All 50 Uses of
minute
in
The Help
- I hope you don't mind, I had to check something in the minutes from the meeting.
Chpt 13minutes = formal notes
- In your satchel when I was hunting for the minutes?
Chpt 15 *
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- Bounced her on my hip to get the gas moving and it didn't take two minutes fore Baby Girl stopped her crying, got to smiling up at me like she do.†
Chpt 1
- I stand around the kitchen a minute but I ain't got nothing left to do in there.†
Chpt 1
- I wait a few minutes, wipe a counter.†
Chpt 1
- Whenever he here, he look like he just counting the minutes till he get to go back to his accounting job.†
Chpt 2
- Everthing get real quiet for a minute.†
Chpt 2
- He stand there a minute, look down at his feet.†
Chpt 2
- He look up and I look at him and for a minute we just be looking.†
Chpt 2
- After the town got word of Miss Hilly's lies, three ladies in a row hung up on me the minute I said my name.†
Chpt 3
- I shake my head, not believing I'm already arguing with this lady and I haven't worked here two minutes.†
Chpt 3
- That White Lady smiled at me, and five minutes later, I was out on the street.†
Chpt 3
- I don't know what she does for five minutes on the second floor.†
Chpt 4
- "No, I think I'll go rest awhile," she says and two minutes later I hear her creeping around upstairs in the empty bedrooms.†
Chpt 4
- Ninety-four more days of this mess and I don't know how I can take a minute more.†
Chpt 4
- After a minute, I see myself in the mirror over the sink.†
Chpt 4
- Even though it's only five minutes outside of town, most people consider this the country out here.†
Chpt 5
- After twenty minutes of walking slow, we'd pass the colored five-and-dime store, then a grocer with hens laying in back, and all along the way, dozens of shacky-looking roadside houses with tin roofs and slanting porches, along with a yellow one that everybody said sold whiskey from the back door.†
Chpt 5
- Bags of sassafras and licorice root and birdeye vine sat open for bargaining, and by the time we poked around those a minute, Constantine's whole body'd be rambling and loose in the joints.†
Chpt 5
- The minute she saw me, she smiled.†
Chpt 5
- I sat in his lap from the minute he got there until he had to leave and Mama'd play Bessie Smith on the Victrola he brung her and he and me'd sing: It's mighty strange, without a doubt Nobody knows you when you're down and out I listened wide-eyed, stupid.†
Chpt 5
- And only for a few minutes.†
Chpt 6
- WHEN I WALK IN THE HOUSE ten minutes later, Mother is reading at the dining room table.†
Chpt 6
- It's behind me now and I just won't think about it another minute.†
Chpt 6
- It's not long before I am ahead of copy and Mister Golden seems pleased with the column, the first two of which only took me about twenty minutes to write.†
Chpt 6
- Turn that set off right this minute!†
Chpt 6
- I'll be back in thirty minutes.†
Chpt 7
- I stand there a minute, watching her stir the iced tea, feeling the discomfort in her posture, her dread that I might be about to ask for her help on the book again.†
Chpt 8
- Ten minutes?†
Chpt 8
- I motion her to the kitchen, but another ten minutes pass until she comes in.†
Chpt 9
- He's going to be at Hilly's in thirty minutes.†
Chpt 9
- At three minutes to six, after doing twenty in a fifty with horns honking and teenagers hollering at me, I park down the street from Hilly's house since Hilly's cul-de-sac doesn't provide adequate parking for farm equipment.†
Chpt 9
- He stands up, and for a minute my head is perfectly quiet inside.†
Chpt 9
- The car ride, all three minutes of it, is impossibly silent.†
Chpt 9
- I thought I'd made it obvious when I stayed in the bathroom for ten minutes.†
Chpt 9
- Twice in a minute she's managed to irritate me.†
Chpt 10
- There's a bigger reason why Miss Celia doesn't have any friends and I knew it the minute I saw that picture of Mister Johnny.†
Chpt 10
- In half a minute I'm sweating.†
Chpt 10
- I've spent half my life trying not to sweat so much: Dainty Lady sweat cream, frozen potatoes in my pockets, ice pack tied to my head (I actually paid a doctor for that fool advice), and I still soak my sweat pads through in five minutes.†
Chpt 10
- She spends about seven or eight minutes up there and then pokes her little head around to make sure I don't see her come down again.†
Chpt 10
- I give one last look around, wishing I wasn't ten minutes early.†
Chpt 11
- A few minutes later, Aibileen comes back with a tray holding a teapot and two cups that don't match, paper napkins folded into triangles.†
Chpt 11
- Five minutes pass.†
Chpt 11
- There's still a hole where the ceiling fan hung for ten minutes.†
Chpt 12
- Medgar Evers, the NAACP officer who live five minutes away, they blew up his carport last night.†
Chpt 12
- "Just give me a minute," I holler out to him.†
Chpt 13
- After several minutes, I make myself stop.†
Chpt 13
- But then I realize, like a shell cracking open in my head, there's no difference between these government laws and Hilly building Aibileen a bathroom in the garage, except ten minutes' worth of signatures in the state capital.†
Chpt 13
- I have a League meeting in thirty minutes.†
Chpt 13
- Hilly gives the five-minute-till bang with her gavel.†
Chpt 13
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) 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.