minute Signification, définition

Signification de minute en français

• 0 sixty seconds -- minute [ feminine ]

  • You will be logged out in one minute. Vous serez connecté dans une minute.

  • We’re leaving in a few minutes. Nous partons dans quelques minutes.

  • twenty minutes later vingt minutes plus tard

• 1 a very short time -- minute [ feminine ]

  • It just takes a minute to fill out the form. Cela ne prend qu’une minute / un instant pour remplir le formulaire.

  • For a minute, I didn’t know where I was. Pendant un instant, je ne savais plus où j’étais.

  • They’ll be here any minute. Ils seront ici d’un instant à l’autre.

• 2 used to ask sb to wait briefly -- attends/attendez une minute / un instant

  • Just a minute, I’ll see if she’s here. Attendez un instant, je vais voir si elle est là.

  • Wait a minute – that’s not what he said. Minute, ce n’est pas ce qu’il a dit.

• 3 very small -- minuscule

  • a minute hand-held radio une minuscule radio portative

• 4 the sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds -- minute

  • It is twenty minutes to eight

  • The journey takes thirty minutes

  • a ten-minute delay.

• 5 in measuring an angle, the sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds -- minute

  • an angle of 47 50′ (= forty-seven degrees, fifty minutes).

• 6 a very short time -- minute, court instant

  • Wait a minute

  • It will be done in a minute.

• 7 a particular point in time -- instant

  • At that minute, the telephone rang.

• 8 the notes taken at a meeting recording what was said -- procès-verbal, compte rendu

  • The chairman asked for this decision to be recorded in the minutes.

• 9 very small -- minuscule

  • The diamonds in the brooch were minute.

• 10 paying attention to the smallest details -- minutieux

  • He took minute care over the preparation of the meal.