minute
/ˈmɪnɪt/ sustantivo A1En español: minuto, acta, momento
- A unit of time which is one sixtieth of an hour (sixty seconds). · You have twenty minutes to complete the test.
- A short but unspecified time period. · give me a minute· Wait a minute, I’m not ready yet!
- A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree. · We need to be sure these maps are accurate to within one minute of arc.
- A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting. · Let’s look at the minutes of last week’s meeting.
- A unit of purchase on a telephone or other similar network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent in gross form to sixty seconds' use of the network. · If you buy this model, you’ll get 100 free minutes.
- A point in time; a moment. · I conked out the minute I got home.
- A nautical or a geographic mile.
- An old coin, a half farthing.
Plural minutes
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First, however, she waited for a few minutes to see if she was going to shrink any further: she felt a little nervous about this; “for it might end, you know,” said Alice to herself, “in my going out altogether, like a candle.
“Come, there’s no use in crying like that!” said Alice to herself, rather sharply; “I advise you to leave off this minute!” She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.
The first question of course was, how to get dry again: they had a consultation about this, and after a few minutes it seemed quite natural to Alice to find herself talking familiarly with them, as if she had known them all her life.
Come here directly, and get ready for your walk!’ ‘Coming in a minute, nurse!
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