minute vs third

minute

noun
  • A fixed part of a module. 

  • A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree. 

  • An old coin, a half farthing. 

  • A nautical or a geographic mile. 

  • A short but unspecified time period. 

  • A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting. 

  • A point in time; a moment. 

  • A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour). 

  • A unit of purchase on a telephone or other similar network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent in gross form to sixty seconds' use of the network. 

  • A while or a long unspecified period of time 

adj
  • Very small. 

  • Very careful and exact, giving small details. 

verb
  • To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of. 

  • Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting. 

third

noun
  • One of three equal parts of a whole. 

  • The person or thing in the third position. 

  • The third gear of a gearbox. 

  • third base 

  • A third-class degree, awarded to the lowest achievers in an honours degree programme 

  • An interval consisting of the first and third notes in a scale. 

  • A handicap of one stroke every third hole. 

verb
  • To agree with a proposition or statement after it has already been seconded. 

  • To divide into three equal parts. 

adj
  • The ordinal form of the cardinal number three; Coming after the second. 

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