Minutes

Definition

minute 1 /'mÇnÇt / n ၁။ (က) [C] ( abbr min ) မိနစ္။ စကၠန္႔ -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] တိုေတာင္းေသာအခ်ိန္။ တဒဂၤ။ 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] အခိုက္အတန္႔။ Stop it this minute! အခုခ်က္ခ်င္း ရပ္စမ္း။ ❍ At that very minute, Tom walked in. ၂။ [C] တစ္ဒီဂရီ၏ ၆၀ ပံု တစ္ပံု။ 37 degrees 30 minutes (37½ 30'). ၃။ [C] (တရားဝင္) မွတ္တမ္း။ make a minute of sth. ၄။ minutes [pl] အစည္းအေဝးမွတ္တမ္း။ We read (through) the minutes of the last meeting. ❍ Who will take (ie make notes for) the minutes? v အစည္းအေဝးမွတ္တမ္းတင္သည္။ minute an action point/a comment ❍ There is no agenda and the proceedings are not minuted. ❏ (at) any minute/ moment (now) [ IDM ] ( infml ) မၾကာမီ။ တစ္ခဏအတြင္း။ The leading runners will enter the stadium any minute now! ❏ in a minute [ IDM ] မၾကာမီ။ တစ္ခဏ အတြင္း။ Our guests will be here in a minute! ❏ the minute/ moment (that)… [ IDM ] … သည္ႏွင့္ တစ္ၿပိဳင္နက္။ I want to see him the minute (that) he arrives. ❏ minute-hand n (usu sing ) မိနစ္လက္တံ။ နာရီ လက္တံရွည္။ ❏ minute steak n က်က္လြယ္ေသာ အသားလႊာ။ ❏ not for a/one minute/moment [ IDM ] ဘယ္တုန္းကမွ်။ နည္းနည္းမွ်။ I never thought for a minute that you would refuse. ❏ this minute [ IDM ] ခ်က္ခ်င္း။ ယခု။ အခု။ Stop it this minute! ❍ I've just this minute woken up. ❏ to the minute [ IDM ] (အခ်ိန္) တိတိ။ The train arrived at 9.05 to the minute. ❏ up to the minute [ IDM ] ( infml ) ၁။ ေခတ္ႏွင့္အမီ။ ေနာက္ဆံုးေပၚ။ Her clothes are always right up to the minute. ❍ an up-to-the-minute look/style. ၂။ ပူပူေႏြးေႏြး (သတင္း)။ up-to-the-minute news/information. minute 2 /maÇ'nju:t; US ɑlso -'nu:t / adj ( -st ; comparative rarely found) ၁။ အရြယ္၊ ပမာဏ အလြန္ေသးငယ္ေသာ။ အမႈန္။ အမႈန္အမႊား။ minute particles of gold-dust ❍ water containing minute quantities of lead. ၂။ အေသးစိတ္။ အႏုစိတ္။ ဂ႐ုစိုက္ေသာ။ a minute examination/inspection ❍ study an agreement/a contract in the minutest detail. minutely adv

Examples

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