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語源

From Latin minimus +‎ -ize.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈmɪn.ɪ.maɪz/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈmɪn.ɪˌmaɪz/, /ˈmɪn.əˌmaɪz/
• (Canada) IPA: /ˈmɪn.ɪˌmaɪz/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈmɪn.ɪˌmɑɪz/

動詞

minimize (third-person singular simple present minimizes, present participle minimizing, simple past and past participle minimized)

1. (transitive) To make (something) smaller or as small as possible; shrink; reduce.

   Synonyms: besmall, smallify; see also Thesaurus:diminish

   Antonym: maximize

   We have to minimize the budget.

   Try to minimize your biases.

   • 1948, Willard Price, Roving South, Rio Grande to Patagonia, New York, N.Y.: J. Day Co., →OCLC, page 13:

     Terry, author of the indispensable Terry's Guide to Mexico, has a name for it – atrabiliousness. "The defect of many of the murals," he says, speaking of those in the orphan asylum, "is the facial atrabiliousness of some of the subjects. To the observer it minimizes the grandeur of the conception […] "

   • 1954, Instruments and Control Systems - Volume 27, page 1466:

     For accurate stopping, the drive must incorporate means for minimizing inertia overdrift.

   • 2023, Jacqueline B. Helfgott, Copycat Crime:

     One way to minimize or mitigate the copycat effect is to deemphasize the perpetrator and deglorify the violence in real and fictional stories.

2. (transitive) To relegate or assign (something) to a less insignificant status; diminish.

   Synonyms: lessen, lower, reduce; see also Thesaurus:diminish

   The insurance adjuster tried to minimize the extent of the damage to lessen the company's exposure to liability.

3. (computing, transitive, graphical user interface) To remove (a window) from the main display area, collapsing it to an icon or caption.

   Antonym: maximize

   I didn't close anything, but I minimized all the windows so I could see the desktop.

4. (transitive) To treat (someone) in a slighting manner.
   • 1993, Jan McDaniel, One Golden Summer, page 95:

     […] father who had never openly minimized him or anything he did […]

5. (transitive) To treat as trivial or insignificant; to trivialize.

   Synonyms: banalize, disparage, play down; see also Thesaurus:trivialize

   to minimize someone's feelings

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