All 9 Uses of
minute
in
The Hobbit
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- I really must sit down for a minute and collect my wits, and have a drink.†
Chpt 1 *
- "We have the honour to remain "Yours deeply "Thorin & Co." That leaves you just ten minutes.†
Chpt 2
- "Half a minute!" said Dori, who was at the back next to Bilbo, and a decent fellow.†
Chpt 4
- In a minute there was a whole pack of them yelping all round the tree and leaping up at the trunk, with eyes blazing and tongues hanging out.†
Chpt 6
- "You had better wait here," said the wizard to the dwarves; "and when I call or whistle begin to come after me — you will see the way I go-but only in pairs, mind, about five minutes between each pair of you.†
Chpt 7
- Gandalf whistled again; but Nori and Ori were there almost before he had stopped, for, if you remember, Gandalf had told them to come in pairs every five minutes.†
Chpt 7
- He refused to wait five minutes, and followed immediately after the other two.†
Chpt 7
- Only a minute or two after Balin's lid had been fitted on there came the sound of voices and the flicker of lights.†
Chpt 9
- Smaug will be coming out at any minute now, and our only hope is to get well in the tunnel and shut the door.†
Chpt 12
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.