Minuet vs. Minute
Minuetnoun
A slow graceful dance consisting of a coupé, a high step, and a balance.
Minuetnoun
(music) A tune or air to regulate the movements of the minuet dance: it has the dance form, and is commonly in 3/4, sometimes 3/8, measure.
Minuetnoun
(music) A complete short musical composition inspired by and conforming to many formal characteristics of the traditional musical accompaniment to the dance of same name.
Minuetnoun
(music) A movement which is part of a longer musical composition such as a suite, sonata, or symphony which is inspired by and conforming to formal characteristics of the dance of same name.
Minuetverb
To dance a minuet.
Minuetnoun
A slow graceful dance consisting of a coupee, a high step, and a balance.
Minuetnoun
A tune or air to regulate the movements of the dance so called; a movement in suites, sonatas, symphonies, etc., having the dance form, and commonly in 3-4, sometimes 3-8, measure.
Minuetnoun
a stately court dance in the 17th century
Minuetnoun
a stately piece of music composed for dancing the minuet; often incorporated into a sonata or suite
Minuetnoun
a slow, stately ballroom dance for two in triple time, popular especially in the 18th century.
Minuetnoun
a piece of music in triple time in the style of a minuet, typically as a movement in a suite, sonata, or symphony and frequently coupled with a trio.
Minuetverb
dance a minuet.
Minuet
A minuet (; also spelled menuet) is a social dance of French origin for two people, usually in 34 time. The word was adapted from Italian minuetto and French menuet, possibly from the French menu meaning slender, small, referring to the very small steps, or from the early 17th-century popular group dances called branle à mener or amener.
Minutenoun
A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour).
Minutenoun
(informal) A short but unspecified time period.
Minutenoun
A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
Minutenoun
A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
Minutenoun
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.
Minutenoun
A point in time; a moment.
Minutenoun
A nautical or a geographic mile.
Minutenoun
An old coin, a half farthing.
Minutenoun
(obsolete) A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.
Minutenoun
(architecture) A fixed part of a module.
Minutenoun
A while or a long unspecified period of time
Minuteverb
(transitive) Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.
Minuteverb
To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.
Minuteadjective
Very small.
Minuteadjective
Very careful and exact, giving small details.
Minutenoun
The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m. or min.; as, 4 h. 30 m.
Minutenoun
The sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds (Marked thus (´); as, 10° 20´).
Minutenoun
A nautical or a geographic mile.
Minutenoun
A coin; a half farthing.
Minutenoun
A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a tittle.
Minutenoun
A point of time; a moment.
Minutenoun
The memorandum; a record; a note to preserve the memory of anything; as, to take minutes of a contract; to take minutes of a conversation or debate; to read the minutes of the last meeting.
Minutenoun
A fixed part of a module. See Module.
Minuteadjective
Of or pertaining to a minute or minutes; occurring at or marking successive minutes.
Minuteadjective
Very small; little; tiny; fine; slight; slender; inconsiderable; as, minute details.
Minuteadjective
Attentive to small things; paying attention to details; critical; particular; precise; as, a minute observer; minute observation.
Minuteverb
To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.
Minutenoun
a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour;
Minutenoun
an indefinitely short time;
Minutenoun
a particular point in time;
Minutenoun
a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree
Minutenoun
a short note;
Minutenoun
distance measured by the time taken to cover it;
Minuteadjective
infinitely or immeasurably small;
Minuteadjective
immeasurably small
Minuteadjective
characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination;
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).
