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Definition: Hour |
HourNoun1. A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day; "the job will take more than an hour". 2. Clock time; "the hour is getting late". 3. A special and memorable period; "it was their finest hour". 4. Distance measured by the time taken to cover it; "we live an hour from the airport"; "its just 10 minutes away". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hour" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Hour \Hour\, noun. [from Old English expression hour, our, hore, ure, Old French hore, ore, ure, French heure, from Latin expression hora, from the Greek expression, originally, definite space of time, fixed by natural laws; hence, season, the time of the day, an hour. See Year, and compare to Horologe, Horoscope.]. (references) |
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Bible | Hour First found in Dan. 3:6; 4:19, 33;5:5. It is the rendering of the Chaldee shaah, meaning a "moment," a "look." It is used in the New Testament frequently to denote some determinate season (Matt. 8:13; Luke 12:39). With the ancient Hebrews the divisions of the day were "morning, evening, and noon-day" (Ps. 55:17, etc.). The Greeks, following the Babylonians, divided the day into twelve hours. The Jews, during the Captivity, learned also from the Babylonians this method of dividing time. When Judea became subject to the Romans, the Jews adopted the Roman mode of reckoning time. The night was divided into four watches (Luke 12:38; Matt. 14:25; 13:25). Frequent allusion is also made to hours (Matt. 25:13; 26:40, etc.). (See DAY.) An hour was the twelfth part of the day, reckoning from sunrise to sunset, and consequently it perpetually varied in length. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Biographical Satire | HOUR, The Man of the, most popular and versatile man who ever lived. Attracted tremendous attention. Newspapers printed his picture and ran long articles about his life, family, eccentricities, etc. Won fame in war, science, pulpit, aviation, stage, art, music, politics, literature, finance, by saving a life and in exploring. His accomplishments were infinite. H. was lionized by royalty, society, and beautiful women. Made addresses, gave interviews, received honors. He was the man everyone wanted to shake by the hand so they could tell other people they had done it. Ambition: Another hour. Recreation: Basking. Address: All countries. Clubs: All open. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
Literature | Hour (Greek and Latin, hora.) At the eleventh hour. Just in time not to be too late; only just in time to obtain some benefit. The allusion is to the parable of labourers hired for the vineyard (Matt. xx.). My hour is not yet come. The time of my death is not yet fully come. The allusion is to the belief that the hour of our birth and death is appointed and fixed. "When Jesus knew that His hour was come." - John xiii. 1. In an evil hour. Acting under an unfortunate impulse. In astrology we have our lucky and unlucky hours. In the small hours of the morning. One, two, and three, after midnight. To keep good hours. To return home early every night; to go to bed bedtimes. "Se retirer la nuit de bonne heure." In Latin, "Tempestive se domum recipere." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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In modern usage, an hour is defined as a unit of time 60 minutes, or 3600 seconds in length. It is approximately 1/24 of a median Earth day.
Earlier definitions of the hour:
- One twelfth of the time from sunrise to sunset. As a consequence, hours on summer days are longer than on winter days. Romans and Greeks used this definition and divided the night into three or four night watches. Later, the night (i. e., the time between sunset and sunrise) was also divided into twelve hours. When a clock showed these hours, its speed had to be changed every morning and evening, for example by changing the length of its pendulum.
- One twenty-fourth of the apparent solar day (between one noon and the next, or between one sunset and the next). As a consequence, hours vary a little, as the length of an apparent solar day varies throughout the year. When a clock showed these hours, it had to be adjusted a few times in a month.
- One twenty-fourth of the mean solar day. See mean sun for more information on the difference to the apparent solar day. When an exact clock showed these hours, it had te be adjusted virtually never. However, as earth rotation slows down, this definition has been abandoned. See UTC.
Counting hours
Every definition of the hour came with its own starting point for counting the hours.
This manner of counting hours has the advantage that everyone can easily read the clock to see how much time he will have to finish his daywork without artificial light. It was introduced in Italy during the 14th century and lasted until mid-18th century, in some regions until mid-19th century. It was also used in Poland and Bohemia until the 17th century.
- In antiquity, the counting of hours started with sunrise. So, sunrise is always exactly at the beginning of the 1st hour, noon at the end of the 6th hour, and sunset exactly at the end of the 12th hour.
