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noun
A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, 1⁄60 fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.
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noun
A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.
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noun
Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.
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The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
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noun
A little man or being; a dwarf.
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A small fish; a minnow.
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noun
A short poetical encomium.
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noun
A member of a Roman Catholic religious order of friars founded by Saint Francis of Paola in fifteenth-century Italy.
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noun
a musical note having the time value of half a whole note
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: half note
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Broader terms: note, musical note, tone
noun
a United States liquid unit equal to 1/60 fluidram
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: United States liquid unit
noun
a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 1/60th fluid dram or 0.059194 cubic centimeters
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Broader terms: British capacity unit, Imperial capacity unit
History
Borrowed from French minime.
See minimum (“least”); so called to humble them even below the Franciscans, or "friars minor".
Across languages
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