Craftsmen can paint whole villages or detailed portraits of people on a grain of rice using minute, or tiny, paintbrushes. Often the works of art are so minute that you can only see them with a magnifying glass.
The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m.;
Noun
distance measured by the time taken to cover it; "we live an hour from the airport"; "its just 10 minutes away"
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"; "it only takes a minute"; "in just a bit"
Adjective S.
characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination; "a minute inspection of the grounds"; "a narrow scrutiny"; "an exact and minute report"
Adjective S.
infinitely or immeasurably small; "two minute whiplike threads of protoplasm"; "reduced to a microscopic scale"
Adjective S.
immeasurably small
n.
The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m.;
as, 4 h. 30 m.)
n.
The sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds (Marked thus
('); as, 10¡ 20').
n.
A nautical or a geographic mile.
n.
A coin; a half farthing.
n.
A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a
jot; a tittle.
n.
A point of time; a moment.
n.
The memorandum; a record; a note to preserve the memory of
anything; as, to take minutes of a contract; to take minutes of a
conversation or debate.
n.
A fixed part of a module. See Module.
a.
Of or pertaining to a minute or minutes; occurring at or
marking successive minutes.
p. pr. & vb. n.
To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot
down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.
a.
Very small; little; tiny; fine; slight; slender;
inconsiderable.
a.
Attentive to small things; paying attention to details;
critical; particular; precise; as, a minute observer; minute
observation.
Minute
Four minutes, that is to say, minutes of an hour.2.
Minutes and circumstances of his passion.6.
I go this minute to attend the king.7.
Minute
Minute
The Empress of Russia, with her own hand, minuted an edict for universal tolerance.
Minute
The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m.;
Of or pertaining to a minute or minutes; occurring at or marking successive minutes.
To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.
Very small; little; tiny; fine; slight; slender; inconsiderable.
Usage Examples
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next.
Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials.
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
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Other Usage ExamplesHappiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
But things move in circles: one minute it's the models who are famous, then it's the actresses, then it's the designers.
From the minute I wake up until I go to bed I think about food.
Every song I put on a record could be a single and I just pack my bags for it... and the minute it takes off, I'm not gonna be home for a while.
Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.
Having a child makes you realize the importance of life - narcissism goes out the window. Heaven on earth is looking at my little boy. The minute he was born, I knew if I never did anything other than being a mom, I'd be fine.
Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.
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