(n.) A kind of light passenger vehicle, carrying four persons.
Example Sentences:
(1) A minibus, a taxi and other vehicles that tried to travel up the street were pelted with stones.
(2) The MoD says the minibus failed to stop when the soldiers signalled for it to do so, and the guardsmen shot at it.
(3) At 3.30pm a flotilla of minibuses and taxis arrive to ferry our pupils to their homes across London and I attend a class review meeting with colleagues to discuss the progress of each pupil.
(4) They suddenly ran into an unexpected checkpoint run by the rebels, about 35 miles north of Damascus, and the wounded soldier told me the rebels just opened fire without warning and six people in the minibus were killed ...
(5) The game is based on driving a Matatu minibus on Kenya's chaotic roads It won the highly regarded Pivot East launchpad competition for East African mobile startups earlier this year.
(6) Some people, such as Hammond, already use taxis after the Stanley Centre's own minibus service stopped in March.
(7) When I read those reports, I am taken straight back to the awful drone attack sites I have visited in Yemen: 1 2 dead when a wedding convoy was hit in Yakla ; a mother, father and young daughter all blown up together when a minibus was hit in al-Saboul .
(8) It's clearly overkill when you are dealing with waste which is at the bottom end of the spectrum (of toxicity)," he says during a whirlwind minibus tour of the 98-hectare (245 acre) site, which he describes as "a ride around the ranch".
(9) But you need to take the side roads, it’s safer.” On small dirt tracks, several minibuses and cars are waiting, each of them going to different points on the border, but all accessing Isis-controlled territory.
(10) The impact of council cuts is distributed in millions of pieces – a broken lift here, a cancelled minibus there.
(11) Houses and vehicles are just vanity.” John Nile Kamara John Nile Kamara (fourth from right), 37, poda-poda minibus driver and former burial team driver John Nile Kamara, from Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, spent four months in Kambia working as a driver when Ebola broke out.
(12) The Suusamyr Freeride Lodge can arrange a minibus transfer from the airport (170km) which seats 15 people and is included in the price for the week.
(13) Yaman, 38 – a minibus driver hurrying home from work – was trying to avoid the demonstrations when he ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time.
(14) Separately, the Ukrainian border service said it had engaged in a fire-fight with a minibus carrying weapons that had tried to cross from Russia in the early hours of Tuesday morning, seizing a consignment of weapons and injuring one man.
(15) Finally, I reached the symbol of Rio itself, the Cristo , where I was joined by the crowds who'd taken the funicular or minibus.
(16) A bright pink minibus of female Labour MPs will tour constituencies to talk to female voters “around the kitchen table” in an effort to win their vote in marginal constituencies, the party has revealed.
(17) K is for Klosters A 15-minute spin down the mountain by minibus or limo, Klosters has become the overspill town for those who can't find rooms in Davos or who prefer to spend more time on the ski slopes than in the conference centre.
(18) He drove a minibus for the families of UDA prisoners and was not an active gunman in the terror group.
(19) The only vehicle in town for hire was a 40-year-old Toyota minibus of dubious roadworthiness, with a crew of three.
(20) Like the music arm, its origins were strictly DIY: "Mark was producing from his garden shed, and the film crew fitted in a minibus," recalls Meadows.
Minimus
Definition:
(n.) A being of the smallest size.
(n.) The little finger; the fifth digit, or that corresponding to it, in either the manus or pes.
Example Sentences:
(1) During operation the insertion of the gluteal minimus muscle to the trochanter was carefully detached in a way that only the fibres of the gluteus medius remained on the bone.
(2) In the pelvic region three major compartments (gluteus medius-minimus compartment, gluteus maximus compartment, and iliopsoas compartment) can be distinguished from the smaller compartment of the tensor fasciae latae muscle.
(3) In experimentally infected Tamias striatus and E. minimus, Trypanosoma tamiasi reproduced by equal binary fission in the trypo-, sphaero-, epi-, or amastigote form, mainly in lymphoid organs.
(4) minimus is a species complex evident by IK value were less than 0.0534 and 0.4163 for the morphotaxonomy and isozyme studies.
(5) It is widely distributed in all provinces where minimus breeds.
(6) In 21.1% the gluteus medius inserts autonomously and with 13.5% the gluteus minimus inserts independently.
(7) Using anatomic specimens from 58 fixed femurs, we analyzed the point of insertion and junctional variations of the gluteus medius, minimus and vastus lateralis over the greater trochanter.
(8) The contact of A. minimus with man was much higher outdoors than indoors, and studies showed the species to be an early biter, especially in the dry season, thus increasing the chance of man-vector contact.
(9) Hybridization experiments were conducted by forced mating between Anopheles minimus from Guangxi (G) and Yunnan (Y).
(10) The proportion of patients infective for these mosquitoes was not affected by the administration of chloroquine, however, an elevation was observed in the median values for the numbers of oocysts on the guts of the A. balabacensis, but not the A. minimus, fed on infective patients after initiation of treatment.
(11) According to this model the reduced activity of the gluteus maximus, medius, minimus and quadriceps femoris muscles, which normally cause a decrease of valgus and anteversion, results in an increased subluxating coxa valga antetorta with a consecutive dislocation.
(12) Therefore myoplasty involving musculus gluteus minimus, musculus gluteus medius, musculus rectus femoris and musculus vastus externus, with regard to the size and the localization of the cavity is reliable means of preventing hematoma in case of cavity formation near the neck of the endoprosthesis after the implantation of an artificial hip joint.
(13) The population genetic studies on the Anopheles minimus complex revealed that An.
(14) In order to elucidate the nerve supply of a supernumerary muscle observed between the adductors brevis and minimus in humans and to investigate its true nature and mechanism of formation, 100 body halves from 50 adult Japanese cadavers were subjected to gross anatomical examination.
(15) minimus collected from Kanchanaburi, 3 were positive by IRMA, 2 for P. falciparum and one P. vivax with sporozoites found in head-thorax portion were 1880, 2380 and 1026 respectively.
(16) Gluteus minimus functions as a primary hip stabiliser during the mid- and late phase of the gait cycle.
(17) The authors have made electromyographic examination of m. tensor fasciae latae and m. glutaeus medius and sometimes also minimus in patients after the implantation of total endoprosthesis of the hip joint by anterolateral Watson - Jones approach and transgluteal Bauer approach with the aim to find out if there occurs the anticipated transection of n. glutaeus usp.
(18) We have imitated the gluteus medius and minimus muscles on the pelvis with cables and pulleys.
(19) n. is described from blood and organs of the eastern chipmunk, Tamias striatus, and the least chipmunk, Eutamias minimus.
(20) minimus species C, with 2 pale spots on the humeral dark band and Est-2 allele 98.