All 7 Uses of
minute
in
The Return of the King
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- After a minute Pippin went to the door and down the stair and looked about the street.†
Chpt 5.1
- But I count now every hour, indeed every minute.†
Chpt 5.2
- He felt that even minutes were precious, but one by one they escaped; and he could do nothing.†
Chpt 6.1
- In a minute his head reappeared.†
Chpt 6.1 *
- They rested for some minutes and then went on; but they had not taken many steps when suddenly in the stillness of the night they heard the sound that all along they had secretly dreaded: the noise of marching feet.†
Chpt 6.2
- The night seemed endless and timeless, minute after minute falling dead and adding up to no passing hour, bringing no change.†
Chpt 6.3
- The night seemed endless and timeless, minute after minute falling dead and adding up to no passing hour, bringing no change.†
Chpt 6.3
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.