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}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Italian miniatura (“manuscript illumination”), from miniare (“to illuminate”), from Latin miniō (“to colour red”), from minium (“red lead”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "miniatures",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "miniaturing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "miniatured",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "miniatured",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "miniature (third-person singular simple present miniatures, present participle miniaturing, simple past and past participle miniatured)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1755, John Shebbeare, An Answer to a Pamphlet, called A Second Letter to the People, London: M. Cooper, page 29",
"text": "If it be ever so little removed, or seen thro’ the miniaturing End of the Perspective Glass, it either wholly escapes their Sight, or appears to them a mere Minutity.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1780, Samuel Jackson Pratt, Emma Corbett, Bath: Pratt and Clinch, Volume 2, Letter 67, p. ,101",
"text": "The smile of the babe was in my eye, and in my heart. I saw miniatur’d forth, the features of the murdered Edward.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"text": "c. 1807, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, letter to Joseph Cottle, cited in Joseph Cottle, Early Recollections, Chiefly Relating to the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge, London: Longman, Rees, 1837, Volume 2, p. 131,\nNow what the globe is in geography, miniaturing in order to manifest the truth, such is a poem to that image of God, which we were created into […]"
},
{
"ref": "1968, Samuel R. Delany, chapter 5, in Nova, New York: Doubleday",
"text": "[…] a moon holds its gray glories miniatured in rock and dust.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2009, Helen Oyeyemi, White Is for Witching, New York: Nan A. Talese, pages 98-99",
"text": "Dad had had Lily’s Haiti photos developed, and […] among them was a sunset miniatured in purple […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To make smaller than normal; to reproduce in miniature."
],
"links": [
[
"reproduce",
"reproduce"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To make smaller than normal; to reproduce in miniature."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈmɪnɪtʃə/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈmɪn(i)ət͡ʃəɹ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈmɪn(i)ət͡ʃʊəɹ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"word": "miniature"
}
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