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minute

/min-it/US // ˈmɪn ɪt //UK // (ˈmɪnɪt) //

分,分数,分分钟,分别

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds.
    • : an indefinitely short space of time: Wait a minute!
    • : an exact point in time; instant; moment: Come here this minute!
    • : minutes, the official record of the proceedings at a meeting of a society, committee, or other group.
    • : Chiefly British. a written summary, note, or memorandum.
    • : a rough draft, as of a document.
    • : Geometry. the sixtieth part of a degree of angular measure, often represented by the sign ′, as in 12° 10′, which is read as 12 degrees and 10 minutes.Compare angle.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    min·ut·ed, min·ut·ing.

    • : to time exactly, as movements or speed.
    • : to make a draft of.
    • : to record in a memorandum; note down.
    • : to enter in the minutes of a meeting.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : prepared in a very short time: minute pudding.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.very small
Forms: minutes
adj.unimportant
Forms: minutes
Antonyms
adj.exact, precise
Forms: minutes

Examples

  • The minute you start stimulating the brain, you are going to be changing people’s minds.

  • “I started learning patients’ minute-renewal schedules,” Winford said in an interview.

  • Its maximum print speed is 35 pages per minute and features auto-duplex printing and a color touchscreen display that will connect your scans to Google Drive, Dropbox, Facebook, OneDrive, and more.

  • One problem with Fake Famous is that, clocking in at under 90 minutes, it barely gives viewers a sense of what the subjects are like as people.

  • Regulators and politicians have questioned their growth and data collection, and their power over the most minute aspects of people’s lives.

  • Whatever happened overtook them both within a minute or so of that altitude change request, and they were never heard from again.

  • “The play contains one five minute scene about James Hewitt,” Conway says.

  • I did a ten minute scene in his class: the guy who had gangrene in his leg in The Snows of Kilimanjaro.

  • Could you talk a minute about the notion of being an unreliable narrator?

  • “The beginning of that piece is one minute of cellos and violas,” he says.

  • After a minute's pause, while he stood painfully silent, she resumed in great emotion.

  • I assure you, no matter how beautifully we play any piece, the minute Liszt plays it, you would scarcely recognize it!

  • By the time I had done my toilette there was a tap at the door, and in another minute I was in the salle--manger.

  • The remaining one struggled for another half-minute, and flared up in one last, desperate effort.

  • Words are often everywhere as the minute-hands of the soul, more important than even the hour-hands of action.