best vs minimum

best

adj
  • Most superior; most favorable. 

  • Most; largest. 

noun
  • The person (or persons; or thing or things) that is (are) most excellent. 

  • The supreme effort one can make, or has made. 

  • One's best behavior. 

verb
  • Had best. 

  • To surpass in skill or achievement. 

  • To beat in a contest. 

adv
  • To the most advantage; with the most success, cause, profit, benefit, or propriety. 

minimum

adj
  • To the lowest degree. 

noun
  • The smallest amount. 

  • He always tries to get away with doing the minimum. 

  • The lowest limit. 

  • A period of minimum brightness or energy intensity (of a star). 

  • The smallest member of a batch or sample or the lower bound of a probability distribution. 

  • A lower bound of a set which is also an element of that set. 

How often have the words best and minimum occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )