minute

Plural: minutes

Noun

• a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour
  • "he ran a 4 minute mile"
• an indefinitely short time
  • "it only takes a minute"
• a particular point in time
• a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree
• a short note
  • "the secretary keeps the minutes of the meeting"
• distance measured by the time taken to cover it
  • "its just 10 minutes away"
• A unit of time which is one sixtieth of an hour (sixty seconds).
• A short but unspecified time period.
• A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
• A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
• 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.
• A point in time; a moment.
• A nautical or a geographic mile.
• An old coin, a half farthing.
• A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.
• A fixed part of a module.
• A while or a long unspecified period of time.

Adjective Satellite

• infinitely or immeasurably small
  • "two minute whiplike threads of protoplasm"
• characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination
  • "a minute inspection of the grounds"
  • "an exact and minute report"

Verb

Verb Forms: minuted, minuting, minutes

• To make a brief note or official record of something.
• Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.
• To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.

Adj

• Very small.
• Very careful and exact, giving small details.

Adjective

• Extremely small in size, amount, or degree; tiny.

Examples

• give me a minute
• He noticed a MINUTE error in his opponent’s Scrabble play, allowing him to challenge.
• If you buy this model, you’ll get 100 free minutes.
• I’ll minute this evening’s meeting.
• Let’s look at the minutes of last week’s meeting.
• Oh, I ain't heard that song in a minute!
• The lawyer gave the witness a minute examination.
• The referee had to MINUTE down every challenge to ensure fair play.
• They found only minute quantities of chemical residue on his clothing.
• Wait a minute, I’m not ready yet!
• We need to be sure these maps are accurate to within one minute of arc.
• You have twenty minutes to complete the test.

Synonyms

arcminute, bit, hour, infinitesimal, instant, min, minute of arc, mo, moment, narrow, second, New York minute, New York second, accurate, aeon, age, ages, bat of an eye, blink of an eye, blue moon, careful, comprehensive, conscientious, coon's age, crack, crow's age, dog's age, donkey's years, eld, eon, eternity, exact, exacting, excruciating, exhaustive, eyeblink, fastidious, flash, forever, forever and a day, glimpse, groundly, half a mo, in-depth, insignificant, intensive, interim, interlude, interval, jiff, jiffy, jot, juncture, letter-perfect, lifetime, long haul, long run, meantime, mindful, minuscule, minute, month of Sundays, no time, occasion, painstaking, particular, point in time, polished, precise, punctilious, rigorous, root and branch, scrupulous, scrutinous, sec, sedulous, sexagesm, sith, span, spell, split-second, spurt, stound, strict, thorough, tic, tick, tight, time, tiny, trace, trice, twink, twinkle, twinkling, while, years, yonks

Antonyms

big, colossal, enormous, huge, significant, tremendous, vast

Related Words

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