Is minimize a word

Several dictionaries do not have an entry for minimalize (such as Oxford Dictionaries and Merriam-Webster). Still, other dictionaries do (such as Random House, via Dictionary.com and Webster’s New World and American Heritage, via YourDictionary), and the word is definitely in use, so the answer to the first part of your question is yes, it’s a word.

The difference between minimize and minimalize is very subtle. In many cases, either word would work and they would mean the same thing. However, some would argue that minimalize implies striving for minimalism, which isn’t quite the same as simply making as small as possible. One blogger who describes himself as a minimalist specifically uses both words in the title of an article, in an effort to highlight the difference: «The Goal is to Minimalize Consumption, not to Minimize It».

Some claim that minimalize means something akin to «portray as small or unimportant»; whereas minimize means to actually make something small. This distinction doesn’t jibe with the definitions for minimize given in various dictionaries covering both of those uses. For example, from Oxford Dictionaries:

Reduce (something, especially something unwanted or unpleasant) to the smallest possible amount or degree: the aim is to minimize costs

Represent or estimate at less than the true value or importance: they may minimize, or even overlook, the importance of such beliefs

I believe that this misconception comes from conflating minimalize with marginalize:

[Again, from Oxford Dictionaries]:

Treat (a person, group, or concept) as insignificant or peripheral: attempting to marginalize those who disagree

минимизировать, преуменьшать, доводить до минимума

глагол

- доводить до минимума, минимизировать

to minimize a risk — минимизировать риск
minimize radio transmission — сокращать до минимума объём радиопередач
to minimize losses — преуменьшать потери
it will help to minimize the damage — это поможет свести ущерб до минимума

- преуменьшать

to minimize someone’s achievements — преуменьшать чьи-то достижения
to minimize the accident — преуменьшать серьёзность катастрофы

Мои примеры

Словосочетания

minimize button — кнопка свёртывания окна; сворачивающая кнопка  

Примеры с переводом

Let’s minimize the risk.

Давайте сведём эту опасность к минимуму.

We need to minimize the chance of error.

Нам нужно свести к минимуму возможность ошибки.

We need to minimize network downtime.

Мы должны минимизировать время простоя сети.

The company will work to minimize costs.

Компания будет работать, чтобы свести затраты к минимуму.

Click the square icon again to minimize the window.

Нажмите на квадратную иконку снова, чтобы свернуть окно.

Please minimize all open windows.

Просьба свернуть все открытые окна.

Every effort is being made to minimize civilian casualties.

Делается всё возможное, чтобы свести к минимуму жертвы среди гражданского населения.

During the interview, she minimized her weaknesses and emphasized her strengths.

В ходе интервью она свела к минимуму свои недостатки и подчеркнула свои достоинства.

The rail company is bringing in more trains in an effort to minimize disruption to travellers.

Железнодорожная компания вводит в расписание дополнительные составы, пытаясь свести к минимуму неудобства для путешественников.

Примеры, ожидающие перевода

Click on the top of the window to minimize it.

We must not minimize the problem of racial discrimination.

I don’t want to minimize the contributions he has made to the company.

Для того чтобы добавить вариант перевода, кликните по иконке , напротив примера.

Возможные однокоренные слова

minimum  — минимальный, минимум, минимальное количество
minimized  — минимизированный, свернутый

Формы слова

verb
I/you/we/they: minimize
he/she/it: minimizes
ing ф. (present participle): minimizing
2-я ф. (past tense): minimized
3-я ф. (past participle): minimized


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The North American spelling is minimize, related words are minimizes and minimized, and the nouns minimizing, minimizer and minimization. Minimize and minimise are examples of a group of words that are spelled with a “z” in American English and with an “s” in British English.

What does it mean to be minimized?

1 : to reduce or keep to a minimum minimize costs minimize delays. 2 : to underestimate intentionally : play down, soft-pedal minimizing losses in our own forces while maximizing those of the enemy.

What does it mean to minimize a situation?

transitive verb. If you minimize a risk, problem, or unpleasant situation, you reduce it to the lowest possible level, or prevent it from increasing beyond that level.

Is minimize an adverb?

In a minimal way; to the least extent.

What is the adverb of originate?

originally. (not comparable) As it was in the beginning. In an original manner.

27 related questions found

Is minimalize a word?

verb (used with object), min·i·mal·ized, min·i·mal·iz·ing. to make minimal: to minimalize tax increases.

What is mean by reduce?

1 : to make smaller or less reduce expenses Reduce your speed ahead. 2 : to bring to a usually worse state The story reduced them to tears. 3 : to lower in grade or rank. 4 : to change to a simpler form Reduce a fraction to its lowest terms.

What is the use of minimize?

Answer: The Minimize button shrinks the window and places it on the taskbar while leaving the program running. The Maximize button, which looks like a small window, is used to enlarge a window to cover the entire desktop.

How do you minimize a window?

