minute
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English mynute, minute, mynet, from Old French minute, from Medieval Latin minūta (“60th of an hour; note”). Doublet of menu and menudo.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]minute (plural minutes)
- A unit of time which is one sixtieth of an hour (sixty seconds).
- You have twenty minutes to complete the test.
- (informal) A short but unspecified time period.
- A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
- Synonyms: minute of arc, sexagesm
- We need to be sure these maps are accurate to within one minute of arc.
- (chiefly in the plural, minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
- Let’s look at the minutes of last week’s meeting.
- 2008, Pink Dandelion, The Quakers: A Very Short Introduction, page 52:
- 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.
- 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.
- If you buy this model, you’ll get 100 free minutes.
- A point in time; a moment.
- 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe:
- Tell her, that I some Certainty may bring; / I go this minute to attend the king.
- 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.
- 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[1], volume 1:
- […] according to the Prophecies of him, which were so clear and descended to minutes and circumstances of his passion
- (architecture) A fixed part of a module.
- (slang, US, Canada, dialectal) A while or a long unspecified period of time
- Oh, I ain't heard that song in a minute!
- 2010, Kenneth Ring, Letters from Palestine, page 18:
- “Man, I haven’t seen you in a minute,” he says, smiling still. “Maybe like two, three years ago?”
- 2016 November 8, Ben Katai, Josh Corbin, Sharon Lennon, directed by Ben Katai, StartUp(Recapitalization) (StartUp (TV series))[3], season 1, episode 10 (TV), spoken by Ronald Dacey (Edi Gathegi):
- 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."
Derived terms
[edit]- 15-minute city
- 15 minutes
- 15 minutes of fame
- 15 minutes of shame
- any minute now
- arcminute
- at the last minute
- at the minute
- by the minute
- California minute
- fifteen minutes
- fifteen minutes of fame
- five-minute
- football minute
- for a minute
- forty minutes of hell
- four-minute
- 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
- New York minute
- not a minute too soon
- one-minute
- one-minute man
- one minute man
- one-minute stand
- one-minute warning
- red-hot minute
- seven minutes in heaven
- six-minute
- talk a mile a minute
- there's a sucker born every minute
- there's one born every minute
- this minute
- three-minute
- three-minute warning
- to the minute
- twenty-minute egg
- two-minute
- two-minute hate
- two-minute silence
- two-minute warning
- up-to-the-minute
- wait a minute
- yester-minute
Descendants
[edit]- Tok Pisin: minit
Borrowings
- → Baluchi: منٹ (minaṭṭ)
- → Bengali: মিনিট (miniṭ)
- → Burmese: မိနစ် (mi.nac)
- → Central Dusun: minit
- → Chichewa: miniti
- → Fiji Hindi: minit
- → Fijian: miniti
- → Gujarati: મિનિટ (miniṭ)
- → Hausa: minti
- → Hindi: मिनट (minaṭ)
- → Indonesian: menit
- → Malay: minit
- → Malayalam: മിനിറ്റ് (miniṟṟŭ)
- → Maori: miniti
- → Marathi: मिनिट (miniṭ)
- → Nepali: मिनेट (mineṭ)
- → Odia: ମିନଟ (minaṭa)
- → Pashto: منټ (minëṭ)
- → Punjabi: ਮਿਨਟ (minaṭ)
- → Sinhalese: මිනිත්තුව (minittuwa)
- → Urdu: مِنَٹ (minaṭ)
Translations
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Verb
[edit]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.
- I’ll minute this evening’s meeting.
- 1870 [1855 June 27], Charles Dickens, “Administrative Reform”, in Speeches Literary and Social[4], page 133:
- I dare say there was a vast amount of minuting, memoranduming, and despatch-boxing, on this mighty subject.
- 1995, Edmund Dell, The Schuman Plan and the British Abdication of Leadership in Europe[5]:
- On 17 November 1949 Jay minuted Cripps, arguing that trade liberalization on inessentials was socially regressive.
- 1996, Peter Hinchliffe, The Other Battle[6]:
- 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.’
- 2003, David Roberts, Four Against the Arctic[7]:
- 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.
- To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.
- 1876 [1834], George Bancroft, History of the United States from the discovery of the American continent[8], volume VI, pages 28–29:
- The Empress of Russia, with her own hand, minuted an edict for universal tolerance.
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Etymology 2
[edit]Borrowed from Latin minūtus (“small", "petty”), perfect passive participle of minuō (“make smaller”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) enPR: mīnyo͞ot', IPA(key): /maɪˈnjuːt/
- (US) enPR: mīn(y)o͞ot', mən(y)o͞ot', IPA(key): /maɪˈn(j)ut/, /məˈn(j)ut/
- (Canada) IPA(key): /maɪˈn(j)uːt/, /mʌɪ-/, [məɪ̯-]
- (Wales, Ottawa Valley) IPA(key): /maɪˈnɪu̯t/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -uːt
Adjective
[edit]minute (comparative minuter or more minute, superlative minutest or most minute)
- Very small.
- Synonyms: infinitesimal, insignificant, minuscule, tiny, trace; see also Thesaurus:tiny
- Antonyms: big, enormous, colossal, huge, significant, tremendous, vast
- They found only minute quantities of chemical residue on his clothing.
- Very careful and exact, giving small details.
- Synonyms: exact, exacting, excruciating, precise, scrupulous; see also Thesaurus:meticulous
- The lawyer gave the witness a minute examination.
- 2013 July-August, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist:
- 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.
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Anagrams
[edit]Afrikaans
[edit]Noun
[edit]minute
Esperanto
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]minute
- Lasting for a very short period; briefly, momentarily
- 1929, L. L. Zamenhof, edited by Johannes Dietterle, Originala Verkaro [Original Oeuvre]:
- [...] kaj de nun ni pri ĉiuj minute kreskantaj projektoj absolute silentados.
- and from now on we will be completely silent about all the briefly growing projects.
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French minute, borrowed from Latin minūta. Compare menu, an inherited doublet.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]minute f (plural minutes)
- minute (etymology 1, time unit, all same senses)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Interjection
[edit]minute
- wait a sec!
Verb
[edit]minute
- inflection of minuter:
Further reading
[edit]- “minute”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]minute
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /miˈnuː.te/, [mɪˈnuːt̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /miˈnu.te/, [miˈnuːt̪e]
Participle
[edit]minūte
References
[edit]- "minute", in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "minute", in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- minute in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]minute
- Alternative form of mynute
Old French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Medieval Latin minūta.
Noun
[edit]minute oblique singular, f (oblique plural minutes, nominative singular minute, nominative plural minutes)
Descendants
[edit]- Middle French: minute
- Norman: minnute
- Walloon: munute
- → Central Franconian: Menutt, Minutt
- → German: Minute, Minut
- → Lower Sorbian: minuta
- → Luxembourgish: Minutt
- → Middle English: mynute, minute, mynut, mynet, minut
Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: mi‧nu‧te
Verb
[edit]minute
- inflection of minutar:
Romanian
[edit]Noun
[edit]minute
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- en:Time
- en:Units of measure
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- Rhymes:Esperanto/ute
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