All 50 Uses of
minute
in
Anna Karenina
- …her dress, her coiffure, and all the preparations for the ball had cost Kitty great trouble and consideration, at this moment she walked into the ballroom in her elaborate tulle dress over a pink slip as easily and simply as though all the rosettes and lace, all the minute details of her attire, had not cost her or her family a moment's attention, as though she had been born in that tulle and lace, with her hair done up high on her head, and a rose and two leaves on the top of it.
Part 1 (definition 1)minute = small
- Levin gazed admiringly at the cows he knew so intimately to the minutest detail of their condition, and gave orders for them to be driven out into the meadow, and the calves to be let into the paddock.
Part 2 (definition 1) *minutest = smallest
- Every man who knows to the minutest details all the complexity of the conditions surrounding him, cannot help imagining that the complexity of these conditions, and the difficulty of making them clear, is something exceptional and personal, peculiar to himself, and never supposes that others are surrounded by just as complicated an array of personal affairs as he is.
Part 3 (definition 1)
- "Kindly consider," he began, "cases of that kind are, as you are aware, under ecclesiastical jurisdiction; the reverend fathers are fond of going into the minutest details in cases of that kind," he said with a smile, which betrayed his sympathy with the reverend fathers' taste.
Part 4 (definition 1)
- Levin heard the secretary hesitatingly read the minutes which he obviously did not himself understand; but Levin saw from this secretary's face what a good, nice, kind-hearted person he was.
Part 4 (definition 2)minutes = formal notes
- This was evident from his confusion and embarrassment in reading the minutes.
Part 4 (definition 2) *
- The new doctor took up a stethoscope and sounded the patient, shook his head, prescribed medicine, and with extreme minuteness explained first how to take the medicine and then what diet was to be kept to.
Part 5 (definition 3)minuteness = attention to detail
- Dolly simply wondered at all she had not seen before, and, anxious to understand it all, made minute inquiries about everything, which gave Vronsky great satisfaction.
Part 6 (definition 3) *minute = detailed
- Apart from such exceptions, he resolved upon an increased outlay only where there was a surplus, and in making such an outlay he went into the minutest details, and insisted on getting the very best for his money; so that by the method on which he managed his affairs, it was clear that he was not wasting, but increasing his substance.
Part 6 (definition 1)minutest = smallest
- Still thinking of Anna, of everything, even the simplest phrase in their conversation with her, and recalling the minutest changes in her expression, entering more and more into her position, and feeling sympathy for her, Levin reached home.
Part 7 (definition 1)
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- Most unpleasant of all was the first minute when, on coming, happy and good-humored, from the theater, with a huge pear in his hand for his wife, he had not found his wife in the drawing-room, to his surprise had not found her in the study either, and saw her at last in her bedroom with the unlucky letter that revealed everything in her hand.†
Part 1 (definition 4)
- "Matvey, my sister Anna Arkadyevna will be here tomorrow," he said, checking for a minute the sleek, plump hand of the barber, cutting a pink path through his long, curly whiskers.†
Part 1 (definition 4)
- Stepan Arkadyevitch was silent a minute.†
Part 1 (definition 4)
- Oh, wait a minute, though," he said, still holding her and stroking her soft little hand.†
Part 1 (definition 4)
- Excuse me a minute….†
Part 1 (definition 4)
- Catching sight of Kitty going away, and her mother meeting her at the steps, Levin, flushed from his rapid exercise, stood still and pondered a minute.†
Part 1 (definition 4)
- And the Tatar ran off with flying coat-tails, and in five minutes darted in with a dish of opened oysters on mother-of-pearl shells, and a bottle between his fingers.†
Part 1 (definition 4)
- "No, stop a minute, stop a minute," he said.†
Part 1 (definition 4)
- "No, stop a minute, stop a minute," he said.†
Part 1 (definition 4)
- Ah, stop a minute!†
Part 1 (definition 4)
- Five minutes later there came in a friend of Kitty's, married the preceding winter, Countess Nordston.†
Part 1 (definition 4)
- But do wait a minute.†
Part 1 (definition 4)
