(n.) A loved one; one highly esteemed and favored; -- in a good sense.
(n.) An obsequious or servile dependent or agent of another; a fawning favorite.
(n.) A small kind of type, in size between brevier and nonpareil.
(n.) An ancient form of ordnance, the caliber of which was about three inches.
(a.) Fine; trim; dainty.
Example Sentences:
(1) The latter is somewhat under the radar for the wider games industry, but Despicable Me: Minion Rush (to give its full title) is something of a mobile monster: 100m downloads in three months on iOS and Android earlier this year.
(2) At least two characters – a Minion from Despicable Me and one of the Elmos – said they had purchased their costumes, made in Peru, for about $300.
(3) For iPad , Candy Crush Saga led YouTube, Skype, Temple Run 2, BBC iPlayer, ITV Player, eBay for iPad, Despicable Me: Minion Rush, 4 Pics 1 Word and Calculator for iPad Free.
(4) A typical response was "[Bosses] will be at home enjoying his turkey while minions work their ***** off".
(5) Nor is there much sign of Thanos, the studio's go-to background baddie, though his minion Nebula turns up in the form of Doctor Who's shaven-headed Karen Gillan.
(6) The pocket-sized MinION device was developed by an Oxfordshire science company, and results published on Wednesday in the journal Nature show it was able to help identify the unique genetic sequence of the Ebola virus in patients within 24 hours.
(7) Goldiggins quarry, Minions, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall This spring-fed quarry lake is the perfect suntrap.
(8) More elephant trap than social network, Miliband (or rather his Twitter minion) entered the word "Blackbusters" in an initial attempt to express sadness at the death of former gameshow host Bob Holness.
(9) Their minions would have to negotiate hard and come back later in the week.
(10) Perhaps it's because Allen is, these days, a pampered celebrity – "everything is done for you by minions," he says of the film-making process – that celebrity is the one subject on which To Rome With Love feels authentic and personal.
(11) It is only normal that Morsi would want to get ride of Mubarak’s minions.
(12) People who have worked with her have said similar: that the constant praising of movie minions with, "You did such a good job there!
(13) Taken from a script by Bruce "Wild Palms" Wagner, Maps to the Stars is apparently about "the convoluted world of shallow, selfish celebrities and their minions, all of whom are about to be manipulated and destroyed by the young woman who literally represents the fruit of their twisted machinations."
(14) The minions in Labor's campaign headquarters have been on to the Randall comments like rodents up drain pipes since the pre-dawn.
(15) Two thousand years after Hammurabi's minions busied themselves determining the appropriate punishment for various medical misadventures, the Greek Hippocrates advocated a less complex approach to the same problem.
(16) Indeed, ALEC's minions spend much of their time establishing ways to preserve their control over the lab, rather than making any particular forward progress on other issues: of the 62 "voter ID" bills introduced in state legislatures in 2011 and 2012, over half were written or sponsored by ALEC-associated politicians.
(17) Not an accolade you’d hand to whoever greenlighted Minions , the inevitable spin-off of Universal’s Despicable Me series, the second of which got within grasping distance of $1bn worldwide in 2013.
(18) From the Hurlers car park in Minions, follow the track, which heads north on to the moor; walk past the circle and after 15 minutes bear left at the junction.
(19) While they’re fighting us on many fronts, Trump, his anti-gay vice-president, and their anti-LGBT minions are conversely vulnerable because we can fight them on many fronts.
(20) 8.16pm GMT The Catholic Church was complicit in horrible crimes in Argentina , Hugh O'Shaughnessy wrote in the Guardian in 2011: "Yet even the execution of other men of the cloth did nothing to shake the support of senior clerics, including representatives of the Holy See, for the criminality of their leader General Jorge Rafael Videla and his minions."
Pinion
Definition:
(n.) A moth of the genus Lithophane, as L. antennata, whose larva bores large holes in young peaches and apples.
(n.) A feather; a quill.
(n.) A wing, literal or figurative.
(n.) The joint of bird's wing most remote from the body.
(n.) A fetter for the arm.
(n.) A cogwheel with a small number of teeth, or leaves, adapted to engage with a larger wheel, or rack (see Rack); esp., such a wheel having its leaves formed of the substance of the arbor or spindle which is its axis.
(v. t.) To bind or confine the wings of; to confine by binding the wings.
(v. t.) To disable by cutting off the pinion joint.
(v. t.) To disable or restrain, as a person, by binding the arms, esp. by binding the arms to the body.
(v. t.) Hence, generally, to confine; to bind; to tie up.
Example Sentences:
(1) It felt pretty amazing.” O pinions of BrewDog tend to go one of four ways.
(2) Trimming of the comb, devocalisation, trimming of claws, pinioning and caponisation of birds are procedures, which are often requested or carried out by keepers of animals.
(3) And after Eddie Mair's careful pinioning and dissection of Boris Johnson on Sunday's The Andrew Marr Show, there is a feeling out there that a new one has just graduated.
(4) At corners, Charles found his arms pinioned by one opponent while another crashed into him from behind.
(5) Soaring aloft, he exchanges a beast for a bird: Air Force One is America with wings, a mechanised version of the beaked, pinioned eagle – a predator that clutches in its claws twin bundles of peacemaking olive branches and spiky, militarised arrows – that appears on the country’s Great Seal.
(6) The assistant executioner pinions the legs, while the executioner puts a white cap over his head and fits the noose round his neck with the knot drawn tight on the left lower jaw, where it is held in position by a sliding ring.
(7) The different hinge designs studied were fixed axis, gear-on-gear, rack-and-pinion, and natural 3-D; they showed only moderate differences in forces.
(8) Fielding describes the family profession thus: "Just before the time of the execution, the executioner and his assistant join the ... prison officials outside the door of the condemned cell ... the executioner enters the cell and pinions the prisoner's arms behind his back, and two officers lead him to the scaffold and place him directly across the division of the trap on a spot previously marked with chalk.
(9) Two-dimensional echocardiography is the pinion of diagnostic procedures utilized to characterize the coronary arteries in Kawasaki disease.
(10) These problems can be exceptionally difficult in analysis and philosophical management, and are frequently pinioned between technical craftsmanship, curability, and deformity.