All 20 Uses
minute
in
The Women of Brewster Place
(Edited)
- Now we need someone else to take the minutes.
p. 143.6minutes = formal notes
- I'll take the minutes for you.
p. 143.8 *
- But the glass splinters found some minute, untouched place—as they always did—and tore the heart and let the whistling in.
p. 149.9 *minute = small
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- Mattie and Butch walked in silence for the next five minutes.†
p. 12.9
- Bring a man clear out of his way to cut three times as much cane as he needed for hisself and then want to double-lime him back home before he gets a minute's rest or them wild herbs he really came all this way fo'.†
p. 15.4
- She remembered passing that old white woman just minutes before.†
p. 30.5
- Look, I'm only going out for a few minutes.†
p. 41.1
- The willow-green sundress, only ten minutes old on the short chestnut woman, clung to a body that had finished a close second in its race with time.†
p. 56.7
- "Lord," Mattie grumbled, "she ain't bigger than a minute, so it shouldn't take more than that to get ready."†
p. 62.2 *
- That would give her at least five minutes' grace to straighten up the apartment.†
p. 77.2
- It reached up and lined the inside of her nostrils so that she inhaled his presence almost every minute of her life.†
p. 92.4
- Each time she chided herself for this unreasonable foolishness, but within the next few minutes some strange force still drove her back.†
p. 96.4
- And how was she expected to keep on top of them every minute?†
p. 111.6
- Her attentions to the baby bought her a few more minutes of Cora Lee's time.†
p. 120.2
- Mattie and Kiswana spoke a few minutes about the new tenants' association getting the city to fence off the alley, and then the group moved on.†
p. 124.1
- Laughter and another series of monologues about Betina's bad-natured exit followed for the next five minutes.†
p. 143.7
- She refused to let the woman avoid her eyes, enjoying every minute of her cringing embarrassment.†
p. 157.4
- You won't last ten minutes there alone, so why don't you just sit down and stop it.†
p. 167.3
- And I never got a minute's sleep.†
p. 181.9
- Wait a minute.†
p. 187.5
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.