Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Synonyymit
Lyhenteet
Määritelmät
Adjektiivi
- (attributive):
- Greater in dignity, rank, importance, significance, or interest.
- Greater in number, quantity, or extent.
- Notable or conspicuous in effect or scope.
- Prominent or significant in size, amount, or degree.
- (medicine) Involving great risk, serious, life-threatening.
- Of full legal age, having attained majority.
- (education) Of or relating to a subject of academic study chosen as a field of specialization.
- (music):
- Having intervals of a semitone between the third and fourth, and seventh and eighth degrees. (of a scale)
- Equivalent to that between the tonic and another note of a major scale, and greater by a semitone than the corresponding minor interval. (of an interval)
- Having a major third above the root.
- (postpositive) (of a key) Based on a major scale, tending to produce a bright or joyful effect.
- (campanology) Bell changes rung on eight bells.
- (UK, dated) Indicating the elder of two brothers (or the eldest of three), appended to a surname in public schools.
- Occurring as the predicate in the conclusion of a categorical syllogism. (of a term)
- Containing the major term in a categorical syllogism. (of a premise)
Substantiivi
- (military) A rank of officer in the army and the US air force, between captain and lieutenant colonel.
- An officer in charge of a section of band instruments, used with a modifier.
- A person of legal age.
- (music):
- Ellipsis of major key.
- Ellipsis of major interval.
- Ellipsis of major scale.
- (campanology) A system of change-ringing using eight bells.
- A large, commercially successful company, especially a record label that is bigger than an indie.
- (education, Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand) The principal subject or course of a student working toward a degree at a college or university.
- A student at a college or university specializing on a given area of study.
- (logic):
- Ellipsis of major term.
- Ellipsis of major premise.
- (bridge) Ellipsis of major suit.
- (Canadian football) A touchdown, or major score.
- (Australian rules football) A goal.
- (British slang, dated) An elder brother (especially at a public school).
- (entomology) A large leaf-cutter ant that acts as a soldier, defending the nest.
- (obsolete) Alternative form of mayor and mair.
Esimerkit
- He used to be a major in the army.
- This is Major Jones.
- the major part of the assembly
- The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.
- a major scale.
- Midway through his second year of college, he still hadn't chosen a major.
- She is a math major.
- He says Ninja Tune retains the master and publishing rights on most of its catalog, making it easy to license quickly. Yet as majors jump on the videogame bandwagon, he fears indies may lose that outlet.
- I have decided to major in mathematics.
- major third
- major scale
- He majored in history.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | majored | Imperfekti | majored |
| Partisiipin preesens | majoring | Monikko | majors |
| Komparatiivi | more major | Superlatiivi | most major |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | majors |