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minor
Adjective
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A minor change, problem, injury, etc. is not very important.
We still have to make a few minor changes, but it's mostly done.
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A minor musical scale is a scale that starts two notes before the major scale. Music in a minor scale often sounds sad.
That music could be A minor or C major.
minor
Noun
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A minor is a subject area that is not the main study of a student at a college or university, but is their second most important focus.
I had so many credit hours of English, it became my minor.
minor
Verb
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Minor means to minor in a subject at a college or university.
I had so many credit hours of English that I decided to minor in it.
phase
Noun
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A phase is stage in a process.
We will look at very basic ideas during the first phase of training.
As the war enters its final phase, the role of the UN will probably become more important.
Teenagers often go through a phase of being attracted to someone of the same sex.
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If things are in phase, they are working, moving, or changing together.
phase
Verb
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If you phase something in, you introduce it step by step.
Over the next few years, all farm support was slowly phased out.