All 50 Uses of
minute
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- One has but to keep all one's will-power and reason to deal with them, and they will all be overcome at the time when once one has familiarised oneself with the minutest details of the business….
Chpt 1.6 *minutest = smallest
- He described minutely how he had taken her keys, what they were like, as well as the chest and its contents;
Chpt Epil. *minutely = with careful attention to detail
- All these facts she gave with extraordinary minuteness.
Chpt Epil.minuteness = attention to detail
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- It was insufferably close, and so heavy with the fumes of spirits that five minutes in such an atmosphere might well make a man drunk.†
Chpt 1.2
- But a minute later his face suddenly changed and with a certain assumed slyness and affectation of bravado, he glanced at Raskolnikov, laughed and said: "This morning I went to see Sonia, I went to ask her for a pick-me-up!†
Chpt 1.2
- The loaf I'll fetch you this very minute, but wouldn't you rather have some cabbage soup instead of sausage?†
Chpt 1.3
- A minute later the letter was brought him.†
Chpt 1.3
- "She'll fall in a minute, mates, there will soon be an end of her," said an admiring spectator in the crowd.†
Chpt 1.5
- Later on, when he recalled that time and all that happened to him during those days, minute by minute, point by point, he was superstitiously impressed by one circumstance, which, though in itself not very exceptional, always seemed to him afterwards the predestined turning-point of his fate.†
Chpt 1.5
- Later on, when he recalled that time and all that happened to him during those days, minute by minute, point by point, he was superstitiously impressed by one circumstance, which, though in itself not very exceptional, always seemed to him afterwards the predestined turning-point of his fate.†
Chpt 1.5
- But why, he was always asking himself, why had such an important, such a decisive and at the same time such an absolutely chance meeting happened in the Hay Market (where he had moreover no reason to go) at the very hour, the very minute of his life when he was just in the very mood and in the very circumstances in which that meeting was able to exert the gravest and most decisive influence on his whole destiny?†
Chpt 1.5
- A few minutes afterwards, he raised his eyes and looked for a long while at the tea and the soup.†
Chpt 1.6
- The iron strip was added to give weight, so that the woman might not guess the first minute that the "thing" was made of wood.†
Chpt 1.6
- Glancing out of the corner of his eye into a shop, he saw by a clock on the wall that it was ten minutes past seven.†
Chpt 1.6
- He was already on the stairs.... Drawing a breath, pressing his hand against his throbbing heart, and once more feeling for the axe and setting it straight, he began softly and cautiously ascending the stairs, listening every minute.†
Chpt 1.6
- He stood still, thought a minute and went on.†
Chpt 1.6
- Half a minute later he rang again, more loudly.†
Chpt 1.6
- A minute passed; he even fancied something like a sneer in her eyes, as though she had already guessed everything.†
Chpt 1.7
- He felt that he was losing his head, that he was almost frightened, so frightened that if she were to look like that and not say a word for another half minute, he thought he would have run away from her.†
Chpt 1.7
- "But why, my good sir, all of a minute....What is it?" she asked, looking at the pledge.†
Chpt 1.7
- He had not a minute more to lose.†
Chpt 1.7
- In his impatience he raised the axe again to cut the string from above on the body, but did not dare, and with difficulty, smearing his hand and the axe in the blood, after two minutes' hurried effort, he cut the string and took it off without touching the body with the axe; he was not mistaken—it was a purse.†
Chpt 1.7
- Then again dead silence for a minute or two.†
Chpt 1.7
- The feeling of loathing especially surged up within him and grew stronger every minute.†
Chpt 1.7
- When they were clean, he took out the axe, washed the blade and spent a long time, about three minutes, washing the wood where there were spots of blood rubbing them with soap.†
Chpt 1.7
- Raskolnikov gazed in horror at the hook shaking in its fastening, and in blank terror expected every minute that the fastening would be pulled out.†
Chpt 1.7
- Time was passing, one minute, and another—no one came.†
Chpt 1.7
- He knew, he knew perfectly well that at that moment they were at the flat, that they were greatly astonished at finding it unlocked, as the door had just been fastened, that by now they were looking at the bodies, that before another minute had passed they would guess and completely realise that the murderer had just been there, and had succeeded in hiding somewhere, slipping by them and escaping.†
Chpt 1.7
- Not more than five minutes had passed when he jumped up a second time, and at once pounced in a frenzy on his clothes again.†
Chpt 2.1
- Yes, better throw it away," he repeated, sitting down on the sofa again, "and at once, this minute, without lingering..."†
Chpt 2.1
- The latter glanced at it, said: "Wait a minute," and went on attending to the lady in mourning.†
Chpt 2.1
- The assistant superintendent was so furious that for the first minute he could only splutter inarticulately.†
Chpt 2.1
- If he had cared to think a little, he would have been amazed indeed that he could have talked to them like that a minute before, forcing his feelings upon them.†
Chpt 2.1
- "Hadn't I better think a minute?" flashed through his mind.†
Chpt 2.1
- They state themselves that they knocked and the door was locked; yet three minutes later when they went up with the porter, it turned out the door was unfastened.†
Chpt 2.1
- Stay a minute, you sweep!†
Chpt 2.2
- Terror gripped his heart like ice, tortured him and numbed him....But at last all this uproar, after continuing about ten minutes, began gradually to subside.†
Chpt 2.2
- But of that—of that he had no recollection, and yet every minute he felt that he had forgotten something he ought to remember.†
Chpt 2.3
- In a couple of minutes Nastasya returned with the soup, and announced that the tea would be ready directly.†
Chpt 2.3
- So I lost my temper, and I went on the chance to the address bureau next day, and only fancy, in two minutes they looked you up!†
Chpt 2.3
- That's what I've forgotten, as though on purpose; forgotten it all at once, I remembered a minute ago.†
Chpt 2.3 *
- But in another minute the beer had gone to his head, and a faint and even pleasant shiver ran down his spine.†
Chpt 2.3
- The latter sank back on the pillows and for a minute or two said nothing.†
Chpt 2.3
- Dmitri told me that Nikolay had gone off on the spree; he had come home at daybreak drunk, stayed in the house about ten minutes, and went out again.†
Chpt 2.4
- A few minutes afterwards the woman went to the cowshed, and through a crack in the wall she saw in the stable adjoining he had made a noose of his sash from the beam, stood on a block of wood, and was trying to put his neck in the noose.†
Chpt 2.4
- The porter and Koch and Pestryakov and the other porter and the wife of the first porter and the woman who was sitting in the porter's lodge and the man Kryukov, who had just got out of a cab at that minute and went in at the entry with a lady on his arm, that is eight or ten witnesses, agree that Nikolay had Dmitri on the ground, was lying on him beating him, while Dmitri hung on to his hair, beating him, too.†
Chpt 2.4
- They'd just killed them, not five or ten minutes before, for the bodies were still warm, and at once, leaving the flat open, knowing that people would go there at once, flinging away their booty, they rolled about like children, laughing and attracting general attention.†
Chpt 2.4
- He stopped there while the porter and others were going upstairs, waited till they were out of hearing, and then went calmly downstairs at the very minute when Dmitri and Nikolay ran out into the street and there was no one in the entry; possibly he was seen, but not noticed.†
Chpt 2.4
- A constrained silence lasted for a couple of minutes, and then, as might be expected, some scene-shifting took place.†
Chpt 2.5
- The minute was so chosen that it was impossible to refuse, and the visitor squeezed his way through, hurrying and stumbling.†
Chpt 2.5
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 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.