All 21 Uses of
minute
in
A Farewell to Arms
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- "Wait a minute," Rinaldi said.†
Book 1
- I'll just step out the door a minute.†
Book 1
- "I can only stay a minute," he said.†
Book 1
- All right but only for a minute.†
Book 2
- Please ask the house doctor to come back a minute.†
Book 2
- At the last minute," Meyers said, "they put a lot of money on him."†
Book 2
- "Just a minute," Miss Van Campen said.†
Book 2
- Come in a minute.†
Book 2
- No. I only like two other things; one is bad for my work and the other is over in half an hour or fifteen minutes.†
Book 3
- They got right up in the car the minute I motioned to them.†
Book 3
- The minute I came up I took a breath and went down again.†
Book 3
- Wait a minute, I will find out where they are.†
Book 4
- I thought a minute.†
Book 4
- Please look the other way, darling, and I'll be dressed in just a minute.†
Book 4
- The only time I ever felt badly was when I felt like a whore in Milan and that only lasted seven minutes and besides it was the room furnishings.†
Book 5
- The clock hands pointed to ten minutes after five.†
Book 5
- It was five minutes after.†
Book 5
- I'll start now this minute.†
Book 5
- No. Should we sit here just a minute?†
Book 5
- About a minute.†
Book 5 *
- If he did not send for me in ten minutes I would go down anyway.†
Book 5
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.