All 50 Uses of
minute
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Main Street
- The young matrons discussed the intimacies of domesticity with a frankness and a minuteness which dismayed Carol.
Chpt 10 (definition 1)minuteness = attention to detail
- She hinted that they ought to have (as at the committee-meetings of the Thanatopsis) a "regular order of business," and "the reading of the minutes," but as there were no minutes to read, and as no one knew exactly what was the regular order of the business of being literary, they had to give up efficiency.
Chpt 18 (definition 2) *minutes = formal notes (from a meeting)
- She hinted that they ought to have (as at the committee-meetings of the Thanatopsis) a "regular order of business," and "the reading of the minutes," but as there were no minutes to read, and as no one knew exactly what was the regular order of the business of being literary, they had to give up efficiency.
Chpt 18 (definition 2)
- Carol understood that Vida believed herself to have recited minutely and brazenly a story of intimate love;
Chpt 31 (definition 1) *minutely = in a detailed manner
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- Of these there were two sorts: careless young women who admitted that they intended to leave the "beastly classroom and grubby children" the minute they had a chance to marry; and studious, sometimes bulbous-browed and pop-eyed maidens who at class prayer-meetings requested God to "guide their feet along the paths of greatest usefulness."†
Chpt 1 (definition 3)
- He spent three delightful minutes in assuring himself of the fact that no one exactly remembered the date of Magna Charta.†
Chpt 1 (definition 3)
- Two minutes later—two hectic minutes—they were disturbed by an embarrassed couple also seeking the idyllic seclusion of the overshoe-closet.†
Chpt 1 (definition 3)
- Two minutes later—two hectic minutes—they were disturbed by an embarrassed couple also seeking the idyllic seclusion of the overshoe-closet.†
Chpt 1 (definition 3)
- II When Carol had walked for thirty-two minutes she had completely covered the town, east and west, north and south; and she stood at the corner of Main Street and Washington Avenue and despaired.†
Chpt 4 (definition 3)
- She was within ten minutes beholding not only the heart of a place called Gopher Prairie, but ten thousand towns from Albany to San Diego: Dyer's Drug Store, a corner building of regular and unreal blocks of artificial stone.†
Chpt 4 (definition 3)
- But here she could put on her hat any evening, and in three minutes' walk be to the movies, and see lovely fellows in dress-suits and Bill Hart and everything!†
Chpt 4 (definition 3)
- For fifteen minutes Carol kept it up.†
Chpt 4 (definition 3)
- Trouble enough with these foreign farmers; if you don't watch these Swedes they turn socialist or populist or some fool thing on you in a minute.†
Chpt 4 (definition 3)
- Thus ended the literary portion of the conversation, and for seven minutes Jackson Elder outlined reasons for believing that the pike-fishing was better on the west shore of Lake Minniemashie than on the east—though it was indeed quite true that on the east shore Nat Hicks had caught a pike altogether admirable.†
Chpt 4 (definition 3)
- Ensued a fifteen-minute argument about the oldest topic in the world: It's art but is it pretty?†
Chpt 5 (definition 3)
- It was twenty minutes later when Mrs. Bogart finally oozed out of the front door.†
Chpt 6 (definition 3)
- In twenty minutes the party was again elevated to the decorum of a prayer-meeting.†
Chpt 6 (definition 3)
- Ten minutes after she gazed down from the stairs upon grotesquely ruddy Yankee heads above Oriental robes, and cried to them, "The Princess Winky Poo salutes her court!"†
Chpt 6 (definition 3)
- She wondered whether they could for five minutes be coaxed to talk about something besides the winter top of Knute Stamquist's Ford, and what Al Tingley had said about his mother-in-law.†
Chpt 6 (definition 3)
- Other evening when I was coming over here, she'd forgot to pull down the curtain, and I watched her for ten minutes.†
Chpt 9 (definition 3)
- She was there all alone, and she must 'a' spent five minutes getting a picture straight.†
Chpt 9 (definition 3)
- But without the protection of Kennicott's presence she did not go to the Jolly Seventeen; she delivered herself to the judgment of the town only when she went shopping and on the ritualistic occasions of formal afternoon calls, when Mrs. Lyman Cass or Mrs. George Edwin Mott, with clean gloves and minute handkerchiefs and sealskin card-cases and countenances of frozen approbation, sat on the edges of chairs and inquired, "Do you find Gopher Prairie pleasing?"†
Chpt 9 (definition 3)
