minute
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
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.
Inflected forms:
form: minutes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: minutes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: minuting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: minuted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: minuted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: minuter
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more minute
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: minutest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most minute
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A unit of time which is one sixtieth of an hour (sixty seconds).
pos: noun
examples: 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
Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond < microsecond < millisecond < centisecond < decisecond < second < decasecond
You have twenty minutes to complete the test.
Total activity levels in the lowest quartile were equivalent to walking for 49 minutes at roughly 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) per hour daily. Total activity levels in the second-, third- and fourth-highest quartiles were equivalent to 78, 105 and 160 minutes, respectively.
gloss: A short but unspecified time period.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: give me a minute
Wait a minute, I’m not ready yet!
gloss: A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
pos: noun
examples: We need to be sure these maps are accurate to within one minute of arc.
gloss: A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: Let’s look at the minutes of last week’s meeting.
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.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: If you buy this model, you’ll get 100 free minutes.
gloss: A point in time; a moment.
pos: noun
examples: I conked out the minute I got home.
Tell her, that I some Certainty may bring; / I go this minute to attend the king.
gloss: A nautical or a geographic mile.
pos: noun
gloss: An old coin, a half farthing.
pos: noun
gloss: A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: […]according to the Prophecies of him, which were so clear and descended to minutes and circumstances of his passion
gloss: A fixed part of a module.
pos: noun
gloss: A while or a long unspecified period of time.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
dialectal
slang
examples: Oh, I ain't heard that song in a minute!
“Man, I haven’t seen you in a minute,” he says, smiling still. “Maybe like two, three years ago?”
I seen Too$hort up there. Me and $hort ain't talked in a minute.
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."
gloss: The distance that can be traveled in a minute.
pos: noun
gloss: Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I’ll minute this evening’s meeting.
I dare say there was a vast amount of minuting, memoranduming, and despatch-boxing, on this mighty subject.
On 17 November 1949 Jay minuted Cripps, arguing that trade liberalization on inessentials was socially regressive.
The Commander-in-Chief of Bomber Command, Sir Richard Peirse, was sceptical of its findings, minuting, ‘I don’t think at this rate we could have hoped to produce the damage which is known to have been achieved.’
Mr. Klingstadt, chief Auditor of the Admiralty of that city, sent for and examined them very particularly concerning the events which had befallen them; minuting down their answers in writing, with an intention of publishing himself an account of their extraordinary adventures.
gloss: To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.
pos: verb
examples: The Empress of Russia, with her own hand, minuted an edict for universal tolerance.
gloss: Very small.
pos: adj
examples: They found only minute quantities of chemical residue on his clothing.
gloss: Very careful and exact, giving small details.
pos: adj
examples: The lawyer gave the witness a minute examination.
The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.
Derived words: 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
unminuted
minutely
minuteness
overminute
ultraminute
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: րոպե
roman: rope
lang: Catalan
word: minut
lang: Czech
word: minuta
lang: Estonian
word: minut
lang: Finnish
word: minuutti
lang: Greek
word: λεπτό
roman: leptó
lang: Hungarian
word: perc
lang: Macedonian
word: минута
roman: minuta
lang: Malay
word: minit
lang: Polish
word: minuta
lang: Portuguese
word: minuto
lang: Romanian
word: minut
lang: Russian
word: мину́та
roman: minúta
lang: Scots
word: meenit
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: mionaid
lang: Spanish
word: minuto
lang: Swahili
word: dakika
lang: Swedish
word: minut
lang: Turkish
word: dakika