What's the difference between minor and minutia?

Minor


Definition:

  • (a.) Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body.
  • (a.) Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third.
  • (n.) A person of either sex who has not attained the age at which full civil rights are accorded; an infant; in England and the United States, one under twenty-one years of age.
  • (n.) The minor term, that is, the subject of the conclusion; also, the minor premise, that is, that premise which contains the minor term; in hypothetical syllogisms, the categorical premise. It is the second proposition of a regular syllogism, as in the following: Every act of injustice partakes of meanness; to take money from another by gaming is an act of injustice; therefore, the taking of money from another by gaming partakes of meanness.
  • (n.) A Minorite; a Franciscan friar.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The significance of minor increases in the serum creatinine level must be recognized, so that modifications of drug therapy can be made and correction of possibly life-threatening electrolyte imbalances can be undertaken.
  • (2) These studies led to the following conclusions: (a) all the prominent NHP which remain bound to DNA are also present in somewhat similar proportions in the saline-EDTA, Tris, and 0.35 M NaCl washes of nuclei; (b) a protein comigrating with actin is prominent in the first saline-EDTA wash of nuclei, but present as only a minor band in the subsequent washes and on washed chromatin; (c) the presence of nuclear matrix proteins in all the nuclear washes and cytosol indicates that these proteins are distributed throughout the cell; (d) a histone-binding protein (J2) analogous to the HMG1 protein of K. V. Shooter, G.H.
  • (3) Electronmicroscopical investigations have revealed that, under normal conditions, a minor vesicular transfer of intravenously injected peroxidase occurs across the endothelium in segments of arterioles, capillaries and venules, especially in arterioles with a diameter about 15-30 mu.
  • (4) Despite a 10-year deadline to have the same number of ethnic minority officers in the ranks as in the populations they serve, the target was missed and police are thousands of officers short.
  • (5) These sequences are also conserved in the same arrangement in minor sequence classes of minicircles from this strain.
  • (6) 2,3-Dihydroxybenzamide had previously been detected only as a minor metabolite of salicylamide by paper chromatography.
  • (7) The screening of blood products for HTLV-1 is of minor importance.
  • (8) Ligaments played a very minor role in the lifts studied.
  • (9) Although chronologic age may not be a good predictor of pregnancy outcome, adolescents remain a high-risk group due to factors which are more common among them such as biologic immaturity, inadequate prenatal care, poverty, minority status, and low prepregnancy weight, and because factors associated with an early adolescent pregnancy, such as low gynecologic age, may continue to influence the outcome of subsequent pregnancies.
  • (10) Our study suggests that a major part of the renal antimineralocorticoid activity of spironolactone may be attributable to minor sulfur-containing metabolites or their precursors having a high renal clearance that affords access to their site of activity via the renal tubular fluid.
  • (11) Overt hemorrhage, major or minor, was assessed clinically.
  • (12) Quality evaluations by usual human spermiogram methods were applicable with only minor modifications to the procedures.
  • (13) These results might help to explain why only a minority of individuals with a susceptible HLA type develop uveitis, as well as the variable incidence of disease in HLA-identical populations of different ethnic backgrounds.
  • (14) Normal rat soleus myosin has a major slow and a minor fast component due to two populations of muscle fibers.
  • (15) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
  • (16) By applying this method to rat cardiac whole muscle, high-molecular weight proteins, such as myosin heavy chains, are focused on the first-dimensional gels and, in addition, minor components are resolved on the second-dimensional gels, without loss during equilibration with detergent.
  • (17) Amid all of the worry about her health, the difficult decisions around the surgery, and how to explain everything to the children, the practicalities of postponing the holiday was a relatively minor consideration.
  • (18) A relation between ejection fraction (EF) and the echo minor dimension measurements in end diastole and end systole was formulated, which permitted estimation of the EF from the echo measurements.
  • (19) Isometric exercise induces a significant shortening of both intervals although minor for QT so that the ratio significantly increases in comparison to baseline (p less than .001).
  • (20) The majority of the patients were Chinese (78.0%), followed by Malays (11.5%), Indians (8.1%) and other minority races (2.4%).

Minutia


Definition:

  • (n.) A minute particular; a small or minor detail; -- used chiefly in the plural.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The results of repair of posterior urethral strictures, even the complex ones, by anastomotic procedures can be excellent but real competence depends upon a particular aptitude of the surgeon for the minutiae of reconstructive techniques, appropriate training in a specializing department, a real ongoing numerical experience and special instrumentation with facilities for detailed urodynamic evaluation of this sphincter active area of the urethra.
  • (2) If she genuinely can't understand that, there is little point her pontificating on any of the minutiae of the free market system nor the political or economic world at large.
  • (3) "The longer we all argue about minutiae and statistics, the more rainforest disappears.
  • (4) Since the first teaser trailer was released 11 months ago , we’ve been spoonfed a steady diet of images and story details – carefully chosen to reveal very little and keep us obsessing about minutiae like the colour of C-3PO’s arm .
  • (5) In a swish office block on one side of a sweeping square, a youthful, multinational organising committee staff that will soon number 1,200 busy themselves with the minutiae of hosting a sporting event of this magnitude.
  • (6) Others with dull remits keep minutiae out of red boxes, so ministers can focus on the big picture.
  • (7) It's almost funny when you think about it – all those European bureaucrats beavering away over the minutiae of the trade deal, and then along comes Putin with a sack of cash and scuppers the whole thing in a matter of minutes.
  • (8) Comparative analysis confirmed by the statistical analysis showed significant differences in the incidence of particular minutiae types on the hand palms of children with Down's syndrome and control group.
  • (9) Female friendships are built on knowing about the minutiae, and just like news, they require your presence.
  • (10) Some of the changes in medical education discussed include excessive emphasis on incurable diseases and scientific minutiae instead of practical clinical problems, changes in the roles and images of clinical teachers, importance placed on faculty research, decline in actual patient care, and a new and welcome proliferation of training programs for family physicians.
  • (11) Where the first had been a clear offside, the second non-award was courtesy of a minutia of the laws of the game.
  • (12) Much greater attention is paid to the minutiae of social context, as it has become clear that a vaccination programme that works well in one location may fail in another, for reasons relating to social order that outsiders do not understand.
  • (13) It was their mistake to believe that the public was as interested in the minutiae of industrial relations as they were.
  • (14) As long as the decisions he takes as leader show he is not in the unions' pocket, and does not feel unduly indebted to them for the support they gave him in the leadership election, then the constitutional minutiae of his relationship with them are of negligible significance.
  • (15) Administrators and others responsible for the design of environments for the mentally ill must be aware that what might be considered irrelevant minutiae of design can have traumatic effects on patients.
  • (16) But any deal that merely tweaks the minutiae will only inflame grassroots doctors.
  • (17) Ordinary people can imagine the erosion of their social surroundings in everyday terms of stories and images that are fed to them in an exaggerated form, of an existential fight between us and them over who owns even the minutiae of life: where we live, the languages we speak and, in the case of the halal certification “debate”, what we eat.
  • (18) The minutiae of broadcasting regulations are unlikely to be vote winners so it is unsurprising that ITV fails to get a specific mention.
  • (19) He has called for an emergency meeting of EU finance ministers to examine the minutiae of the recalculated budget contributions which, in addition to asking Britain for €2.1bn, also refund Germany and France to the tune of €780m and €1.16bn.
  • (20) The minutiae of his plans are thrilling to anyone who's a fashion nerd, but what is particularly fascinating is how all of Hedi's work – reported by naysayers as disrespectful, egotistical – was actually inspired by Yves Saint Laurent himself.