All 26 Uses of
minute
in
Fahrenheit 451
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- She had a very thin face like the dial of a small clock seen faintly in a dark room in the middle of a night when you waken to see the time and see the clock telling you the hour and the minute and the second, with a white silence and a glowing, all certainty and knowing what it has to tell of the night passing swiftly on toward further darknesses but moving also toward a new sun.†
p. 8..6
- Three minutes?†
p. 9..2 *
- Well, this is a play comes on the wall-to-wall circuit in ten minutes.†
p. 17..8
- In all the rush and fervor, Montag had only an instant to read a line, but it blazed in his mind for the next minute as if stamped there with fiery steel.†
p. 34..8
- A minute later she said, "Well, just don't stand there in the middle of the floor.†
p. 38..9
- It took some man a lifetime maybe to put some of his thoughts down, looking around at the world and life, and then I came along in two minutes and boom! it's all over.†
p. 49..5
- Beatty took a full minute to settle himself in and think back for what he wanted to say.†
p. 51..5
- Classics cut to fit fifteen-minute radio shows, then cut again to fill a two-minute book column, winding up at last as a ten— or twelve-line dictionary resume.†
p. 52..2
- Classics cut to fit fifteen-minute radio shows, then cut again to fill a two-minute book column, winding up at last as a ten— or twelve-line dictionary resume.†
p. 52..2
- Me? I won't stomach them for a minute.†
p. 56..2
- Five minutes after a person is dead he's on his way to the Big Flue, the Incinerators serviced by helicopters all over the country.†
p. 57..3
- Ten minutes after death a man's a speck of black dust.†
p. 57..3
- A minute later, Three White Cartoon Clowns chopped off each other's limbs to the accompaniment of immense incoming tides of laughter.†
p. 90..4
- Two minutes more and the room whipped out of town to the jet cars wildly circling an arena, bashing and backing up and bashing each other again.†
p. 90..5
- Did you see that Clara Dove five-minute romance last night in your wall?†
p. 91..5
- But he knew that he would go to see Faber anyway, for a few short minutes.†
p. 118..7
- The boulevard was as clean as the surface of an arena two minutes before the appearance of certain unnamed victims and certain unknown killers.†
p. 119..8
- But Montag was gone, hidden in the safety of the dark alley for which he had set out on a long journey, an hour or was it a minute, ago?†
p. 123..2
- Then, after a minute, a small light flickered inside Faber's small house.†
p. 124..2
- Do you want to sleep a few minutes?†
p. 126..5
- And if he kept his eye peeled quickly he would see himself, an instant before oblivion, being punctured for the benefit of how many civilian parlor-sitters who had been wakened from sleep a few minutes ago by the frantic sirening of their living-room walls to come watch the big game, the hunt, the one-man carnival.†
p. 128..6
- A suitcase, get it, fill it with your dirtiest clothes, an old suit, the dirtier the better, a shirt, some old sneakers and socks …… " Faber was gone and back in a minute.†
p. 129..9
- The fugitive cannot escape if everyone in the next minute looks from his house.†
p. 132..1
- It took the better part of fifteen minutes before he drew very close indeed to it, and then he stood looking at it from cover.†
p. 139..1
- They'll catch Montag in the next five minutes!†
p. 141..7
- See how important you've become in the last minute!†
p. 144..5
Definition:
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(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) Much more commonly, minute and minutes refer to a period of time lasting 60 seconds.
Less commonly, they refer to a measurement of angle where 60 minutes make up a single degree, and where a right angle has 90 degrees and a circle has 360 degrees.