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Webster's 1828 DictionaryMINU'TE, a. [L. minutus.] WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)adj Merriam Webster's
Oxford Reference Dictionary1. n. & v. --n. 1 the sixtieth part of an hour. 2 a distance covered in one minute (twenty minutes from the station). 3 a a moment; an instant; a point of time (expecting her any minute; the train leaves in a minute). b (prec. by the) colloq. the present time (what are you doing at the minute?). c (foll. by clause) as soon as (call me the minute you get back). 4 the sixtieth part of an angular degree. 5 (in pl.) a brief summary of the proceedings at a meeting. 6 an official memorandum authorizing or recommending a course of action. --v.tr. 1 record (proceedings) in the minutes. 2 send the minutes to (a person). Phrases and idioms: just (or wait) a minute 1 a request to wait for a short time. 2 as a prelude to a query or objection. minute-gun a gun fired at intervals of a minute at funerals etc. minute hand the hand on a watch or clock which indicates minutes. minute steak a thin slice of steak to be cooked quickly. up to the minute completely up to date. Etymology: ME f. OF f. LL minuta (n.), f. fem. of minutus MINUTE(2): senses 1 & 4 of noun f. med.L pars minuta prima first minute part (cf. SECOND(2)): senses 5 & 6 perh. f. med.L minuta scriptura draft in small writing 2. adj. (minutest) 1 very small. 2 trifling, petty. 3 (of an inquiry, inquirer, etc.) accurate, detailed, precise. Derivatives: minutely adv. minuteness n. Etymology: ME f. L minutus past part. of minuere lessen Webster's 1913 DictionaryMinute Mi*nute", a. [L. minutus, p. p. of minuere to lessen. See Minish, Minor, and cf. Menu, Minuet.] 1. Very small; little; tiny; fine; slight; slender; inconsiderable. ``Minute drops.'' --Milton. 2. Attentive to small things; paying attention to details; critical; particular; precise; as, a minute observer; minute observation. Syn: Little; diminutive; fine; critical; exact; circumstantial; particular; detailed. Usage: Minute, Circumstantial, Particular. A circumstantial account embraces all the leading events; a particular account includes each event and movement, though of but little importance; a minute account goes further still, and omits nothing as to person, time, place, adjuncts, etc. Webster's 1913 DictionaryMinute Min"ute, a. Of or pertaining to a minute or minutes; occurring at or marking successive minutes. Minute bell, a bell tolled at intervals of a minute, as to give notice of a death or a funeral. Minute book, a book in which written minutes are entered. Minute glass, a glass measuring a minute or minutes by the running of sand. Minute gun, a discharge of a cannon repeated every minute as a sign of distress or mourning. Minute hand, the long hand of a watch or clock, which makes the circuit of the dial in an hour, and marks the minutes. Webster's 1913 DictionaryMinute Min"ute (?; 277), n. [LL. minuta a small portion, small coin, fr. L. minutus small: cf. F. minute. See 4th Minute.] 1. The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m.; as, 4 h. 30 m.) Four minutes, that is to say, minutes of an hour. --Chaucer. 2. The sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds (Marked thus ('); as, 10[deg] 20'). 3. A nautical or a geographic mile. 4. A coin; a half farthing. [Obs.] --Wyclif (Mark xii. 42) 5. A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a tittle. [Obs.] Minutes and circumstances of his passion. --Jer. Taylor. 6. A point of time; a moment. I go this minute to attend the king. --Dryden. 7. The memorandum; a record; a note to preserve the memory of anything; as, to take minutes of a contract; to take minutes of a conversation or debate. 8. (Arch.) A fixed part of a module. See Module. Note: Different writers take as the minute one twelfth, one eighteenth, one thirtieth, or one sixtieth part of the module. Webster's 1913 DictionaryMinute Min"ute, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Minuted; p. pr. & vb. n. Minuting.] To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of. The Empress of Russia, with her own hand, minuted an edict for universal tolerance. --Bancroft. Collin's Cobuild DictionaryI. NOUN AND VERB USES (minutes, minuting, minuted) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. A minute is one of the sixty parts that an hour is divided into. People often say 'a minute' or 'minutes' when they mean a short length of time. The pizza will then take about twenty minutes to cook... Bye Mum, see you in a minute... Within minutes we realized our mistake. N-COUNT: oft num N 2. The minutes of a meeting are the written records of the things that are discussed or decided at it. He'd been reading the minutes of the last meeting. N-PLURAL: oft N of n 3. When someone minutes something that is discussed or decided at a meeting, they make a written record of it. You don't need to minute that. VERB: V n 4. see also up-to-the-minute 5. People often use expressions such as wait a minute or just a minute when they want to stop you doing or saying something. Wait a minute, folks, something is wrong here... Hey, just a minute! = hang on CONVENTION 6. If you say that something will or may happen at any minute or any minute now, you are emphasizing that it is likely to happen very soon. It looked as though it might rain at any minute... Any minute now, that phone is going to ring. PHRASE [emphasis] 7. If you say that you do not believe for a minute or for one minute that something is true, you are emphasizing that you do not believe that it is true. I don't believe for one minute she would have been scared... = for a moment PHRASE: with brd-neg, PHR with v [emphasis] 8. A last-minute action is one that is done at the latest time possible. She was doing some last-minute revision for her exams... He will probably wait until the last minute. PHRASE: PHR n, prep PHR 9. You use the expression the next minute or expressions such as 'one minute he was there, the next he was gone' to emphasize that something happens suddenly. The next minute my father came in... Jobs are there one minute, gone the next. = the next moment PHRASE [emphasis] 10. If you say that something happens the minute something else happens, you are emphasizing that it happens immediately after the other thing. The minute you do this, you'll lose control... PHRASE: PHR that [emphasis] 11. If you say that something must be done this minute, you are emphasizing that it must be done immediately. Anna, stop that. Sit down this minute. = now, immediately PHRASE [emphasis] II. ADJECTIVE USE (minutest) If you say that something is minute, you mean that it is very small. Only a minute amount is needed... The party was planned in the minutest detail. = tiny ADJ Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms
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