All 5 Uses of
minute
in
The Importance of Being Earnest
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- Now, if I get her out of the way for ten minutes, so that you can have an opportunity for proposing to Gwendolen, may I dine with you to-night at Willis's?†
Act 1
- It can wait, Merriman for …. five minutes.†
Act 2
- Couldn't you make it twenty minutes?†
Act 2 *
- Ernest proposed to me exactly ten minutes ago.†
Act 2
- I hate waiting even five minutes for anybody.†
Act 3
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.