a miniature is a small picture

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• Miniature (illuminated manuscript) — Miniature of the Trojan Horse, from the Vergilius Romanus, a manuscript of Virgil s Aeneid, early 5th century. The word miniature, derived from the Latin minium, red lead, is a picture in an ancient or medieval illuminated manuscript; the simple… …   Wikipedia

• miniature — adj., n., & v. adj. 1 much smaller than normal. 2 represented on a small scale. n. 1 any object reduced in size. 2 a small scale minutely finished portrait. 3 this branch of painting (portrait in miniature). 4 a picture or decorated letters in an …   Useful english dictionary

• miniature — {{11}}miniature (adj.) small, 1714, from MINATURE (Cf. minature) (n.). Of dog breeds, from 1889. Of golf, from 1893. {{12}}miniature (n.) 1580s, a reduced image, from It. miniatura manuscript illumination or small picture, from pp. of miniare to… …   Etymology dictionary

• small — small, little, diminutive, petite, wee, tiny, teeny, weeny, minute, microscopic, miniature can all mean conspicuously below the average in magnitude, especially physical magnitude. Small (opposed to large) and little (opposed to big, great) are… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• miniature — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ of a much smaller size than normal. ► NOUN 1) a thing that is much smaller than normal. 2) a very small and minutely detailed portrait. 3) a picture or decorated letter in an illuminated manuscript. DERIVATIVES miniaturize (also …   English terms dictionary

• Miniature faking — Digitally blurred miniature fake of Jodhpur Original p …   Wikipedia

• Miniature sheet — This US souvenir sheet of 1936, issued for the TIPEX exhibition, consists of four contemporary commemoratives, imperforate A souvenir sheet or miniature sheet is a small group of postage stamps still attached to the sheet on which they were… …   Wikipedia

• miniature — Synonyms and related words: Elzevir, Lilliputian, abstract, abstraction, altarpiece, baby, baby sized, bantam, banty, block print, collage, color print, compact, companion, copy, cursory, cyclorama, daub, dead ringer, depthless, diminutive,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• miniature — adjective of a much smaller size than normal. noun 1》 a thing that is much smaller than normal.     ↘a very small bottle of spirits.     ↘a very small and minutely detailed painting, especially a portrait. 2》 a picture or decorated letter in an… …   English new terms dictionary

• motion-picture technology — Introduction       the means for the production and showing of motion pictures. It includes not only the motion picture camera and projector but also such technologies as those involved in recording sound, in editing both picture and sound, in… …   Universalium

• motion picture — motion picture, adj. 1. a sequence of consecutive pictures of objects photographed in motion by a specially designed camera (motion picture camera) and thrown on a screen by a projector (motion picture projector) in such rapid succession as to… …   Universalium