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[min-ee-uh-cher, -choor, min-uh-cher]

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noun

a representation or image of something on a small or reduced scale.

a greatly reduced or abridged form or copy.

a very small painting, especially a portrait, on ivory, vellum, or the like.

the art of executing such a painting.

an illumination in an illuminated manuscript or book.

adjective

being, on, or represented on a small scale; reduced.

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Idiom

in miniature, in a reduced size; on a small scale: The zoo exhibition offered a jungle in miniature.

Origin:
1580–90; < Italian miniatura miniature painting < Medieval Latin miniātūra, equivalent to miniāt(us) (see miniate) + -ūra -ure; sense development perhaps influenced by Latin base min- (see mini-, minor)

Related forms

su·per·min·i·a·ture, adjective

Synonyms
6. minute, microscopic, diminutive, tiny, minuscule.

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The fascination of craftsmanship on a miniature scale is universal, attracting the sophisticated and unsophisticated alike.

Kneeling down, he started slowly rocking the sled back and forth, watching the miniature waves.

Miniature engines and electricity generators are being carved out of silicon with the help of chip-making tools.

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The fascination of craftsmanship on a miniature scale is universal, attracting the sophisticated and unsophisticated alike.

Kneeling down, he started slowly rocking the sled back and forth, watching the miniature waves.

Miniature engines and electricity generators are being carved out of silicon with the help of chip-making tools.

Look at pictures and download miniature horse wallpaper.

Miniature vessel mimics insect larvae by using surface tension for propulsion.

Miniature golf can be a lot of fun, and it is even better if the course is decorated with dinosaurs.

Miniature water plants fill these ceramic cache pots.

If you need to lay siege to a miniature castle, though, this is a great addition to your forces.

There are miniature ones, medium-sized ones and traditional tall ones.

They stand there, evidently waiting for a miniature resue helicoptor to come thwup-whuping in to pick them up.

From the innards of a new box of tricks emerge parts for a car, custom-built medical implants, miniature batteries.

Follow these instructions to create your own miniature ghosts.

They are now considering adding in a miniature camera, microphone, communication device and chemical micro-sensor.

Perhaps you didn't realize that dollhouse miniature brothels are a collectors' item.

Get a jump-start on holiday decorating with these shimmery miniature pumpkins.

Thanks for all your comments about what your miniature avatar would be holding.

IN miniature rooms the decorator can create as freely as the painter who makes an easel picture.

The aircraft will also need to carry a useful payload-a miniature video camera and a transmitter to send the signal.

With the brushes, researchers will be able to sweep trenches in miniature computer chips or clean mirrors used in nano-motors.

Researchers are pursuing several different routes toward power generation on a miniature scale.

Plus fine quality miniature accessories featured in detail.

Create a coastal feeling anywhere with a miniature sandy scene.

The miniature power cells will use radioactive decay for energy.

He builds fancy miniature houses endowed with architecturally correct details.

But a miniature bureaucracy may intervene less because it simply does not have a big enough staff to draft the regulations.

He carries the eggs in his pouch until they hatch, then releases fully formed, miniature seahorses into the water.

Mitochondria are the miniature power-packs that convert food calories into chemical energy that sustains the body.

Miniature paintings feature rarefied motifs of plants, animals and architecture, and often show a stately symmetry in composition.

Flowers and plants are larger than miniature dwarf bearded irises.

They have created a miniature production line to streamline the process of testing drugs on worms.

Westinghouse engineers use this miniature system for tests.

Resembling miniature galaxies, these clusters should have matching-size black holes, scientists reasoned.

Miniature bronze sculptures of nymphs and satyrs flank faux-antique porcelains.

Then create the illusion of a garden in miniature by surrounding the potted plant with pebbles or sand.

He said he'd wanted this life since he was six, when his grandmother made him a miniature set of waterman oilskins.

Young animals could delay their development, since they no longer needed to hatch as miniature adults.

Miniature rail tracks connect sheds that house lathes, marble cutters and other power equipment.

The sights and sounds of the miniature aqueduct and spillway are especially refreshing on a hot summer afternoon.

Westinghouse engineers use this miniature system for.

If you could somehow halt these miniature motions while fixing your gaze, a static scene would simply fade from view.

Leong started it by pruning the canopy of a small azalea to a miniature tree shape.

It may seem that the whole icky lot of them, and the miniature realms they inhabit, are unrelated to human concerns.

Exposure to the weather over time yields many familiar features in miniature.

Arrange miniature deep green conifers around a trio of taller lime green ones in a low taupe bowl.

Place the small object you are painting on the miniature drop cloth to protect your work surface.

