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Minify

Definition: Minify

Minify

Verb

1. Make smaller; "He decreased his staff".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "minify" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1906. (references)

Note: Minify \Min"i*fy\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Minified; present participle verb or noun Minifying.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms: Minify

Synonyms: decrease (v), lessen (v). (additional references)
Antonym: increase (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Minify

English words defined with "minify": Minified, Minifying. (references)

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Modern Translations: Minify

Language Translations for "minify"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

minimizoj (downplay, lessen, minimize, play down, underplay). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏قلل (decrease, diminish, lessen, make less, minimize, reduce, slim). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

смалявам (belittle, diminish, lessen, shrink), омаловажавам (belittle, decry, denigrate, discount, disparage, enfeeble, extenuate, make little of, minimize, palliate, play down, stultify, talk down, understate, whittle away), намалявам (abate, abbreviate, allay, attenuate, bring down, clip, contract, curtail, cut back, cut down, decline, decrease, deduct, deflate, degrade, deplete, detract, dim, diminish, ebb, extenuate, fine, impair, knock off, lessen, lighten, lull, minimize, moderate, modify, pare down, prejudice, put back, put down, reduce, remit, run down, scant, shorten, shrink, sink, slacken, subdue, take from, thin, thin away, thin down, understate, wane, work down). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kisebbít (diminish, lessen, lower, to attenuate, to bate, to extenuate, to lower, to soften). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

inifymay

   

Portuguese

  

modificar para menos, microônibus, reduzir (Bate, boil down, curtail, cut, decrease, diminish, lessen, minimize, reduce, restrict, retrench, scale, scrimp, shorten, sink, skimp, slash, to reduce, weaken, wear down, write off), diminuir (abate, abridge, assuage, commute, cut down, dampen, decline, decrease, derogate, detract, diminish, dock, dwarf, dyad, extenuate, fall, impair, lessen, lower, mince, pass off, rebate, reduce, relax, retrench, shorten, shrink, sink, wear down, Whittle). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

уменьшать (abate, decrease, detract, diminish, extenuate, lessen, narrow down, reduce, relieve, remit, retrench, scale down, shrinks, take off, throttle back). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

umanjiti (attenuate, cut back, decrease, detract, diminish, extenuate, make a hole in, minimize, reduce, turn down). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

küçültmek (abase, belittle, decrease, derogate, diminish, dispraise, lessen, lower, make smaller, miniaturize, minimize, reduce, shrink), önemini azaltmak (deemphasize, de-emphasize). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

зменшувати (abate, allay, alleviate, ax, axe, belittle, cut back, decrease, detract, diminish, dwindle, extenuate, lessen, palliate, relax, slacken, turn down, whittle away), применшувати (belittle, derogate, diminish, minimize, play down, understate). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Minify

Derivations

Words beginning with "minify": minifying. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Minify" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: maindiff, Manafi, Mciniff, mimify, Minfu, Mingfu, minif, minifex, Minifie, vinify. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Minify"

Words rhyming with "minify" (pronounced 'Min"i*fy'): Acidify, Adsignify, Aerify, Alacrify, Angelify, Anglicify, Anglify, Arefy, Argufy, Balmify, Basify, Beatify, Bonify, Brutify, Candify, Capacify, Carnify, Celestify, Certify, Chondrify, Chylify, Chymify, Classify, Cockneyfy, Codify, Consignify, Corporify, Correctify, Countrify, Crucify, Cuffy, Daintify, Damnify, Dandify, Decalcify, Deify, Devitrify, Finify, Fishify, Foolify, Foresignify, Frenchify, Fumify, Glorify, gratify, horrify, indemnify, interstratify, jellify, jiffy. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Minify

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "f-i-i-m-n-y"

-2 letters: mini.

-3 letters: fin, nim, yin.

-4 letters: if, in, mi, my.

 Words containing the letters "f-i-i-m-n-y"
 

+2 letters: feminity, infirmly.

 

+3 letters: indemnify, infirmary, infirmity, minifying, modifying, ramifying.

 

+4 letters: amplifying, antifamily, damnifying, femininely, femininity, magnifying, metrifying, micrifying, mollifying, mortifying, mummifying, mystifying, uniformity, zombifying.

 

+5 letters: ammonifying, emulsifying, humidifying, informality, interfamily, misidentify, remodifying, simplifying.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Minify


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 69 6E 69 66 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--    ..    -.    ..    ..-.    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01101001 01101110 01101001 01100110 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#105 &#110 &#105 &#102 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0069 006E 0069 0066 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

477580757291

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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乌克兰, for Ukranian;