All 12 Uses of
minute
in
A Christmas Carol
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- This might have lasted half a minute, or a minute, but it seemed an hour.†
Chpt 1
- This might have lasted half a minute, or a minute, but it seemed an hour.†
Chpt 1
- It was done in a minute.†
Chpt 2 *
- Five minutes, ten minutes, a quarter of an hour went by, yet nothing came.†
Chpt 3
- Five minutes, ten minutes, a quarter of an hour went by, yet nothing came.†
Chpt 3
- In half a minute Mrs. Cratchit entered—flushed, but smiling proudly—with the pudding, like a speckled cannon-ball, so hard and firm, blazing in half of half-a-quartern of ignited brandy, and bedight with Christmas holly stuck into the top.†
Chpt 3
- The mention of his name cast a dark shadow on the party, which was not dispelled for full five minutes.†
Chpt 3
- Scrooge's niece played well upon the harp; and played among other tunes a simple little air (a mere nothing: you might learn to whistle it in two minutes), which had been familiar to the child who fetched Scrooge from the boarding-school, as he had been reminded by the Ghost of Christmas Past.†
Chpt 3
- Come back with him in less than five minutes and I'll give you half-a-crown!"†
Chpt 5
- He would have snapped 'cause short off in a minute, like sticks of sealing-wax.†
Chpt 5
- He was at home in five minutes.†
Chpt 5
- He was full eighteen minutes and a half behind his time.†
Chpt 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.