All 24 Uses
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Selected Tales, by Poe
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- I have said that I minutely remember the details of the chamber—yet I am sadly forgetful on topics of deep moment—and here there was no system, no keeping, in the fantastic display, to take hold upon the memory.
Scene 1minutely = in a detailed manner
- But why shall I minutely detail the unspeakable horrors of that night?
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- At one period I thought of cutting the corpse into minute fragments, and destroying them by fire.
Scene 2minute = small
- The rubbish on the floor was picked up with the minutest care.
Scene 2minutest = most careful
- Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves.
Scene 3 *minute = small
- Before going in we walked up the street, turned down an alley, and then, again turning, passed in the rear of the building—Dupin, meanwhile examining the whole neighborhood, as well as the house, with a minuteness of attention for which I could see no possible object.
Scene 4minuteness = detail (including even small considerations)
- Getting upon the sacking of the bedstead, I looked over the head-board minutely at the second casement.
Scene 4 *minutely = carefully
- It was a minute anatomical and generally descriptive account of the large fulvous Ourang-Outang of the East Indian Islands.
Scene 4minute = detailed
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- Many minutes elapsed before any circumstance occurred tending to throw light upon the mystery.†
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- It was necessary that some immediate exertion be made; yet turret was altogether apart from the portion of the abbey tenanted by the servants—there were none within call—I had no means of summoning them to my aid without leaving the room for many minutes—and this I could not venture to do.†
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- In a minute afterward they relaxed, disclosing a bright line of the pearly teeth.†
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- About this wall a dense crowd were collected, and many persons seemed to be examining a particular portion of it with very minute and eager attention.†
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- I had been looking steadily at the top of this hogshead for some minutes, and what now caused me surprise was the fact that I had not sooner perceived the object thereupon.†
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- I was by no means certain that he had noticed the sounds in question; although, assuredly, a strange alteration had, during the last few minutes, taken place in his demeanor.†
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- Long—long—long—many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it—yet I dared not—oh, pity me, miserable wretch that I am!†
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- Being both, apparently, occupied with thought, neither of us had spoken a syllable for fifteen minutes at least.†
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- The man who ran up against you as we entered the street—it may have been fifteen minutes ago.†
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- They lasted for several minutes—probably ten.†
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- Some made it as short as three minutes—some as long as five.†
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- The whole feat did not occupy a minute.†
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- A watch's minute hand moves more quickly than did mine.†
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- Yet, for some minutes longer I refrained and stood still.†
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- But, for many minutes, the heart beat on with a muffled sound.†
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- I placed my hand upon the heart and held it there many 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 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.