What's the difference between download and minify?

Download


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This may have been a pointed substitute programme, management perhaps imagining a future where electronic presenters will simply download their minds to MP3-players.
  • (2) The department has redacted the IP addresses and details of network owners who downloaded the file.
  • (3) Thoughtful use of downloadable content provided depth too.
  • (4) Pono – a portable music player with its own digital store selling high-resolution downloads – has raised $6.1m on Kickstarter , in a campaign that ends later today (15 April).
  • (5) It said almost 120,000 template letters to help consumers challenge banks on overdraft charges were downloaded from the watchdog's website last year.
  • (6) But the same court also just refused to hear an appeal of a Minnesota woman who's been ordered to pay more than $220,000 for downloading two-dozen songs – a testament to Congress' gift to Hollywood and its allies in the form of absurdly stiff penalties for minor infringement.
  • (7) Recent research has shown that more than two-thirds of internet users would ignore warning letters, and with more than 6 million internet users in Britain regularly downloading illegally copied music and films, the media industry believes so-called "technical measures", such as ­slowing down broadband connections, should be introduced before the courts system is clogged up with thousands of lawsuits.
  • (8) The effects of illegal downloading hit the country particularly early and hard, while legal downloading never got a chance to establish a foothold.
  • (9) With commendable alacrity, meanwhile, the developers at art-game co-operative KOOPmode have already released a downloadable satire on how Facebook might work in 3D , graced with the irresistible tagline: "Scroll Facebook … with your face".
  • (10) has been topping download charts across Europe since its surprise release on Tuesday morning, and now could become his fourth solo No 1, and his first since Let's Dance in 1983.
  • (11) Mandelson, who today unveiled plans to introduce measures including suspending the internet connections of illegal downloaders , argued that while less draconian than the French plan, the UK's approach would be tough enough to tackle online piracy.
  • (12) A spokeswoman for the Tories said that the Digital Economy Act, which could see could see persistent illegal downloaders have their internet connections suspended or websites that host copyrighted content blocked , had been pushed through in the "wash-up" last week and that not all Tory policies were outlined in the manifesto.
  • (13) Twitter also lets you download an archive of your data, mostly made up of your Tweets.
  • (14) Some 14.24 million people had access to the internet at home and there was a 59% increase in internet downloads during the June quarter of 2013 compared with the June quarter of 2012.
  • (15) Content in the app is a mixture of episode descriptions, quizzes, tweets, cast information and playable clips of every song on the soundtrack, with links to buy song downloads, TV episodes and merchandise – the latter through a partnership with e-commerce firm Delivery Agent.
  • (16) However visitors to benm.at – an iPhone and iPod touch enthusiasts' website – can download a profile that instantly activates the tethering system free of charge.
  • (17) Download downturn That in turn carries serious risks for the music industry, which for some time has surfed along on the iPod sales boom, warns Mark Mulligan, vice-president of the global media practice at the analysis company Forrester Research .
  • (18) With over 50,000 apps and more than 1bn downloads, it is hardly surprising that Blackberry, Nokia, Microsoft and Google have all now jumped on the app emporium bandwagon.
  • (19) I’m all about Google Glass, mate b) Download the best-reviewed book from that week’s New Review c) Dust off that Booker winner from a few years back d) Brideshead.
  • (20) Find out the accepted forms of photo ID To apply to vote by post or proxy, visit the Electoral Office for Northern Ireland website to download the correct form.

Minify


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make small, or smaller; to diminish the apparent dimensions of; to lessen.
  • (v. t.) To degrade by speech or action.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A metal test pattern based on a minified Snellen-type E-plate was evaluated in testing six imaging techniques for chest radiography.
  • (2) Several weeks to several months postoperatively, intraocular pressure (IOP) was determined bilaterally by manometry under pentobarbital anesthesia (15 monkeys), by a minified Goldmann applanation tonometer under CI-744 anesthesia (16 monkeys), and by a minified Draeger applanation tonometer under light phencyclidine catalepsia (4 monkeys).
  • (3) A plano contact lens required during surgery to visualize the retina did not minify the image.
  • (4) A pictorial index of minified images is maintained for each patient.
  • (5) The vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) was studied in adult squirrel monkeys before and after adaptation to magnifying and minifying viewing conditions.
  • (6) The amplitudes and implicit times of the P-1 component of monocular transient pattern VERs elicited by reversing checkerboard targets were measured in 6 conditions: (1) Ocular accommodation (Ao) elicited by minus power ophthalmic lenses; (2) Ao stimulated by minus lenses with the natural pupil of the test eye dilated and replaced by an artificial pupil; (3) accommodative demand and pupil size fixed with retinal image size (Ir) changed by afocal minifying lenses, (4) accommodative demand and Ir fixed but pupil size changed; (5) Ao elicited by minus lenses for three sizes of reversing checkerboards, and (6) Ao elicited by minus lenses for a constant checkerboard size with three check sizes.
  • (7) This can be considered quantitatively, and it is suggested that the optimum amount of minifying power can be calculated by applying established formulations on visual efficiency.
  • (8) [30.5 X 35.6 cm]) and a half-size format of four computer-processed, minified images (6 X 7 in.
  • (9) A new handy procedure is presented allowing easy and rapid preparing of geometrically minified as well as absorption- and stray radiation corrected individual compensators.
  • (10) Supplemental hand scintigrams with abnormal features were obtained from 29% of patients (134 of 463) who were referred for routine minified bone imaging with 99mTc-Sn-polyphosphate.
  • (11) Computer-processed minified versions of the storage phosphor images also received better ratings than did the conventional images.
  • (12) The emerging technology of fiberoptic illumination, minified color video cameras, sophisticated imaging, efficient microsurgical instruments and laser delivery methods make the potential for deep orbital endoscopic microinvasive surgery exciting.
  • (13) The technique was designed to take into account: 1) that the photographic field of view of the fundus camera varies with ametropia-dependent camera focusing 2) possible distortion by the fundus camera, and 3) that corrective lenses employed during perimetry magnify or minify the visual field.

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