All 25 Uses of
minute
in
The Time Machine
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- There was a minute's pause perhaps.†
Chpt 1
- Everyone was silent for a minute.†
Chpt 1
- If it is travelling through time fifty times or a hundred times faster than we are, if it gets through a minute while we get through a second, the impression it creates will of course be only one-fiftieth or one-hundredth of what it would make if it were not travelling in time.†
Chpt 1
- We sat and stared at the vacant table for a minute or so.†
Chpt 1
- Be all right in a minute.'†
Chpt 2
- For a minute, perhaps, my mind was wool-gathering.†
Chpt 2
- A moment before, as it seemed, it had stood at a minute or so past ten; now it was nearly half-past three!†
Chpt 3
- I suppose it took her a minute or so to traverse the place, but to me she seemed to shoot across the room like a rocket.†
Chpt 3
- The dim suggestion of the laboratory seemed presently to fall away from me, and I saw the sun hopping swiftly across the sky, leaping it every minute, and every minute marking a day.†
Chpt 3
- The dim suggestion of the laboratory seemed presently to fall away from me, and I saw the sun hopping swiftly across the sky, leaping it every minute, and every minute marking a day.†
Chpt 3
- Presently I noted that the sun belt swayed up and down, from solstice to solstice, in a minute or less, and that consequently my pace was over a year a minute; and minute by minute the white snow flashed across the world, and vanished, and was followed by the bright, brief green of spring.†
Chpt 3
- Presently I noted that the sun belt swayed up and down, from solstice to solstice, in a minute or less, and that consequently my pace was over a year a minute; and minute by minute the white snow flashed across the world, and vanished, and was followed by the bright, brief green of spring.†
Chpt 3
- Presently I noted that the sun belt swayed up and down, from solstice to solstice, in a minute or less, and that consequently my pace was over a year a minute; and minute by minute the white snow flashed across the world, and vanished, and was followed by the bright, brief green of spring.†
Chpt 3
- Presently I noted that the sun belt swayed up and down, from solstice to solstice, in a minute or less, and that consequently my pace was over a year a minute; and minute by minute the white snow flashed across the world, and vanished, and was followed by the bright, brief green of spring.†
Chpt 3
- I stood looking at it for a little space—half a minute, perhaps, or half an hour.†
Chpt 3
- Their hair, which was uniformly curly, came to a sharp end at the neck and cheek; there was not the faintest suggestion of it on the face, and their ears were singularly minute.†
Chpt 4
- I suppose I covered the whole distance from the hill crest to the little lawn, two miles perhaps, in ten minutes.†
Chpt 5
- I had judged the strength of the lever pretty correctly, for it snapped after a minute's strain, and I rejoined her with a mace in my hand more than sufficient, I judged, for any Morlock skull I might encounter.†
Chpt 8
- I never felt such a disappointment as I did in waiting five, ten, fifteen minutes for an explosion that never came.†
Chpt 8
- Indeed, in another minute I felt a tug at my coat, then something at my arm.†
Chpt 9
- A minute passed.†
Chpt 9 *
- For a minute perhaps I stared aghast at this blackness that was creeping over the day, and then I realized that an eclipse was beginning.†
Chpt 11
- As I returned, I passed again across that minute when she traversed the laboratory.†
Chpt 12
- For several minutes I trembled violently.†
Chpt 12
- I stared for a minute at the Time Machine and put out my hand and touched the lever.†
Chpt 12
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.