MINUTE

Traducere în limba română

minute¹ substantiv

1. minut (ca unitate de timp);

to wait ten minutes a aştepta zece minute;

it is ten minutes to three e (ora) trei fără zece (minute);

to live ten minutes from the station a locui cale de zece minute de la gară;

a minute's rest o clipă de odihnă / repaus;

wait a minute (aşteptaţi) o clipă!

he was here a minute ago a fost aici acum câteva clipe;

in a few minutes în câteva minute;

I shan’t be many minutes nu voi zăbovi mult;

it won't take a minute (aceasta) e treabă de un minut;

I have just popped in for a minute am venit şi plec îndată, sunt în trecere;

on/ to the minute punctual, exact;

I expect him every / any minute îl aştept (să vină) dintr-un moment în altul / dintr-o clipă în alta;

I'll send him to you the minute (that) he arrives îndată ce va sosi îl voi trimite la tine.

2. (geom., astron.) minut (de grad);

centesimal minute minut centesimal.

3. proiect, schiţă (a unui contract etc.).

4. minută, notă; plural proces-verbal;

to make a minute of smth. a lua notă de ceva;

to take the minutes of a conversation a nota o conversaţie, a înregistra în scris o conversaţie;

the minutes of a meeting procesul-verbal al unei şedinţe.

minute² adjectiv

1. fin, mic, foarte mic.

2. amănunţit, detaliat, minuţios.

3. mărunt, fără importanţă.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

The eyes looked at her thoughtfully for a full minute.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

And in five minutes more she shut it up.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

In silence we returned to the library, and after a minute or two I went to my own room.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

"What can it possibly matter whether we open it now or in seven minutes?" said he.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You have another reason to act with purpose the minute the month begins.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

In two minutes after Charles's preparation, the others appeared; they were in the drawing-room.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

In a few minutes the servant returned, and with a look which did not quite confirm his words, said he had been mistaken, for that Miss Tilney was walked out.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in Serpentine Avenue.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By brief I mean one to two minutes.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

But solar imagers produce a new set of observations every few minutes.

(Detecting solar flares in real time, National Science Foundation)

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