(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."
Servant
Definition:
(n.) One who serves, or does services, voluntarily or on compulsion; a person who is employed by another for menial offices, or for other labor, and is subject to his command; a person who labors or exerts himself for the benefit of another, his master or employer; a subordinate helper.
(n.) One in a state of subjection or bondage.
(n.) A professed lover or suitor; a gallant.
(v. t.) To subject.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was also acknowledgement for two long-term servants to the men’s game who will both leave the Premier League for Major League Soccer this summer.
(2) The Dacre review panel, which included Sir Joseph Pilling, a retired senior civil servant, and the historian Prof Sir David Cannadine, said Britain now had one of the "less liberal" regimes in Europe for access to confidential government papers and that reform was needed to restore some trust between politicians and people.
(3) I am one of those retired civil servants who has not received my pension.
(4) Senior civil servant Simon Case joined the UK’s EU embassy in March to lead work on the new partnership with the bloc, but EU diplomats are unsure how he fits into the picture.
(5) The report was addressed personally to Farr and says it is not to be seen by civil servants, only by him, ministers and their special advisers.
(6) "Public servants did nothing to cause the slump but are being asked to bear an unfair share of the burden.
(7) So sensitive is the case that Hunt, his civil servants and advisers are expected to rebuff any external lobbying – so they can base their judgement only on a analysis of the public interest issues raised by the proposed deal that was completed by media regulator Ofcom today.
(8) A series of reports, written by civil servants and approved by ministers, will be published from the spring of next year until 2014 to examine the impact of everything from directives to the European Court of Justice.
(9) Here, the balance of power is clear: the master is dominating the servant – and not the other way around, as is the case with Google Now and the poor.
(10) Unions warned it could lead to a system where civil servants were loyal to their political masters rather than the taxpayer.
(11) Similar measurements were made in subjects with essential hypertension (77 white and 23 black), and 48 healthy normotensive white civil servants.
(12) You've just joined Twitter – why would you recommend it to other civil servants?
(13) Public servants who loved their useful work find only a few hours waiting on tables.
(14) The package included pay rises for civil servants and security personnel.
(15) "There are idle MPs with no outside interests and there are fantastic public servants that do have them."
(16) Helena writes: Ilias Iliopoulos, a leading figure at ADEDY, Greece's union of civil servants, has just told me: “This is a warning to the government not to pass the measures.Today was a huge success as witnessed by all those in the armed forces and police who also participated because they, too, will be affected by these cuts.
(17) Because for more than a year, he had bent the rules, constantly and persistently, in the face of warnings from his most senior civil servants?
(18) The public servants’ ethos, their attachment to the civic realm, has been systematically trashed as mere unionised self-interest.
(19) It blamed "confrontation maniacs" for "[making their] servants of conservative media let loose a whole string of sophism intended to hatch all sorts of dastardly wicked plots and float misinformation".
(20) The current authors explored this issue in a cohort of 18,274 male civil servants, among whom there were 1,282 cancer deaths over 18-20 years of follow-up.