minute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mĭn'ĭt
ipa: /ˈmɪnɪt/
rhymes: -ɪnɪt
Forms: form: minutes
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.
Senses: examples: text: Holonyms: hectosecond < kilosecond < hour < day < week < megasecond < fortnight < month < year < gigasecond < century < kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, megayear < petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond < zettasecond < yottasecond < ronnasecond < quettasecond
text: Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond < microsecond < millisecond < centisecond < decisecond < second < decasecond
text: You have twenty minutes to complete the test.
related: word: mul:min
word: ;
word: mul:m
word: mul:M
glosses: A unit of time which is one sixtieth of an hour (sixty seconds).
examples: text: give me a minute
text: Wait a minute, I’m not ready yet!
synonyms: word: instant
word: jiffy
word: mo
word: moment
word: sec
word: second
word: tic
word: bat of an eye
word: bit
word: blink of an eye
word: crack
word: eyeblink
word: flash
word: glimpse
word: half a mo
word: instant
word: jiff
word: jiffy
word: jot
word: minute
word: mo
word: moment
word: New York minute
word: New York second
word: no time
word: sec
word: second
word: span
word: split-second
word: spurt
word: stound
word: tick
word: trice
word: twink
word: twinkle
word: twinkling
word: while
glosses: A short but unspecified time period.
examples: text: We need to be sure these maps are accurate to within one minute of arc.
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.
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:
qualifier: minutes
glosses: A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
examples: text: If you buy this model, you’ll get 100 free minutes.
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:
synonyms: word: instant
word: moment
word: instant
word: juncture
word: minute
word: moment
word: occasion
word: point in time
word: sith
word: 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:
glosses: A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.
topics: architecture
glosses: A fixed part of a module.
examples: text: Oh, I ain't heard that song in a minute!
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:
text: I seen Too$hort up there. Me and $hort ain't talked in a minute.
ref: 2010 June 10, Lil B, Complex.com:
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):
synonyms: word: age
word: spell
word: aeon
word: age
word: ages
word: blue moon
word: coon's age
word: crow's age
word: dog's age
word: donkey's years
word: eld
word: eon
word: eternity
word: forever
word: forever and a day
word: interim
word: interlude
word: interval
word: lifetime
word: long haul
word: long run
word: meantime
word: minute
word: month of Sundays
word: spell
word: while
word: years
word: yonks
glosses: A while or a long unspecified period of time.
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
five-minute hypothesis
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
man-minute
Microsoft minute
mile-a-minute
mile a minute
minutage
minutary
minute bell
minute book
minuteful
minute glass
minute gun
minute hand
minute-jack
minute man
minute-man
minute minder
minute pirate bug
minute pudding
minute repeater
minuteslong
minute steak
minutesworth
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
wait a minute
yester-minute