English dictionary
minute
adjectivePronunciation
maɪˈnjuːt
Audio pronunciation
Parts of speech
Definitions
adjective
- characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination
adjective
- infinitely or immeasurably small
noun
- distance measured by the time taken to cover it
noun
- a short note
noun
- a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree
noun
- a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour
noun
- a particular point in time
noun
- an indefinitely short time
Example sentences
a minute inspection of the grounds
a narrow scrutiny
an exact and minute report
two minute whiplike threads of protoplasm
reduced to a minute scale
we live an hour from the airport
it's just 10 minutes away
the secretary keeps the minutes of the meeting
he ran a 4 minute mile
the moment he arrived the party began
wait just a moment
in a mo
it only takes a minute
in just a bit