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Minutes   /mˈɪnəts/   Listen
Minutes

noun
1.
A written account of what transpired at a meeting.  Synonyms: proceedings, transactions.


Minute

noun
1.
A unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour.  Synonym: min.
2.
An indefinitely short time.  Synonyms: bit, mo, moment, second.  "In a mo" , "It only takes a minute" , "In just a bit"
3.
A particular point in time.  Synonyms: instant, moment, second.
4.
A unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree.  Synonyms: arcminute, minute of arc.
5.
A short note.
6.
Distance measured by the time taken to cover it.  Synonym: hour.  "Its just 10 minutes away"



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"Minutes" Quotes from Famous Books



... was lifted by a little ridge, and for a few minutes we travelled through another European country. Two young men were passing ball in front of a beer saloon. "Vot's der news?" said one of them in a strong German accent. We were at a loss for an answer, as it was rather a dull ...
— Days Off - And Other Digressions • Henry Van Dyke
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... Spokesman Dorn told the directors in the Tribunal Hall some minutes later, "is then this. There has been nothing haphazard about the Mars Convicts' plan to coerce us into accepting their terms. Considering the probable quality of the type of minds which developed both the ...
— Oneness • James H. Schmitz
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... repeated, looking at him with disappointment. Why, she had only just come, and made certain of spending a few minutes with him; but she could go if she was in the way. 'Why, I think I shall go to the Princess's. But I am in no hurry; she wearies me with her everlasting lamentation for Herbert. You think she has done with it, and then it ...
— The Immortal - Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 • Alphonse Daudet
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... on with a book she was reading. In less than ten minutes, Rose, whose sun seldom stayed long behind a cloud, was at her elbow, dimpling ...
— What Katy Did At School • Susan Coolidge
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... up to its presence. This part of the food-tube being naturally geared to discharge its contents downward, the simplest and easiest thing is to turn in a hurry call and cut down the normal schedule from hours to minutes, with the familiar ...
— Preventable Diseases • Woods Hutchinson
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