- In the so-called Italian time, the first hour starts at sunset (or the end of dusk, i. e., 1/2 hour after sunset, depending on local custom). The hours are counted 1-24. So, the sun rises at Lugano in December around 14:46 and noon is around 19:23; in June, the sun rises already at 7:51 and noon is around 15:55. Sunset is always at 24:00.
Sunrise and sunset are much more conspicuous points in day than noon or midnight; starting to count then is much easier than starting at noon or midnight. With modern astronomic equipment (and the telegraph or similar means to transfer a time sign in a split-second), this issue is no more relevant.
- For the modern 12-hour clock, counting the hours starts at midnight and restarts at noon. So, sunrise is around 6:00 A.M., noon always at 12:00 P.M. (except for the equation of time), and sunset around 6:00 P.M.
- For the modern 24-hour clock, counting the hours starts at midnight. So, sunrise is around 6:00, noon always at 12:00 (except for the equation of time), and sunset around 18:00.
Sundials often show the hour length and count according to one of the older definitions and countings.
There are probably 12 hours because there are approximately 12 lunar months in a solar year. Symmetries of this sort are common in ancient units of measurement.
See also: canonical hours, times from 1 kilosecond to 10 kiloseconds
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For the American news magazine see TIME.
One can say that one event occurs after another event. Furthermore one can measure how much one event occurs after another. The answer to how much is the amount of time between the those two events. One way of defining the idea of 'after' is based on the assumption of causality. The work humanity has done to increasingly understand the nature and measurement of time, through the work of making and improving calendars and clocks, has been a major engine of scientific discovery.
The standard unit for time is the SI second, from which larger units are defined like the minute, hour, day, week, month, year, decade, and century. Time can be measured, just like other physical dimensions. Measuring devices for time are clocks. Very accurate clocks are often called chronometers. The best available clocks are atomic clocks.
There are several continuous time scales in current use: Universal Time, International Atomic Time (TAI), which is the basis for other time scales, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), which is the standard for civil time, Terrestrial Time (TT), etc. Mankind has invented calendars to track the passages of days, weeks, months, and years.
Time in engineering and applied physics
In physics, time is defined as the distance between events along the fourth axis of the spacetime manifold. Special relativity showed that time cannot be understood except as part of spacetime, a combination of space and time. The distance between events now depends on the relative speed of the observers of the events. General relativity further changed the notion of time by introducing the idea of curved spacetime. An important unit of time in theoretical physics is the Planck time – see Planck units for more details.See also: Synchronization, ISO 8601, Allan variance
Time in philosophy and theoretical physics
Important questions in the philosophy of time include: Is time absolute or merely relational? Is time without change conceptually impossible or is there more to the idea? Does time "pass" or are the ideas of past, present and future entirely subjective, descriptions only of our deception by the senses?
Zeno's paradoxes fundamentally challenged the ancient conception of time, and thereby helped motivate the development of the calculus. A point of contention between Newton and Leibniz concerned the question of absolute time: the former believed time was, like space, a container for events, while the latter believed time was, like space, a conceptual apparatus describing the interrelations between events. McTaggart believed, rather eccentrically and on the basis of a very shaky argument, that time and change are illusions. Parmenides (of whom Zeno was a follower) held a similar belief based on a similarly shaky, but rather more interesting argument.
Einstein's theory of relativity linked time and space into spacetime in a way that also had philosophical consequences, making the idea of block time more credible, and thus affecting ideas of free will and causality.
The engineer J. W. Dunne developed a theory of time whereby he considered our perception of time like notes being played on piano. Having had a number of prescient dreams, he monitored his dreams and found that they generally included as many past as future events. From this he concluded that in dreams we escape linear time. He published his ideas in An Experiment with Time in 1927 and followed this with other books.
Perception of time
One may perceive time to go fast ("time flies"), meaning that a duration seems less than it is;this may be considered an advantage:
it may be considered a disadvantage:
- in the case of something of fixed duration which is relatively unpleasant, which may be e.g.:
- work (perhaps not as pleasant as leisure time, but done for the money)
- travel (if not done for its own sake, but to get somewhere)
- waiting, boredom
(on the other hand, that the time has flown is considered a sign that it has been enjoyable)
- in the case of something of fixed duration which is relatively pleasant, which may be e.g.:
- leisure time, holidays
Time also seems to go fast when sleeping, some of the above applies, e.g. it may be an advantage to sleep as train or car passenger, and sleep long in the case of boredom, while it may be wasteful to sleep long on holidays.
