minutely

US pronunciation

American soundminutely

minutely

Syllables: 4 syllables
Stress: Use the US audio for stress
Vowel: Spelling-based estimate
Ending: Final y vowel sound

mi - nu - te - ly -> minutely

Myanmar meaning

Full entry

minute¹/'mÇnÇt / n

၁။ (က) [C] (abbr min ) မိနစ်။ စက္ကန့် -၆၀။ It's ten minutes to/past six. ❍ I arrived a couple of minutes early / late. ❍ My house is ten minutes' walk (away) from the shops. ❍ We caught the bus with only minutes to spare.
(ခ) [sing] တိုတောင်းသောအချိန်။ တဒင်္ဂ။ ခဏ။ It only takes a minute to make a salad. ❍ Wait a minute —I'm nearly ready. ❍ Will you wait for me? I won't be a minute.
(ဂ) [sing] အခိုက်အတန့်။ Stop it this minute! အခုချက်ချင်း ရပ်စမ်း။ ❍ At that very minute, Tom walked in.
၂။ [C] တစ်ဒီဂရီ၏ ၆၀ ပုံ တစ်ပုံ။ 37 degrees 30 minutes (37½ 30').
၃။ [C] (တရားဝင်) မှတ်တမ်း။ make a minute of sth.
၄။ minutes [pl] အစည်းအဝေးမှတ်တမ်း။ We read (through) the minutes of the last meeting. ❍ Who will take (ie make notes for) the minutes?
v အစည်းအဝေးမှတ်တမ်းတင်သည်။ minute an action point/a comment ❍ There is no agenda and the proceedings are not minuted.
❏ (at) any minute/ moment (now) [IDM ] (infml ) မကြာမီ။ တစ်ခဏအတွင်း။ The leading runners will enter the stadium any minute now!
❏ in a minute [IDM ] မကြာမီ။ တစ်ခဏ အတွင်း။ Our guests will be here in a minute!
❏ the minute/ moment (that)… [IDM ] … သည်နှင့် တစ်ပြိုင်နက်။ I want to see him the minute (that) he arrives.
❏ minute-hand n (usu sing ) မိနစ်လက်တံ။ နာရီ လက်တံရှည်။
❏ minute steak n ကျက်လွယ်သော အသားလွှာ။
❏ not for a/one minute/moment [IDM ] ဘယ်တုန်းကမျှ။ နည်းနည်းမျှ။ I never thought for a minute that you would refuse.
❏ this minute [IDM ] ချက်ချင်း။ ယခု။ အခု။ Stop it this minute! ❍ I've just this minute woken up.
❏ to the minute [IDM ] (အချိန်) တိတိ။ The train arrived at 9.05 to the minute.
❏ up to the minute [IDM ] (infml )
၁။ ခေတ်နှင့်အမီ။ နောက်ဆုံးပေါ်။ Her clothes are always right up to the minute. ❍ an up-to-the-minute look/style.
၂။ ပူပူနွေးနွေး (သတင်း)။ up-to-the-minute news/information.

minute²/maÇ'nju:t; US ɑlso -'nu:t / adj (-st ; comparative rarely found)

၁။ အရွယ်၊ ပမာဏ အလွန်သေးငယ်သော။ အမှုန်။ အမှုန်အမွှား။ minute particles of gold-dust ❍ water containing minute quantities of lead.
၂။ အသေးစိတ်။ အနုစိတ်။ ဂရုစိုက်သော။ a minute examination/inspection ❍ study an agreement/a contract in the minutest detail. minutely adv

More examples

I’ll meet you downstairs in ten minutes.
We waited until twenty minutes to ten, then left.
Thompson scored again in the final minutes of the game.
It will only take a minute.
Carole spends every spare minute practising.
[for a minute] : For a minute I thought she had left.
The city centre is ten minutes away.
One minute he was there; the next he was gone.
[any minute] : Jack should be here any minute.
[within minutes] : Within minutes I realized I was on the wrong train.
Shall we hear the minutes of the last meeting?
[take the minutes] : Carl usually takes the minutes but he’s not here tonight.

Synonyms

miniature, tiny, minuscule, microscopic, infinitesimal, little, small, diminutive, insignificant, MO, atomic, bat of an eye, blow-by-blow, breath, breathing, careful, circumstantial, clocklike, close, crack, critical, detailed, elaborate, exact, exhaustive, exiguous, fine, flash, full, immaterial, inconsiderable, instant, invisible, itemized, jiffy, light, log, meticulous, microbic, min, minim, minimal, minor, molecular, moment, negligible, nonessential, nothing flat, painstaking, paltry, particular, particularized, peewee, petty, picayune, piddling, precise, précis, punctilious, puny, record, report, scrupulous, sec, second, shake, short time, sixtieth of hour, sixty seconds, slender, slight, specialized, split second, summarize, take notes, teeny-weeny, thorough, tick, transcribe, trifling, trivial, twinkling, unimportant, very small, wee, write down

Antonyms

age, big, careless, consequential, considerable, cursory, enormous, giant, gigantic, huge, immense, important, imprecise, inexact, large, major, mighty, necessary, rough, significant, substantial, useful, valuable