All 50 Uses of
minute
in
War and Peace
- He listened, refraining from a reply, and involuntarily wondered how this old man, living alone in the country for so many years, could know and discuss so minutely and acutely all the recent European military and political events.
Chpt 1 (definition 1)minutely = with such detail
- Prince Andrew without lifting his eyes rode hastily away from the doctor's wife, who was calling him her deliverer, and recalling with a sense of disgust the minutest details of this humiliating scene he galloped on to the village where he was told that the commander in chief was.
Chpt 2 (definition 2)minutest = smallest
- In the meantime, not only was it known in the maidservants' rooms that the minister and his son had arrived, but the appearance of both had been minutely described.
Chpt 3 (definition 1)minutely = in a detailed manner
- What exactitude, what minuteness, what knowledge of the locality, what foresight for every eventuality, every possibility even to the smallest detail!
Chpt 3 (definition 1)minuteness = attention to detail
- But even if he also took up a position in the Thuerassa, he merely saves us a great deal of trouble and all our arrangements to the minutest detail remain the same.
Chpt 3 (definition 2)minutest = smallest
- He was continually traveling through the three provinces entrusted to him, was pedantic in the fulfillment of his duties, severe to cruelty with his subordinates, and went into everything down to the minutest details himself.
Chpt 5 (definition 2)
- Natasha sat down and, without joining in Boris' conversation with the countess, silently and minutely studied her childhood's suitor.
Chpt 6 (definition 1) *minutely = in a detailed manner
- The question again presented itself whether she was not guilty, whether she had not already broken faith with Prince Andrew, and again she found herself recalling to the minutest detail every word, every gesture, and every shade in the play of expression on the face of the man who had been able to arouse in her such an incomprehensible and terrifying feeling.
Chpt 8 (definition 2)minutest = smallest
- The people of the west moved eastwards to slay their fellow men, and by the law of coincidence thousands of minute causes fitted in and co-ordinated to produce that movement and war: reproaches for the nonobservance of the Continental System, the Duke of Oldenburg's wrongs, the movement of troops into Prussia—undertaken (as it seemed to Napoleon) only for the purpose of securing an armed peace, the French Emperor's love and habit of war coinciding with his people's inclinations,…
Chpt 9 (definition 2)minute = small
- The dispositions drawn up by Weyrother for the battle of Austerlitz were a model of perfection for that kind of composition, but still they were criticized—criticized for their very perfection, for their excessive minuteness.
Chpt 10 (definition 1)minuteness = attention to detail
- Having ordered punch and summoned de Beausset, he began to talk to him about Paris and about some changes he meant to make in the Empress' household, surprising the prefect by his memory of minute details relating to the court.
Chpt 10 (definition 2)minute = small
- Pierre knew this, but instead of acting he only thought about his undertaking, going over its minutest details in his mind.
Chpt 11 (definition 2) *minutest = smallest
- Listening to the story of the struggle between love and duty, Pierre saw before his eyes every minutest detail of his last meeting with the object of his love at the Sukharev water tower.
Chpt 11 (definition 2)
- With regard to diplomatic questions, Napoleon summoned Captain Yakovlev, who had been robbed and was in rags and did not know how to get out of Moscow, minutely explained to him his whole policy and his magnanimity, and having written a letter to the Emperor Alexander in which he considered it his duty to inform his Friend and Brother that Rostopchin had managed affairs badly in Moscow, he dispatched Yakovlev to Petersburg.
Chpt 13 (definition 1)minutely = in a detailed manner
- ...the histories of culture, to which all general histories tend more and more to approximate, are significant from the fact that after seriously and minutely examining various religious, philosophic, and political doctrines as causes of events, as soon as they have to describe an actual historic event such as the campaign of 1812 for instance, they involuntarily describe it as resulting from an exercise of power--
Chpt 15 (definition 1)minutely = with careful detail
- From this fundamental difference between the view held by history and that held by jurisprudence, it follows that jurisprudence can tell minutely how in its opinion power should be constituted and what power—existing immutably outside time—is, but to history's questions about the meaning of the mutations of power in time it can answer nothing.