- if one has a lot to do
- on a larger time scale, "getting old quickly"
See also
- Time scales: astronomical year numbering, British Summer Time, calendar, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), daylight saving time, ephemeris time, geologic timescale, Greenwich Mean Time, International Atomic Time (TAI), metric time, sidereal time, solar time, standard time and frequency signal service, Terrestrial Time, time zone, Universal Time
- Measuring instruments-- chronometer, clock, atomic clock, pendulum clock, quartz clock, watch, sundial, horology
- Units-- second, minute, hour, day, month, year
- Dating techniques-- radiometric dating, radiocarbon dating, dendrochronology
- Periods of time-- week, quarter, century, millennium, period, era, epoch, season, attack time, exponential time, response time, seek time, watch, half-life, periodization, list of time periods, also: timespan, duration, eternity
- History-- A Brief History of Time, intellectual history of time, timeline of time measurement technology
- also-- block time, Network Time Protocol, philosophy of physics, real-time, spacetime, The Time Machine, time and frequency transfer, time code, time domain, time machine, Time Magazine, time management, time travel, time-sharing , the age of the Earth, orders of magnitude (time), eternity, time capsule
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How to say times in English
See also: how to say datess in English.
- Ask the time : What time is it? and What is the time?.
- Answer: It is and the part of the hour or the minutes, seconds: It is five o'clock.
- Parts of the day:
- morning: in the morning
- afternoon: in the afternoon
- evening: in the evening
- night: at night
- Halves:
- AM
- PM
- Parts of the hour
- O'clock e.g. : It is one o'clock (1:00).
- Past and to:
- It is 4 minutes past 5 (5:04) (or 4 minutes after 5 in USA).
- It is 20 to 5 (4:40) (or 20 before 5 in USA).
- Quarter:
- A quarter past. E.g.: It is a quarter past 9 (9:15) (or a quarter after 9 in USA).
- A quarter to. E.g. : It is a quarter to 12 (11:45) (or a quarter before 12 in USA).
- Half past. E.g.: It is half past 9 (9:30).
- Answer to when? :
- Certain time: At. E.g.: At 5 p.m..
- Proximity:
- Nearly, about : It is about 10 o'clock.
- Just after: It is just after 10 (a few minutes past 10).
Books
Einstein's Clocks and Poincaré's Maps: Empires of Time. By Peter Galison. W.W. Norton; 256 pages; $23.95. Sceptre; £16.99
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(Clockwise from upper left) TIME magazine covers from May 7, 1945; July 25, 1969; December 31, 1999; September 14, 2001; and April 21, 2003.TIME is a weekly American news magazine, roughly similar to Newsweek and U.S. News and World Report. A European edition (TIMEeurope, formerly known as TIMEatlantic) is produced out of London covering the Middle East, Africa and (from 2003) Latin America, while an Asian edition (TIMEasia) is based in Hong Kong.
TIME hit newsstands for the first time on March 2, 1923, preceding both of its major competitors and virtually inventing the weekly news magazine. It was co-founded in 1923 by Briton Hadden and Henry Luce. Hadden died in 1929, and Luce became the dominant man at TIME and a major figure in the history of 20th century media. Hadden was a rather carefree figure, who liked to tease Luce and saw TIME as something important but also fun. That accounts for its tone, which many people still criticize as too light for serious news and more suited to its heavy coverage of celebrities (including politicians), the entertainment industry, and pop culture.
TIME has always had its own writing style, parodied by Wolcott Gibbs this way (long before the Jedi master Yoda was created): "Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind. Where it would end, knows God."
TIME became part of Time Warner in 1989 when Warner Communications and Time, Inc. merged. Since 2000, the magazine has been part of AOL Time Warner, which was subsequently renamed back to Time Warner in 2003.