Windows

  1. Open a recently closed tab in your internet broswer: Ctrl + Shift «T»
  2. Switch between open windows: Alt + Tab.
  3. Minimize everything and show desktop: (or between the desktop and Start screen in Windows 8.1): Windows Key + «D»
  4. Minimize window: Windows Key + Down Arrow.
  5. Maximize window: Windows Key + Up Arrow.

What should I minimize in life?

7 Ways to Minimize Your Life

  • Decrease Your Debt. This may seem overstated, however, tackling any debts is critical to getting closer to a minimalist lifestyle. …
  • Change Your Schedule. …
  • Declutter. …
  • Limit Goals. …
  • Value Experience Over Stuff. …
  • Get Rid of Broken or Damaged Things. …
  • Remove Emotional Clutter.

What is minimize risk?

Risk minimization is the process of doing everything possible to reduce the probability and/or impact of a risk towards zero. This is reserved for risks that are viewed as unacceptable to a society, organization or individual.

What is another word for downplay?

In this page you can discover 14 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for downplay, like: minimize, play down, foreground, background, understate, minimise, underplay, overstate, denigrate, trivialise and gloss over.

What is minimizing a person?

Minimisation or minimization is a type of deception involving denial coupled with rationalisation/rationalization in situations where complete denial is implausible. … Minimisation, or downplaying the significance of an event or emotion, is a common strategy in dealing with feelings of guilt.

What does it mean to maximize something?

transitive verb. 1 : to increase to a maximum. 2 : to make the most of. 3 : to find a maximum value of.

What is on the taskbar when a window is minimized?

The window disappears, represented by its little button on the taskbar at your screen’s bottom. To make a minimized program on the taskbar revert to a regular, onscreen window, just click its icon on the taskbar. … When you minimize a window, you neither destroy its contents nor close the program.

Where is maximize button?

Maximize Buttons

The maximize button in Windows is the middle button with the square.

Which three buttons are used to resize a window?

Windows allows you to easily enlarge, hide, or shrink a window using the Minimize, Maximize, and Restore buttons. The Minimize button is among the three buttons at the right end of the title bar. This button has a small dash (or minus sign).

When you minimize an application it is still running true or false?

When minimized, the program remains on the taskbar, but not visible. In the early versions of Windows 3. x and other operating systems and software programs, the minimize button may be represented by a small down arrow.

What is reduce example?

To reduce is to make something smaller or to become or feel smaller, or forcing someone into a less desirable position. When you sell off half of your doll collection, your actions are an example of reduce. An example of reduce is when your stomach gets smaller because you are on a diet; your stomach reduces.

Why do we reduce?

By reducing our waste, we are also conserving our resources. Resources like aluminium, petroleum and trees are all used to make new materials such as cans, plastic bags and paper packaging. Less energy is used to recycle materials opposed to creating new materials.

How can we reduce plastic?

TIPS FOR REDUCING YOUR PLASTICS CONSUMPTION

  1. Avoid single-use plastics such as drinking straws. …
  2. If you go shopping, remember to take a cloth bag. …
  3. Recycle chewing gum… it’s also make of plastic! …
  4. Buy more bulk food and fewer packaged products. …
  5. Replace plastic Tupperware for glass or steel containers.

What is being marginalized mean?

: to put or keep (someone) in a powerless or unimportant position within a society or group.

What does Joyant mean?

Adjective. joyant (comparative more joyant, superlative most joyant) (rare, dated) Joyous, joyful or jolly.

What is another word for minimization?

In this page you can discover 16 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for minimization, like: belittlement, denigration, deprecation, depreciation, derogation, detraction, disparagement, attack, show, minimisation and maximization.

  • 1
    minimize

    minimize fuel consumption

    доводить расход топлива до минимума

    minimize hazard

    сводить к минимуму опасность

    English-Russian aviation dictionary > minimize

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    minimize

    1) доводи́ть до ми́нимума

    2) преуменьша́ть

    Англо-русский словарь Мюллера > minimize

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    minimize

    Персональный Сократ > minimize

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    minimize

    гл.

    1)

    общ.

    минимизировать, сводить к минимуму

    2)

    ,

    мат.

    минимизировать, находить минимум

    Ant:

    See:

    Англо-русский экономический словарь > minimize

  • 5
    minimize

    [‘mɪnɪmaɪz]

    1) минимизировать, доводить до минимума, сводить к минимуму

    Syn:

    Click the square icon again to minimize the window. — Нажмите на квадратную иконку снова, чтобы свернуть окно.

    Ant:

    Англо-русский современный словарь > minimize

  • 6
    minimize

    [ˈmɪnɪmaɪz]

    minimize доводить до минимума minimize минимизировать minimize преуменьшать minimize сводить к минимуму

    English-Russian short dictionary > minimize

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    minimize

    св.

