Hypertext Webster Gateway: "minute"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Minute \Mi*nute"\, a. [L. minutus, p. p. of minuere to lessen.
See {Minish}, {Minor}, and cf. {Menu}, {Minuet}.]
1. Very small; little; tiny; fine; slight; slender;
inconsiderable. ``Minute drops.'' --Milton.

2. Attentive to small things; paying attention to details;
critical; particular; precise; as, a minute observer;
minute observation.

Syn: Little; diminutive; fine; critical; exact;
circumstantial; particular; detailed.

Usage: {Minute}, {Circumstantial}, {Particular}. A
circumstantial account embraces all the leading
events; a particular account includes each event and
movement, though of but little importance; a minute
account goes further still, and omits nothing as to
person, time, place, adjuncts, etc.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Minute \Min"ute\, a.
Of or pertaining to a minute or minutes; occurring at or
marking successive minutes.

{Minute bell}, a bell tolled at intervals of a minute, as to
give notice of a death or a funeral.

{Minute book}, a book in which written minutes are entered.


{Minute glass}, a glass measuring a minute or minutes by the
running of sand.

{Minute gun}, a discharge of a cannon repeated every minute
as a sign of distress or mourning.

{Minute hand}, the long hand of a watch or clock, which makes
the circuit of the dial in an hour, and marks the minutes.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Minute \Min"ute\ (?; 277), n. [LL. minuta a small portion, small
coin, fr. L. minutus small: cf. F. minute. See 4th {Minute}.]
1. The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m.;
as, 4 h. 30 m.)

Four minutes, that is to say, minutes of an hour.
--Chaucer.

2. The sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds (Marked thus
('); as, 10[deg] 20').

3. A nautical or a geographic mile.

4. A coin; a half farthing. [Obs.] --Wyclif (Mark xii. 42)

5. A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a
jot; a tittle. [Obs.]

Minutes and circumstances of his passion. --Jer.
Taylor.

6. A point of time; a moment.

I go this minute to attend the king. --Dryden.

7. 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.

8. (Arch.) A fixed part of a module. See {Module}.

Note: Different writers take as the minute one twelfth, one
eighteenth, one thirtieth, or one sixtieth part of the
module.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Minute \Min"ute\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Minuted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Minuting}.]
To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a
minute or a brief summary of.

The Empress of Russia, with her own hand, minuted an
edict for universal tolerance. --Bancroft.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

minute
adj 1: infinitely or immeasurably small; "two minute whiplike
threads of protoplasm"; "reduced to a microscopic
scale" [syn: {infinitesimal}, {microscopic}]
2: immeasurably small [syn: {atomic}, {atomlike}]
3: characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination;
"a minute inspection of the grounds"; "a narrow scrutiny";
"an exact and minute report" [syn: {narrow}]
n 1: a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour; "he
ran a 4 minute mile" [syn: {min}]
2: an indefinitely short time; "wait just a moment"; "it only
takes a minute"; "in just a bit" [syn: {moment}, {second},
{bit}]
3: a particular point in time; "the moment he arrived the party
began" [syn: {moment}, {second}, {instant}]
4: a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree [syn:
{arcminute}, {minute of arc}]
5: a short note; "the secretary keeps the minutes of the
meeting"
6: distance measured by the time taken to cover it; "we live an
hour from the airport"; "its just 10 minutes away" [syn: {hour}]


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