All 35 Uses of
minute
in
Dubliners
- He picked his way deftly through all that minute vermin-like life and under the shadow of the gaunt spectral mansions in which the old nobility of Dublin had roystered.
Chpt 8 (definition 1)minute = small
- And Maria laughed again till the tip of her nose nearly met the tip of her chin and till her minute body nearly shook itself asunder because she knew that Mooney meant well though, of course, she had the notions of a common woman.
Chpt 10 (definition 1)
- The lower teeth and gums were covered with clotted blood and a minute piece of the tongue seemed to have been bitten off.
Chpt 14 (definition 1) *
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- When I had been sitting there for five or ten minutes I saw Mahony's grey suit approaching.†
Chpt 2 (definition 2)
- He stood up slowly, saying that he had to leave us for a minute or so, a few minutes, and, without changing the direction of my gaze, I saw him walking slowly away from us towards the near end of the field.†
Chpt 2 (definition 2)
- He stood up slowly, saying that he had to leave us for a minute or so, a few minutes, and, without changing the direction of my gaze, I saw him walking slowly away from us towards the near end of the field.†
Chpt 2 (definition 2)
- After a silence of a few minutes I heard Mahony exclaim: "I say!†
Chpt 2 (definition 2)
- In a few minutes the train drew up beside an improvised wooden platform.†
Chpt 3 (definition 2)
- I passed out on to the road and saw by the lighted dial of a clock that it was ten minutes to ten.†
Chpt 3 (definition 2)
- When he was quite sure that the narrative had ended he laughed noiselessly for fully half a minute.†
Chpt 6 (definition 2)
- Lenehan observed them for a few minutes.†
Chpt 6 (definition 2)
- Some minutes passed.†
Chpt 6 (definition 2) *
- It was seventeen minutes past eleven: she would have lots of time to have the matter out with Mr. Doran and then catch short twelve at Marlborough Street.†
Chpt 7 (definition 2)
- Three days' reddish beard fringed his jaws and every two or three minutes a mist gathered on his glasses so that he had to take them off and polish them with his pocket-handkerchief.†
Chpt 7 (definition 2)
- The evening was falling and in a few minutes they would be lighting the gas: then he could write.†
Chpt 9 (definition 2)
- The man listened to the clicking of the machine for a few minutes and then set to work to finish his copy.†
Chpt 9 (definition 2)
- From Ballsbridge to the Pillar, twenty minutes; from the Pillar to Drumcondra, twenty minutes; and twenty minutes to buy the things.†
Chpt 10 (definition 2)
- From Ballsbridge to the Pillar, twenty minutes; from the Pillar to Drumcondra, twenty minutes; and twenty minutes to buy the things.†
Chpt 10 (definition 2)
- From Ballsbridge to the Pillar, twenty minutes; from the Pillar to Drumcondra, twenty minutes; and twenty minutes to buy the things.†
Chpt 10 (definition 2)
- In a few minutes the women began to come in by twos and threes, wiping their steaming hands in their petticoats and pulling down the sleeves of their blouses over their red steaming arms.†
Chpt 10 (definition 2)
- He waited for some minutes listening.†
Chpt 11 (definition 2)
- "But won't you come in and sit down a minute?"†
Chpt 12 (definition 2)
- Tell him we won't keep it a minute.†
Chpt 12 (definition 2)
- "Why, blast your soul," said Mr. Henchy, "I'd get more votes in five minutes than you two'd get in a week."†
Chpt 12 (definition 2)
- In a few minutes an apologetic "Pok!" was heard as the cork flew out of Mr. Lyons' bottle.†
Chpt 12 (definition 2)
- No, it was twenty minutes to eight.†
Chpt 13 (definition 2)
- Mr. Holohan came into the dressingroom every few minutes with reports from the box-office.†
Chpt 13 (definition 2)
- Miss Beirne expected them any minute and asked could she do anything.†
Chpt 13 (definition 2)
- In two minutes he was surrounded by a ring of men.†
Chpt 14 (definition 2)
- But if you wait a minute I'll send round to Fogarty's, at the corner."†
Chpt 14 (definition 2)
- Freddy Malins always came late, but they wondered what could be keeping Gabriel: and that was what brought them every two minutes to the banisters to ask Lily had Gabriel or Freddy come.†
Chpt 15 (definition 2)
- Four young men, who had come from the refreshment-room to stand in the doorway at the sound of the piano, had gone away quietly in couples after a few minutes.†
Chpt 15 (definition 2)
- "But only for ten minutes, Molly," said Mrs. Conroy.†
Chpt 15 (definition 2)
- "Very well," said Gabriel amiably, as he took another preparatory draught, "kindly forget my existence, ladies and gentlemen, for a few minutes."†
Chpt 15 (definition 2)
- "I'd like nothing better this minute," said Mr. Browne stoutly, "than a rattling fine walk in the country or a fast drive with a good spanking goer between the shafts."†
Chpt 15 (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.