Minute vs Close - What's the difference?
minute | close | Synonyms |
A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour).
A short but unspecified time period.
A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
(in the plural, minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting.
A minute of use of a telephone or other network, especially a cell phone network.
A point in time; a moment.
* Dryden
A nautical or a geographic mile.
An old coin, a half farthing.
(obsolete) A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.
* Jeremy Taylor
(architecture) A fixed part of a module.
Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.
* Charles Dickens
* 1995, Edmund Dell, The Schuman Plan and the British Abdication of Leadership in Europe [http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=us6DpQrcaVEC&pg=PA74&lpg=PA74&sig=8WYGZFKFxIhE4WPCpVkzDvHpO1A]
* 1996, Peter Hinchliffe, The Other Battle [http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=vxBK8kHLTyIC&pg=PA78&lpg=PA78&sig=lXg1Kvn_f1KsmB4gdOv51h5nu8I]
* 2003, David Roberts, Four Against the Arctic [http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=yPsgKV7zo_kC&pg=PA18&lpg=PA18&sig=WNGXG6bM-ja8NDueqgtdNrCkslM]
To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.
* Bancroft
Very small.
Very careful and exact, giving small details.
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, passage=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. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.}}
(label) To remove a gap.
# To obstruct (an opening).
# To move so that an opening is closed.
#* (Lord Byron) (1788-1824)
#*
#*:If I close my eyes I can see Marie today as I saw her then. Round, rosy face, snub nose, dark hair piled up in a chignon.
# To make (e.g. a gap) smaller.
# To grapple; to engage in close combat.
#* (1796-1859)
(label) To finish, to terminate.
# To put an end to; to conclude; to complete; to finish; to consummate.
#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
# To come to an end.
# (label) To make a sale.
# To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.
# To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine.
* Bible, (w) ii. 5
* (George Herbert) (1593-1633)
(label) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
An end or conclusion.
* Macaulay
The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
* Chapman
A grapple in wrestling.
(music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
* Dryden
(music) A double bar marking the end.
Closed, shut.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Matthew chapter 8:
* Dryden
Narrow; confined.
* Charles Dickens
At a little distance; near.
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, title= Intimate; well-loved.
# (legal) Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
* Francis Bacon
Hot, humid, with no wind.
(linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
(obsolete) Out of the way of observation; secluded; secret; hidden.
* Bible, 1 Chron. xii. 1
* Spenser
Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.
Short.
(archaic) Dense; solid; compact.
* John Locke
(archaic) Concise; to the point.
* Dryden
(dated) Difficult to obtain.
(dated) Parsimonious; stingy.
* Hawthorne
Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.
Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict.
An enclosed field.
(British) A street that ends in a dead end.
(Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
(Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement.
A cathedral close.
* Macaulay
(legal) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed.
Minute is a synonym of close.
As verbs the difference between minute and close
is that minute is while close is (label) to remove a gap.As a noun close is
an end or conclusion or close can be an enclosed field.As an adjective close is
closed, shut.minute
English
(wikipedia minute)Etymology 1
From (etyl) minute, fromNoun
(en noun)- You have twenty minutes to complete the test.
- Wait a minute , I’m not ready yet!
- We need to be sure these maps are accurate to within one minute of arc.
- Let’s look at the minutes of last week’s meeting.
- If you buy this phone, you’ll get 100 free minutes .
- I go this minute to attend the king.
- minutes and circumstances of his passion
Derived terms
* minute bell * minute book * minute glass * minute gunSynonyms
* instant, jiffy, mo, moment, sec, second, tic * (unit of angular measure) minute of arcVerb
(minut)- I’ll minute this evening’s meeting.
- I dare say there was a vast amount of minuting , memoranduming, and dispatch-boxing, on this mighty subject.
- On 17 November 1949 Jay minuted Cripps, arguing that trade liberalization on inessentials was socially regressive.
- The Commander-in-Chief of Bomber Command, Sir Richard Peirse, was sceptical of its findings, minuting, ‘I don’t think at this rate we could have hoped to produce the damage which is known to have been achieved.’
- Mr. Klingstadt, chief Auditor of the Admiralty of that city, sent for and examined them very particularly concerning the events which had befallen them; minuting down their answers in writing, with an intention of publishing himself an account of their extraordinary adventures.
- The Empress of Russia, with her own hand, minuted an edict for universal tolerance.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Adjective
(er)Synonyms
* (small) * infinitesimal, insignificant, minuscule, tiny, trace * See also * (exact) * exact, exacting, excruciating, precise, scrupulous * See alsoAntonyms
* big, enormous, colossal, huge, significant, tremendous, vastclose
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(clos)- What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
- They boldly closed in a hand-to-hand contest.
- One frugal supper did our studies close .
- The depth closed me round about.
- But now Thou dost Thyself immure and close / In some one corner of a feeble heart; / Where yet both Sinne and Satan, Thy old foes, / Do pinch and straiten Thee, and use much art / To gain Thy thirds' and little part.
Synonyms
* close off, close up, cover, shut, shut off * shut * (put an end to) end, finish, terminate, wind up, close down * narrow * (terminate a computer program) close out, exitAntonyms
* open * open * (put an end to) begin, commence, initiate, start * extend, widen * (terminate a computer program) open, startDerived terms
* autoclosing * case closed * close down * close in * close off * close one's eyes * close out * close ranks * close the door on * close the face * close up *Noun
(en noun)- We owe them our thanks for bringing the project to a successful close .
- His long and troubled life was drawing to a close .
- The doors of plank were; their close exquisite.
- (Francis Bacon)
- At every close she made, the attending throng / Replied, and bore the burden of the song.
Synonyms
* (end) end, finaleAntonyms
* (end) beginning, startEtymology 2
From (etyl) clos, from (etyl) clausum, participle of (m).Adjective
(er)- There is nothinge so close , that shall not be openned, and nothinge so hyd that shall not be knowen.
- From a close bower this dainty music flowed.
- a close''' alley; '''close quarters
- a close prison
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=[…] St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close -packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.}}
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- If the rooms be low-roofed, or full of windows and doors, the one maketh the air close , and the other maketh it exceeding unequal.
- a close prisoner
- He yet kept himself close because of Saul.
- her close intent
- a close contest
- to cut grass or hair close
- The golden globe being put into a press, the water made itself way through the pores of that very close metal.
- close reasoning
- Where the original is close no version can reach it in the same compass.
- Money is close .
- (Bartlett)
- a crusty old fellow, as close as a vice
- a close translation
- (John Locke)
- The patient was kept under close observation.
Synonyms
* (at a little distance) close by, near, nearby * (intimate) intimate * muggy, oppressive * (articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate) highAntonyms
* (at a little distance) distant, far, far away, far off, remote * (intimate) aloof, cool, distant * (articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate) openDerived terms
* close call * closely * closeness * close shave * close-up * thiscloseNoun
(en noun)- closes surrounded by the venerable abodes of deans and canons.
- (Bouvier)