Fruits somewhat resemble miniature blackberries and are favored b more add to my plant list.

Fruits somewhat resemble miniature blackberries and are favored by birds.

Dwarf or miniature florists' cyclamens are replicas of standards with half- or three-quarter-size leaves and blossoms.

Sprinkle them along the runner, and intersperse miniature trees among candles.

Miniature bottles of olive oil at each place setting double as placecard holders and gifts for guests.

Miniature carnations and spiky fir needles create a wreath that's both fragrant and strikingly elegant.

In place of the utility room sit a miniature family room and dining area.

Back then it was a miniature surfboard which sat atop.

My mom has a miniature schnauzer who is the barkingnest barker who ever barked.

It is powered by batteries that are recharged by miniature diesel-sipping jet turbines.

Many of the miniature guns and cannons were once working.

There were moose, horned bears and miniature zebras.

Some focus on vignettes, miniature scenes that tell a story.

Astronomers have found what they say may be a miniature solar system in the making.

Lee, operate as a bed-and-breakfast and also use as a kind of miniature laboratory for sustainable living.

It would remain in the heart to be replaced by a new miniature pacemaker.

Imagine a radio-controlled car with a camera that's mounted from the viewpoint of where the miniature plastic.

Miniature modern furnishings created by two enthusiasts.

As far as breed, a miniature schnauzer is the perfect pet.

Finicky miniature cameras and tape recorders have given way to pinhead-sized gadgets, powered remotely.

We found a miniature garden of plants nestled in a pocket in a branch.

No list of kitchen science projects would be complete without the miniature volcano.

Two kinds of rose hips resemble miniature pumpkins.

The integrated circuit brings together components with different functions and puts them in a compact miniature board.

The children were miniature reflections of their parents.

It was a little miniature thing, not good for cooking much of anything.

Drop one on the floor and they become miniature superballs.

The concept of deploying a cluster of miniature surveillance balloons addresses this problem.

Each shoe contains a miniature transmitter, receiver and.

The other thing to invest in is a decent set of miniature toiletries that fit into one of those annoying little zip-lock bags.

His mother will be able to pick up the cash at her local village shop, which will have a miniature scanner for her fingerprints.

Their bodies act as miniature composting units, turning out castings rich in nutrients and organic matter.

Every dog can trace its heritage to the wolf, but you still have a variation as big as the miniature lap dogs to the great dane.

It's harder to sculpt a miniature boot than you would think.

While not your typical houseplants, a trio of potted miniature water plants look unbelievably lush displayed on a coffee table.

When you think of model railroads, you might think of picturesque villages, miniature trees and pristine wagons.

It is no use for increasingly miniature electronic devices.

One colonist brought a set of porcelain cups, another a miniature windmill for diversion.

Potentially superconductors, smaller ultra capacitors, and miniature machines that can heal us.

But newly developed miniature lasers and mirrors make it possible to build cheap projectors about the size of a thumb.

Make miniature planters out of steel and aluminum cans.

Femtocells are essentially miniature cellphone access points that customers would deploy inside their homes and offices.

The miniature squid sensed the capture event and rushed over to investigate.

These shops sell miniature paper representations of everything that an ancestor might need in the afterlife:.

Then it metamorphoses into a miniature clownfish less than half an inch long that descends to the reef.

Then you play a round of miniature golf with new friends you've made on the trip.

One of them is a miniature vineyard trellis suitable for a deck.

My microscope lets me examine this interesting, miniature world up close.

Others are miniature versions of the summer homes hidden on winding, leafy driveways in these parts.

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World English Dictionary

miniature (ˈmɪnɪtʃə)

—n
1.	a model, copy, or similar representation on a very small scale
2.	anything that is very small of its kind
3.	a very small painting, esp a portrait, showing fine detail on ivory or vellum
4.	a very small bottle of whisky or other spirits, which can hold 50 millilitres
5.	an illuminated letter or other decoration in a manuscript
6.	in miniature on a small scale: games are real life in miniature

—*adj*
7.	greatly reduced in size
8.	on a small scale; minute

[C16: from Italian, from Medieval Latin miniātūra, from miniāre to paint red, (in illuminating manuscripts); from minium]

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Word Origin & History

miniature

1586 (n.) "a reduced image," from It. miniatura "manuscript illumination or small picture," from pp. of miniare "to illuminate a manuscript," from L. miniare "to paint red," from minium "red lead," used in ancient times to make red ink. Extended sense of "small" (adj.) is first attested 1714, because

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pictures in medieval manuscripts were small, infl. by L. min-, root expressing smallness (minor, minimus, minutus, etc.).

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