The magazine's most famous feature over its 80 years has been the annual Man of the Year — recently renamed Person of the Year — contest, in which TIME recognizes the individual or group of individuals who have had the biggest effect on the year's news. Despite the title, the recipient is not necessarily a human. In the past, even ideas and machines have received the honor.
External links
- TIME.com
- TIMEeurope.com
- TIMEasia.com
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Synonyms: HourSynonyms: hr (n), minute (n), time of day (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Instantaneity | Epoch, time; time of day, time of night; hour, minute; very minute; very time, very hour; present time, right time, true time, exact correct time. |
Period | Noun: period, age, era; second, minute, hour, day, week, month, quarter, year, decade, decenniumm lustrum, quinquennium, lifetime, generation; epoch, ghurry, lunation, moon. |
The Present Time | Noun: the present, the present time, the present day, the present moment, the present juncture, the present occasion; the times, the existing time, the time being; today, these days, nowadays, our times, modern times, the twentieth century; nonce, crisis, epoch, day, hour. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Hour |
| English words defined with "hour": by the hour ♦ early-morning hour ♦ hour angle, hour circle, hour hand, Hour line ♦ kilowatt hour ♦ light hour ♦ Post hour ♦ semester hour. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "hour": Darkest Hour is that before the Dawn ♦ expanded traded hour ♦ inverse hour. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "hour": Time. (references) |
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Screenplays | He bought you another half hour. (Air Force One; writing credit: Andrew W. Marlowe) Why can't things just go back to normal at the end of the half hour, like on the Brady Bunch (Reality Bites; writing credit: Ben Stiller, written by Helen Childress.) Meet you in Malkovich in one hour. (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman) Vice president Ford will be sworn into office at that hour in this office (Forrest Gump; writing credit: Eric Roth) Late is the hour in which this conjurer chooses to appear (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) | |
Lyrics | Are you waiting for the hour (Wall Street Shuffle; performing artist: 10CC) Every hour, every day. (Every Heartbeat; performing artist: Amy Grant) You called me in the midnight hour (One Day In Your Life; performing artist: Anastacia) Getting thinner by the hour. (Extra Ordinary; performing artist: Better Than Ezra) To make me rise an hour early just like Daylight Savings Time (The Bad Touch; performing artist: Bloodhound Gang) | |
Clever | May you get to Heaven a half hour before the Devil knows you're dead. (references; author: Irish Proverb) A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Happy Hour (2002) The Tommy Cooper Hour (1974) Half the George Kirby Comedy Hour (1972) The Jerry Reed When You're Hot You're Hot Hour (1972) Hour Glass (1971) | |
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 | This erythrocyte contains new merozoites, which when released will develop into male and female gametocytes. P. malariae causes quartan malaria producing febrile paroxysms at 72 hour intervals. Credit: CDC. |  | P. malariae, a quartan malaria, produces febrile paroxysms on a 72 hour cycle. Relapses can sometimes occur half a century after being infected. Credit: CDC. |
 | Midnight at Palm Springs - sun has been down about an hour Triangulation party of Walt Helm. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | A "peeler" crab (female). It will shed its shell within an hour. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Antarctica Route 1 - there's never a rush hour. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | The record bonito, Tuna Club 1908, caught with rod and reel. This fish, which weighed 22 pounds, fought for more than an hour. Note angler's belt with socket for rod butt. In: "Sport Fishing in California and Florida," by Charles F. Holder. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, Vol. XXVIII 1908, Part I, p. 207 Plate II. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | A bucket full of quahogs, Mercenaria mercenaria. Quahogs feed by filtering plankton from the water, pumping up to a gallon per hour or more, depending on temperature. This feeding activity helps to improve water quality and clarity in Narragansett Bay and is an important ecological link between the Bay's water column and its benthic, or bottom-dwelling community. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Figure 33. Meyer slow registering thermometer invented by Dr. Adolph Meyer and first used on the POMMERANIA in 1871 and then by various German scientific studies. It was used down to 50 meters but would stay submerged for about an hour to register the proper temperature because it was highly insulated. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Raptor 4001 completes its 300th flight hour with Lockheed Martin test pilot Paul Metz at the controls. Currently, the F-22 flight test fleet of three Raptors have logged 620 flight hours. (U.S. Air Force p.; photo by Judson Brohmer) |  | The "pink table" at the grader. Grader men get 20 cents per hour. Belcross, NC. July 1940. Credit: USDA. |
