minnow

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Have you looked there or are you content trying to snag a shark with a freshwater minnow?

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Quick take

Any small fish.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of minnow gathered in one view.

noun

Any small fish.

verb

To fish for minnows (noun sense 1 and subsenses).

verb

To fish, especially for trout, using minnows as bait.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for minnow.

noun

Any small fish.

verb

To fish for minnows (noun sense 1 and subsenses).

verb

To fish, especially for trout, using minnows as bait.

noun

(figuratively) A person or thing of relatively little consequence, importance, or value.

Example sentences

Have you looked there or are you content trying to snag a shark with a freshwater minnow?

They probably have less of the market today due to others growing, but they're not a minnow.

Yes, it delivers significantly less - but at $25, it's a consumable for projects, whereas at $100 the Minnow probably isn't.

Aside: If you think that Wikipedia page is fun reading, you may also enjoy Ella Minnow Pea, a novel by Mark Dunn.

But as soon as a minnow spends a little bit more, oooh boy...

However, if we used 10 different providers to get our infrastructure together, we'd me a minnow to each one.

Well, therapy is an absolute minnow compared to 'tech', 'teaching', or 'nursing'.

I'd rather be a big fish in a small pond than a minnow in Microsoft's ocean.

All it takes for a minnow to beat a big team is some organized defending and a lucky goal, like Switzerland vs Spain past WC.

I think the Minnow Max will carve its own (smaller, but still nontrivial) niche, but will not actually harm RPi's market share.

One minnow is easily overlooked in a sea of fish.

US military logistics minnow in Indopac vs PRC mainland logistics.

Quote examples

I've seen Turtle Talk deal with a particularly excited young person leaning on Crush's "tank" by having Crush look at him and go "Hey little minnow...

(For example, I am from Sacramento, which is often pronounced as "Sacra-minnow".

How else can you explain John Corzine is still walking free I'm sure you know this, but for others not following so closely: the commodities broker for the "guy" from London was MF Global, the sleazy firm that Corzine was running during the Flash Crash So now they are trying to extradite a minnow, but the scum heading MF Global have so far avoided any fallout.

"In an ocean with great waves, whales fly into the air unnoticed, but in a calm pond, even the tiniest minnow makes a ripple." -confucius When the iPhone debuted, no doubt Google sensed the impact, and Apple's ability to create an effective closed ecosystem had already been proven with iTunes.

Proper noun examples

Unless you've got some experience with performance-demanding applications in embedded systems, you have no idea why RPi/Minnow is an Apples/Oranges comparison.

If you're interested in this topic and aren't a lawyer, I recommend Complete Copyright[1] by the American Library Association's Carrie Russell, along with anything by Mary Minnow[2].

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