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Cosa (chi) è half a minute - definizione

UNIT OF TIME
Minuite; Minute (time); Minute of time; Half a minute; 1 minute
  • A [[digital clock]] showing zero hours and one minute

minute         
minute1 ['m?n?t]
¦ noun
1. a period of time equal to sixty seconds or a sixtieth of an hour.
informal a very short time.
2. (also arc minute or minute of arc) a sixtieth of a degree of angular measurement. (Symbol: ?)
Phrases
up to the minute incorporating the very latest information or developments.
Origin
ME: via OFr. from late L. minuta, feminine (used asnoun) of minutus 'made small'; the senses 'period of sixty seconds' and 'sixtieth of a degree' derive from med. L. pars minuta prima 'first minute part'.
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minute2 [m??'nju:t]
¦ adjective (minutest)
1. extremely small.
2. precise and meticulous: a minute examination.
Derivatives
minutely adverb
minuteness noun
Origin
ME (in the sense 'lesser', with ref. to a tithe or tax): from L. minutus 'lessened', past participle of minuere.
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minute3 ['m?n?t]
¦ noun
1. (minutes) a summarized record of the points discussed at a meeting.
2. an official memorandum.
¦ verb
1. record or note (the points discussed at a meeting).
2. send (someone) a minute.
Origin
ME: from Fr. minute, from the notion of a rough copy in 'small writing' (L. scriptura minuta).
minute         
n.
sixtieth part of an hour
1) in a minute (she'll be here in a minute)
instant
2) the last minute (at the last minute)
present time
3) this minute
4) up to the minute
minute         
I. NOUN AND VERB USES
(minutes, minuting, minuted)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
A minute is one of the sixty parts that an hour is divided into. People often say 'a minute' or 'minutes' when they mean a short length of time.
The pizza will then take about twenty minutes to cook...
Bye Mum, see you in a minute...
Within minutes we realized our mistake.
N-COUNT: oft num N
2.
The minutes of a meeting are the written records of the things that are discussed or decided at it.
He'd been reading the minutes of the last meeting.
N-PLURAL: oft N of n
3.
When someone minutes something that is discussed or decided at a meeting, they make a written record of it.
You don't need to minute that.
VERB: V n
4.
see also <a href="">up-to-the-minutea>
5.
People often use expressions such as wait a minute or just a minute when they want to stop you doing or saying something.
Wait a minute, folks, something is wrong here...
Hey, just a minute!
= hang on
CONVENTION
6.
If you say that something will or may happen at any minute or any minute now, you are emphasizing that it is likely to happen very soon.
It looked as though it might rain at any minute...
Any minute now, that phone is going to ring.
PHRASE [emphasis]
7.
If you say that you do not believe for a minute or for one minute that something is true, you are emphasizing that you do not believe that it is true.
I don't believe for one minute she would have been scared...
= for a moment
PHRASE: with brd-neg, PHR with v [emphasis]
8.
A last-minute action is one that is done at the latest time possible.
She was doing some last-minute revision for her exams...
He will probably wait until the last minute.
PHRASE: PHR n, prep PHR
9.
You use the expression the next minute or expressions such as 'one minute he was there, the next he was gone' to emphasize that something happens suddenly.
The next minute my father came in...
Jobs are there one minute, gone the next.
= the next moment
PHRASE [emphasis]
10.
If you say that something happens the minute something else happens, you are emphasizing that it happens immediately after the other thing.
The minute you do this, you'll lose control...
PHRASE: PHR that [emphasis]
11.
If you say that something must be done this minute, you are emphasizing that it must be done immediately.
Anna, stop that. Sit down this minute.
= now, immediately
PHRASE [emphasis]
II. ADJECTIVE USE
(minutest)
If you say that something is minute, you mean that it is very small.
Only a minute amount is needed...
The party was planned in the minutest detail.
= tiny
ADJ

Wikipedia

Minute

The minute is a unit of time usually equal to 1/60 (the first sexagesimal fraction) of an hour, or 60 seconds. In the UTC time standard, a minute on rare occasions has 61 seconds, a consequence of leap seconds (there is a provision to insert a negative leap second, which would result in a 59-second minute, but this has never happened in more than 40 years under this system). Although not an SI unit, the minute is accepted for use with SI units. The SI symbol for minute or minutes is min (without a dot). The prime symbol is also sometimes used informally to denote minutes of time.

Esempi dal corpus di testo per half a minute
1. All 20,000 responded in just over half a minute to accept their tickets.
2. After half a minute it had hit 6,000; then it peaked at 23,000.
3. My hotel has its own generators but we get frequent interruptions of half a minute or so.
4. It was a reddish colour like a torch, that lasted about half a minute with a luminous trail behind it, he said.
5. After stopping for around half a minute, it headed for the roundabout ahead, before circling back on itself and passing the lay–by.