All 50 Uses of
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- David who was watching his mother as she stood above her husband serving him, saw her bosom swell up slowly as though responding to minute increments of pain, and then without response, exhale tautly her muted breath and look off blankly and resigned.
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- The stable lineaments of the mask of the world had overlapped, shifted configuration as secretly and minutely as clock-hands, as sudden as the wink of an eye.
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Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- They had been standing in this strange and silent manner for several minutes, when the woman, as if driven by the strain into action, tried to smile, and touching her husband's arm said timidly, "And this is the Golden Land.†
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- Come here a minute, will you?†
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- We'll have your father's things here in a few minutes.†
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- In a few minutes, a girl, bearing a paper in her hand, came into the office.†
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- The minutes skirted by, unknown.†
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- In a few minutes, Yussie came out.†
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- David heard him open a door, rummage about for a minute.†
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- I'll give yuh in a minute," she advanced threateningly.†
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- I want you to go down stairs for a minute.†
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- It will only be a few minutes.†
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- The minutes passed, and just at that moment when it seemed to David that he had forgotten about Luter, the familiar tread of feet scraped through the hallway below.†
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- He could think of only one thing—Luter was going, would be gone in another minute.†
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- I'll be only a minute.†
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- I'll have to go for just a minute," she said hesitantly.†
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- "Ill be back in a minute," said his mother wearily, and casting a hopeless glance after her husband, went out.†
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- Minutes had passed while he willed in a rigid pounding trance-willed that Luter would come down, willed that Luter would leave his mother.†
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- Minutes passed.†
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- And we'll page ye the minute yer mother comes.†
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- Hey, hold on a minute!†
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- A few minutes later, separating the yolks from the whites of the eggs to make the thick yellow pancakes that were to go with the soup, she cut the film of the yolk with eggshell, lost it in the whites.†
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- I was ten minutes each time cleaning them!†
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- And every minute the feeling that he was watching me.†
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- The intolerable minutes unreeled from an endless spool of nightmare.... By Wednesday afternoon, another and even more disturbing change had come over his mother.†
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- Minutes seemed to pass in a dull dragging vacancy in which no word was spoken.†
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- I'm not going to stay here another minute!†
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- I'll not endure it another minute.†
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- He wished it were soon, wished it were today, this minute.†
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- And never know what it was until a few minutes ago.†
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- This minute!†
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- This very minute!†
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- A live, golden flame awoke; wood and cardboard caught, and in a few minutes the whole tindery mound was ablaze.†
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- Minutes passed while he stared.†
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- "Waid a minute," he announced, "I godda take a piss."†
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- Minutes seemed to pass before he sobered.†
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- It deserved a minute's consideration.†
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- He had been sitting there for only a few minutes, ferreting about in his mind for some subterfuge, some invulnerable excuse that would prevent his accompanying bis father, when the sound of running feet reached him.†
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- The minutes passed.†
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- I'll spid in yer eye in a minute!†
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- The minutes passed in horrible silence.†
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- It's ten-eleven minutes after two.†
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- Git dere in a minute wit* 'em.†
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- After a minute of this, the disheveled Esther, with a last vicious slap, at the other, broke loose, leapt from the bed and squealing rushed past David into the kitchen.†
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- He flung the fruit-core into the gutter, headed toward Avenue D. "We'll git dere in a minute wit' a good hitch-wait'll yuh see."†
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- Can't chuh wait here a minute till she shows up?†
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- I'll give yuh in a minute!†
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- Ten minutes to six.†
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- "I'll give you something in a minute," her stepmother unlocked her arms, "You think you're safe because your father's here?"†
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- Why, he'll be able to walk in less than five minutes.†
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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)
(minute as in: minute description) detailed (including even small considerations); and/or careful (done with care)
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(3)
(minutes as in: keep the minutes) a written record of what happened at a meeting
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(4)
(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.