All 37 Uses of
minute
in
The Golden Apples
- The sand was coarse like beads and full of minute shells, some shaped exactly like bugles.
Story 4 (definition 1) *minute = small
- Now and then the crashing reach of water came to the European points of the other man's shoes, advancing at the last instant with pure little tongues, that minutely kissed and withdrew.
Story 6 (definition 1)minutely = in a small way
- She felt the sand, grains intricate as little cogged wheels, minute shells of old seas, and the many dark ribbons of grass and mud touch her and leave her, like suggestions and withdrawals of some bondage that might have been dear, now dismembering and losing itself.
Story 7 (definition 1)minute = small
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- So--he'd been educated in the law and he traveled for somebody, that was the first thing he did--I'll tell you in a minute what he sold, and she stayed home and cooked and kept house.†
Story 1 (definition 2)
- Only that day, he said he didn't see a soul else--besides you'll hear who in a minute--on the way, not on porches or in the yards.†
Story 1 (definition 2)
- Plez said King stood it a minute--he got to turning around too.†
Story 1 (definition 2)
- The minute come, when King just couldn't get out quick enough.†
Story 1 (definition 2)
- And Snowdie dropped her scissors on the mahogany, and her hand just stayed in the air as still, and she looked at me, a look a minute long.†
Story 1 (definition 2)
- I heard Snowdie call, and there was Plez, just ambling by with his hat raised, like he was just that minute passing, like we thought.†
Story 1 (definition 2)
- If she went out of sight for a minute, he watched at the little stair window, but she did not go up.†
Story 2 (definition 2)
- Louella stood there a minute and then tiptoed off.†
Story 2 (definition 2)
- Cassie was uneasy, for her mother's way was to speak too late for Miss Perdita's list and plan to run the dress up herself at the last minute; but Cassie had to encourage Miss Eckhart.†
Story 2 (definition 2)
- "--"All right, say--do you want your bird this minute?" might be the reply.†
Story 2 (definition 2)
- In a gray housedress prophetic of an institution she was making her way along, about to be touched, prodded, any minute, but not worrying about it.†
Story 2 (definition 2)
- To try to make me dizzy, and run a ring around me, or make me think that first minute I was going to be carried off by their pa.†
Story 3 (definition 2)
- And there he was--that is, he showed for a minute and then was gone behind a reddening sweetgum tree.†
Story 3 (definition 2)
- Up there back of the leaves his voice laughed and made fun this minute.†
Story 3 (definition 2)
- She'd like to see us all in Coventry tins minute.†
Story 3 (definition 2)
- At the last minute, Jinny Love, who had extracted her foot from the castle with success, hurried over and climbed to the middle seat of the boat, screaming.†
Story 4 (definition 2)
- A few minutes back her gaze had fled the present and this scene; now she put the horn blower into his visionary place.†
Story 4 (definition 2)
- This minute!†
Story 4 (definition 2)
- Woodrow Spights had been gone a few minutes or so.†
Story 5 (definition 2)
- Mamie's mad at you for roasting in that room across the street from us--you could move in five minutes.†
Story 5 (definition 2)
- And he'd wait a minute in the door before he left.†
Story 5 (definition 2)
- In two minutes we were touching the barge.†
Story 5 (definition 2)
- They got off the barge on the island side and were lost in a minute in a hot blur of willow trees.†
Story 5 (definition 2)
- For a minute I saw her double.†
Story 5 (definition 2) *
- In a minute she put her hand out again, differently, and laid it Cold on my shoulder.†
Story 5 (definition 2)
- He frowned in the street, the more tantalized, somehow, by seeing at the last minute that the stranger was tattooed with a butterfly on the inner side of his wrist; an intimate place, the wrist appeared to be.†
Story 6 (definition 2)
- The lapse must have endured for a solid minute or two, and afterwards he could recollect it.†
Story 6 (definition 2)
- The next minute he threw a stone, this time in the direction of the fluttering in the grass.†
Story 6 (definition 2)
- Under the cloudy portion the sea burned silver and at moments entirely white, and the waves coming in held their form until the last minute and appeared still and limitless as snow.†
Story 6 (definition 2)
- She murmured over her shoulder, "I never had cause to set foot in the Rainey house for over five minutes in my life.†
Story 7 (definition 2)
- "Stop and fan me a minute," she called aloud.†
Story 7 (definition 2)
- Ran knew that every minute, there in the door he stood it.†
Story 7 (definition 2)
- Watch out, now, don't set that down a minute till I tell you where it'll go!†
Story 7 (definition 2)
- Virgie slowed for a minute as Cassie turned in at her own house.†
Story 7 (definition 2)
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.