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Définitions

anglais > français
minute
1. n. (Métrologie) Minute.
There are sixty seconds in a minute.
There are sixty minutes in one degree of arc.
2. n. Minute, moment, instant.
I'll be there in a minute.
3. n. (Au pluriel) Procès-verbal.
Will the secretary please take the minutes of the meeting?
4. v. Faire le procès-verbal d'une réunion.
5. adj. Minuscule, menu.
The police found minute quantities of blood at the scene.
Minute dust particles enter the cracks and eventually clog them.
6. adj. Minime.
The risk is minute.
anglais > anglais
minute
1. n. A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour).
You have twenty minutes to complete the test.
2. n. (informal) A short but unspecified time period.
Wait a minute, I’m not ready yet!
3. n. A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
We need to be sure these maps are accurate to within one minute of arc.
4. n. (chiefly in the minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
Let’s look at the minutes of last week’s meeting.
5. n. A unit of purchase on a telephone or other network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent in gross form to sixty seconds' use of the network.
If you buy this phone, you’ll get 100 free minutes.
6. n. A point in time; a moment.
7. n. A nautical or a geographic mile.
8. n. An old coin, a half farthing.
9. n. (obsolete) A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.
10. n. (architecture) A fixed part of a module.
11. n. (slang) A while or a long unspecified period of time
Oh, I ain't heard that song in a minute!
12. v. Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.
I’ll minute this evening’s meeting.
13. v. To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.
14. adj. Very small.
They found only minute quantities of chemical residue on his clothing.
15. adj. Very careful and exact, giving small details.
The lawyer gave the witness a minute examination.
français > anglais
minute
1. n-f. minute (etymology 1, time unit, all same senses)
2. interj. wait a sec!

Exemples de phrases

The police will be here any minute.      La police sera là d'un instant à l'autre. Could I see you a minute, please?      Pourrais-je vous voir une minute, s'il vous plaît? Just a minute.      Juste une minute. After a minute of free fall he pulled the rip cord and out came the parachute.      Après une minute de chute libre, il tira sur la sangle et le parachute se déploya. Do you have a minute?      As-tu une minute ?

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