All 23 Uses of
minute
in
Watership Down
- The red rays flickered in and out of the grass stems, flashing minutely on membranous wings, casting long shadows behind the thinnest of filamentary legs, breaking each patch of bare soil into a myriad individual grains.
p. 121..7 (definition 1)minutely = in a small way
- They came to a patch of milkwort—a blue as deep as that of the sky—with long stems creeping through the grass and each minute flower spreading its two upper petals like wings.
p. 131..4 (definition 1)minute = small
- Hazel could sense that there were many all about, taking flies and moths on the wing and uttering their minute cries as they flew.
p. 290..5 (definition 1) *
- In a few seconds the ground was covered with water and over it, to a height of inches, rose a haze formed of a myriad minute splashes.
p. 359..7 (definition 1)
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- He'll be all right in a minute."†
p. 12..7 (definition 2)
- In less than a minute the little band of rabbits had disappeared into the dim, moonlit night.†
p. 21..9 (definition 2)
- During the last few minutes Hazel had been as near to los— ing his head as he was ever to come.†
p. 37..9 (definition 2)
- A few minutes later the rabbits had crossed the cart track and vanished into the copse beyond.†
p. 118..9 (definition 2)
- I'd gone up for a few minutes to pass hraka.†
p. 151..9 (definition 2)
- Moving quietly in and out of the hedgerow up which Holly and Bluebell had come and passing, on their way, under the cables humming faintly in the darkness above, they took only a few minutes to reach the road.†
p. 199..8 (definition 2)
- They were still feeding in the field when it came on to rain, with a cold wind, and they took shelter first in the nearby ditch and then—since the ditch was on a slope and had a fair flow of rainwater in about ten minutes—among some sheds halfway down the lane.†
p. 206..1 (definition 2)
- Two minutes later the door hung sagging on the staple alone.†
p. 215..2 (definition 2)
- I'll tell you more about him in a minute.†
p. 233..9 (definition 2)
- A few minutes later, guided by Kehaar, he was running up the open pasture north of the river, straight for the brick arch in the overgrown railway embankment and the fields that lay beyond.†
p. 302..9 (definition 2)
- Along the western horizon the lower clouds formed a single purple mass, against which distant trees stood out minute and sharp.†
p. 353..4 (definition 2)
- They had floated not quite half a mile in just over fifteen minutes.†
p. 374..4 (definition 2)
- "Here, wait a minute," said Hazel, pushing past Pipkin and Hawkbit as they came across the grass.†
p. 411..6 (definition 2)
- In actual fact Dandelion covered three hundred yards to the cattle shed in a good deal less than half a minute.†
p. 445..1 (definition 2)
- "It'll be off in a minute.†
p. 445..5 (definition 2) *
- Twenty minutes later Lucy was holding the rabbit as quiet as she could while Doctor Adams pressed it gently here and there with the balls of two fingers.†
p. 458..7 (definition 2)
- It sat stupefied for nearly half a minute and then suddenly dashed away over the grass.†
p. 459..8 (definition 2)
- "Here, wait a minute," said Hazel, cuffing them off.†
p. 471..0 (definition 2)
- A few minutes later there was not a rabbit to be seen on the down.†
p. 471..8 (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.