| minute gun | (military) gun that is discharged once every minute (usually as part of a military funeral) |
minute hand
big hand | points to the minutes |
hour
minute | distance measured by the time taken to cover it, we live an hour from the airport, its justminutes away |
newsworthiness
news | the quality of being sufficiently interesting to be reported in news bulletins, the judge conceded the newsworthiness of the trial, he is no longer news in the fashion world |
journalism
news media | newspapers and magazines collectively |
| news photography | photography of newsworthy events |
news article
news story
newspaper article | an article reporting news |
| news item | an item in a newspaper |
| minute | a short note, the secretary keeps the minutes of the meeting |
| minute book | a book in which minutes have been written |
| news magazine | a magazine devoted to reports of current events, usually published weekly |
news program
news show
news | a program devoted to current events, often using interviews and commentary, we watch the o'clock news every night |
news
intelligence tidings
word | information about recent and important events, they awaited news of the outcome |
| news | informal information of any kind that is not previously known to someone, it was news to me |
| news | information reported in a newspaper or news magazine, the news of my death was greatly exaggerated |
| business news | news about businesses and investments |
report
news report
story account write up | a short account of the news, the report of his speech, the story was on the o'clock news, the account of his speech that was given on the evening news made the governor furious |
news bulletin
newsflash
flash
newsbreak | a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story |
| radio news | a radio broadcast of news |
| television news | a television broadcast of news |
| hard news | news that deals with serious topics or events |
| soft news | news that does not deal with serious topics or events |
press conference
news conference | a conference at which press and tv reporters ask questions of a politician or other celebrity |
leak
news leak | unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information |
| news event | a newsworthy event |
| minute steak | a thin steak that can be cooked quickly |
news agency
press agency
wire service
press association
news organization
news organisation | an agency to collects news reports for newspapers and distributes it electronically |
| Newport News | a port city in southeastern Virginia at the mouth of the James River off Hampton Roads, large shipyards |
| four-minute man | someone who has run the mile in less that minutes |
newsreader
news reader | someone who reads out broadcast news bulletin |
minute
arcminute
minute of arc | a unit of angular distance equal to a th of a degree |
| ampere-minute | a unit of charge equal tocoulombs |
| light minute | the distance light travels in a vacuum in one minute, approximately million kilometers |
minute
min | a unit of time equal toseconds or
th of an hour, he ran a minute mile |
moment
minute second instant | a particular point in time, the moment he arrived the party began |
eleventh hour
last minute | the latest possible moment, money became available at the eleventh hour, at the last minute the government changed the rules |
moment mo
minute second bit | an indefinitely short time, wait just a moment, in a mo, it only takes a minute, in just a bit |
a blink of an eye
flash
heartbeat
instant jiffy
split second
trice
twinkling
wink
New York minute | a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat), if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash |
revolutions per minute
rpm
rev | rate of revolution of a motor, the engine was doing revs |
count per minute
counts
minute | frequency per minute |
words per minute
wpm | the rate at which words are produced (as in speaking or typing) |
beats per minute
bpm
metronome marking
M.M. | the pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring inseconds |
minute
narrow | characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination, a minute inspection of the grounds, a narrow scrutiny, an exact and minute report |
up-to-the-minute
latest | up to the immediate present, most recent or most up-to-date, the news is up-to-the-minute, the very latest scientific discoveries |
infinitesimal
minute | infinitely or immeasurably small, two minute whiplike threads of protoplasm, reduced to a microscopic scale |
| last-minute | just before a deadline, at the last minute, last-minute arrangements |