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I usually fish a Hornberg or a Muddler minnow, a deer-haired streamer that comes in a variety of sizes and colors but replicates a sculpin minnow or a grasshopper. Even if a trout doesn't take the larger streamers, it can usually be counted on to come up and give a look, revealing its location.
Joseph Monninger

Meaning of "minnow" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD MINNOW

Related to Old English myne minnow; compare Old High German muniwa fish.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF MINNOW

minnow  [ˈmɪnəʊ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MINNOW

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Minnow is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MINNOW MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Minnow

Minnow is a general term used to refer to small freshwater and saltwater fish, especially those used as bait fish or for fishing bait. More specifically, it refers to small freshwater fish of the carp family. They are also known in Ireland as pinkeens.

Definition of minnow in the English dictionary

The first definition of minnow in the dictionary is a small slender European freshwater cyprinid fish, Phoxinus phoxinus. Other definition of minnow is any other small cyprinid. Minnow is also a spinning lure imitating a minnow.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MINNOW


amino
əˈmaɪnəʊ
dino
ˈdaɪnəʊ
lino
ˈlaɪnəʊ
moineau
ˈmɔɪnəʊ
polyomino
ˌpɒlɪˈɒmɪnəʊ
relleno
rəˈljeɪnəʊ
rhino
ˈraɪnəʊ
Stalino
ˈstɑːlɪnəʊ
stratovolcano
ˌstrætəʊvɒlˈkeɪnəʊ
Taino
ˈtaɪnəʊ
topminnow
ˈtɒpˌmɪnəʊ
Trasimeno
ˌtrɑːzɪˈmeɪnəʊ
tromino
ˈtrɒmɪnəʊ
volcano
vɒlˈkeɪnəʊ
winnow
ˈwɪnəʊ
wino
ˈwaɪnəʊ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MINNOW

minneola
minnesinger
Minnesota
Minnesotan
minnick
minnie
Minoan
Minogue
minor
minor arcana
minor axis
minor canon
minor key
minor league
minor mode
minor orders
minor planet
minor premise

WORDS THAT END LIKE MINNOW

acknow
anow
Devon minnow
don´t know
for now
glory-of-the-snow
gnow
hard-packed snow
here and now
in the know
just now
know
Lucknow
need-to-know
now
now-now
powder snow
snow
you know
you never know

Synonyms and antonyms of minnow in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «minnow» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MINNOW

Find out the translation of minnow to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of minnow from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «minnow» in English.

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鲦鱼
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

minnow
570 millions of speakers

English

minnow
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

छोटी मछली
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

أسماك
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

гольян
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

peixinho
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মাছের পোনা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

fretin
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Minnow
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Elritze
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ミノウ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

미노
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Minnow
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

thứ cá nước ngọt rất nhỏ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உறுப்பு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मिनिने
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

golyan balığı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pesciolino
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

rybka
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

гольян
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

minnow
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ψαράκι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

minnow
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

elritsa
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ørekyte
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MINNOW»

The term «minnow» is quite widely used and occupies the 43.297 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MINNOW» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about minnow

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3 QUOTES WITH «MINNOW»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word minnow.
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Robin Birley
I'm a minnow compared to Caring with all his restaurants and clubs, and good luck to him. I've met him a couple of times. I've got no personal rancour against Richard Caring at all.
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Joseph Monninger
I usually fish a Hornberg or a Muddler minnow, a deer-haired streamer that comes in a variety of sizes and colors but replicates a sculpin minnow or a grasshopper. Even if a trout doesn't take the larger streamers, it can usually be counted on to come up and give a look, revealing its location.
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Darrell Royal
Punt returns will kill you quicker than a minnow can swim a dipper.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MINNOW»

