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 miniature ['miniәtʃә]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 缩图, 小画像

a. 小规模的, 纤小的

[化] 雏型; 雏型的; 微型; 微型的




    miniature
    [ noun ]
    1. painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts)

      2. <noun.artifact>
    2. a copy that reproduces a person or thing in greatly reduced size

      3. <noun.artifact>
    [ adj ]
    1. being on a very small scale

      2. <adj.all>
      a miniature camera


    Miniature \Min"i*a*ture\, a.
    Being on a small scale; much reduced from the reality; as, a
    miniature copy.


    Miniature \Min"i*a*ture\, v. t.
    To represent or depict in a small compass, or on a small
    scale.


    Miniature \Min"i*a*ture\ (?; 277), n. [It. miniatura, fr. L.
    miniare. See {Miniate}, v.,{Minium}.]
    1. Originally, a painting in colors such as those in
    medi[ae]val manuscripts; in modern times, any very small
    painting, especially a portrait.

    2. Greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale.

    3. Lettering in red; rubric distinction. [Obs.]

    4. A particular feature or trait. [Obs.] --Massinger.

    1. His insistence that electronic rather than human exploration is the wave of the future brought him into conflict with the group manning Alvin, the famous miniature submarine.
    2. The UK company DIP, whose handheld miniature computer is the basis of the Atari Portfolio, showed that, as did Psion with its notebook-style Mobile Computer. Both companies may have been somewhat ahead of the market.
    3. "I was stunned when I saw the commercial," says Joe Gandolfo, a Florida financial planner who says his miniature collie, Laddie, died after being sprayed with Blockade.
    4. It is, in miniature, a paradigm of the nationwide struggle over the problem, in a state where opinion is almost evenly divided.
    5. The strangest fruits were the tiny pears and miniature flat-ended peaches called paraguayos. There was no absence of fish from the market stalls.
    6. The invitations to the "Rainbow Roundup" at Spago restaurant June 5 were delivered by private delivery service this week in burlap-wrapped gift boxes that contained chocolates and a miniature cowboy boot.
    7. Some day somewhere in America, someone so disturbed by high taxes might take a miniature American flag into the backyard and set it afire.
    8. It only lasts an hour, but into that time an epic in miniature is compressed. The opera takes place way back in Czech mythological history.
    9. If you don't mind spending up to $10,000, your pet can dwell well in a dog-sized miniature of your house.
    10. The long-awaited meeting between the Sarasota girl and her biological parents, Ernest and Regina Twigg, took place quietly this spring at a miniature golf course in Sarasota, the St. Petersburg Times reported Saturday.
    11. Officials running the match removed Karpov's miniature flag of the Soviet Union and Kasparov's flag of the Russian Republic from the playing table after Karpov's delegation asked that Kasparov's be taken away.
    12. The user 'writes' information into a PDA with an electronic pen, instead of a miniature keyboard. The three-way convergence is made possible, of course, by the rapid advance of technology in computing, communications and electronics.
    13. He also helped develop the miniature projection process that magnified models into monsters for such pictures as "King Kong." He directed the 1927 film "His Dog" for Cecil B. DeMille.
    14. For example, a Massachusetts company is showing a miniature video display monitor slightly larger than a lipstick.
    15. Potted phony floral arrangements were everywhere, and there was a 7-foot-tall climbing bougainvillea and a miniature piano with silk flowers.
    16. "What that flag encapsules is too sacred to be abused," Bush said at the White House after receiving on his 66th birthday a miniature replica of the Iwo Jima Memorial, the Marines' famed flag-raising sculpture.
    17. He pulled out a miniature Olympus camera.
    18. North Wales is like a miniature Scotland without the midges and Anglesey flat like Ireland, with low stone walls around white-painted cottages.
    19. A miniature cardboard cutout of former New York Mets Manager Davey Johnson looks on from the bookshelf.
    20. With 60,000 people present, athletes from 57 countries marched in to McMahon Stadium for Sunday night's closing ceremonies carrying miniature Olympic torches.
    21. Business has plummeted at Dilly Dally's Golf & Games in Marietta, Ga., where 25% fewer people come to play miniature golf.
    22. The TCAS system gives the pilot a miniature air traffic control system in the sky, displaying aircraft within a 40-mile radius.
    23. As the leader approaches, traffic lights along the route are switched to green by policemen who man the controls in miniature, glass-enclosed control towers overlooking the central streets.
    24. Sheila Hawkins knew something was amiss when Bentley, her 5-year-old miniature Yorkshire terrier, turned up missing.
    25. To create his miniature city, artist Carl Cheng, 46, built a 14-ton concrete roller that was indented with an elaborate design of Los Angeles.
    26. And all three of these are miniature comedies in nicely bawdy vein.
    27. The miniature drives can also be used to store and transport the recordings of security video cameras. White was a founder and technical director of Rodime, the Scottish disc drive company which in 1983 produced the world's first 3.5-in hard disc drive.
    28. The Plaza, overlooking Manila Bay and fully equipped with pool (including slide), miniature golf and Mongolian barbecue, provided a distinctly pleasant change of environment for the Makati residents.
    29. An intelligent singer, she is adept at the subtle shading that these miniature vocal portraits demand, yet her approach is not of the "sacred lieder recital" genre.
    30. Already new plans and strategies have been discussed and morale is rising. The ships and aircraft, being miniature and plastic, are safe from defence cuts. Airfix - a name familiar to boys of all ages - leads the task force.
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