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minute
Characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination
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adjective
Characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination
“A minute inspection of the grounds”
adjective
Infinitely or immeasurably small
“Two minute whiplike threads of protoplasm”
noun
Distance measured by the time taken to cover it
“We live an hour from the airport”
noun
A short note
“The secretary keeps the minutes of the meeting”
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
“He ran a 4 minute mile”
noun
A particular point in time
“The moment he arrived the party began”
noun
An indefinitely short time
“Wait just a moment”
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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
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