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| "Ninety five miles per hour" by Kd Kelly Commentary: "Not just driving fast, but taking pictures and driving fast. yes, it's crazy. it's also really, really fun. (if you use this i'd love to hear from you -- thanks)." | "Busy hour" by Thorarinn Stefansson Commentary: "Taken in a London train station as the working bees start pouring in at the end of the day." |
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 | Dark; night; woods; wolf; full moon; witching hour. | | Ring; ringing; bell; hour; time; grandfather; clock. |
| Clock tower; midnight; wolf; witching hour; ominous; apocalyptic; augural; baleful; baneful; clouded; dangerous; dark; dire; direful; dismal; doomed; doomful; fateful; fearful; forbidding; gloomy; grim; haunting; hostile; ill-boding; ill-fated; impending. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Author Unknown | For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned. |
Benjamin Franklin | Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour. |
Henry Ward Beecher | The first hour of the day is the rudder of the morning. |
| Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages. | |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | To fill the hour -- that is happiness. |
| Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die. | |
Thomas Jefferson | Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour. |
Thomas p Kempis | Permit no hour to go by without it due improvement. |
William Yancey | The man and the hour have met. |
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Communist Manifesto | 1848 | Finally, in times when the class struggle nears the decisive hour, the process of dissolution going on within the ruling class, in fact within the whole range of society, assumes such a violent, glaring character, that a small section of the ruling class cuts itself adrift, and joins the revolutionary class, the class that holds the future in its hands. (reference) |
John F. Kennedy | 1963 | In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. (reference) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | Mr. Woodhouse must not, under the specious pretence of a morning drive, and an hour or two spent at Donwell, be tempted away to his misery |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | We sat on, talking, while hour after hour, of this our last night together, glided away unnoticed |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | This might have lasted half a minute, or a minute, but it seemed an hour. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | If the imaginative faculty refused to act at such an hour, it might well be deemed a hopeless case |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | In the morning he devoted an hour to meditation, and then said mass, either at the cathedral, or in his own house |
Imitation of Horace | John Dryden | Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Now is the hour. |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | [To RICHARD] Richard, thy wife, that wretched Anne thy wife That never slept a quiet hour with thee Now fills thy sleep with perturbations |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | In half an hour we set fire to the camp |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | But he was then deep in a problem, and we attended at least an hour, before he could solve it. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | It's best to rest sitting up for about an hour after meals. (references) | |
The operation usually lasts less than 1 hour and is almost painless. (references) | ||
To relieve discomfort, drink two 8-ounce glasses of water each hour for 2 hours. (references) | ||
Business | Their program hour may consist up to twenty percent of advertising. (references) | |
Guests to social events (except in the case of cities in the North) can arrive an hour late. (references) | ||
In 1988, Romania built 850 MW in thermal turbines, 174 MW in hydro turbines and 2445 tons steam per hour in boilers. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Bangladesh | The police withdrew after approximately 1 hour. (references) |
Peru | Most schools devoted 1 hour a week to such study. (references) | |
Azerbaijan | Internet access costs less than $1 (4,600 manats) per hour. (references) | |
Economic History | Moldova | As a result, the airport capacity increased to 400 persons per hour. (references) |
