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"it only takes a minute"nounan indefinitely short timetype of:
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"two minute whiplike threads of protoplasm"adjectiveinfinitely or immeasurably small
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nouna particular point in timetype of:
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"he ran a 4 minute mile"nouna unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour
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"its just 10 minutes away"noundistance measured by the time taken to cover it
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"a minute inspection of the grounds" "an exact and minute report"adjectivecharacterized by painstaking care and detailed examination
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nouna unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree
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"the secretary keeps the minutes of the meeting"nouna short notetype of:
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- fine minutely precise especially in differences in meaning
- cyclops minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming; important in some food chains and as intermediate hosts of parasitic worms that affect man e.g. Guinea worms
- brit minute crustaceans forming food for right whales
- britt minute crustaceans forming food for right whales
- midge minute two-winged mosquito-like fly lacking biting mouthparts; appear in dancing swarms especially near water
- punky minute two-winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects
- deathwatch minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers
- salp minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end
- daphnia minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae
- serrulate minutely serrated