Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a minute manner or degree; with great particularity, closeness, or exactness; closely; exactly; very finely: as, a minutely divided substance; to observe, describe, or relate anything minutely; minutely punctured.
- Every minute; with very little time intervening.
- Happening every minute.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a minute manner; with minuteness; exactly; nicely.
- adjective obsolete Happening every minute; continuing; unceasing.
- adverb At intervals of a minute; very often and regularly.
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- adverb With attention to tiny
details . - adverb On a
minute scale.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in minute detail
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Examples
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Ellen’s face formed an expression minutely too casual, as if it were being pushed through another, more immediate emotion.
The Will Reed Arvin 2000
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Ellen’s face formed an expression minutely too casual, as if it were being pushed through another, more immediate emotion.
The Will Reed Arvin 2000
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When she glanced at Ginny's palette, it seemed to be covered in minutely distinctive shades of red.
MORE FROM GINNY BATES: MYRA THE WRITER Maggie Jochild 2007
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Ashbery's poetry, like Darger's art, is an entire world, its terms minutely and eccentrically developed; like Cornell's boxes and collages, his poems are part storage, part wonder.
Papa 2009
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What does annoy me minutely is the ordering of items in the Scripting News feed, which appears not to be strictly by time.
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I pretended complete ignorance of the French language, he therefore asked me in Italian minutely about my affairs, and how I could attempt to travel home without any money or goods, to defray the expenses of the journey.
Travels in Nubia 2004
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For Art & Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars/And not in generalizing Demonstrations of the Rational Power (55: 60-63).
Unlocking Language: Self-Similarity in Blake's _Jerusalem_. 2001
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Again I referred to the mysterious Gabrielle whom I described as minutely as I was able, and apparently my description fitted that of
The Stretton Street Affair William Le Queux 1895
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They are intended to stimulate reverent inquiry, not to gratify idle speculative curiosity; and when the event shall have been fulfilled, they will show the divine wisdom of God, who ordered all things in minutely harmonious relations, and left neither the times nor the ways haphazard.
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What is difficult to translate and what I specifically concentrated on in my review were moments where Proust describes as minutely as possible, and as no one had ever done before or after him, the psychological currents that run between one person and another, between those who do not wish to reveal anything about themselves and the narrator who is forever deciphering their hidden motives.
'Proust's Way?': An Exchange Davis, Lydia 2006
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