Minute vs. Mite

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).

Mitenoun

A minute arachnid, of the order Acarina, of which there are many species.

Mitenoun

A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing.

Mitenoun

A lepton, a small coin used in Palestine in the time of Christ.

Mitenoun

A small weight; one twentieth of a grain.

Mitenoun

Anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle

Mitenoun

A small or naughty person, or one you take pity on; rascal

Mitenoun

A minute arachnid, of the order Acarina, of which there are many species; as, the dust mite, cheese mite, sugar mite, harvest mite, three-toed spider mite, etc. See Acarina.

Mitenoun

A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing. The name is also applied to a small coin used in Palestine in the time of Christ.

Mitenoun

A small weight; one twentieth of a grain.

Mitenoun

Anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle.

Mitenoun

a slight but appreciable addition;

Mitenoun

any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods

Mite

Mites are small arachnids (eight-legged arthropods). Mites are not a defined taxon, but the name is used for members of several groups in the subclass acari of the class Arachnida.