All 43 Uses
minute
in
The Hammer of Thor
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- "May I take the minutes?" asked a zombie.
p. 121.5minutes = formal notes (of a meeting)
- "I move that we read the minutes from the last meeting," said Arvid.
p. 122.1
- The more time they spent reading the minutes of past massacres, the less time they'd have for killing us in a future one.
p. 122.2 *
- Ah, actually, I don't have those minutes.
p. 122.4
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- Maybe you should rest for a minute, señor.†
p. 21.6
- You'll be within easy walking distance of the best shops and restaurants, and less than a minute from the Park Street T station!†
p. 30.3
- Even Helgi, who had looked so angry a few minutes ago, openly wept as he clapped for Alex Fierro.†
p. 88.7
- About five minutes later she came back, just in time to cut short Jack's rendition of "Hands to Myself."†
p. 92.3
- Personally, if I could shape-shift, I'd be turning into a polar bear, like, every two minutes and scaring the Saehrimnir out of people.†
p. 95.2
- Just need ...a minute.†
p. 140.7
- Can we unsheathe Skofnung again just for a minute?†
p. 147.6
- We've got about twenty minutes before the plane lands.†
p. 150.4
- Thirty-two minutes left in flight.†
p. 158.9
- "Officers," I said, "we've been walking for maybe five minutes.†
p. 170.1
- And I'd only been here for a minute.†
p. 186.7
- I bought a ten-minute break from the master.†
p. 195.7
- I wanted to ask how much it would cost to buy ten minutes of stomping Mr. Alderman with cleats, but I figured I shouldn't waste Inge's valuable time.†
p. 195.8
- The ten-minute cleat-stomping session was sounding better and better.†
p. 196.4
- A few minutes later, we found the river.†
p. 200.5
- Heck, I've only had it for a few minutes and it's already messing with my mind.†
p. 218.9
- Make it stop or we'll die of broken hearts in a matter of minutes!†
p. 230.9
- We'll rest here a minute.†
p. 235.7
- Sam looked at me like, Did I just imagine the last few minutes?†
p. 260.2
- Stanley will only stay summoned for a few minutes.†
p. 279.9
- Easy two-minute walk.†
p. 285.2
- We only have a minute or so.†
p. 318.6
- I decided there was no point overtaxing my brain in the last few minutes it might be on my neck.†
p. 338.7
- I say five minutes.†
p. 340.7
- As he steered us through the bar and out the front doors, I said, "Uh, what happens after five minutes?"†
p. 340.9
- Five minutes?†
p. 341.5
- Besides, our five minutes is up.†
p. 348.6
- I'm guessing they won't tell us where that is until the last minute to avoid an ambush or unwelcome tagalongs.†
p. 368.9
- YOU ONLY HAVE FIVE MINUTES.†
p. 381.9
- "Yeah," Marvin said, a little too loudly, "maybe Thor ...would be sad, because there's no way he could make it to Bridal Veil Falls with an assault team in only five minutes, since we just got this information now and are at a huge disadvantage.†
p. 382.6
- Five minutes isn't much time, even for Thor's chariot.†
p. 382.8
- "Well, it's been four minutes," Marvin said.†
p. 384.9
- How long had that tunnel entrance remained open after we passed through—a minute?†
p. 387.6
- Two minutes?†
p. 387.6
- A few minutes later the girls reappeared, a tail of toilet paper trailing from the hem of Alex's gown.†
p. 392.6 *
- After a few more minutes, the tunnel began to narrow.†
p. 402.1
- You only have a few minutes!†
p. 418.1
- Being an einherji, I figured I had a minute or so before the heat killed me.†
p. 419.5
- Now, after we'd been talking for a few minutes, she definitely seemed like a she.†
p. 448.9
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.