All 15 Uses of
minute
in
The Cherry Orchard
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- [Excited] I shall faint in a minute….†
Act 1
- I must tell you at once, I can't bear to wait a minute.†
Act 1
- This minute.†
Act 1
- [Hardly able to keep from laughing] This minute….†
Act 2
- But my soul is always my own; every minute of the day and the night it is filled with unspeakable presentiments.†
Act 2
- I want to be doing something every minute.†
Act 3
- This minute!†
Act 3
- [Beside herself] Get out this minute.†
Act 3
- [Looking at his watch and speaking through the door] Ladies and gentlemen, please remember that it's only forty-seven minutes till the train goes!†
Act 4
- You must go off to the station in twenty minutes.†
Act 4
- We needn't get into our carriages for ten minutes….†
Act 4
- The first is poor Fiers [Looks at her watch] We've still five minutes….†
Act 4
- It'll only take a minute.†
Act 4 *
- [As if he has long been waiting to be called] This minute.†
Act 4
- I'll sit here one more minute.†
Act 4
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.