- She had no opinions on anything more polemic than woolen union-suits, a topic on which Mrs. Howland discoursed for five minutes.†
Chpt 10 (definition 3)
- Mrs. George Edwin Mott gave ten minutes to Tennyson and Browning.†
Chpt 11 (definition 3)
- The membership committee retired to the sitting-room for three minutes and elected her a member.†
Chpt 11 (definition 3)
- III At a quarter to three Carol had left home; at half-past four she had created the Georgian town; at a quarter to five she was in the dignified poverty of the Congregational parsonage, her enthusiasm pattering upon Mrs. Leonard Warren like summer rain upon an old gray roof; at two minutes to five a town of demure courtyards and welcoming dormer windows had been erected, and at two minutes past five the entire town was as flat as Babylon.†
Chpt 11 (definition 3)
- III At a quarter to three Carol had left home; at half-past four she had created the Georgian town; at a quarter to five she was in the dignified poverty of the Congregational parsonage, her enthusiasm pattering upon Mrs. Leonard Warren like summer rain upon an old gray roof; at two minutes to five a town of demure courtyards and welcoming dormer windows had been erected, and at two minutes past five the entire town was as flat as Babylon.†
Chpt 11 (definition 3)
- Within ten minutes she was jerking the old-fashioned bell-pull of Luke Dawson.†
Chpt 11 (definition 3)
- Before the program committee adjourned they took three minutes to decide which of the subjects suggested by the magazine Culture Hints, Furnishings and China, or The Bible as Literature, would be better for the coming year.†
Chpt 11 (definition 3)
- Come on, crawl in and set a couple minutes, Mrs. Kennicott.†
Chpt 12 (definition 3)
- We would all gather together and in about two minutes would be having a good time—playing cards or dancing….†
Chpt 12 (definition 3)
- And the penalty we tribal rulers pay is that our subjects watch us every minute.†
Chpt 13 (definition 3)
- But the poor dear, he's absent-minded about minute—minush—whatever the word is.†
Chpt 14 (definition 3)
- You never thought about that mistress stuff till just this minute!†
Chpt 14 (definition 3)
- If that's the way you feel, if I'm such a hindrance to you, I can't stay under this roof another minute.†
Chpt 14 (definition 3)
- Seems just a few minutes ago that you started out!†
Chpt 15 (definition 3)
- He had supped in four minutes.†
Chpt 15 (definition 3)
- Trot outdoors couple minutes.†
Chpt 15 (definition 3) *
- They gaily came in half an hour late, or they vociferously came in ten minutes early, and they were so hurt that they whispered about resigning when Carol protested.†
Chpt 18 (definition 3)
- They examined Del's makeup box, they sniffed the scent of grease-paint, every minute they ran out to peep through the hole in the curtain, they came back to inspect their wigs and costumes, they read on the whitewashed walls of the dressing-rooms the pencil inscriptions: "The Flora Flanders Comedy Company," and "This is a bum theater," and felt that they were companions of these vanished troupers.†
Chpt 18 (definition 3)
- Must be 'bout ten minutes late."†
Chpt 19 (definition 3)
- Every five minutes, every time she sat down or rose or spoke to Oscarina, they twanged, "Is your head better now?†
Chpt 20 (definition 3)
- Actually, it was not so much as five minutes a day that Carol devoted to lonely desires.†
Chpt 20 (definition 3)
- She saw Carol during the first five minutes in Gopher Prairie.†
Chpt 21 (definition 3)
- I guess you can stand it ten minutes if I can stand it all day!†
Chpt 24 (definition 3)
- And at the beginning of the whole fracas I said—I've said right along—that we ought to have entered the war the minute Germany invaded Belgium.†
Chpt 24 (definition 3)
- I went to see him on Tuesday morning before ten, no, it was couple minutes after ten, but anyway, it was long before noon—I know because I went right from the bank to the meat market to get some steak—my!†
Chpt 24 (definition 3)
- "Tell you, Maud: I'll drop in just for a minute, if I happen to be called down that way."†
Chpt 25 (definition 3)
- She got through three more minutes by studying the face of a girl in the pew across: a sensitive unhappy girl whose longing poured out with intimidating self-revelation as she worshiped Mr. Zitterel.†
Chpt 28 (definition 3)
- When he came to Carol he was so excited over being an organizer that he did not stop to talk of himself and Aubrey Beardsley for more than ten minutes.†
Chpt 29 (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) (minutes as in: keep the minutes) a written record of what happened at a meeting
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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.