minimize

English

Alternative forms

• minimise

Etymology

From Latin

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To make (something) as small or as insignificant as possible.
2. (computing, transitive, graphical user interface) To remove (a window) from the main display area, collapsing it to an icon or caption.

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

Translations

To make small as possible

• Czech: minimalizovat (cs)
• Finnish: minimoida (fi)
• French: minimiser (fr)
• German: minimieren (de)
• Irish: íoslaghdaigh (ga), íosmhéadaigh (ga)
• Italian: minimizzare (it)

• Portuguese: minimizar (pt)
• Russian: минимизировать (ru) (minimizírovatʹ)  impf. / pf., сводить к минимуму (ru) (svodítʹ k mínimumu)  impf.
• Spanish: minimizar (es)
• Turkish: azaltmak (tr), cüceleştirmek (tr), küçültmek (tr), asgarīye indirmek (tr), en aza indirgemek (tr), (construction) en aza indirgemek (tr)

(computing) To cause a window to disappear

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 最小化 (cmn) (zuìxiǎohuà)

• Estonian: ahendama (et)
• French: réduire (fr)
• German: minimieren (de)
• Japanese: 最小化する (ja) (さいしょうかする, saishōka suru)

• Latin: abscondo (la), obscuro (la)
• Portuguese: minimizar (pt)
• Russian: сворачивать (ru) (svoráčivatʹ)  impf., свернуть (ru) (svernútʹ)  pf., минимизировать (ru) (minimizírovatʹ)  impf. / pf.
• Swedish: dölja (sv), minimera (sv)
• Turkish: küçült (tr), simge durumuna küçült (tr)

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Portuguese

Verb

minimize

1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of minimizar.
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of minimizar.
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of minimizar.
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of minimizar.