All 26 Uses of
minute
in
All Quiet on the Western Front
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- Our being, almost utterly carried away by the fury of the storm, streams back through our hands from thee, and we, thy redeemed ones, bury ourselves in thee, and through the long minutes in a mute agony of hope bite into thee with our lips!†
Chpt 4
- They hover for the space of a minute before they burn out.†
Chpt 4
- A couple of minutes later another comes over, nearer this time.†
Chpt 4
- The next minute under a second explosion part of the wood rises slowly in the air, three or four trees sail up and then crash to pieces.†
Chpt 4
- These first minutes with the mask decide between life and death: is it air-tight?†
Chpt 4
- Tjaden will report at the Orderly Room in ten minutes.†
Chpt 5
- We are two men, two minute sparks of life; outside is the night and the circle of death.†
Chpt 5
- After a few minutes we hear the first shuffling and tugging.†
Chpt 6
- Each man lays hold of his things and looks again every minute to reassure himself that they are still there.†
Chpt 6
- I'll be back in a minute," says he, and tries to push past me.†
Chpt 6
- "One minute, lad," I say.†
Chpt 6
- A few minutes after they appear, shrapnel and high-explosives begin to drop on us.†
Chpt 6
- You will see in a minute.†
Chpt 7 *
- A few minutes later the two set off together pushing the barrow.†
Chpt 7
- Their colour changes with every minute.†
Chpt 8
- I look at the time; only a few minutes have passed.†
Chpt 9
- Minute after minute trickles away.†
Chpt 9
- Minute after minute trickles away.†
Chpt 9
- After ten minutes I get the knack of tossing the pan so that the pancakes which are done on one side sail up, turn in the air and are caught again as they come down.†
Chpt 10
- But a few minutes later the air screams, the earth heaves, cries ring out; a shell has landed among our rear squad.†
Chpt 10
- We cannot get a minute's sleep all night.†
Chpt 10
- A minute later a sister appears.†
Chpt 10
- A few minutes and we are lost.†
Chpt 11
- Like an emptying tube, after a couple of minutes he collapses.†
Chpt 11
- After a few minutes I straighten myself up again.†
Chpt 11
- Only ten minutes ago I was talking to him.†
Chpt 11
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.