Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
minute . - noun uncountable The official notes kept during a meeting.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a written account of what transpired at a meeting
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Examples
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But for every chance he got to slag off Sandberg, he had to endure twenty minutes of talk about weightlifting and a brutal _thirty _minutes about Mason jars.
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But for every chance he got to slag off Sandberg, he had to endure twenty minutes of talk about weightlifting and a brutal _thirty _minutes about Mason jars.
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"Let her go in about two minutes -- _two minutes_ -- d'ye hear?"
The Man from the Bitter Roots Caroline Lockhart 1916
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If I had him on the stand for five minutes, "said the old man between his set teeth, --" _just five minutes_, -- I'd undertake to convince him from his own lips that he was wrong about you!
A Modern Instance William Dean Howells 1878
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Players ranked 2 and 3 by math tie-breaks will contest a bidding draw odds game like the one above except instead of 45 minutes base time the base time will be 25 minutes+ 5 second increment.
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The 26th we made the coaft of Chiniai, and Pedra Blanca, an infulated white rock in the middle of the fea, fituate, accordmg to Sir Erafmus Gower, in latitude twenty-two degrees nineteen minutes north, longitude eaft of Paris one hundred and twelve degrees thirty - feven minutes*.
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An ATM for books that prints and binds any title on the spot within minutes from a digital file.
Archive 2007-07-29 Bill Crider 2007
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Jamez: "They were gonna release this song on a new album, but it never got ... moggio's moldy Oreos:" 46 minutes is short for an archive release these days.
Kill Ugly Radio 2008
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I read it like this: the number pointing at the minutes is the hour, and the number pointed at is the minute.
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QUOTE TO NOTE: "It is an outstanding individual achievement when a freshman leads a conference co-champion in minutes played and scoring."
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