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MINUTES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A written account of what transpired at a meeting
Synonyms:
minutes; proceedings; transactions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("minutes" is a kind of...):
written account; written record (a written document preserving knowledge of facts or events)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "minutes"):
Congressional Record (a published written account of the speeches and debates and votes of the United States Congress)
Hansard (the official published verbatim report of the proceedings of a parliamentary body; originally of the British Parliament)
Holonyms ("minutes" is a part of...):
minute book (a book in which minutes have been written)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb minute
Context examples:
Two minutes from the time Curly went down, the last of her assailants were clubbed off.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
“Child,” returned my aunt, taking my arm, “come in, and don't speak to me for ten minutes.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
In a few days Mr. Bingley returned Mr. Bennet's visit, and sat about ten minutes with him in his library.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
But his curiosity was rampant, and several minutes later he was venturing forth on a new quest.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Most of the night she spent here watching; towards morning she believed that she slept for a few minutes; some steps disturbed her, and she awoke.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Minutes times grams per milliliter (area under the curve), divided by meters squared (surface area).
(Minute Times Gram per Milliliter per Meter Squared, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Mr. Utterson had been some minutes at his post, when he was aware of an odd light footstep drawing near.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
He was dead within five minutes.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Minutes times grams per milliliter, divided by meters squared.
(Minute Times Gram per Milliliter per Meter Squared, NCI Thesaurus)
Minutes times grams per milliliter (area under the curve), divided by kilograms per meter squared (body mass index).
(Minute Times Gram per Milliliter per Kilogram per Meter Squared, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
