{
    "term": "minute",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "each of the 60 parts of an hour, that are equal to 60 seconds",
            "sensetop": "minutes to…minutes past…minutes after/before…in… minutesfor… minuteswithin minutesper minute",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "It's four minutes to six.",
                    "contextForm": "minutes to…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "four minutes past two",
                    "contextForm": "minutes past…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "five minutes after/before midnight",
                    "contextForm": "minutes after/before…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'll be back in a few minutes.",
                    "contextForm": "in… minutes"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Boil the rice for 20 minutes.",
                    "contextForm": "for… minutes"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The ship sank within minutes.",
                    "contextForm": "within minutes"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The pump delivers seven gallons per minute.",
                    "contextForm": "per minute"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's only a ten-minute bus ride into town."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Two **minutes later** the phone rang."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I enjoyed every minute of the party."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The students took fifteen minutes to complete the questionnaire."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Just minutes into the second half of the game Robinson scored his second goal."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Russo scored in the 87th minute."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It takes only a few minutes to grill this fish."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He listened for a couple of minutes, then smiled."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There were two goals in the opening five minutes of the game."
                },
                {
                    "text": "After twenty minutes I started to get worried."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Fifteen minutes turned into thirty, and still no one called."
                },
                {
                    "text": "For ten agonizing minutes she couldn't find her son."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Gina wasted ten precious minutes on her final test question."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He scored in the final minutes of the game."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I spent ten minutes dealing with emails."
                },
                {
                    "text": "If you have a few spare minutes, you could clean the kitchen."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Ten long minutes later, he finally had the results."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The film starts in ten minutes."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The minutes ticked by and still nothing happened."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The noise lasted almost a full minute."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Tracey was already counting the minutes until the weekend."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We waited for ten minutes and then left."
                },
                {
                    "text": "With each passing minute, the tension mounts."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the minute hand on the clock"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Time"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["closing", "final", "opening"],
                "verb + minute": ["spend", "last", "take"],
                "minute + verb": ["elapse", "pass", "tick by"],
                "minute + noun": ["hand"],
                "preposition": ["after… minutes", "for… minutes", "in… minutes"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a very short time",
            "sensetop": "for a minutein a minute",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "It only takes a minute to make a salad."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Could you **wait a minute**, please?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**Hang on a minute**—I'll just get my coat."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I just have to finish this—I won't be a minute."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Could I see you for a minute?",
                    "contextForm": "for a minute"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'll be with you in a minute, Jo.",
                    "contextForm": "in a minute"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Typical English weather—one minute it's raining and the next minute the sun is shining."
                },
                {
                    "text": "My brain was still working **a mile a minute** *(= very fast)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Can you spare a minute?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Do you have a minute, Miss Brown?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "This will only take a minute."
                },
                {
                    "text": "One minute he was fine and the next minute he collapsed on the floor."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["last", "next", "spare"],
                "verb + minute": ["hang on", "hold on", "wait"],
                "preposition": ["in a minute", "within minutes"],
                "phrases": [
                    "every waking minute",
                    "just a minute",
                    "the minute something happens"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "an exact moment in time",
            "sensetop": "at that/the minute",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "At that very minute, Tom walked in.",
                    "contextForm": "at that/the minute"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I've got things on my mind at the minute."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["last", "next", "spare"],
                "verb + minute": ["hang on", "hold on", "wait"],
                "preposition": ["in a minute", "within minutes"],
                "phrases": [
                    "every waking minute",
                    "just a minute",
                    "the minute something happens"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "each of the 60 equal parts of a degree, used in measuring angles",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "37 degrees 30 minutes (37° 30′)"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Maths and measurement"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "a summary or record of what is said or decided at a formal meeting",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We read through the minutes of the last meeting."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Who is going to **take the minutes** *(= write them)*?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I wrote up the minutes of the meeting and circulated them by email."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Working life"],
            "collocations": {
                "verb + minutes": ["keep", "take", "circulate"],
                "phrases": ["the minutes of a meeting"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "a short note on a subject, especially one that recommends a course of action",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "very soon",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Hurry up! He'll be back any minute now."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "very fast",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Matters grew worse by the minute."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a short period of being famous",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Everybody wants their fifteen minutes of fame."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to ask somebody to wait for a short time",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "‘Is Mr Burns available?’ ‘Just a second, please—I'll check.’"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "the latest possible time before an important event",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "They changed the plans at the last minute."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Don't leave your decision to the last moment."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Don't leave everything till the last minute."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Why do you leave it until the last possible moment before getting ready to leave?"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "as soon as…",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I want to see him the minute he arrives."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The minute she walked through the door I thought she looked different."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "certainly not; not at all",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I don't think for a minute that she'll accept but you can ask her."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I never thought for a minute he'd refuse."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to say that somebody is very stupid",
            "labels": "(saying)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "immediately; now",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Come down this minute!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I don't know what I'm going to do yet—I've **just this minute** found out."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Come here this minute!"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "exactly",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The train arrived at 9.05 to the minute."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "fashionable and modern",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Her styles are always up to the minute."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "having the latest information",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The traffic reports are up to the minute."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to wait for a short time",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Can you wait a second while I make a call?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Hey! Wait a minute! I'll come with you!"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "used when you have just noticed or remembered something, or had a sudden idea",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Wait a minute—this isn't the right key."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈmɪnɪt/",
                "audio": "mi/minute/minute__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈmɪnɪt/",
                "audio": "mi/minute/minute__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: via Old French from late Latin minuta, feminine (used as a noun) of minutus ‘made small’. The senses ‘period of sixty seconds’ and ‘sixtieth of a degree’ derive from medieval Latin pars minuta prima ‘first minute part’. The sense record of a meeting is from late Middle English (in the singular in the sense ‘note or memorandum’): from French minute, from the notion of a rough copy in “small writing” (Latin scriptura minuta) as distinct from the fair copy in book hand. The verb dates from the mid 16th cent."
}