All 34 Uses
minute
in
The American, by Henry James
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- Every day, then, for the following three weeks, the minutely respectable figure of M. Nioche made its appearance, with a series of little inquiring and apologetic obeisances, among the aromatic fumes of Newman's morning beverage.
Chpt 4 *minutely = carefully
- His own economic genius was so entirely for operations on a larger scale, and, to move at his ease, he needed so imperatively the sense of great risks and great prizes, that he found an ungrudging entertainment in the spectacle of fortunes made by the aggregation of copper coins, and in the minute subdivision of labor and profit.
Chpt 4minute = small
- She saw M. de Cintre for the first time a month before the wedding, after everything, to the minutest detail, had been arranged.
Chpt 8 *minutest = smallest
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- In the upper corner of the fly-leaf she traced a number, in a minute and extremely neat hand.†
Chpt 1
- It was only twenty minutes before that he had bought the first picture of his life, and now he was already thinking of art-patronage as a fascinating pursuit.†
Chpt 2
- It's a pity you were not here a few minutes ago.†
Chpt 2
- Tom Tristram complained of his wife's avidity, and declared that he could never have a clear five minutes with his friend.†
Chpt 3
- You triumphed on the spot, making her ask you, at the end of three minutes, to her house.†
Chpt 3
- The document was written in a minute, fantastic hand, and couched in the choicest language.†
Chpt 4
- Here and there Madame de Cintre's utterance had a faint shade of strangeness but at the end of ten minutes Newman found himself waiting for these soft roughnesses.†
Chpt 6
- I didn't know you much until within five minutes.†
Chpt 8
- "She consulted me, dear mother, five minutes since," said Valentin, "and I told her that such a beautiful woman—she is beautiful, you will see—had no right to bury herself alive."†
Chpt 10
- They were to have met me here at two o'clock, and I have been waiting for them twenty minutes.†
Chpt 11
- Some minutes of silence elapsed, which were interrupted by the arrival of M. de Bellegarde.†
Chpt 14
- The portress replied, as the portress invariably replies, that her lodger had gone out barely three minutes before; but then, through the little square hole of her lodge-window taking the measure of Newman's fortunes, and seeing them, by an unspecified process, refresh the dry places of servitude to occupants of fifth floors on courts, she added that M. Nioche would have had just time to reach the Cafe de la Patrie, round the second corner to the left, at which establishment he regularly spent his afternoons.†
Chpt 15
- Then she stopped a minute, looking at Newman.†
Chpt 15
- Valentin introduced another topic, but within five minutes Newman observed that, by a bold transition, he had reverted to Mademoiselle Nioche, and was giving pictures of her manners and quoting specimens of her mots.†
Chpt 15
- I have been watching you for the last ten minutes, and I have been watching M. de Bellegarde.†
Chpt 16
- Newman answered nothing for a minute.†
Chpt 17
- I shall put in another appearance for ten minutes—time enough to give him an opportunity to commit himself, if he feels inclined.†
Chpt 17
- Valentin entered the box after the robust young man, but a couple of minutes afterwards he reappeared, largely smiling.†
Chpt 17
- He sat with his eyes fixed upon his plate, counting the minutes, wishing at one moment that Valentin would see him and leave him free to go in quest of Madame de Cintre and his lost happiness, and mentally calling himself a vile brute the next, for the impatient egotism of the wish.†
Chpt 19
- "Alone—for five minutes," Valentin repeated.†
Chpt 19
- He waited some minutes, walking up and down; but at length, as he turned at the end of the room, he saw that Madame de Cintre had come in by a distant door.†
Chpt 20
- It seemed a long time; I suppose it was three or four minutes.†
Chpt 22
- In a few minutes he told me to go and look at the bottle on the chimney-piece.†
Chpt 22
- I am all of a tremble still; it took me five minutes, just now, to thread my needle.†
Chpt 23
- Delay your return for five minutes and give me a chance at them.†
Chpt 24
- Stay away and leave them to me for five minutes; you needn't be afraid; I shall not be violent; I am very quiet.†
Chpt 24 *
- Newman was very impatient; he was counting the minutes until his victims should reappear.†
Chpt 24
- —she who in the last twenty minutes had built up between them a wall of polite conversation in which she evidently flattered herself that he would never find a gate.†
Chpt 25
- He rested his arms on his knees, and sat for some minutes staring into his hat.†
Chpt 25
- The perfume of the young lady's finery sickened him; he turned his head and tried to deflect his course; but the pressure of the crowd kept him near her a few minutes longer, so that he heard what she was saying.†
Chpt 25
- I looked at the place for a few minutes and then came away.†
Chpt 26
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.