All 37 Uses of
minute
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- Davy Stephens, minute in a large capecoat, a small felt hat crowning his ringlets, passed out with a roll of papers under his cape, a king's courier.
Chpt 7 (definition 1) *minute = small
- Of the eons of geological periods recorded in the stratifications of the earth: of the myriad minute entomological organic existences concealed in cavities of the earth, beneath removable stones, in hives and mounds, of microbes, germs, bacteria, bacilli, spermatozoa: of the incalculable trillions of billions of millions of imperceptible molecules contained by cohesion of molecular affinity in a single pinhead: of the universe of human serum constellated with red and white bodies,…
Chpt 17 (definition 1)minute = tiny
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- Encore deux minutes.†
Chpt 3 (definition 2)
- Be back in a minute.†
Chpt 4 (definition 2)
- Getting up in a minute.†
Chpt 5 (definition 2)
- Show us a minute.†
Chpt 5 (definition 2)
- —Ten minutes, Martin Cunningham said, looking at his watch.†
Chpt 6 (definition 2)
- Funerals all over the world everywhere every minute.†
Chpt 6 (definition 2)
- Pop in a minute to phone.†
Chpt 7 (definition 2) *
- Wait a minute.†
Chpt 7 (definition 2)
- Y. M. C. A. Eating with a stopwatch, thirtytwo chews to the minute.†
Chpt 8 (definition 2)
- Since I fed the birds five minutes.†
Chpt 8 (definition 2)
- Pub clock five minutes fast.†
Chpt 8 (definition 2)
- Safe in a minute.†
Chpt 8 (definition 2)
- —Monsieur de la Palice, Stephen sneered, was alive fifteen minutes before his death.†
Chpt 9 (definition 2)
- Ten minutes.†
Chpt 10 (definition 2)
- Child born every minute somewhere.†
Chpt 10 (definition 2)
- —Sure I'm after seeing him not five minutes ago, says Alf, as plain as a pikestaff.†
Chpt 12 (definition 2)
- He's on point duty up and down there for the last ten minutes.†
Chpt 12 (definition 2)
- During the past four minutes or thereabouts he had been staring hard at a certain amount of number one Bass bottled by Messrs Bass and Co at Burton-on-Trent which happened to be situated amongst a lot of others right opposite to where he was and which was certainly calculated to attract anyone's remark on account of its scarlet appearance.†
Chpt 14 (definition 2)
- They are out, tumultuously, off for a minute's race, all bravely legging it, Burke's of Denzille and Holles their ulterior goal.†
Chpt 14 (definition 2)
- If I had passed Truelock's window that day two minutes later would have been shot.†
Chpt 15 (definition 2)
- BELLO: Ask for that every ten minutes.†
Chpt 15 (definition 2)
- His postcard proved a centre of attraction for Messrs the greenhorns for several minutes if not more.†
Chpt 16 (definition 2)
- —Memorable bloody bridge battle and seven minutes' war, Stephen assented, between Skinner's alley and Ormond market.†
Chpt 16 (definition 2)
- Also ran: J de Bremond's (French horse Bantam Lyons was anxiously inquiring after not in yet but expected any minute) Maximum II.†
Chpt 16 (definition 2)
- The spirit moving him he would much have liked to follow Jack Tar's good example and leave the likeness there for a very few minutes to speak for itself on the plea he so that the other could drink in the beauty for himself, her stage presence being, frankly, a treat in itself which the camera could not at all do justice to.†
Chpt 16 (definition 2)
- After a lapse of four minutes the glimmer of his candle was discernible through the semitransparent semicircular glass fanlight over the halldoor.†
Chpt 17 (definition 2)
- …of vision, the secular process of imbalsamation: 2) the principle of the pendulum, exemplified in bob, wheelgear and regulator, the translation in terms of human or social regulation of the various positions of clockwise moveable indicators on an unmoving dial, the exactitude of the recurrence per hour of an instant in each hour when the longer and the shorter indicator were at the same angle of inclination, videlicet, 5 5/11 minutes past each hour per hour in arithmetical progression.†
Chpt 17 (definition 2)
- …as to render its houselights visible at night above and through a quickset hornbeam hedge of topiary cutting, situate at a given point not less than 1 statute mile from the periphery of the metropolis, within a time limit of not more than 15 minutes from tram or train line (e.g., Dundrum, south, or Sutton, north, both localities equally reported by trial to resemble the terrestrial poles in being favourable climates for phthisical subjects), the premises to be held under feefarm grant,…†
Chpt 17 (definition 2)
- …way it takes them lovely stuff in that blue suit he had on and stylish tie and socks with the skyblue silk things on them hes certainly well off I know by the cut his clothes have and his heavy watch but he was like a perfect devil for a few minutes after he came back with the stoppress tearing up the tickets and swearing blazes because he lost 20 quid he said he lost over that outsider that won and half he put on for me on account of Lenehans tip cursing him to the lowest pits that…†
Chpt 18 (definition 2)
- …must stretch myself I wished he was here or somebody to let myself go with and come again like that I feel all fire inside me or if I could dream it when he made me spend the 2nd time tickling me behind with his finger I was coming for about 5 minutes with my legs round him I had to hug him after O Lord I wanted to shout out all sorts of things fuck or shit or anything at all only not to look ugly or those lines from the strain who knows the way hed take it you want to feel your way…†
Chpt 18 (definition 2)
- …go on in theatres in the crush in the dark theyre always trying to wiggle up to you that fellow in the pit at the Gaiety for Beerbohm Tree in Trilby the last time Ill ever go there to be squashed like that for any Trilby or her barebum every two minutes tipping me there and looking away hes a bit daft I think I saw him after trying to get near two stylishdressed ladies outside Switzers window at the same little game I recognised him on the moment the face and everything but he didnt…†
Chpt 18 (definition 2)
- …or if its not that its drink and he beats her Ill have to hunt around again for someone every day I get up theres some new thing on sweet God sweet God well when Im stretched out dead in my grave I suppose 111 have some peace I want to get up a minute if Im let wait O Jesus wait yes that thing has come on me yes now wouldnt that afflict you of course all the poking and rooting and ploughing he had up in me now what am I to do Friday Saturday Sunday wouldnt that pester the soul out of a…†
Chpt 18 (definition 2)
- …I am quite sure in a way that shut him up I knew what was coming next only natural weakness it was he excited me I dont know how the first night ever we met when I was living in Rehoboth terrace we stood staring at one another for about lo minutes as if we met somewhere I suppose on account of my being jewess looking after my mother he used to amuse me the things he said with the half sloothering smile on him and all the Doyles said he was going to stand for a member of Parliament O…†
Chpt 18 (definition 2)
- …felt I wanted to kiss him all over also his lovely young cock there so simple I wouldnt mind taking him in my mouth if nobody was looking as if it was asking you to suck it so clean and white he looks with his boyish face I would too in 1/2 a minute even if some of it went down what its only like gruel or the dew theres no danger besides hed be so clean compared with those pigs of men I suppose never dream of washing it from I years end to the other the most of them only thats what…†
Chpt 18 (definition 2)
- …K C lives up somewhere this way coming out of Hardwicke lane the night he gave us the fish supper on account of winning over the boxing match of course it was for me he gave it I knew him by his gaiters and the walk and when I turned round a minute after just to see there was a woman after coming out of it too some filthy prostitute then he goes home to his wife after that only I suppose the half of those sailors are rotten again with disease O move over your big carcass out of that…†
Chpt 18 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (minute as in: minute size) small, exceptionally small, or insignificant
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(2) (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.