different between miniature vs midinette

English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Italian miniatura (“manuscript illumination”), from miniare (“to illuminate”), from Latin mini? (“to colour red”), from minium (“red lead”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?n(?)?t??(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?n(i)?t???/, /?m?n(i)?t????/

Noun

miniature (plural miniatures)

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. (chess) A chess game which is concluded with very few moves.
8. (role-playing games, board games) A token in a game representing a unit or character.

9. Lettering in red; rubric distinction.
10. A particular feature or trait.

Derived terms

• miniaturist
• mini-
• mini

Translations

Adjective

miniature (comparative more miniature, superlative most miniature)

1. Smaller than normal.

Derived terms

• miniature poodle
• miniaturism

Translations

Verb

miniature (third-person singular simple present miniatures, present participle miniaturing, simple past and past participle miniatured)

1. (transitive) To make smaller than normal; to reproduce in miniature.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian miniatura.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.nja.ty?/

Noun

miniature f (plural miniatures)

1. miniature
2. (computing) thumbnail (a miniature preview of a larger image)

Synonyms

• (thumbnail): vignette, aperçu

Further reading

• “miniature” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

miniature f

1. plural of miniatura

Anagrams

• minuteria
• ruminiate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French midinette, from midi (“midday”) + dinette, diminutive of diner (“dinner”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?d??n?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

midinette (plural midinettes)

1. A female salesperson, a shopgirl, especially in Paris.
2. A vacuous but fashionable young woman.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 611:

     This? One finds them in every other midinette’s haunt, literally for sous.

3. A type of miniature climbing rose.

French

Etymology

Blend of midi +? dînette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.di.n?t/

Noun

midinette f (plural midinettes)

1. shopgirl, salesclerk, midinette
2. bimbo, midinette

Further reading

• “midinette” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).