All 49 Uses of
minute
in
The Great Gatsby
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- He found the house, a weather-beaten cardboard bungalow at eighty a month, but at the last minute the firm ordered him to Washington, and I went out to the country alone.†
p. 3..9
- We talked for a few minutes on the sunny porch.†
p. 7..7
- She sat down, glanced searchingly at Miss Baker and then at me, and continued: "I looked outdoors for a minute, and it's very romantic outdoors.†
p. 15..4
- Among the broken fragments of the last five minutes at table I remember the candles being lit again, pointlessly, and I was conscious of wanting to look squarely at every one, and yet to avoid all eyes.†
p. 15..8
- I said lightly that I had heard nothing at all, and a few minutes later I got up to go home.†
p. 19..5
- Involuntarily I glanced seaward — and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock.†
p. 21..4
- There is always a halt there of at least a minute, and it was because of this that I first met Tom Buchanan's mistress.†
p. 24..3
- Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.†
p. 40..9
- Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.†
p. 40..9
- She held my hand impersonally, as a promise that she'd take care of me in a minute, and gave ear to two girls in twin yellow dresses, who stopped at the foot of the steps.†
p. 42..9
- All right, in a minute.†
p. 53..2 *
- In the ditch beside the road, right side up, but violently shorn of one wheel, rested a new coupe which had left Gatsby's drive not two minutes before.†
p. 53..6
- I liked to walk up Fifth Avenue and pick out romantic women from the crowd and imagine that in a few minutes I was going to enter into their lives, and no one would ever know or disapprove.†
p. 56..8
- "How did he happen to do that? " I asked after a minute.†
p. 73..6
- "Come along with me for a minute," I said; "I've got to say hello to some one."†
p. 73..8
- If he left the room for a minute she'd look around uneasily, and say: "Where's Tom gone? " and wear the most abstracted expression until she saw him coming in the door.†
p. 77..0
- Don't be silly; it's just two minutes to four.†
p. 85..1
- For half a minute there wasn't a sound.†
p. 86..3
- The automatic quality of Gatsby's answer set us all back at least another minute.†
p. 87..3
- Recovering himself in a minute he opened for us two hulking patent cabinets which held his massed suits and dressing-gowns and ties, and his shirts, piled like bricks in stacks a dozen high.†
p. 92..2
- He went out of the room calling "Ewing!" and returned in a few minutes accompanied by an embarrassed, slightly worn young man, with shell-rimmed glasses and scanty blond hair.†
p. 94..3
- It transpired after a confused five minutes that the man had heard Gatsby's name around his office in a connection which he either wouldn't reveal or didn't fully understand.†
p. 97..3
- I hadn't been there two minutes when somebody brought Tom Buchanan in for a drink.†
p. 101..5
- I'll have something to drink for you in just a minute.†
p. 101..8
- Excuse me for just a minute.†
p. 103..4
- Only gradually did I become aware that the automobiles which turned expectantly into his drive stayed for just a minute and then drove sulkily away.†
p. 113..4
- It seems that pretty soon the earth's going to fall into the sun — or wait a minute — it's just the opposite — the sun's getting colder every year.†
p. 118..2
- "Now see here, Tom," said Daisy, turning around from the mirror, "if you're going to make personal remarks I won't stay here a minute.†
p. 127..4
- Asa Bird brought him around at the last minute and asked if we had room for him.†
p. 128..6
- "Wait a minute," snapped Tom, "I want to ask Mr. Gatsby one more question."†
p. 129..8
- The circle closed up again with a running murmur of expostulation; it was a minute before I could see anything at all.†
p. 138..4
- I just got here a minute ago, from New York.†
p. 140..5
- I sat down for a few minutes with my head in my hands, until I heard the phone taken up inside and the butler's voice calling a taxi.†
p. 142..6
- "Did you see any trouble on the road? " he asked after a minute.†
p. 143..1
- It all happened in a minute, but it seemed to me that she wanted to speak to us, thought we were somebody she knew.†
p. 143..9
- I waited, and about four o'clock she came to the window and stood there for a minute and then turned out the light.†
p. 147..6
- She thought I knew a lot because I knew different things from her…… well, there I was, 'way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute, and all of a sudden I didn't care.†
p. 150..4
- "Of course she might have loved him just for a minute, when they were first married — and loved me more even then, do you see? " Suddenly he came out with a curious remark.†
p. 152..4
- Then out into the spring fields, where a yellow trolley raced them for a minute with people in it who might once have seen the pale magic of her face along the casual street.†
p. 153..2
- Twelve minutes to my train.†
p. 153..9
- I called Gatsby's house a few minutes later, but the line was busy.†
p. 155..8
- Still later Michaelis had to ask the last stranger to wait there fifteen minutes longer, while he went back to his own place and made a pot of coffee.†
p. 156..8
- Come on there, try and sit still a minute and answer my question.†
p. 157..2
- They got a circular from New York giving 'cause the numbers just five minutes before.†
p. 166..9
- "Wait a minute," I interrupted.†
p. 169..3
- He seemed reluctant to put away the picture, held it for another minute, lingeringly, before my eyes.†
p. 172..9
- For just a minute I wondered if I wasn't making a mistake, then I thought it all over again quickly and got up to say good-by.†
p. 177..5
- His hand was on a revolver in his pocket every minute he was in the house — —.†
p. 178..7
- One of the taxi drivers in the village never took a fare past the entrance gate without stopping for a minute and pointing inside; perhaps it was he who drove Daisy and Gatsby over to East Egg the night of the accident, and perhaps he had made a story about it all his own.†
p. 179..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.