All 17 Uses of
minute
in
Washington Square
- Though he was felt to be extremely thorough, he was not uncomfortably theoretic, and if he sometimes explained matters rather more minutely than might seem of use to the patient, he never went so far (like some practitioners one has heard of) as to trust to the explanation alone, but always left behind him an inscrutable prescription.
Chpt 1 (definition 1)minutely = in a detailed manner
- He told her which of his fellow physicians to send for, and gave her a multitude of minute directions; it was quite on the optimistic hypothesis that she nursed him.
Chpt 33 (definition 1) *minute = detailed
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- He had been living ever since his marriage in an edifice of red brick, with granite copings and an enormous fanlight over the door, standing in a street within five minutes' walk of the City Hall, which saw its best days (from the social point of view) about 1820.†
Chpt 3 (definition 2)
- For a minute, if it had not been for the rumbling of the carriage, you might have heard a pin drop.†
Chpt 4 (definition 2)
- I saw through it in a minute.†
Chpt 7 (definition 2)
- Mrs. Penniman was silent a minute.†
Chpt 8 (definition 2)
- He was absent some twenty minutes, and when he came back into the circle, which was enlivened by the presence of several friends of the family, he saw that Morris Townsend had come in and had lost as little time as possible in seating himself on a small sofa, beside Catherine.†
Chpt 9 (definition 2)
- Catherine looked at her lover a minute, and then she said, "I shall persuade him.†
Chpt 10 (definition 2)
- The Doctor had time to take cognisance of these details, for Mrs. Montgomery, whose conduct he pronounced under the circumstances inexcusable, kept him waiting some ten minutes before she appeared.†
Chpt 14 (definition 2)
- Then he came back, and paused for a minute in front of Dr. Sloper's dwelling.†
Chpt 16 (definition 2)
- I saw that in the first half minute.†
Chpt 27 (definition 2)
- —just for three minutes?†
Chpt 28 (definition 2) *
- Mrs. Penniman started for church; but before she had arrived, she stopped and turned back, and before twenty minutes had elapsed she re-entered the house, looked into the empty parlours, and then went upstairs and knocked at Catherine's door.†
Chpt 30 (definition 2)
- A consummate sense of her aunt's meddlesome folly had come over her during the last five minutes, and she was sickened at the thought that Mrs. Penniman had been let loose, as it were, upon her happiness.†
Chpt 30 (definition 2)
- The Doctor was silent a minute.†
Chpt 33 (definition 2)
- But he knew me in a minute.†
Chpt 34 (definition 2)
- Catherine, for a minute, was conscious of a distinct determination not to invite him to take a seat.†
Chpt 35 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (minute as in: minute description) detailed (including even small considerations); and/or careful (done with care)
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(2) (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.