All 10 Uses of
minute
in
Pygmalion
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- He's been gone twenty minutes.†
Act 1 *
- It started worse than ever about two minutes ago.†
Act 1
- I don't know whether you've noticed it; but the rain stopped about two minutes ago.†
Act 1
- Pickering: if we listen to this man another minute, we shall have no convictions left.†
Act 2
- Yes, for the first three minutes.†
Act 4
- I shan't be more than fifteen minutes.†
Act 5
- Time and again she has wanted to leave you; and you always got round her at the last minute.†
Act 5
- And they wish each other dead the next minute.†
Act 5
- But I haven't forgot what you said a minute ago; and I won't be coaxed round as if I was a baby or a puppy.†
Act 5
- Five minutes ago you were like a millstone round my neck.†
Act 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.