All 36 Uses

minute
in
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
(Edited)

It contained the minutes of the last meeting of the Praesidium of the East German Communist Party, the S.E.D. By an odd coincidence there was collateral from another source; the photographs were genuine.
Chpt 8

minutes = formal notes (from a meeting)
He drew up a list of all the clerical staff who might have had access to the minutes.
Chpt 8
It puzzled him that in none of the photostated minutes he had so far received were the pages numbered, that none was stamped with a security classification, and that in the second and fourth copies words were crossed out in pencil or crayon.
Chpt 8
He came finally to an important conclusion: that the photo copies related not to the minutes themselves, but to the draft minutes.
Chpt 8
He came finally to an important conclusion: that the photo copies related not to the minutes themselves, but to the draft minutes.
Chpt 8
The draft minutes had been well and carefully photographed: that suggested that the photographer had had time and a room to himself.
Chpt 8
Leamas developed them that night: one film contained as usual the minutes of the Praesidium's last meeting;
Chpt 8 *
There were minutes on the file between Banking Section and Special Travel.
Chpt 9
It would go in the Minutes then, and the Branch bulletin as well.
Chpt 15
As secretary to the Praesidium he gave minutes of its most secret proceedings.
Chpt 20
She remembered, in the fevered condition of her mind, how, as a child, she had been horrified to learn that with every step she made, thousands of minute creatures were destroyed beneath her foot; and now, whether she had lied or told the truth—or even, she was sure, had kept silent—she had been forced to destroy a human being; perhaps two, for was there not also the Jew, Fiedler, who had been gentle with her, taken her arm and told her to go back to England?
Chpt 24 *

minute = tiny

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Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:

We can have the Polizei contact the Agency: you can be back here in twenty minutes.†
Chpt 1
Control had shaken his hand for five minutes and said: "I want you to know how pleased we are, Karl, damn pleased."†
Chpt 1
We shall be at London airport in twenty minutes.†
Chpt 2
He listened for a minute or two and then drifted toward the bookshelves.†
Chpt 4
He'd been' marking for about ten minutes when he became aware that Miss Crail was watching him.†
Chpt 4
Twenty-minute walk.†
Chpt 4
Occasionally she would take immense umbrage, such as when he hung his mackintosh on her peg, and she stood in front of it shaking for fully five minutes, until Liz spotted her and called Leamas.†
Chpt 4
After a couple of minutes he walked back toward the footpath, leaving the parcel where it lay.†
Chpt 6
He looked at bookshops, read the evening papers displayed in the show windows of newspaper offices, and then quite suddenly, as if the thought had occurred to him at tho last minute, he jumped on a bus.†
Chpt 6
* * 7 * Kiever On the following day, Leamas arrived twenty minutes late for his lunch with Ashe, and smelled of whisky.†
Chpt 7
"Just a minute," said Leamas, and there was something in his voice which made Ashe look at him quickly.†
Chpt 7
They still had twenty minutes to wait.†
Chpt 8
"Just a minute," he said.†
Chpt 8
Ten minutes later they boarded the plane for Hamburg and Berlin.†
Chpt 10
For about ten minutes they dawdled, and Leamas guessed that they had to cross at a prearranged time.†
Chpt 12 *
Two minutes later the red and white pole lifted to let through the DKW and as it did so both cars drove over together, the Mercedes engine screaming in second gear, the driver pressing himself back against his seat, holding the wheel at arm's length.†
Chpt 12
The DKW had disappeared, and when Leamas sighted it ten minutes later it was behind them again.†
Chpt 12
For ten minutes, perhaps longer, they waited, then Peters spoke to one of the two men standing awkwardly at the other end of the room.†
Chpt 12
He lay on the bed, fully dressed, and within a few minutes he was fast asleep.†
Chpt 12
Control wanted that— he wanted a few minutes alone with Karl, God knows why, so I left the flat on some excuse, I forget what.†
Chpt 14
If you drive at thirty kilometers we shall be there in about nine minutes.†
Chpt 25
Seven minutes to wait.†
Chpt 25
You have one minute to reach the wall.†
Chpt 25
"Two minutes," he whispered.†
Chpt 26
"Two minutes," Leamas repeated.†
Chpt 26

Definitions:

(1) (minute as in: minute size)
small, exceptionally small, or insignificant
(2) (minute as in: minute description)
detailed (including even small considerations); and/or careful (done with care)
(3) (minutes as in: keep the minutes)
a written record of what happened at a meeting
(4) (meaning too common or too 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.

minute in The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (Edited)

minute
in
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
(Edited)