All 39 Uses of
minute
in
Life of Pi
- When it decided it was time, it deployed its wings, rose in the air with a minute clattering, hovered above the lifeboat momentarily, as if making sure no one had been left behind, and then veered overboard to its death.
Chpt 57-60 (definition 1)minute = small
- A shark's skin is covered with minute tubercles that make it as rough as sandpaper.
Chpt 77-80 (definition 1) *minute = very small
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- After some minutes, he closed the book and put it aside.†
Chpt 17-20 (definition 2)
- Wait a minute.†
Chpt 17-20 (definition 2)
- He ducked into the next room for a minute and returned with a rolled-up carpet, which he unfurled on the floor of his bakery, throwing up a small storm of flour.†
Chpt 17-20 (definition 2)
- She's on her way out, so we talk only a few minutes.†
Chpt 29-32 (definition 2)
- I loved every minute of it.†
Chpt 37-40 (definition 2)
- If there hadn't been the lifebuoy I wouldn't have lasted a minute.†
Chpt 37-40 (definition 2)
- But I don't recall that I had a single thought during those first minutes of relative safety.†
Chpt 37-40 (definition 2)
- She lay flat on the tarpaulin for several minutes, quiet and still, before reaching over and falling into the lifeboat proper.†
Chpt 41-44 (definition 2)
- In the preceding minutes its whining had been rising in volume to a scream.†
Chpt 41-44 (definition 2)
- The ten-minute-old gnu is a favourite dish, but hyenas also eat young lions and young rhinoceros.†
Chpt 41-44 (definition 2)
- In fifteen minutes flat, all that will be left of a zebra is the skull, which may yet be dragged away and gnawed down at leisure by young ones in the lair.†
Chpt 41-44 (definition 2)
- The night passed, minute by slow minute.†
Chpt 41-44 (definition 2)
- The night passed, minute by slow minute.†
Chpt 41-44 (definition 2)
- It hovered by the boat for several minutes.†
Chpt 45-48 (definition 2)
- The Pacific air, which until a minute before had been carrying the whistling and whispering of the sea, a natural melody I would have called soothing had the circumstances been happier, was all at once filled with this appalling noise, like the fury of an all-out battle, with the earsplitting firing of guns and cannons and the thunderous blasts of bombs.†
Chpt 45-48 (definition 2)
- Instead it broke off abruptly after a few minutes.†
Chpt 45-48 (definition 2)
- I had not had a drop to drink or a bite to eat or a minute of sleep in three days.†
Chpt 49-52 (definition 2)
- Only for a few minutes, I say.†
Chpt 49-52 (definition 2)
- After a few minutes you die and the discomfort of asphyxiation goes away.†
Chpt 49-52 (definition 2)
- I basked in bliss and plenitude for several minutes.†
Chpt 49-52 (definition 2)
- The whole package disappeared in a few minutes, wrapping paper flying away in the wind.†
Chpt 49-52 (definition 2)
- I hesitated for long minutes.†
Chpt 53-56 (definition 2)
- I shifted the rain catcher, only to be unpleasantly surprised a few minutes later when the wind changed once more.†
Chpt 53-56 (definition 2)
- Put up your feet at least five minutes every hour.†
Chpt 57-60 (definition 2)
- In the next minute, ten or so cockroaches plopped into the water on either side of the bow.†
Chpt 57-60 (definition 2)
- I produced so exactly the amount I had just downed that it was as if a minute hadn't passed and I were still considering Richard Parker's rainwater.†
Chpt 57-60 (definition 2)
- For about a minute heat showered down upon my forearm and everything was weirdly lit.†
Chpt 69-72 (definition 2)
- In the veins of turtles coursed a sweet lassi that had to be drunk as soon as it spurted from their necks, because it coagulated in less than a minute.†
Chpt 77-80 (definition 2)
- After several minutes Richard Parker sat up, licking his left paw.†
Chpt 77-80 (definition 2)
- It spent several minutes tweaking its feathers with its beak, exposing soft down.†
Chpt 81-84 (definition 2)
- In less than twenty minutes a ship of three hundred thousand tons became a speck on the horizon.†
Chpt 85-88 (definition 2)
- After some minutes I crept up to the side of the boat.†
Chpt 89-92 (definition 2)
- The entire forest was turning brown, an autumn that came in a few minutes.†
Chpt 89-92 (definition 2)
- We'll be back in a few minutes.†
Chpt 97-100 (definition 2)
- " "Something I never forget, not for a minute.†
Chpt 97-100 (definition 2)
- Give me a minute, please.†
Chpt 97-100 (definition 2) *
- I would think less than twenty minutes.†
Chpt 97-100 (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.