minute
minutein noun and verb uses
(mɪnɪt )Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense minutes , present participle minuting , past tense, past participle minuted
1. countable noun
A minute is one of the sixty parts that an hour is divided into. People often say 'a minute' or 'minutes' when they mean a short length of time.
The pizza will then take about twenty minutes to cook.
Bye Mum, see you in a minute.
Half a minute later she came in the front door.
Within minutes we realized our mistake.
2. plural noun
3. verb
When someone minutes something that is discussed or decided at a meeting, they make a written record of it.
You don't need to minute that. [VERB noun]
4. See also up-to-the-minute
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minutein adjective use
(maɪnjuːt , US -nuːt- )Word forms: superlative minutest
adjective
If you say that something is minute, you mean that it is very small.
Only a minute amount is needed.
The party was planned in the minutest detail.
