All 6 Uses of
minute
in
Ethan Frome
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- "Hold on a minute while I unhitch the colt," Denis called to her, springing toward the shed.†
Chpt 2
- Even a few minutes earlier, when they had stood alone outside the house, he would not have dared to think of kissing her.†
Chpt 3
- Silence answered; but in a minute or two he caught a sound on the stairs and saw a line of light about the door-frame, as he had seen it the night before.†
Chpt 4
- They had sat for a few minutes on the fallen log by the pond, and she had missed her gold locket, and set the young men searching for it; and it was Ethan who had spied it in the moss….†
Chpt 9
- I've been wishing it every minute of the day."†
Chpt 9 *
- "It's on'y just been made up this very minute.†
Chpt Close
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.