- When he came back a few minutes later, Stepan Arkadyevitch was already in conversation with the countess about the new singer, while the countess was impatiently looking towards the door, waiting for her son.†
Part 1 (definition 4)
- She had been on the lookout for her, glancing at her watch every minute, and, as so often happens, let slip just that minute when her visitor arrived, so that she did not hear the bell.†
Part 1 (definition 4)
- She had been on the lookout for her, glancing at her watch every minute, and, as so often happens, let slip just that minute when her visitor arrived, so that she did not hear the bell.†
Part 1 (definition 4)
- Dolly grew calmer, and for two minutes both were silent.†
Part 1 (definition 4)
- Wait a minute.†
Part 1 (definition 4) *
- No, stop a minute.†
Part 1 (definition 4)
- Seeing that the woman standing in the doorway was moving to go, he shouted to her, "Wait a minute, I said."†
Part 1 (definition 4)
- No, wait a minute….†
Part 1 (definition 4)
- The overstrained condition which had tormented her before did not only come back, but was intensified, and reached such a pitch that she was afraid every minute that something would snap within her from the excessive tension.†
Part 1 (definition 4)
- Every minute of Alexey Alexandrovitch's life was portioned out and occupied.†
Part 1 (definition 4)
- Oh, I'll be off this minute, if I'm in the way."†
Part 1 (definition 4)
- Oh, well, then I can do it in twenty minutes.†
Part 2 (definition 4)
- The silence lasted for two minutes: Dolly was thinking of herself.†
Part 2 (definition 4)
- In both groups conversation wavered, as it always does, for the first few minutes, broken up by meetings, greetings, offers of tea, and as it were, feeling about for something to rest upon.†
Part 2 (definition 4)
- I know it's disgraceful, but I go to sleep at the opera, and I sit out the opera bouffe to the last minute, and enjoy it.†
Part 2 (definition 4)
- But to him, knowing her, knowing that whenever he went to bed five minutes later than usual, she noticed it, and asked him the reason; to him, knowing that every joy, every pleasure and pain that she felt she communicated to him at once; to him, now to see that she did not care to notice his state of mind, that she did not care to say a word about herself, meant a great deal.†
Part 2 (definition 4)
- Anna got into her bed, and lay expecting every minute that he would begin to speak to her again.†
Part 2 (definition 4)
- Chapter 13 Levin put on his big boots, and, for the first time, a cloth jacket, instead of his fur cloak, and went out to look after his farm, stepping over streams of water that flashed in the sunshine and dazzled his eyes, and treading one minute on ice and the next into sticky mud.†
Part 2 (definition 4)
- " He felt dismayed and vexed for the first minute, that his brother Nikolay's presence should come to disturb his happy mood of spring.†
Part 2 (definition 4)
- Stepan Arkadyevitch smiled hardly perceptibly, catching the instantaneous change he knew so well in Levin's face, which had become as gloomy as it had been bright a minute before.†
Part 2 (definition 4)
- I can tell you it all beforehand," and a wicked light gleamed in her eyes, that had been so soft a minute before.†
Part 2 (definition 4)
- He reached Bryansky's, spent five minutes there, and galloped back.†
Part 2 (definition 4)
- "If you can, lead the race; but don't lose heart till the last minute, even if you're behind."†
Part 2 (definition 4)
- In the very first minute the close group of horsemen drew out, and it could be seen that they were approaching the stream in twos and threes and one behind another.†
Part 2 (definition 4)
- A few minutes later the colonel overtook them.†
Part 2 (definition 4)
- Stop a minute, let's sit down," said Kitty, making her sit down again beside her.†
Part 2 (definition 4)
- No, wait a minute; why not?†
Part 2 (definition 4)
- "No, I must just run round to the counting-house for a minute," Levin would answer, and he would run off to the fields.†
Part 3 (definition 4)
Definitions:
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(1) (minute as in: minute size) small, exceptionally small, or insignificant
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(2) (minutes as in: keep the minutes) a written record of what happened at a meeting
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(3) (minute as in: minute description) detailed (including even small considerations); and/or careful (done with care)
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(4) (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.