All 49 Uses of
minute
in
Ender's Game
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- If he doesn't start talking in fifteen minutes, call me.†
Chpt 1
- He got back to Miss Pumphrey's class only fifteen minutes before the closing bell.†
Chpt 1
- A voice over the speaker told them they were approaching the school; it took twenty minutes to decelerate and dock.†
Chpt 4
- Dinner in seven minutes.†
Chpt 5 *
- Ender's message expired after five minutes.†
Chpt 5
- In twenty minutes, everyone in the room was frozen except Ender, Bernard, Shen, and Alai.†
Chpt 6
- You had just as many minutes flapping around like drunken ducks.†
Chpt 6
- But you will not pass through the gate until four full minutes after the beginning of the game, and then you will remain at the gate, with your weapon undrawn and unfired, until such time as the game ends.†
Chpt 7
- "Wait a minute," she said to Ender.†
Chpt 7
- Rabbit Army just went in, and it takes a few minutes to change to the next battleroom.†
Chpt 7
- Ender knew that the color change lasted less than two minutes.†
Chpt 7
- He saw that the toons were oriented to follow instructions, then added, "And you, pinprick, wait four minutes, then come just inside the door.†
Chpt 7
- It was clear, after only five or six minutes, that Salamander Army could not defeat the enemy by attacking.†
Chpt 7
- In a few minutes it was over.†
Chpt 7
- The next two battles were easy Salamander victories; Ender came in after five minutes and remained untouched by the defeated enemy.†
Chpt 7
- Everyone in Leopard Army assumed that it bad been a strategy of Bonzo's, to leave a man till the last minute.†
Chpt 7
- He did it for ten minutes or so before he reached another wall.†
Chpt 8
- Any minute somebody could find out that Rosen isn't some magic Israeli general who can win no matter what.†
Chpt 8
- For a few minutes there, it actually occurred to me to wonder what kind of a man would heal a broken child of some of his hurt, just so he could throw him back into battle again.†
Chpt 10
- I'll be back with him in fifteen minutes.†
Chpt 10
- After three minutes, though many of them still weren't dressed, he ordered them out of the room.†
Chpt 10
- Three minutes from first call to running out the door. that's the rule this week.†
Chpt 10
- Next week the rule is two minutes.†
Chpt 10
- In three minutes his toon leaders reported the room clean.†
Chpt 11
- "It's 0715," Ender said, "and that means you have fifteen minutes for breakfast before I see you all in the battleroom for the morning practice."†
Chpt 11
- Half an hour for breakfast, and no shower after a battle. it was still stingy, but it would look lenient compared to fifteen minutes.†
Chpt 11
- And Ender liked having the announcement of the extra fifteen minutes come from the toon leaders.†
Chpt 11
- I'll thaw the flash suits every three minutes.†
Chpt 11
- He would enter the commanders' mess about ten minutes late.†
Chpt 11
- BONZO MADRID, SALAMANDER ARMY, 1200 "That's ten minutes from now," said Ender.†
Chpt 11
- He got to his army's barracks five minutes later.†
Chpt 11
- They gave Bonzo notice about twenty minutes ago, and by the time we get to the door they'll have been inside for a good five minutes at least.†
Chpt 11
- They gave Bonzo notice about twenty minutes ago, and by the time we get to the door they'll have been inside for a good five minutes at least.†
Chpt 11
- It hadn't taken a full minute from the time the first Dragon passed through the door until the shooting stopped.†
Chpt 11
- Bean flopped down on his bunk in utter exhaustion. half the boys in the barracks were already asleep, and it was still fifteen minutes before lights out.†
Chpt 11
- A message paraded around the desk: SEE ME AT ONCE – ENDER The time was 2150, only ten minutes before lights out.†
Chpt 11
- They won, of course, but it was a grueling affair, with the battleroom so filled with a labyrinth of stars that hunting down the enemy during mop-up took fortyfive minutes.†
Chpt 12
- There was a new wrinkle in the game, too. when they disabled or damaged an enemy, he thawed in about five minutes, the way it worked in practice.†
Chpt 12
- Took me a couple of seconds to realize you weren't there, either, and then a minute more to find out where you had gone.†
Chpt 12
- Three meters wasn't enough room to work in, the boys were frightened and confused, and it took nearly five minutes just to get them to understand what they were doing.†
Chpt 12
- "They must have been putting that together for all five minutes," said Momoe.†
Chpt 12
- He had only been there a few minutes when someone knocked on his door.†
Chpt 12
- Your shuttle leaves in twenty minutes.†
Chpt 12
- Astrogation and military history he absorbed like water; abstract mathematics was more difficult, but whenever he was given a problem that involved patterns in space and time, he found that his intuition was more reliable than his calculation. he often saw at once a solution that he could only prove after minutes or hours of manipulating numbers.†
Chpt 14
- The computer-controlled enemy was devious and powerful, and whenever Ender tried a tactic he found the computer using it against him within minutes.†
Chpt 14
- He would routinely reorient the simulator every few minutes, rotating it so that he didn't get trapped into an up-down orientation, constantly reviewing his position from the enemy point of view.†
Chpt 14
- It took him only a few minutes now to call for the squadron leaders that he needed, assign them to certain ships or groups of ships, and give them their assignments.†
Chpt 14
- After a few minutes of battle, however, Ender whispered to his squadron leaders once more, and suddenly a dozen of the remaining fighters formed again into a formation.†
Chpt 14
- Once he awoke for a few minutes with something pressing his hand, pushing downward on it, with a dull, insistent pain.†
Chpt 14
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.