Meanings (ES + gloss)
diminuto • menudo
Very small.
They found only minute quantities of chemical residue on his clothing.
minucioso
Very careful and exact, giving small details.
The lawyer gave the witness a minute examination.
The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. The…
Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
minuto
A unit of time which is one sixtieth of an hour (sixty seconds).
Holonyms: hectosecond < kilosecond < hour < day < week < megasecond < fortnight < month < year < gigasecond < century < kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, m…
Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond < microsecond < millisecond < centisecond < decisecond < secon…
acta
A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
Let’s look at the minutes of last week’s meeting.
The Clerk or 'recording Clerk' drafts a minute and then, or at a later time, reads it to the Meeting. Subsequent contributions are on the wording of the minute only, until it can b…
minuto
A point in time; a moment.
Tell her, that I some Certainty may bring; / I go this minute to attend the king.
minuto • momento
A while or a long unspecified period of time.
Oh, I ain't heard that song in a minute!
“Man, I haven’t seen you in a minute,” he says, smiling still. “Maybe like two, three years ago?”
Phrases
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Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
minutar
Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.
I dare say there was a vast amount of minuting, memoranduming, and despatch-boxing, on this mighty subject.
I’ll minute this evening’s meeting.
Phrases