Minutes

Word MINUTES
Character 7
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Pronunciations /ˈmɪnɪts/

Definitions and meanings of "Minutes"

What do we mean by minutes?

A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour).

A short but unspecified time period.

A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.

(chiefly in the plural, minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.

A unit of purchase on a telephone or other network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent in gross form to sixty seconds' use of the network.

A point in time; a moment.

A nautical or a geographic mile.

An old coin, a half farthing.

A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.

A fixed part of a module.

A while or a long unspecified period of time

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The word "minutes" in example sentences

But for every chance he got to slag off Sandberg, he had to endure twenty minutes of talk about weightlifting and a brutal _thirty _minutes about Mason jars. ❋ Unknown (2003)

"Let her go in about two minutes -- _two minutes_ -- d'ye hear?" ❋ Caroline Lockhart (1916)

If I had him on the stand for five minutes, "said the old man between his set teeth, --" _just five minutes_, -- I'd undertake to convince him from his own lips that he was wrong about you! ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

Players ranked 2 and 3 by math tie-breaks will contest a bidding draw odds game like the one above except instead of 45 minutes base time the base time will be 25 minutes+ 5 second increment. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The 26th we made the coaft of Chiniai, and Pedra Blanca, an infulated white rock in the middle of the fea, fituate, accordmg to Sir Erafmus Gower, in latitude twenty-two degrees nineteen minutes north, longitude eaft of Paris one hundred and twelve degrees thirty - feven minutes*. ❋ Unknown (1812)

An ATM for books that prints and binds any title on the spot within minutes from a digital file. ❋ Bill Crider (2007)

Jamez: "They were gonna release this song on a new album, but it never got ... moggio's moldy Oreos:" 46 minutes is short for an archive release these days. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I read it like this: the number pointing at the minutes is the hour, and the number pointed at is the minute. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The FTSE 100 index outperformed European peers as miners — which are heavily weighted on the index — recovered from Tuesday's losses, while investors interpreted the minutes from the last Bank of England monetary policy meeting as suggesting further quantitative easing is on its way in the U.K. ❋ Andrea Tryphonides (2010)

Critics say the system, which includes some judges hearing cases in a matter of minutes, is "not a means to examine evidence and give defendants or borrowers due process in a fair hearing," said Carol Asbury, a Florida-based foreclosure attorney. ❋ Robin Sidel (2010)

Some podiatrists suggest 25 minutes is longer than the procedure typically takes, though this can vary. ❋ Anna Wilde Mathews (2010)

In minutes from a 2002 sentencing for 14 such burglaries, a judge noted his almost-scientific method and called him a "calculated, cold-blooded predator." ❋ Anna Louie Sussman (2010)

QUOTE TO NOTE: "It is an outstanding individual achievement when a freshman leads a conference co-champion in minutes played and scoring." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Wine in tubes Two minutes from the door of our country home near Cognac, swathes of ugni blanc vines stretch beneath Tiepolo clouds. ❋ Lennox Morrison (2010)

But Baker endured a shooting slump which nearly lasted all year and Chambers 'standard of play tailed so badly over the last five weeks that he went from leading the team in minutes to coming off the bench. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I thought it would be two minutes, but three minutes is OK. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Like when your 10 minutes is up, they are up no matter who you think you are. datingjesus ❋ Unknown (2009)

The cupcakes look terrific -- I bet they were gone in minutes!! ❋ Melissa (2009)

Sure enough, within minutes Marley was retching and heaving. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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