minute (English, noun)
Pronunciation: enpr: mĭn'ĭt
ipa: /ˈmɪnɪt/
rhymes: -ɪnɪt
Etymology: From Middle English mynute, minute, mynet, from Old French minute, from Medieval Latin minūta (“60th of an hour; note”). Doublet of menu and menudo.
Definitions: examples: text: You have twenty minutes to complete the test.
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glosses: A unit of time which is one sixtieth of an hour (sixty seconds).
examples: text: Wait a minute, I’m not ready yet!
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synonyms: instant
jiffy
mo
moment
sec
second
tic
moment
glosses: A short but unspecified time period.
tags: informal
examples: text: We need to be sure these maps are accurate to within one minute of arc.
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synonyms: minute of arc
sexagesm
glosses: A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
examples: text: Let’s look at the minutes of last week’s meeting.
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text: The Clerk or 'recording Clerk' drafts a minute and then, or at a later time, reads it to the Meeting. Subsequent contributions are on the wording of the minute only, until it can be accepted by the Meeting. Once the minute is accepted, the Meeting moves on to the next item on the agenda.
ref: 2008, Pink Dandelion, The Quakers: A Very Short Introduction, page 52:
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qualifier: minutes
glosses: A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
tags: in-plural
examples: text: If you buy this model, you’ll get 100 free minutes.
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glosses: A unit of purchase on a telephone or other similar network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent in gross form to sixty seconds' use of the network.
examples: text: Tell her, that I some Certainty may bring; / I go this minute to attend the king.
ref: 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe:
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synonyms: instant
moment
point in time
glosses: A point in time; a moment.
glosses: A nautical or a geographic mile.
glosses: An old coin, a half farthing.
examples: text: […]according to the Prophecies of him, which were so clear and descended to minutes and circumstances of his passion
ref: 1660, Jeremy Taylor, “Of the Probable or Thinking Conscience.”, in Ductor Dubitantium, or, The Rule of Conscience in all her Generall Measures Serving as a Great Instrument for the Determination of Cases of Conscience, volume 1:
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glosses: A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.
tags: obsolete
topics: architecture
glosses: A fixed part of a module.
examples: text: Oh, I ain't heard that song in a minute!
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text: “Man, I haven’t seen you in a minute,” he says, smiling still. “Maybe like two, three years ago?”
ref: 2010, Kenneth Ring, Letters from Palestine, page 18:
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text: I seen Too$hort up there. Me and $hort ain't talked in a minute.
ref: 2010 June 10, Lil B, Complex.com:
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text: RON:I remember my first. I was a minute younger than you. […]I remember thinking, saying to myself..."This is the first time I'm eating as a person who killed someone."
ref: 2016 November 8, Ben Katai, Josh Corbin, Sharon Lennon, directed by Ben Katai, StartUp(Recapitalization) (StartUp (TV series)), season 1, episode 10 (TV), spoken by Ronald Dacey (Edi Gathegi):
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synonyms: age
spell
eon
glosses: A while or a long unspecified period of time.
tags: Canada
US
dialectal
slang
Forms: form: minutes
tags: plural
Coordinate terms: millennium
century
decade
year
month
week
day
hour
moment
second
millisecond
microsecond
nanosecond
picosecond
femtosecond
attosecond
zeptosecond
yoctosecond
Derived terms: 15-minute city
15 minutes
15 minutes of fame
15 minutes of shame
any minute now
arcminute
a sucker is born every minute
at the last minute
at the minute
by the minute
California minute
fifteen minutes
fifteen minutes of fame
football minute
for a minute
forty minutes of hell
four-minute warning
hot minute
in a minute
just a minute
last-minute
last minute
laugh a minute
light minute
mad minute
Microsoft minute
mile-a-minute
mile a minute
minute bell
minute book
minute glass
minute gun
minute hand
minute-jack
minute man
minute-man
minute minder
minute pirate bug
minute pudding
minute repeater
minute steak
minute-to-minute
multiminute
New York minute
not a minute too soon
one-minute man
one minute man
one-minute stand
one-minute warning
red-hot minute
seven minutes in heaven
talk a mile a minute
there's a sucker born every minute
there's one born every minute
this minute
three-minute warning
to the minute
twenty-minute egg
two-minute hate
two-minute noodle
two-minute silence
two-minute warning
up-to-the-minute
wait a minute
yester-minute