Crossword clues for minutes
minutes
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"record of proceedings," c.1710, perhaps from Latin minuta scriptura "rough notes," literally "small writing;" see minute (adj.). Minute "rough draft" is attested from c.1500.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (plural of minute English) 2 (context uncountable English) The official notes kept during a meeting.
WordNet
n. a written account of what transpired at a meeting [syn: proceedings, transactions]
Wikipedia
Minutes, also known as protocols or, informally, notes, are the instant written record of a meeting or hearing. They typically describe the events of the meeting and may include a list of attendees, a statement of the issues considered by the participants, and related responses or decisions for the issues.
Minutes is an album by Elkie Brooks.
Usage examples of "minutes".
As soon as ever a mummy had burnt down to the ankles, which it did in about twenty minutes, the feet were kicked away, and another one put in its place.
As yet the wall was only two feet high, and we had been eight minutes at the building of it.
Only two minutes had passed from the time when Cyrus Harding disappeared to the moment when his companions set foot on the ground.
Ten minutes after, Cyrus Harding, Spilett, and Pencroft were at the foot of the cliff, leaving Neb to take the cart on to the plateau of Prospect Heights.
About ten minutes before the sun finally sank we reached this moat, and passed down and through it, clambering across what evidently were the piled-up fragments of a great bridge in order to do so, and then with some little difficulty over the slope of the wall to its summit.
I do not think it reached them more than two-thirds as strong as it went out ten minutes before.
In a few minutes the settlers had reached the lower point of the lake, and a glance showed them that the object had been attained.
Twenty-five minutes after entering the mouth of the grotto the boat reached the extreme end.
The settlers rested a few minutes in the upper grotto, which made a sort of landing-place halfway up the long granite staircase.
I will not dwell on the next few minutes, for no one likes to acknowledge that he has been unmanned even for a space.
She, who but two minutes before had gazed upon us the loveliest, noblest, most splendid woman the world has ever seen, she lay still before us, near the masses of her own dark hair, no larger than a big monkey, and hideous--ah, too hideous for words.
For some minutes great masses rolled over the surface of the sea, then a breeze sprang up, which rapidly dispelled the mist.
But as two more of the plant men charged, the warrior, who was now prepared by the experiences of the past few minutes, swung his mighty long-sword aloft and met the hurtling bulk with a clean cut that clove one of the plant men from chin to groin.
The suggestion was a good one, for thus many valuable minutes might be saved to us, and, throwing every ounce of my earthly muscles into the effort, I cleared the remaining distance between myself and the cliffs in great leaps and bounds that put me at their base in a moment.
What it has taken minutes to write occurred in but a few seconds, but during that time Tars Tarkas had seen my plight and had dropped from the lower branches, which he had reached with such infinite labour, and as I flung the last of my immediate antagonists from me the great Thark leaped to my side, and again we fought, back to back, as we had done a hundred times before.