    режим «минимайз», режим минимальной переписки [переговоров, радиообмена]; «ограничить второстепенные переговоры» ;

    English-Russian military dictionary > minimize

  • 8
    minimize

    Англо-русский синонимический словарь > minimize

  • 9
    minimize

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > minimize

  • 10
    minimize

    [ʹmınımaız]

    1. доводить до минимума

    it will help to minimize the damage — это поможет свести ущерб до минимума

    2. преуменьшать

    НБАРС > minimize

  • 11
    minimize

    Англо-русский технический словарь > minimize

  • 12
    minimize

    1. v доводить до минимума

    2. v преуменьшать

    Синонимический ряд:

    1. decry (verb) abuse; belittle; cry down; decry; derogate; detract; detract from; discount; disparage; dispraise; downcry; minimise; opprobriate; run down; take away; take from; talk down; write off

    3. lower (verb) decrease; demote; deprecate; depreciate; diminish; downgrade; lessen; lower; reduce

    Антонимический ряд:

    exaggerate; increase

    English-Russian base dictionary > minimize

  • 13
    minimize

    Англо-русский словарь нормативно-технической терминологии > minimize

  • 14
    minimize

    сводить к минимуму; минимизировать; доводить до минимума

    English-Russian dictionary on nuclear energy > minimize

  • 15
    minimize

    ˈmɪnɪmaɪzдоводить до минимума, преуменьшать

    Англо-русский словарь экономических терминов > minimize

  • 16
    minimize

    доводить до минимума, минимизировать

    Англо-русский словарь нефтегазовой промышленности > minimize

  • 17
    minimize

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > minimize

  • 18
    minimize

    [`mɪnɪmaɪz]

    доводить до минимума, сводить к минимуму

    преуменьшать

    Англо-русский большой универсальный переводческий словарь > minimize

  • 19
    minimize

    English-russian dictionary of physics > minimize

  • 20
    minimize

    English-Russian electronics dictionary > minimize

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См. также в других словарях:

  • minimize — min‧i‧mize [ˈmɪnmaɪz] also minimise verb [transitive] 1. to make something as small as possible: • Investing in unit trusts minimises the risks if stock markets fall. • We need to minimize our transport …   Financial and business terms

  • minimize — I verb abbreviate, abridge, attach little importance to, attenuate, bedwarf, belittle, cheapen, clip, criticize, curtail, cut down, cut down to size, cut short decimate, decrease, decry, deduct, deflate, degrade, demote, depreciate, derogate,… …   Law dictionary

  • minimize — min i*mize (m[i^]n [i^]*m[imac]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {minimized} (m[i^]n [i^]*m[imac]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. {minimizing} (m[i^]n [i^]*m[imac]*z[i^]ng).] 1. To reduce to the smallest part or proportion possible; to reduce to a minimum. Bentham.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • minimize — (v.) 1802, first recorded in Bentham; see MINIMUM (Cf. minimum) + IZE (Cf. ize) …   Etymology dictionary

  • minimize — (Amer.) min·i·mize || mɪnɪmaɪz v. make small, reduce; reduce as much as possible; make less important; play down; (Computers) make a window smaller to the point that only an icon remains in its place (also minimise) …   English contemporary dictionary

  • minimize — depreciate, *decry, belittle, disparage, derogate, detract Antonyms: magnify Contrasted words: aggrandize, *exalt: extol, eulogize, acclaim, laud, *praise …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • minimize — [v] make smaller; underrate abbreviate, attenuate, belittle, cheapen, curtail, cut down to size, cut rate, decrease, decry, deprecate, depreciate, derogate, detract, diminish, discount, disparage, downplay*, dwarf*, knock*, knock down*, lessen,… …   New thesaurus

  • minimize — (also minimise) ► VERB 1) reduce to the smallest possible amount or degree. 2) represent or estimate at less than the true value. DERIVATIVES minimization noun minimizer noun …   English terms dictionary

  • minimize — [min′i mīz΄] vt. minimized, minimizing 1. to reduce to a minimum; decrease to the least possible amount, degree, etc. 2. to estimate or make appear to be of the least possible amount, value, or importance SYN. DISPARAGE minimization n. minimizer… …   English World dictionary

  • minimize — 01. The government is trying to [minimize] the damage caused by the scandal. 02. Eating properly and getting plenty of exercise will help you to [minimize] the risk of a heart attack. 03. If the experiments are set up properly, you can [minimize] …   Grammatical examples in English

  • minimize — [[t]mɪ̱nɪmaɪz[/t]] minimizes, minimizing, minimized (in BRIT, also use minimise) 1) VERB If you minimize a risk, problem, or unpleasant situation, you reduce it to the lowest possible level, or prevent it increasing beyond that level. [V n]… …   English dictionary

Definitions For Minimize

verb

  • Make small or insignificant
  • Represent as less significant or important
  • Cause to seem less serious; play down
  • To make (something bad or not wanted) as small as possible
  • To treat or describe (something) as smaller or less important than it is
  • To make (a program’s window) change to a very small form that takes almost no room on a computer’s screen

English International (SOWPODS)
YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble

Words with Friends

The word Minimize is worth 21 points in Scrabble and 24 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Minimize in a Sentence

  • We need to minimize the chance of error.
  • The company will work to minimize costs.
  • I don’t want to minimize the contributions he has made to the company.

Synonyms for Minimize

Antonyms for Minimize

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