Front | minute |
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Pron | ['mɪnɪt] |
Back | 【minute】 n. 分 The train arrived at exactly four minutes past eight. 火车刚好八点四分到达。 |
Vocab | minutea unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour
Craftsmen can paint whole villages or detailed portraits of people on a grain of rice using minute, or tiny, paintbrushes. Often the works of art are so minute that you can only see them with a magnifying glass. Minutus is the Latin word for "small," and it gave rise to both the adjective minute (my-NOOT), or incredibly small, and the noun minute (MIN-it), or 60 seconds of time. Though they are pronounced differently, both words refer to small measurements. An object can be minute, like a flea compared with its dog, and less concrete things can be minute, like your minute chance of winning the lottery. A minute freckle on the side of your nose is a minute detail of your whole face. All forms of 'minute' will appear on average once every 24 pages. minute minutely minuteness minutes |
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