Marshall Islands | A tuna loining plant employs 300 workers, mostly women, at $1.50 per hour. (references) | |
Australia | Each appointment will be for one hour, unless otherwise specified by the U.S. client. (references) | |
Human Rights | Turkey | After initially denying that the two had been detained, the Jandarma admitted they had been in the station but that they had left after half an hour. (references) |
Nicaragua | One hour later a second passenger bus was approaching the area where the police had captured the assailants, and police officers signaled the bus to slow down. (references) | |
Cuba | She noted that conditions inside the prison, such as high humidity and long hours of confinement in a cell with only 1 hour outside daily, were responsible for his continued lung problems. (references) | |
Political Economy | SPAIN | A 40 hour workweek is established by law. (references) |
ITALY | Most collective agreements provide for a 36 to 38 hour workweek. (references) | |
MEXICO | This is why unions jealously defend the legal ban on hiring and paying wages by the hour. (references) | |
Travel | Maldives | Air taxis stop flying one hour before sunset. (references) |
Panama | Speed limits are posted in kilometers per hour. (references) | |
Vietnam | A general business call lasts no more than one hour. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Egypt | One or more breaks totaling at least 1 hour must be included. (references) |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Brothel operators reportedly earned $50 (100 KM) per hour per woman. (references) | |
Tunisia | Regional labor inspectors are responsible for enforcing wage and hour standards. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SHERIFF, n. In America the chief executive office of a country, whose most characteristic duties, in some of the Western and Southern States, are the catching and hanging of rogues. John Elmer Pettibone Cajee (I write of him with little glee) Was just as bad as he could be. 'Twas frequently remarked: "I swon! The sun has never looked upon So bad a man as Neighbor John." A sinner through and through, he had This added fault: it made him mad To know another man was bad. In such a case he thought it right To rise at any hour of night And quench that wicked person's light. Despite the town's entreaties, he Would hale him to the nearest tree And leave him swinging wide and free. Or sometimes, if the humor came, A luckless wight's reluctant frame Was given to the cheerful flame. While it was turning nice and brown, All unconcerned John met the frown Of that austere and righteous town. "How sad," his neighbors said, "that he So scornful of the law should be -- An anar c, h, i, s, t." (That is the way that they preferred To utter the abhorrent word, So strong the aversion that it stirred.) "Resolved," they said, continuing, "That Badman John must cease this thing Of having his unlawful fling. "Now, by these sacred relics" -- here Each man had out a souvenir Got at a lynching yesteryear -- "By these we swear he shall forsake His ways, nor cause our hearts to ache By sins of rope and torch and stake. "We'll tie his red right hand until He'll have small freedom to fulfil The mandates of his lawless will." So, in convention then and there, They named him Sheriff. The affair Was opened, it is said, with prayer. J. Milton Sloluck |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Don Imus | That was a fascinating first half-hour you had. And I was saying to the guys here in the studio, I could have watched it for the entire hour. |
Harry Belafonte | On another channel, getting ready to launch a work that I had just done. I was on NBC and just about to go down to the World Trade Center for breakfast. Had the incident happened just an hour later, I might very well have been one of its victims. |
Mark Shields | Congressman Watts, as you know, the Republicans have lost seats in the last three elections. The nation is in a recession. The surplus is shrinking by the hour. Deficits are returning. Unemployment is up. |
Paul McCartney | Half an hour, something like that. If you're really lucky, they just arrive and you kind of just write them down. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Those by whom and for whom the Government was instituted and is supported will constitute its protection in the hour of danger as they do its check in the hour of safety. |
Franklin Pierce | 1853-1857 | Our fathers decided for themselves, both upon the hour to declare and the hour to strike. |
