All 50 Uses of
minute
in
Sophie's World
- Anaxagoras held that nature is built up of an infinite number of minute particles invisible to the eye.
Chpt 4 (definition 1) *minute = tiny
- Moreover, everything can be divided into even smaller parts, but even in the minutest parts there are fragments of all other things.
Chpt 4 (definition 1)minutest = smallest
- He had seen with his own eyes that the individuals of a single species of animal within the same region could differ from each other in only the minutest detail.
Chpt 29 (definition 1)
- He pondered constantly on yell's theory of the minute changes that could have great effect over a long period of time.
Chpt 29 (definition 1)minute = small
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- And in a minute you'll put the potatoes on.†
Chpt 2 (definition 2)
- The next minute he was walking swiftly back toward the woods.†
Chpt 6 (definition 2)
- After a minute or two she crept down the stairs, opened the front door quietly, and ran to the mailbox.†
Chpt 6 (definition 2)
- After a few minutes had passed and all was still quiet in the house, she opened the letter and began to read.†
Chpt 6 (definition 2)
- After a minute or two there was a close-up of a middle-aged man.†
Chpt 8 (definition 2)
- But after a couple of minutes it got up and began to push its way back through the hedge the same way it had come in.†
Chpt 9 (definition 2)
- Sophie chased him, but after a few minutes he turned and faced her, barking like a watchdog.†
Chpt 9 (definition 2)
- There was no new letter, but after a few minutes Sophie heard the dog approaching.†
Chpt 11 (definition 2)
- On the other hand, much of what he wrote was based on up-to-the-minute field studies.†
Chpt 11 (definition 2)
- Oh, let's go back to the tent instead," said Joanna after a few minutes.†
Chpt 13 (definition 2)
- You don't actually think the cards come fluttering out of the mirror the minute they are stamped in Lebanon?†
Chpt 13 (definition 2)
- Some minutes passed.†
Chpt 15 (definition 2)
- And therefore, Sophie, therefore you have to understand that there is no dramatic break with Greek philosophy the minute we enter the Christian Middle Ages.†
Chpt 15 (definition 2)
- A couple of minutes later Sophie was on her way down the garden.†
Chpt 16 (definition 2)
- Sophie stood for several minutes without speaking and took everything in.†
Chpt 16 (definition 2)
- Our acquaintance lasted only 13 minutes and 52 seconds.†
Chpt 18 (definition 2)
- So you are a single person that has a stomachache one minute and is in a thoughtful mood the next.†
Chpt 19 (definition 2)
- In a minute you'll see what he looks like.†
Chpt 20 (definition 2)
- At the last minute Sophie managed to stop the tape.†
Chpt 20 (definition 2)
- My temperament and how I see myself alter from one minute to the next.†
Chpt 21 (definition 2)
- Hey, wait a minute!†
Chpt 21 (definition 2)
- Minutes later she saw someone come running toward her.†
Chpt 22 (definition 2)
- Minutes later she saw someone come running toward her.†
Chpt 23 (definition 2)
- Sophie had never played tennis, but there were some open-air courts a few minutes from Clover Close.†
Chpt 23 (definition 2)
- He may not decide before the very last minute—that is to say, in the moment of creation.†
Chpt 23 (definition 2)
- The minute the teacher dismissed the class with her best wishes for the vacation, Sophie ran home.†
Chpt 23 (definition 2)
- After a minute or two he said: "That was more or less what I wanted to say about the Enlightenment."†
Chpt 23 (definition 2)
- Hilde's mother was calling from downstairs that the mystery was starting in ten minutes and that she had put the pizza in the oven.†
Chpt 23 (definition 2)
- Please give me a minute.†
Chpt 24 (definition 2) *
- My mill began to grind more energetically a minute ago!†
Chpt 26 (definition 2)
- The next minute, the girl, the businessman, and the desk had disappeared.†
Chpt 28 (definition 2)
- Hey, wait a minute!†
Chpt 28 (definition 2)
- She stood under the shower for two minutes, dressed herself quickly, and ran downstairs.†
Chpt 30 (definition 2)
- Suddenly Sophie felt something slap her cheek and the next minute she had become no bigger than a thumb.†
Chpt 31 (definition 2)
- She gave Sophie a list of last-minute things to buy in town for the garden party.†
Chpt 31 (definition 2)
- The minute her mother had left the house, the telephone rang.†
Chpt 31 (definition 2)
- At a couple of minutes past twelve Sophie walked into Cafe Pierre.†
Chpt 31 (definition 2)
- It's worth no more than the white Mercedes that drives around and around inside the head of a poor UN major, who has just this minute sat down in the shade of a palm tree to avoid getting sunstroke.†
Chpt 32 (definition 2)
- Since he had landed at Kastrup, she had thought of him every fifteen minutes, trying to imagine where he was now, and how he was taking it.†
Chpt 33 (definition 2)
- He could be arriving any minute.†
Chpt 33 (definition 2)
- The distances are so great that we measure them in light-minutes and light-years.†
Chpt 34 (definition 2)
- A light-minute is the distance light travels in one minute.†
Chpt 34 (definition 2)
- A light-minute is the distance light travels in one minute.†
Chpt 34 (definition 2)
- That means that a light-minute is 60 times 300,00—or 18 million kilometers.†
Chpt 34 (definition 2)
- It's a little over eight light-minutes away.†
Chpt 34 (definition 2)
- The rays of sunlight warming our faces on a hot June day have traveled for eight minutes through the universe before they reach us.†
Chpt 34 (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.