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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Miniature \Min"i*a*ture\, a. Being on a small scale; much reduced from the reality; as, a miniature copy.
Miniature \Min"i*a*ture\, v. t. To represent or depict in a small compass, or on a small scale.
Miniature \Min"i*a*ture\ (?; 277), n. [It. miniatura, fr. L. miniare. See Miniate, v., Minium.]
Originally, a painting in colors such as those in medi[ae]val manuscripts; in modern times, any very small painting, especially a portrait.
Greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale.
Lettering in red; rubric distinction. [Obs.]
A particular feature or trait. [Obs.]
--Massinger.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, "a reduced image," from Italian miniatura "manuscript illumination or small picture," from past participle of miniare "to illuminate a manuscript," from Latin miniare "to paint red," from minium "red lead," used in ancient times to make red ink, a word said to be of Iberian origin. Sense development is because pictures in medieval manuscripts were small, but no doubt there was influence as well from the similar-sounding Latin words that express smallness: minor, minimus, minutus, etc.
"small," 1714, from minature (n.). Of dog breeds, from 1889. Of golf, from 1893.
Wiktionary
small than normal. n. 1 Greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale. 2 A small version of something; a model of reduced scale. 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. 7 (context gaming English) A token in a game representing a unit or character. 8 Lettering in red; rubric distinction. 9 A particular feature or trait. v
(context transitive English) To make smaller than normal; to reproduce in miniature.
WordNet
adj. being on a very small scale; "a miniature camera"
n. painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts) [syn: illumination]
copy that reproduces something in greatly reduced size [syn: toy]
Wikipedia
A miniature is a small-scale reproduction, or a small version. It may refer to:
- Portrait miniature, a miniature portrait painting
- Miniature art, miniature painting, engraving and sculpture
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Miniature (illuminated manuscript), a small painting in an illuminated text
- Persian miniature, a small painting in an illuminated text or album
- Ottoman miniature, a small painting in an illuminated text or album
- Mughal miniature, a small painting in an illuminated text or album
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Scale model
- Room box
- Figurine
- Miniature figure (gaming), a small figurine used in role playing games and tabletop wargames
- Miniature (alcohol), a very small bottle of an alcoholic drink
- Miniature (The Twilight Zone), a 1963 episode of The Twilight Zone
- Miniature rose
- Miniature candy, smaller variations of candy bars and candy
- Miniature effect, a physical model of a larger object used to represent it in film-making
- Miniature horse, a very small breed of horse
- Miniature poodle, a smaller breed of poodle (dog)
- Miniature (band), a cooperative jazz trio
- Miniatures (Alog album), 2005
- Miniatures (Nekropolis album), 1989
The word miniature, derived from the Latin minium, red lead, is a picture in an ancient or medieval illuminated manuscript; the simple decoration of the early codices having been miniated or delineated with that pigment. The generally small scale of the medieval pictures has led secondly to an etymological confusion of the term with minuteness and to its application to small paintings especially portrait miniatures, which did however grow from the same tradition and at least initially use similar techniques.
Apart from the Western and Byzantine traditions, there is another group of Asian traditions, which is generally more illustrative in nature, and from origins in manuscript book decoration also developed into single-sheet small paintings to be kept in albums, which are also called miniatures, as the Western equivalents in watercolor and other mediums are not. These include Persian miniatures, and their Mughal, Ottoman and other Indian offshoots.
This article gives an art historical account of the miniature form, mainly in western traditions. For the techniques involved in production, see illuminated manuscript.
"Miniature" is episode 110 of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. It originally aired on February 21, 1963 on CBS.
A miniature is a small bottle of a spirit, liqueur or other alcoholic beverage. Their contents, typically 50ml, are intended to comprise an individual serving.
Miniatures may be used as gifts, samples, or for promotional purposes. In the Northeastern United States they are known as "Nips", and referred to elsewhere as "airplane bottles". They are sometimes available in hotel mini-bars, on trains and planes, and in other circumstances where serving from a full size bottle is impractical or uneconomical. They are sometimes sold in sets, allowing the comparative tasting of different types of beverage. They are also sold in gift sets with a corresponding drinking glass.
Miniatures are collected by some people, with various clubs and societies serving the hobby.
Miniature is an album by drummer Joey Baron, saxophonist Tim Berne and cellist Hank Roberts, who would become known as Miniature, which was recorded in 1988 and released on the JMT label.
Usage examples of "miniature".
There were some packages of pre-fabricated explosives with amatol, primer and chemical detonator combined in one neat unit with a miniature timing device that ranged from five seconds to five minutes, complete with sucker clamps.
I have not patience to relate how many initial letters of antiphonaries and sixteenth-, seventeenth- and even eighteenth-century miniatures have been touched up or repainted and passed off as true and ancient representations of Jeanne.
From his right hand sprouted thin branches hung with miniature autumnal leaves.
Repeated collisions with those huge, unyielding limbs on the way down would have demolished her miniature airplane like a balsa model.
Blanche, entreating their mercy, immediately gave up the miniature, while another of the ruffians fiercely interrogated her, concerning what she had overheard of their conversation, when, her confusion and terror too plainly telling what her tongue feared to confess, the ruffians looked expressively upon one another, and two of them withdrew to a remote part of the room, as if to consult further.
A face suddenly extruded from the front, a Yuu-zhan Vong visage in miniature.
Each shell split in the air into hundreds of bomblets which in turn burst on the next thing they touched--rock, leaf, or the face of a Molt sighting down the barrel of his power gun The sea of miniature blasts created a mist of glass-fiber shrapnel devouring life in all its forms above the microscopic--but without significantly changing the piezoelectric al constant of the rock on which the autochthons homed.
I saw, upsidedown, the two little creatures to whom I had entrusted my fate, children of eight or ten years of age at the most, who, with little monkeyish faces, had, however, fully developed muscles, like miniature men, and were already as skilful as regular old salts.
What if I said I could change all that What if I said that I had a miniature shotgun that blasts gene fragments into the cells of living organisms, altering their genetic matrices so that a monozygotic replicant would no longer be a monozygotic replicant and she could then make love to a muscleman without transgressing the incest taboo, I say, opening my shirt and exposing the device which I had stuck in the waistband of my black jeans.
He glanced at the miniature Moties, who were moving about on the big table originally used for spatball.
She was puffing when she reached the lounge,where the miniature Moties were still in flagrante delicto.
Be it admitted: Whitbread was expecting to find two miniature Moties engaged in sexual congress.
They crossed the overbridge, saying farewell to Chardin, who was too lost in his meditations of the stream to even notice, and soon discovered that the structure beside the miniature stable was an experimental farm.
There were hanging gardens, miniature forests, waterfalls, small game preserves, lakelets, parklets, and playgrounds.
Pinlighting consisted of the detonation of ultra-vivid miniature photonuclear bombs, which converted a few ounces of a magnesium isotope into pure visible radiance.