All 5 Uses of
minute
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- It would be lovely in a few minutes.†
Chpt 1 *
- Three days' silence in the refectory and sending us up for six and eight every minute.†
Chpt 1
- He had nothing to do but that: to turn to the right and walk fast up the staircase and in half a minute he would be in the low dark narrow corridor that led through the castle to the rector's room.†
Chpt 1
- —An hour and twenty-five minutes, she said.†
Chpt 5
- The clock in the dairy told him that it was five minutes to five but, as he turned away, he heard a clock somewhere near him, but unseen, beating eleven strokes in swift precision.†
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.