Word Finder - miniature

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Greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale.

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A small version of something; a model of reduced scale.

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There was a miniature of a whaling ship in a glass bottle over the mantlepiece.

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A small, highly detailed painting, a portrait miniature.

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The art of painting such highly detailed miniature works.

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An illustration in an illuminated manuscript.

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A musical composition which is short in duration.

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Sacha composed a miniature for strings as a final project at the conservatory.

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A chess game which is concluded with very few moves.

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A token in a game representing a unit or character.

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Jack had dozens of miniatures of Napoleonic footsoldiers painted in detailed period regalia for his wargames.

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Lettering in red; rubric distinction.

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A particular feature or trait.

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To make smaller than normal; to reproduce in miniature.

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Smaller than normal.

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I find miniature dogs annoying; they seem to yap more than full-size dogs.

Yeah, I think it's more like a miniature rodeo.

Dean explained that the miniature remains belonged to a very bad man.

Both maps abound in miniature pictures of towns, animals, fabulous beings and other subjects.

In her hands was a huge bouquet of miniature sunflowers.

The "Fuggerei," built in 1519 by the brothers Fugger, is a miniature town, with six streets or alleys, three gates and a church, and consists of a hundred and six small houses let to indigent Roman Catholic citizens at a nominal rent.

Here also is Skansen, an ingenious reproduction in miniature of the salient physical features of Sweden with its flora, fauna, and characteristic dwellings inhabited by peasants in the picturesque costumes of the various districts.

Cooper presented his native town with a public park of 42 acres, containing lakes representing on a miniature scale the British Isles.

Except for the absence of wings, the young are miniature models of the adult.

These styles can also be found in miniature versions.

The gradual elimination of the= nitrogen is tested at a moment's notice with a miniature spectroscope.

The miniature daffodils are out around our bird table.

Coming soon, a fine report by our miniature railroad historian John Myers on the Rhyl Gala.

The cathedral of St Catherine is a miniature copy of that at Constantinople.

He had a miniature dachshund named Rusty, " He's a lovely little fellow.

Wingless insects, such as spring-tails and lice, make their appearance in the form of miniature adults.

He governed his cathedral with great strictness and conscientiousness, and for years after Stella's death continued to hold a miniature court at the deanery.

The result might serve some students as a useful compendium in miniature.

Stuff a miniature marshmallow in the bottom of a sugar cone to prevent ice cream drips.

A miniature replica of the badge is presented to retiring presidents of the Society.

We chewed on last season 's dates and miniature unripe bananas.

Be sure to have the miniature lights strung around the trees.

We have a Miniature Pinscher and a Chihuahua.

Navarre was not reconquered for the couple as Francis had promised, but ample apanages were assigned to Marguerite, and at Nerac and Pau miniature courts were kept up, which yielded to none in Europe in the intellectual brilliancy of their frequenters.

The body contains in miniature all the organs of the adult fluke, including the gonads and in addition "eye-spots," a stylet, rod-cells and cystogenous cells.

Schleswig-Holstein belongs to the great North-German plain, of the characteristic features of which it affords a faithful reproduction in miniature, down to the continuation of the Baltic ridge or plateau by a range of low wooded hills skirting its eastern coast and culminating in the Bungsberg (538 ft.), a little to the north of Eutin.

In places they rise in tiers, one above another, like miniature mountains, and are 200 to 300 ft.

Aspiration - The use of a miniature vacuum system (called an aspirator) to remove saliva from the mouth whilst performing dental surgery.

The big island was full of miniature plastic birdhouses up with himthe.

The older fuse wire are being replaced gradually by their modern equivalent, the MCB or miniature circuit breaker.

Through frosted rococo cartouches she sings about the virtues of true love accompanied by miniature animated sequences.

Josepha seated herself by the open casement, and for the first time gazed on the miniature she wore.

Today's modern miniature smooth dachshund is a very intelligent, lively and courageous to the point of brashness.

For a long moment he concentrated on the miniature donkey nibbling the grass around the wooden zebra.

The Victorians invented miniature dustpans & brushes to clean up the crumbs between courses; well Crumb Pets are the 21st century fun version.

Tiny mosses, hardy ferns or miniature bulbs will add extra interest.

On arrival a miniature pony was up to its neck in rapidly rising floodwater.

This provoked a miniature flurry of responses from both members and non-members of MLS.

The Ordnance department's first products were highly classified miniature radio components for the proximity fuze.

Miniature dairy goats cause excitement in the caprine world!

Sport and Word Hook the biggest fish, jump the highest ski jump, or get your best score in miniature golf.

Items on display included incunabula, fine bindings, early historical works, miniature literary texts and children's books.

Ornate prospect glasses, French lorgnettes and miniature spyglasses became all the rage in pre-Revolutionary France.

With Hilliard, the portrait miniature became firmly established in English culture.

The hinged seats have misericords - miniature seats ' of mercy ' underneath.

It also has the spectral signature of a miniature bipolar outflow.

Among the items in the collection is a miniature medieval mermaid and an inscribed gold signet ring.

Armillary spheres These resemble a miniature Earth made from bands of metal.

Into its comfortably upholstered rear, Henry put a cardboard miniature of a Pullman section.

A spider's web is a breaker's yard in miniature.

She sat down at her writing table, on which stood miniature portraits and which was littered with books and papers.