Discover the use of minnow in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to minnow and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Ella Minnow Pea: A Progressively Lipogrammatic Epistolary Fable
The leaders interpret the fallen tile as a message from beyond the grave and the letter is banned from use. On an island where the residents pride themselves on their love of language, this is seen as a tragedy.
Mark Dunn, 2001
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Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters
Recounts what happens when the citizens of an island must rely on all their ingenuity to communicate in an increasingly limited language when the goverment progressively bans letters from the alphabet.
Mark Dunn, 2001
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Halcyon; or, Rod-fishing with fly, minnow, and worm. To ...
Two, three, or more split shot should now be fastened on half way between the swivels, for angling in strong or discoloured water, to keep the bait down; but these are not requisite in clear-water fishing with a very small Minnow. The swivels ...
Henry WADE (of Wolsingham, Durham.), 1861
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Ella Minnow Peed
shouted Mrs. Minnow. “It's time to get up for school!” Oh no, thought Ella. Not today. Ella wanted, more than anything, to go to school, but she knew it was going to be a terrible experience. You see, Ella was a minnow. Notjust any minnow, she ...
John D. Avera, 2013
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The Fishes of Alberta
MEMBERS OF THE MINNOW family are found in North America, Africa, Europe, and Asia. Their greatest diversity is in southeast Asia. This freshwater family contains about 2,000 species and is probably the largest of not only all fish families in ...
Joseph S. Nelson, Martin Joseph Paetz, 1992
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Fishes of West Virginia
The Kanawha minnow is most easily confused with the suckermouth minnow ( Phenacobius mirabilis). It can be distinguished from this fish because it lacks a distinct basicaudal spot and a scaly breast. The Kanawha minnow also superficially ...
Jay Stauffer, 2007
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Supplemental report for the sheepshead minnow and inland ...
CARE AND FEEDING OF ADULTS AND LARVAE Embryonic development of the sheepshead minnow (Cyprinidon varieeatus): A. 48-hour embryo; B. 72-hour embryo; C. newly hatched ftsh, actual length 4 mm; D. 5-day fish (5 mm); E. young ...
Center for Environmental Research Information (U.S.), Environmental Research Laboratory (Narragansett, R.I.), 1990
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Northern Pike and Muskie: Tackle and Techniques for Catching ...
How to Tip a Jig with Live Bait PUSH ( 1 ) the hook through the mouth of a 4-inch minnow and out just behind the head. (2) Hook a 5- to 6-inch minnow through the lips and insert one prong of the stinger hook ahead of the tail. The stinger is ...
Creative Publishing International Editors, Dick Sternberg, 1992
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Ecological Aquaculture: A Sustainable Solution
Minnow. As a Prey Species Minnows (Phoxinus phoxinus) represent the 4th trophic level in the aquatic community and are an essential part of an enhanced food chain structure. In other parts of the globe where this species is not present,  ...
Laurence Hutchinson, 2005
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Field & Stream
SHALLOW STOP-AND-GO Many shallow-diving minnow plugs can swim 2 or 3 feet deep on a long cast-and-re- trieve, especially if you stand and point the rod tip at the water and slightly to the side while reeling. Although you can catch fish ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MINNOW»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term minnow is used in the context of the following news items.
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Escaped Minnows and Fat Crappie
Crappies are about my least favorite fish to catch because you can't catch them on a Zara Spook or a Jitterbug or a Rapala Floating Minnow. «The Smithville Herald, Jul 15»
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OUTDOORS: Water levels returning to normal
McCadams noted that tightlining jigs or bottom bumping minnow rigs have produced some decent crappie in the 17 to 20 foot depth range. «Clarksville Leaf Chronicle, Jul 15»
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Eagle River fishing report for July 21
Use a jig and a leech or minnow, a three to four inch plastic, or a Senko rigged wacky worm. All day action and the bite is good to excellent. «Appleton Post Crescent, Jul 15»
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Leaderboard taking shape in 2015 CCA STAR tournament
The fish fell for a live cocaho minnow. With about six weeks left in the tournament, there are still 48 specially tagged STAR redfish swimming in ... «NOLA.com, Jul 15»
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Big fish quiz: how many can you identify?
The Great British Public doesn't minnow as much about fish as we thought." How many fish can you name? Take our quiz and find out! «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
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Alexandria: AWLA's Got Seoul
#Hubbard, who adopted one of the puppies herself, a shaggy dog named Minnow, said the AWLA's undertaking with HSI offers a great ... «Virginia Connection Newspapers, Jul 15»
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Nathan Tinkler's struggle to get back into mining
... set to engineer a reverse takeover – in concert with Nick Paspaley of the pearling family dynasty – of listed oil and gas minnow Orca Energy, ... «BRW, Jul 15»
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The Lacets de Montvernier: the Tour's new legendary climb? (video)
The Lacets de Montvernier is an Alpine climb, but it's not big. Among its titanic neighbours in the Maurienne valley it's a minnow, just 3.4km long ... «Cycling Weekly, Jul 15»
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Shaquille O'Neal's Lakers beats Bulls prediction only off by 50 points
... up with a loudmouth boast the other day on Instagram, one that former Bulls star Scottie Pippen rose to like a bass to a wounded minnow. «Chicago Sun-Times, Jul 15»
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OUTDOOR NOTEBOOK
... bite for the weekend. Crappie fishing is good with fish being taken out of stakebeds on ledges in 14-16 feet of water with minnow-tipped jigs. «Clarksville Leaf Chronicle, Jul 15»

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