All 23 Uses of
minute
in
A Room With A View
- At a little distance stood Minnie and the "garden-child," a minute importation, each holding either end of a long piece of bass.
Chpt 18 (definition 1) *minute = small
- This was a stained window, through which some feeble light was shining, and when the door opened Lucy heard Mr. Beebe's voice running through the litany to a minute congregation.
Chpt 19 (definition 1)
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- Stop a minute; let those two people go on, or I shall have to speak to them.†
Chpt 2 (definition 2)
- Lucy waited for nearly ten minutes.†
Chpt 2 (definition 2)
- A few minutes ago she had been all high spirits, talking as a woman of culture, and half persuading herself that she was full of originality.†
Chpt 2 (definition 2)
- At the end of five minutes she returned unobtrusively with a green baize board, and began playing patience.†
Chpt 3 (definition 2)
- She spoke of the Italian character; she became almost garrulous over the incident that had made her faint five minutes before.†
Chpt 4 (definition 2)
- At the end of five minutes Lucy departed in search of Mr. Beebe and Mr. Eager, vanquished by the mackintosh square.†
Chpt 6 (definition 2)
- He tied the horse to a tree, kicked it to make it stay quiet, dusted the carriage, arranged his hair, remoulded his hat, encouraged his moustache, and in rather less than a quarter of a minute was ready to conduct her.†
Chpt 6 (definition 2)
- Freddy was neither clever, nor subtle, nor beautiful, and what prevented Cecil from saying, any minute, "It would be wrong not to loathe Freddy"?†
Chpt 9 (definition 2)
- Freddy possessed to a high degree the power of lashing little girls to fury, and in half a minute he had transformed Minnie from a well-mannered child into a howling wilderness.†
Chpt 10 (definition 2)
- I've this minute seen him.†
Chpt 10 (definition 2) *
- "I'll be down in a minute."†
Chpt 12 (definition 2)
- At the last minute, when the social machine was clogged hopelessly, one member or other of the family poured in a drop of oil.†
Chpt 13 (definition 2)
- Part of it lives three minutes back, when I was sure that you loved me, and the other part--I find it difficult--I am likely to say the wrong thing.†
Chpt 17 (definition 2)
- "So you're off for a minute, Mr. Vyse?" he asked.†
Chpt 18 (definition 2)
- Mrs. Honeychurch, who hated all changes, did mind, but not nearly as much as her daughter pretended, and only for the minute.†
Chpt 18 (definition 2)
- Wait a minute; she is finishing.†
Chpt 18 (definition 2)
- You've got rid of Cecil--well and good, and I'm thankful he's gone, though I did feel angry for the minute.†
Chpt 19 (definition 2)
- She laughed faintly, "Half a minute would be nearer."†
Chpt 19 (definition 2)
- Mr. Beebe and his mother had already gone, but she had refused to start until she obtained her hostess's full sanction, for it would mean keeping the horse waiting a good ten minutes more.†
Chpt 19 (definition 2)
- One minute, mother.†
Chpt 19 (definition 2)
- A few minutes before you came in.†
Chpt 20 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (minute as in: minute size) small, exceptionally small, or insignificant
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(2) (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.