child vs minor

child

noun
  • A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority). 

  • One's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; one's offspring; a son or daughter. 

  • The thirteenth Lenormand card. 

  • A kid aged 1 to 11 years, whereas neonates are aged 0 to 1 month, infants are aged 1 month to 12 months, and adolescents are aged 12 years to 18 years. 

  • A person considered a product of a place or culture, a member of a tribe or culture, regardless of age. 

  • Anything derived from or caused by something. 

  • A data item, process, or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another. 

  • A subordinate node of a tree. 

minor

noun
  • A child, a person who has not reached the age of majority, consent, etc. and is legally subject to fewer responsibilities and less accountability and entitled to fewer legal rights and privileges. 

  • A formally recognized secondary area of undergraduate study, requiring fewer course credits than the equivalent major. 

  • Any of various noctuid moths in Europe and Asia, chiefly in the Oligia and Mesoligia genera. 

  • A lesser person or thing, a person, group, or thing of minor rank or in the minor leagues. 

  • A determinant of a square matrix obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns. 

  • A person who is completing or has completed such a course of study. 

  • Synonym of behind: a one-point kick. 

  • A leaf-cutter worker ant intermediate in size between a minim and a media. 

  • Changes rung on six bells. 

adj
  • Acting as the subject of the second premise of a categorical syllogism, which then also acts as the subject of its conclusion. 

  • Having semibreves twice as long as a minim. 

  • Underage, not having reached legal majority. 

  • Smaller by a diatonic semitone than the equivalent major interval. 

  • Of or related to a minor, a determinate obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns from a matrix. 

  • Incorporating a minor third interval above the (in scales) tonic or (in chords) root note, (also figurative) tending to produce a dark, discordant, sad, or pensive effect. 

  • Not serious, not involving risk of death, permanent injury, dangerous surgery, or extended hospitalization. 

  • Of or related to the relationship between the longa and the breve in a score. 

  • Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option 

  • Of or related to a minor, a secondary area of undergraduate study. 

verb
  • Used in a phrasal verb: minor in. 

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