Chpt 15 (definition 1)minutely = in a detailed manner
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- "In a minute, in a minute," he said, dipping his pen.†
Chpt 1 (definition 3)
- "In a minute, in a minute," he said, dipping his pen.†
Chpt 1 (definition 3)
- "What is the matter with you, my dear?" she said crossly to the maid who kept her waiting some minutes.†
Chpt 1 (definition 3)
- Not two minutes had passed before Prince Vasili with head erect majestically entered the room.†
Chpt 1 (definition 3)
- After a few minutes' bustle beside the high bedstead, those who had carried the sick man dispersed.†
Chpt 1 (definition 3)
- This lasted about two minutes, which to Pierre seemed an hour.†
Chpt 1 (definition 3)
- A few minutes later the eldest sister came out with a pale hard face, again biting her underlip.†
Chpt 1 (definition 3)
- He always came to table under precisely the same conditions, and not only at the same hour but at the same minute.†
Chpt 1 (definition 3)
- The princess glanced at her watch and, seeing that she was five minutes late in starting her practice on the clavichord, went into the sitting room with a look of alarm.†
Chpt 1 (definition 3)
- He will get up in twenty minutes.†
Chpt 1 (definition 3)
- When the twenty minutes had elapsed and the time had come for the old prince to get up, Tikhon came to call the young prince to his father.†
Chpt 1 (definition 3)
- Ten minutes later Lavrushka brought the coffee.†
Chpt 2 (definition 3)
- Five minutes later he returned and bowing with particular courtesy ushered Prince Andrew before him along a corridor to the cabinet where the Minister of War was at work.†
Chpt 2 (definition 3)
- This feeling of disdain was heightened when he saw the minister seated at a large table reading some papers and making pencil notes on them, and for the first two or three minutes taking no notice of his arrival.†
Chpt 2 (definition 3)
- They got into the carriage and drove for a few minutes in silence.†
Chpt 2 (definition 3)
- Five minutes later, gently swaying on the soft springs of the carriage, he turned to Prince Andrew.†
Chpt 2 (definition 3)
- "A staff officer was here a minute ago, but skipped off," said an artilleryman to Prince Andrew.†
Chpt 2 (definition 3)
- Go and keep her company for ten minutes.†
Chpt 3 (definition 3)
- The Tsar stopped a few minutes in front of the hussars as if undecided.†
Chpt 3 (definition 3)
- A few minutes after the Emperor had passed, the Pavlograd division was ordered to advance.†
Chpt 3 (definition 3)
- The marshals, accompanied by adjutants, galloped off in different directions, and a few minutes later the chief forces of the French army moved rapidly toward those Pratzen Heights which were being more and more denuded by Russian troops moving down the valley to their left.†
Chpt 3 (definition 3)
- The silence lasted for about a minute.†
Chpt 3 (definition 3)
- Confused and ever-increasing crowds were running back to where five minutes before the troops had passed the Emperors.†
Chpt 3 (definition 3)
- "Move on a hundred yards and we are certainly saved, remain here another two minutes and it is certain death," thought each one.†
Chpt 3 (definition 3)
- Though five minutes before, Prince Andrew had been able to say a few words to the soldiers who were carrying him, now with his eyes fixed straight on Napoleon, he was silent….†
Chpt 3 (definition 3)
- Count Ilya, again thrusting his way through the crowd, went out of the drawing room and reappeared a minute later with another committeeman, carrying a large silver salver which he presented to Prince Bagration.†
Chpt 4 (definition 3)
- For three minutes all had been ready, but they still delayed and all were silent.†
Chpt 4 (definition 3)
- Five minutes later Princess Mary from her room heard something heavy being carried by.†
Chpt 4 (definition 3)
- He covered his face with his hands and remained so for some minutes.†
Chpt 4 (definition 3)
- She was lying dead, in the same position he had seen her in five minutes before and, despite the fixed eyes and the pallor of the cheeks, the same expression was on her charming childlike face with its upper lip covered with tiny black hair.†
Chpt 4 (definition 3)
- A minute later Sonya came in with a frightened, guilty, and scared look.†
Chpt 4 (definition 3)
- The five minutes spent with his eyes bandaged seemed to him an hour.†
Chpt 5 (definition 3)
- The old prince had gone to the town and was expected back any minute.†
Chpt 5 (definition 3)
- Five minutes later, Denisov came into the hut, climbed with muddy boots on the bed, lit his pipe, furiously scattered his things about, took his leaded whip, buckled on his saber, and went out again.†
Chpt 5 (definition 3)
Definitions:
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(1) (minute as in: minute description) detailed (including even small considerations); and/or careful (done with care)
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(2) (minute as in: minute size) small, exceptionally small, or insignificant
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(3) (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.