MINUTE

minute, narrow

(adjective) characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination; “a minute inspection of the grounds”; “a narrow scrutiny”; “an exact and minute report”

infinitesimal, minute

(adjective) infinitely or immeasurably small; “two minute whiplike threads of protoplasm”; “reduced to a microscopic scale”

hour, minute

(noun) distance measured by the time taken to cover it; “we live an hour from the airport”; “its just 10 minutes away”

minute

(noun) a short note; “the secretary keeps the minutes of the meeting”

minute, arcminute, minute of arc

(noun) a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree

minute, min

(noun) a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour; “he ran a 4 minute mile”

moment, minute, second, instant

(noun) a particular point in time; “the moment he arrived the party began”

moment, mo, minute, second, bit

(noun) an indefinitely short time; “wait just a moment”; “in a mo”; “it only takes a minute”; “in just a bit”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

minute (plural minutes)

A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour).

(informal) A short but unspecified time period.

Synonyms: instant, jiffy, mo, moment, sec, second, tic

A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.

Synonym: minute of arc

(chiefly in the plural, minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.

A unit of purchase on a telephone or other 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.

(obsolete) A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.

(architecture) A fixed part of a module.

(slang, US, Canada, dialectal) A while or a long unspecified period of time

Verb

minute (third-person singular simple present minutes, present participle minuting, simple past and past participle minuted)

(transitive) 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.

Etymology 2

Adjective

minute (comparative minuter, superlative minutest)

Very small.

Synonyms: infinitesimal, insignificant, minuscule, tiny, trace

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

Very careful and exact, giving small details.

Synonyms: exact, exacting, excruciating, precise, scrupulous

Anagrams

• minuet, munite, mutein, mutine, untime

Source: Wiktionary

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Min"ute, n. Etym: [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, 10º 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.)

Definition: 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.

Min"ute, a.

Definition: 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.

Min"ute, v. t. Etym: [imp. & p. p. Minuted; p. pr. & vb. n. Minuting.]

Definition: 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.

Mi*nute", a. Etym: [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.

– 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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