more slowly.; "The car decelerated" |
| ~ decrease, diminish, lessen, fall | decrease in size, extent, or range.; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper" |
| ~ slow up, slow, slow down | cause to proceed more slowly.; "The illness slowed him down" |
| ~ delay, detain, hold up | cause to be slowed down or delayed.; "Traffic was delayed by the bad weather"; "she delayed the work that she didn't want to perform" |
| v. (change) | 2. slack, slacken, slow, slow down, slow up | become slow or slower.; "Production slowed" |
| ~ weaken | become weaker.; "The prisoner's resistance weakened after seven days" |
| v. (change) | 3. slow, slow down, slow up | cause to proceed more slowly.; "The illness slowed him down" |
| ~ bog, bog down | cause to slow down or get stuck.; "The vote would bog down the house" |
| ~ decelerate, slow, slow down, slow up, retard | lose velocity; move more slowly.; "The car decelerated" |
| ~ constipate, clog | impede with a clog or as if with a clog.; "The market is being clogged by these operations"; "My mind is constipated today" |
| v. (change) | 4. decelerate, slow down | reduce the speed of.; "He slowed down the car" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| ~ moderate | make less fast or intense.; "moderate your speed" |
| ~ retard | cause to move more slowly or operate at a slower rate.; "This drug will retard your heart rate" |
| ~ fishtail | slow down by moving the tail sideways.; "The airplane fishtailed on the runway" |
| v. (body) | 5. decompress, loosen up, relax, slow down, unbend, unwind | become less tense, rest, or take one's ease.; "He relaxed in the hot tub"; "Let's all relax after a hard day's work" |
| ~ vege out, vegetate | engage in passive relaxation.; "After a hard day's work, I vegetate in front of the television" |
| ~ sit back, take it easy | settle into a comfortable sitting position. |
| ~ change state, turn | undergo a transformation or a change of position or action.; "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism"; "The people turned against the President when he stole the election" |
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