All 9 Uses of
minute
in
The Waves
- Great clouds always changing, and movement; something sulphurous and sinister, bowled up, helter-skelter; towering, trailing, broken off, lost, and I forgotten, minute, in a ditch.
(definition 1)minute = tiny (insignificant)
- But let me dip again and bring up in my spoon another of these minute objects which we call optimistically, "characters of our friends"—Louis.
(definition 1) *minute = small
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- 'It is now five minutes to eight,' said Neville.†
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- I have taken my place at the table ten minutes before the time in order to taste every moment of anticipation; to see the door open and to say, "Is it Percival?†
(definition 2)
- I do not know how to run minute to minute and hour to hour, solving them by some natural force until they make the whole and indivisible mass that you call life.†
(definition 2)
- I do not know how to run minute to minute and hour to hour, solving them by some natural force until they make the whole and indivisible mass that you call life.†
(definition 2)
- By applying the standards of the West, by using the violent language that is natural to him, the bullock-cart is righted in less than five minutes.†
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- I am exhausted with the strain and the long, long time—twenty-five minutes, half an hour—that I have held myself alone outside the machine.†
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- I could not collect myself; I could not distinguish myself; I could not help letting fall the things that had made me a minute ago eager, amused, jealous, vigilant, and hosts of other things, into the water.†
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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.