Big vs. Minute — What's the Difference?

Of considerable size or extent

The minute is a unit of time usually equal to 1/60 (the first sexagesimal fraction) of an hour, or 60 seconds. In the UTC time standard, a minute on rare occasions has 61 seconds, a consequence of leap seconds (there is a provision to insert a negative leap second, which would result in a 59-second minute, but this has never happened in more than 40 years under this system).

Of considerable importance or seriousness

A unit of time equal to one sixtieth of an hour, or 60 seconds.

Generous

A unit of angular measurement equal to one sixtieth of a degree, or 60 seconds. Also called arcminute, minute of arc.

Praise or recommend something highly

A measure of the distance one can cover in a minute

The major league in a professional sport

A short interval of time; moment.

Of considerable size, number, quantity, magnitude, or extent; large.

A specific point in time

Having great strength or force

A note or summary covering points to be remembered; a memorandum.

Of great significance; momentous

Minutes An official record of the proceedings of a meeting.

Mature or grown-up

To record in a memorandum or the minutes of a meeting.

Older or eldest. Used especially of a sibling

Exceptionally small; tiny.

Filled up; brimming over

Not worthy of notice; insignificant

Bountiful; generous

Characterized by careful scrutiny and close examination

Pregnant

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

Having or exercising considerable authority, control, or influence

(informal) A short but unspecified time period.

Conspicuous in position, wealth, or importance; prominent

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

Loud and firm; resounding

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

(Informal) Widely liked, used, or practiced; popular

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.

(Informal) Self-important; cocky

A point in time; a moment.

In a pretentious or boastful way

A nautical or a geographic mile.

With considerable success

An old coin, a half farthing.

In a thorough or unmistakable way; emphatically

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

Of great size, large.

(architecture) A fixed part of a module.

(informal) Fat.

A while or a long unspecified period of time

Large with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce.

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

(informal) Well-endowed, possessing large breasts in the case of a woman or a large penis in the case of a man.

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

(informal) Adult; (of a child) older.

Very small.

Old, mature. Used to imply that somebody is too old for something, or acting immaturely.

Very careful and exact, giving small details.

.informal Mature, conscientious, principled; generous.

The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m. or min.; as, 4 h. 30 m.

(informal) Important or significant.

The sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds (Marked thus (´); as, 10° 20´).

Popular.

A nautical or a geographic mile.

(of a city) Populous.

A coin; a half farthing.

(informal) Used as an intensifier, especially of negative-valence nouns

A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a tittle.

Operating on a large scale, especially if therefore having undue or sinister influence.

A point of time; a moment.

Enthusiastic (about).

The memorandum; a record; a note to preserve the memory of anything; as, to take minutes of a contract; to take minutes of a conversation or debate; to read the minutes of the last meeting.

In a loud manner.

A fixed part of a module. See Module.

In a boasting manner.

Of or pertaining to a minute or minutes; occurring at or marking successive minutes.

In a large amount or to a large extent.

Very small; little; tiny; fine; slight; slender; inconsiderable; as, minute details.

On a large scale, expansively.

Attentive to small things; paying attention to details; critical; particular; precise; as, a minute observer; minute observation.

Hard.

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

An important or powerful person; a celebrity; a big name.

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

(in the plural) The big leagues, big time.

An indefinitely short time;

(university slang) A initiated member of a sorority who acts as a mentor to a new member (the little).

A particular point in time;

(BDSM) The participant in ageplay who acts out the older role.

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

One or more kinds of barley, especially six-rowed barley.

A short note;

To inhabit; occupy.

Distance measured by the time taken to cover it;

To locate oneself.

Infinitely or immeasurably small;

To build; erect; fashion.

Immeasurably small

To dwell; have a dwelling.

Characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination;

Having largeness of size; of much bulk or magnitude; of great size; large.

Great with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce; - often figuratively.

Having greatness, fullness, importance, inflation, distention, etc., whether in a good or a bad sense; as, a big heart; a big voice; big looks; to look big. As applied to looks, it indicates haughtiness or pride.

Barley, especially the hardy four-rowed kind.

To build.

Above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent;

Significant;

Of very great significance;

Conspicuous in position or importance;

Very intense;

Loud and firm;

Prodigious;

(of animals) fully developed;

Marked by intense physical force;

Feeling self-importance;

Older brother or sister;

Exhibiting self-importance;

Generous and understanding and tolerant;

Given or giving freely;

In an advanced stage of pregnancy;

Extremely well;

In a boastful manner;

On a grand scale;

In a major way;