minor surgery | any surgical procedure that does not involve anesthesia or respiratory assistance |
German lesson | instruction in the German language |
variola minor variola minor virus | a type of smallpox virus that has a fatality rate of about percent |
American woodcock woodcock snipe Philohela minor | small long-billed woodcock, prized as a game bird |
German short-haired pointer | liver or liver-and-white hunting dog developed in Germany, pointer and bloodhound |
German shepherd German shepherd dog German police dog alsatian | breed of large shepherd dogs used in police work and as a guide for the blind |
black bee German bee | darkolored ill-tempered honeybee supposedly of German origin |
German cockroach Croton bug crotonbug water bug Blattella germanica | small light-brown cockroach brought to United States from Europe, a common household pest |
minor suit | ( bridge) a suit of inferior scoring value, either diamonds or clubs |
minor tranquilizer minor tranquillizer minor tranquilliser antianxiety drug anxiolytic anxiolytic drug | a tranquilizer used to relieve anxiety and reduce tension and irritability |
subject content depicted object | something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation, a moving picture of a train is more dramatic than a still picture of the same subject |
pectoralis minor musculus pectoralis minor smaller pectoral muscle | a skeletal muscle that draws down the scapula or raises the ribs |
rhomboid minor muscle lesser rhomboid muscle musculus rhomboideus minor | rhomboid muscle that draws the scapula toward the vertebral column and slightly upward |
teres minor teres minor muscle musculus teres minor | teres muscle that adducts the arm and rotates it laterally |
topic subject issue matter | some situation or event that is thought about, he kept drifting off the topic, he had been thinking about the subject for several years, it is a matter for the police |
bit part minor role | a small role |
discipline subject subject area subject field field field of study study bailiwick | a branch of knowledge, in what discipline is his doctorate?, teachers should be well trained in their subject, anthropology is the study of human beings |
minor axis | the shorter or shortest axis of an ellipse or ellipsoid |
subject | (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence, the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated |
subject | (logic) the first term of a proposition |
nominative nominative case subject case | the category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb |
message content subject matter substance | what a communication that is about something is about |
subject topic theme | the subject matter of a conversation or discussion, he didn't want to discuss that subject, it was a very sensitive topic, his letters were always on the theme of love |
short subject | a brief film, often shown prior to showing the feature |
minor premise minor premiss subsumption | the premise of a syllogism that contains the minor term (which is the subject of the conclusion) |
minor term | the term in a syllogism that is the subject of the conclusion |
minor scale minor diatonic scale | a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the nd and rd and th and th |
minor key minor mode | a key based on the minor scale |
German High German German language | the standard German language, developed historically from West Germanic |
Old High German | High German prior to |
Middle High German | High German from to |
Low German Plattdeutsch | a German dialect spoken in northern Germany |
Middle Low German | Low German from to |
pfannkuchen german pancake | puffy mildly sweet lemon-flavored egg mixture sprinkled with confectioners' sugar and served with jam or a wine or fruit sauce |
subsidiary company subsidiary | a company that is completely controlled by another company |
minor-league team minor-league club | a team that plays in a minor league |
Luftwaffe German Luftwaffe | the German airforce |
minor league minors bush league | a league of teams that do not belong to a major league (especially baseball) |
National Socialist German Workers' Party Nazi Party | the political party founded in Germany in and brought to power by Hitler in |
Asia Minor Anatolia | a peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey |
East Germany German Democratic Republic | a republic in north central Europe on the Baltic, established by the Soviet Union in , reunified with West Germany in |
Berlin German capital | capital of Germany located in eastern Germany |
Canis Minor Little Dog | a constellation to the east of Orion, contains Procyon |
Little Bear Ursa Minor | a constellation outside the zodiac that rotates around the North Star |
minor planet planetoid | any of numerous small celestial bodies that move around the sun |
national subject | a person who owes allegiance to that nation, a monarch has a duty to his subjects |
German American | an American who was born in Germany or whose ancestors were German |
German | a person of German nationality |
East German | a native or inhabitant of the former republic of East Germany |
c child kid youngster minor shaver nipper small fry tiddler tike tyke fry nestling | a young person of either sex, she writes books for children, they're just kids, `tiddler' is a British term for youngster |