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Miniature   /mˈɪniətʃˌʊr/  /mˈɪnɪtʃˌʊr/   Listen
adjective
Miniature  adj.  Being on a small scale; much reduced from the reality; as, a miniature copy.


noun
Miniature  n.  
1.
Originally, a painting in colors such as those in mediaeval manuscripts; in modern times, any very small painting, especially a portrait.
2.
Greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale.
3.
Lettering in red; rubric distinction. (Obs.)
4.
A particular feature or trait. (Obs.)


verb
Miniature  v. t.  To represent or depict in a small compass, or on a small scale.





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"Miniature" Quotes from Famous Books



... situations. There will be now a logical nexus between the moral expressed and the machinery employed to express it. The machinery, in fact, as this change is developed, becomes less and less fabulous. We find ourselves in presence of quite a serious, if quite a miniature division of creative literature; and sometimes we have the lesson embodied in a sober, everyday narration, as in the parables of the New Testament, and sometimes merely the statement or, at most, the collocation of significant facts in life, ...
— Lay Morals • Robert Louis Stevenson
... volvox likewise increases by growth until it becomes a society of animals, a multiple system of individuals. There are apertures from the parent, by which water gains a free access to the interior of the whole miniature series. This monad was once supposed to be a single animal, but the microscope shows it to be a group of animals connected by means of six processes, and each little growing volvox exhibits his red-eye speck and two ...
— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English • R. V. Pierce
... country parish went round and round quietly, like an eddy behind a sheltering rock. We can easily understand, therefore, the limitations of Jane Austen; but within her own field she is unequaled. Her characters are absolutely true to life, and all her work has the perfection of a delicate miniature painting. The most widely read of her novels is Pride and Prejudice; but three others, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, and Mansfield Park, have slowly won their way to the front rank of fiction. From a literary view point Northanger ...
— English Literature - Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World • William J. Long
... summer-house to make it complete. In these garden-rooms the Danes take all their meals in summer-time. The drooping branches of the beech-trees dip, swish, and bend to the swirl of water created by our boat, which makes miniature waves leap and run along the bank in a playful way. How delightfully peaceful the surrounding landscape is as we skim over the silvery lake and then land! The climbing of this mountain does not take long. There ...
— Denmark • M. Pearson Thomson
... as she desired, and saw her place a covered miniature about her neck before she arose. Very few minutes sufficed this morning for her toilet—usually a tedious and fastidious one—her dress, her bonnet, her shawl, were hastily thrown on, her watch secured with the few jewels ...
— Miriam Monfort - A Novel • Catherine A. Warfield


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