minute
What is the Definition of minute?
Noun:
- a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour
- an indefinitely short time
- a particular point in time
- a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree
- a short note
- distance measured by the time taken to cover it
Adjective:
How can I use minute in a sentence?
For a full minute the three of them stood and looked at the little bundle; Hagrid's shoulders shook, Professor McGonagall blinked furiously, and the twinkling light that usually shone from Dumbledore's eyes seemed to have gone out.
After a minute's weaving about through the whirl of rainbow feathers, he noticed a large silver key that had a bent wing, as if it had already been caught and stuffed roughly into the keyhole.
After a minute of confused fighting, in which everyone got hit a lot by the Smelting stick, Uncle Vernon straightened up, gasping for breath, with Harry's letter clutched in his hand.
He did not know how he would have gotten through all his homework without her, what with all the last-minute Quidditch practice Wood was making them do.
Finnigan, Seamus, the sandy-haired boy next to Harry in the line, sat on the stool for almost a whole minute before the hat declared him a Gryffindor.
Other meanings of minute (synonyms, cognates).
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