Grover Cleveland | 1885-1889; 1893-1897 | At this hour the animosities of political strife, the bitterness of partisan defeat, and the exultation of partisan triumph should be supplanted by an ungrudging acquiescence in the popular will and a sober, conscientious concern for the general weal. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Each day we draw nearer the hour of maximum danger, as weapons spread and hostile forces grow stronger. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | For the hour and the day and the time are here to achieve progress without strife, to achieve change without hatred--not without difference of opinion, but without the deep and abiding divisions which scar the union for generations. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | Vice President Ford will be sworn in as President at that hour in this office. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Now we face another defining hour for America and the world. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Let's raise the minimum wage by a dollar an hour over the next two years. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | We last met in an hour of shock and suffering. |
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| "Hour" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.98% of the time. "Hour" is used about 11,324 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.98% | 11,322 | 821 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11,324 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "hour". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Horatia | Male | Ancient Roman | An hour |
| Horatius | Male | Ancient Roman | An hour |
| Aiath | N/A | Biblical | An hour |
| Athlai | N/A | Biblical | My hour or time |
| Ittah-kazin | N/A | Biblical | Hour |
| Othni | N/A | Biblical | My hour |
| Othniel | N/A | Biblical | The hour of God |
| Horace | Male | English | An hour |
| Horatio | Male | English | An hour |
| Horace | Male | French | An hour |
| Orazio | Male | Italian | An hour |
| Horacio | Male | Portuguese | An hour |
| Horacio | Male | Spanish | An hour |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| Country | Name |
| Singapore | The Hour Glass Limited |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "hour": a full hour ♦ ampere hour ♦ ampere hour capacity ♦ ampere hour efficiency ♦ ampere hour meter ♦ an hour later ♦ at a late hour ♦ at a later hour ♦ at an early hour ♦ at an unchristian hour ♦ at the eleventh hour ♦ at this late hour ♦ at this unreasonable hour ♦ at this unsocial hour ♦ bouncing busy hour ♦ busy hour ♦ by the hour ♦ canonical hour ♦ consultation hour ♦ every hour ♦ evil hour ♦ expanded traded hour ♦ for an hour ♦ for one hour ♦ from hour to hour ♦ full hour ♦ get nine dollars an hour ♦ golden hour ♦ greenwich hour angle ♦ h hour ♦ half an hour ♦ happy hour ♦ his hour has come ♦ hour after hour ♦ hour and a half ♦ hour angle ♦ hour circle ♦ hour hand ♦ Hour line ♦ hour of overtime ♦ hour of prayer ♦ Hour plate ♦ hour week ♦ in an evil hour ♦ in an hour ♦ in the hour of peril ♦ intermediate synoptic hour ♦ inverse hour ♦ kilometers per hour ♦ kilometres per hour ♦ kilowatt hour ♦ light hour ♦ lunch hour ♦ main synoptic hour ♦ man hour ♦ miles per hour ♦ morning hour ♦ near hour ♦ office hour ♦ on the hour ♦ one hour ♦ output per man hour ♦ peak busy hour ♦ peak hour ♦ peak hour capacity ♦ peak hour traveller ♦ per hour ♦ person hour ♦ post hour ♦ post selected busy hour ♦ quarter hour ♦ quarter of an hour ♦ Question hour ♦ rush hour ♦ seize the present hour ♦ semester hour ♦ sidereal hour ♦ solar hour ♦ synoptic hour ♦ the hero of the hour ♦ the hour ♦ the hour hand of a watch ♦ the question of the hour ♦ the rush hour ♦ the supreme hour ♦ three hour period ♦ to serve the hour ♦ unearthly hour ♦ until his last hour ♦ vehicles per lane per hour ♦ wages per hour ♦ witching hour ♦ working hour ♦ zero hour. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "hour": hour-a-day, hour-after-hour, hour-an-a-half, hour-and-a-half, hour-and-a-half's, hour-a-week, hour-by-hour, hour-circle, hour-glass, hour-glass waist, hour-glassed, hour-glasses, hour-it, hour-length, hour-long, hour-scale, hour-to-hour. | |
Ending with "hour": eleventh-hour, five-hour, four-hour, half-an-hour, kilowatt-hour, lunch-hour, miles-per-hour, nine-hour, one-hour, peak-hour, rush-hour, seven-hour, six-hour, sixteen-hour, ten-hour, three-hour, twelve-hour, twenty-four-hour, two-and-a-half-hour, two-hour. | |
Containing "hour": circadian exhibiting 24-hour periodicity, eight-hour day, forty-eight-hour week, half-hour glass, one-hour-a-week, price-per-hour list, sponsored-eating-jelly-with-chopsticks-in-half-an-hour-athon, twenty-four-hour-a-day, two-hour-a-week. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
24 hour fitness | 5,191 | wwe crush hour | 92 |
the 25th hour | 611 | kate chopin story of an hour | 84 |
rush hour | 527 | wage hour law | 84 |
rush hour 2 | 306 | pearl harbor zero hour | 71 |
hour one photo | 242 | 24 hour party people | 71 |
11th hour vacation | 232 | 72 hour kit | 68 |
hour norwalk | 197 | 48 hour diet | 67 |
hour glass | 194 | 24 hour fitness center | 64 |
hour power | 180 | rush hour game | 63 |
hour | 172 | curly david happy hour | 63 |
the story of an hour | 162 | eleventh hour | 63 |
