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# minute

«minute» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a short length of time; sixty minutes make an hour** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (minute, minutes); adjective minute (said «my-NEWT», very small)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A minute is a short length of time; sixty minutes make an hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/minute/#m1)

2) A minute can mean a very short time: «Wait a minute». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/minute/#m2)

3) Said differently, minute means very, very small. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/minute/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

one sixtieth of an hour: an hour has 60 minutes and a minute has 60 seconds; the long hand of a clock is the minute hand; phrases: «a minute», «wait a minute», «just a minute», «at the last minute», «minute hand»

### examples

- C. to denote the absence of degrees, minutes, or seconds in their sexagesi- mal notation. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/minute/#x1)
- An hour has 60 minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/minute/#x2)
- Tom walks for 15 minutes each day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/minute/#x3)
- The bus comes in 20 minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/minute/#x4)
- A minute has 60 seconds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/minute/#x5)
- Wait a minute, I'm nearly ready! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/minute/#x6)
- Boil the egg for 5 minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/minute/#x7)
- We finished the project at the last minute. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/minute/#x8)
- The minute hand points to 6 at half past. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/minute/#x9)
- “Wait a minute!” called the Scarecrow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/minute/#x10)

### note

«An hour has 60 minutes.» «A minute has 60 seconds.» To change hours into minutes, multiply by 60. Trap: do not add minutes and hours without changing one into the other. Trap: «minute» (time) and «minute» (very small) are spelled the same but said differently.

### In the corpora

- [Employers often glance at a CV for less than a minute, so grown-ups fuss over every word.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/7/)
- [Lenders make borrowing look easy: "Cash in minutes!", "Buy now, pay later!".](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/8-borrowing-and-debt/4/)
- [Babies feed from the breast or a bottle, often for twenty minutes or more, and they need calm to settle.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/17/)
- [A few quiet minutes, a hug, or a simple «Are you OK?» often help most.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/9/)
- [Usually the facts are small and boring: a car, a van, an ambulance, a police car for twenty minutes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/41-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «minute» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/minute/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.