All 46 Uses of
minute
in
Dark Witch
- But I shouldn't have announced it like the minutes of the next meeting.
p. 224.1 *minutes = formal notes (from a meeting)
- If we took minutes.
p. 224.1
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- I thought he was a bear for a minute when he came bursting through the woods.†
p. 44.1
- The castle's just awesome, and I'm going to enjoy every minute I'm here, but I'm already looking forward to moving in with Branna—and Connor.†
p. 52.9
- Within twenty minutes, with the lights on, the tea tray still on the bed beside her, she'd dropped back into sleep.†
p. 53.8
- The minute she turned into the clearing, saw the building, the nerves dropped away.†
p. 67.1
- Be sure you will if you're here above five minutes.†
p. 69.3
- It would only take a minute, just to look.†
p. 86.7
- In fact, I had a couple minutes of ...†
p. 88.5
- Wait a minute.†
p. 89.6
- I'll be five minutes," she said.†
p. 94.4
- A half dozen patrons hailed Connor the minute he stepped in the door.†
p. 97.6
- Iona calculated she met more people in ten minutes within feet of the bar than she normally did in a month.†
p. 98.1
- Better you ring Branna, but I'm just minutes away if it comes to that.†
p. 111.7
- They asked for ninety minutes, so you'll see more than yesterday.†
p. 113.6
- The first minute I saw him, I just ...whew.†
p. 114.3
- It'll only sting for a minute.†
p. 120.9
- We've a new student due in a few minutes.†
p. 137.7
- It's thirty minutes today, the lesson.†
p. 138.0
- The minute they were inside, Iona's teeth began to chatter.†
p. 147.2
- Give her a few minutes to settle into it, but don't gorge on the biscuits.†
p. 162.4
- Even without any magick to it, the horse was hers the minute they set eyes on each other.†
p. 170.2
- Five minutes, five years—how does that change what you know?†
p. 178.7
- Breathe a minute.†
p. 193.2
- Go sit on the bench there for a minute or two.†
p. 194.3
- One minute we're riding along, easy as you please, and I'm thinking, well then, we'll have dinner and see how that goes.†
p. 197.6
- I forgot about all that for a minute.†
p. 203.6
- If Iona didn't walk in the door within another ten minutes, she'd— "At last," she muttered when she heard the front door open.†
p. 204.2
- Striding out, half a lecture already in mind, she stopped both her forward progress and her nagging words the minute she saw both of them.†
p. 204.3
- I don't think it was more than a couple minutes.†
p. 205.7
- It's early, and she'll be less cranky with another fifteen minutes' sleep.†
p. 230.8
- Let's backtrack a minute.†
p. 242.0
- I knew the minute I saw him.†
p. 243.2
- I'm telling you, she's pushed herself into my mind, my life, my bed so I've barely a minute to myself.†
p. 250.2 *
- Well now, here's a mood that's come on in under twenty minutes.†
p. 253.1
- Like the world was going to end any minute and you had to have each other first.†
p. 260.1
- Well now, wait a minute there, we need to talk about—†
p. 267.3
- I mean right this minute.†
p. 274.6
- No, not this minute.†
p. 276.3
- Will they get me in the door, for a minute or two?†
p. 284.0
- Likely not, no. I wonder if you have a minute to take a look at our Spud.†
p. 294.8
- Timed this first part, for thirty minutes.†
p. 299.3
- Can I talk to you a minute?†
p. 317.2
- He would take each minute, make it precious.†
p. 318.8
- She found herself clutching at the bed covers one minute, going limp as water the next.†
p. 319.9
- It was yes the minute you asked.†
p. 341.2
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.