All 21 Uses
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Lord of the Flies
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- The forest minutely vibrated.
p. 26.7 *minutely = very slightly
- The edge of the lagoon became a streak of phosphorescence which advanced minutely, as the great wave of the tide flowed.
p. 153.8minutely = slightly
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- Wait a minute!†
p. 7.4
- "Wait a minute," the voice said.†
p. 7.5
- I'll be out again in just a minute—" Ralph disentangled himself cautiously and stole away through the branches.†
p. 9.7
- This amused both boys so much that Ralph went on squirting for some minutes, between bouts of laughter.†
p. 17.1
- Not for five minutes could they drag themselves away from this triumph.†
p. 28.5
- The nearer acres of rock flowers fluttered and for half a minute the breeze blew cool on their faces.†
p. 30.4 *
- They waited for two minutes, then they fell in the sea; they went into the forest; they just scattered everywhere.†
p. 46.2
- Jack himself shrank at this cry with a hiss of indrawn breath, and for a minute became less a hunter than a furtive thing, ape-like among the tangle of trees.†
p. 49.2
- I bet if I blew the conch this minute, they'd come running.†
p. 51.2
- When the meeting was over they'd work for five minutes, then wander off or go hunting.†
p. 51.3
- Yet as the words became audible, the procession reached the steepest part of the mountain, and in a minute or two the chant had died away.†
p. 69.1
- Wait a minute!†
p. 80.1
- —wait a minute.†
p. 90.7
- There was no sense of the passage of waves; only this minute-long fall and rise and fall.†
p. 105.8
- Wait a minute though!†
p. 118.3
- Piggy knelt at his left, and for a long minute there was silence.†
p. 155.8
- Stop a minute!†
p. 171.3
- Every minute the water breathed round the death rock and flowered into a field of whiteness.†
p. 187.1
- Yet no one made a sound; and as the minutes passed, in the green shade, his feeling of triumph faded.†
p. 192.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(minute as in: minute size) small, exceptionally small, or insignificant
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(2)
(minute as in: minute description) detailed (including even small considerations); and/or careful (done with care)
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(3)
(minutes as in: keep the minutes) a written record of what happened at a meeting
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(4)
(meaning too common or too 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.