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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Minute \Min"ute\, verb (used with an object) [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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Minute \Min"ute\, adjective 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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Minute \Min"ute\ (?; 277), noun [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. or min.; 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. pl. 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; to read the minutes of the last meeting.
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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Minute \Mi*nute"\ (m[imac]*n[=u]t" or m[i^]*n[=u]t"), adjective [L. minutus, p. p. of minuere to lessen. See {Minish}, {Minor}, and cf. {Menu}, {Minuet}.]
1. Very small; little; tiny; fine; slight; slender; inconsiderable; as, minute details. ''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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
minute
adjective
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}]
noun
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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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