All 12 Uses of
minute
in
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- I munch it all day long except for a few minutes at mealtimes when I take it out and stick it behind my ear for safekeeping.†
Chpt 8
- And who's she to criticize, anyway, because if you ask me, I'd say that her jaws are going up and down almost as much as mine are just from yelling at me every minute of the day.†
Chpt 8
- In five minutes, he was back.†
Chpt 9 *
- Sometimes, he would stand motionless outside the gates for several minutes on end, taking deep swallowing breaths as though he were trying to eat the smell itself.†
Chpt 10
- In the mornings, he left the house ten minutes earlier so that he could walk slowly to school, without ever having to run.†
Chpt 10
- And in less than half a minute, the whole thing had disappeared down his throat.†
Chpt 11
- And five minutes later he arrived at his own home.†
Chpt 11
- He'll be quite changed from what he's been, When he goes through the fudge machine: Slowly, the wheels go round and round, The cogs begin to grind and pound; A hundred knives go slice, slice, slice; We add some sugar, cream, and spice; We boil him for a minute more, Until we're absolutely sure That all the greed and all the gall Is boiled away for once and all.†
Chpt 17
- Old Fickelgruber would give his front teeth to be allowed inside just for three minutes!†
Chpt 19
- Her body was swelling up and changing shape at such a rate that within a minute it had turned into nothing less than an enormous round blue ball — a gigantic blueberry, in fact — and all that remained of Violet Beauregarde herself was a tiny pair of legs and a tiny pair of arms sticking out of the great round fruit and little head on top.†
Chpt 21
- 'I'm going in to get myself one this very minute!'†
Chpt 24
- And then the doors of the lift slid open and Mr Wonka said, 'Just a minute now! Listen to me! I want everybody to be very careful in this room.†
Chpt 25
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.