Minute vs. Small

Minute vs. Small — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Minute and Small

Minutenoun

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

You have twenty minutes to complete the test.

Smalladjective

Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.

A small serving of ice cream.A small group.He made us all feel small.

Minutenoun

(informal) A short but unspecified time period.

Wait a minute, I’m not ready yet!

Smalladjective

(figuratively) Young, as a child.

Remember when the children were small?

Minutenoun

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

We need to be sure these maps are accurate to within one minute of arc.

Smalladjective

Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written letters.

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Minutenoun

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

Let’s look at the minutes of last week’s meeting.

Smalladjective

Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.

Minutenoun

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

If you buy this phone, you’ll get 100 free minutes.

Smalladjective

Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.

a small space of time

Minutenoun

A point in time; a moment.

Smalladverb

In a small fashion.

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Minutenoun

A nautical or a geographic mile.

Smalladverb

In or into small pieces.

Minutenoun

An old coin, a half farthing.

Smalladverb

(obsolete) To a small extent.

Minutenoun

(obsolete) A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.

Smallnoun

(rare) Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back.

Minutenoun

(architecture) A fixed part of a module.

Smallverb

To make little or less.

Minutenoun

A while or a long unspecified period of time

Oh, I ain't heard that song in a minute!

Smallverb

(intransitive) To become small; to dwindle.

Minuteverb

(transitive) Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.

I’ll minute this evening’s meeting.

Smallnoun

the slender part of the back

Minuteverb

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

Smallnoun

a garment size for a small person

Minuteadjective

Very small.

They found only minute quantities of chemical residue on his clothing.

Smalladjective

limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent;

a little dining rooma little housea small cara little (or small) groupa small voice

Minuteadjective

Very careful and exact, giving small details.

The lawyer gave the witness a minute examination.

Smalladjective

limited in size or scope;

a small businessa newspaper with a modest circulationsmall-scale plansa pocket-size country

Minutenoun

a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour;

he ran a 4 minute mile

Smalladjective

low or inferior in station or quality;

a humble cottagea lowly parish priesta modest man of the peoplesmall beginnings

Minutenoun

an indefinitely short time;

wait just a momentit only takes a minutein just a bit

Smalladjective

not fully grown;

what a big little boy you aresmall children

Minutenoun

a particular point in time;

the moment he arrived the party began

Smalladjective

too small to be seen except under a microscope

Minutenoun

a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree

Smalladjective

not large but sufficient in size or amount;

a modest salarymodest inflationhelped in my own small way

Minutenoun

a short note;

the secretary keeps the minutes of the meeting

Smalladjective

(of a voice) faint;

a little voicea still small voice

Minutenoun

distance measured by the time taken to cover it;

we live an hour from the airportits just 10 minutes away

Smalladjective

slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope;

a series of death struggles with small time in between

Minuteadjective

infinitely or immeasurably small;

two minute whiplike threads of protoplasmreduced to a microscopic scale

Smalladjective

made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth);

her comments made me feel small

Minuteadjective

immeasurably small

Smalladjective

lowercase;

little asmall ae.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters

Minuteadjective

characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination;

a minute inspection of the groundsa narrow scrutinyan exact and minute report

Smalladjective

have fine or very small constituent particles;

a small misty rain

Smalladverb

on a small scale;

think small