rush hour 3 | 152 | hollywood 48 hour diet | 62 |
11th hour | 152 | 24 hour clock | 58 |
wage and hour | 144 | 25th hour script | 58 |
happy hour | 130 | the witching hour | 57 |
darkest hour | 117 | 11th hour travel | 54 |
eyes hour | 117 | hour meter | 53 |
24 hour lemans | 108 | 24 hour le man race | 53 |
curly davids happy hour | 106 | child hour | 51 |
24 hour | 102 | 25th hour quote | 49 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "hour"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | uur (o'clock, time). (various references) | |
Albanian | orë (albanian nymph, clock, fate, horologe, ticker, time, timepiece, watch). (various references) | |
Arabic | موعد الإيواء للفراش, وقت الدراسة, ستون دقيقة, ساعة (time, time-keeper, timepiece). (various references) | |
Asturian | hora. (various references) | |
Basque | ordu (time). (various references) | |
Bemba | insa. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | o'takoohsin. (various references) | |
Breton | eur. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | час (period, time), петнадесет градуса дължина. (various references) | |
Catalan | hora. (various references) | |
Cebuano | oras. (various references) | |
Chamorro | ora. (various references) | |
Chinese | 鐘點 (specified time), 鐘頭 , 時 (O'clock, period, season, time, when), 小時 , 小时 (hr). (various references) | |
Cornish | ür. (various references) | |
Croatian | sati, sata, sat. (various references) | |
Czech | hodina (class, period). (various references) | |
Danish | time (time). (various references) | |
Dutch | uur (o'clock, time). (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | pacha (weather). (various references) | |
Esperanto | horo (time, time hour). (various references) | |
Faeroese | tími (lesson, o'clock, time). (various references) | |
Farsi | مدت کم , وقت (Period, Time), ساعت (Ticker, Timepiece, Timer, Watch), دقیقه . (various references) | |
Finnish | tunti (lesson, o'clock, time). (various references) | |
Flemish | uur. (various references) | |
French | heure. (various references) | |
Frisian | oere (o'clock, time). (various references) | |
German | stunde (class, lesson, o'clock, period, session, time). (various references) | |
Greek | ώρα (session, time). (various references) | |
Guarani | hora. (various references) | |
Hawaiian | orë (clock, o'clock, time, watch). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שעה (time). (various references) | |
Hungarian | óra (class, clock, o'clock, o'clock/time, period, ticker, time, time-keeper, timepiece, watch). (various references) | |
Icelandic | tími (o'clock, time, while), stund (o'clock, time). (various references) | |
Indonesian | jam (clock, o'clock). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | ikaqraq. (various references) | |
Irish | uair (o'clock, time). (various references) | |
Italian | ora (at present, in a minute, moment, now, period, shortly, time). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 時 (moment, occasion, time). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | アワー , じぶん (modern literature, myself, oneself, season, time, time of the year), とき (Japanese crested ibis, meals exchanged by parishioners and priests, moment, occasion, time). (various references) | |
Korean | 시간 (hours, hr, time). (various references) | |
Macedonian | chas. (various references) | |
Malay | jam (o'clock, time). (various references) | |
Manx | oor [f] (crisp, fresh, new, novel, raw, sappy, span, sweet), oor (crisp, fresh, new, novel, raw, sappy, span, sweet). (various references) | |
Maori | haora. (various references) | |
Maya | oorah. (various references) | |
Norwegian | time (o'clock, time). (various references) | |
Occitan | ora. (various references) | |
Papiamen | ora (o'clock, time). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ourhay.(various references) | |
Polish | godzina (o'clock, time). (various references) | |
Portuguese | hora (o'clock, time). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | hora. (various references) | |
Provencal | ora. (various references) | |
Romanian | orã (class, time). (various references) | |
Romany | sahàti. (various references) | |
Ruanda | isaha (clock). (various references) | |
Russian | час часовой, час (o'clock, timepiece), определенное время дня. (various references) | |
Samoan | itula. (various references) | |
Scottish | uair (an hour, o'clock, time, time : an uair, when : air uairean). (various references) | |
Sepedi | nako. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sat (clock, ticker, time clock, watch), čas (class, moment, period). (various references) | |
Sicilian | ura. (various references) | |
Sotho | hora (the hour). (various references) | |
Spanish | hora (h, o'clock, term, time, tour). (various references) | |
Sranan | yuru (hire, o'clock, time). (various references) | |
Swahili | saa (clock, hours, o'clock, time, watch). (various references) | |
Swedish | timme (lesson, o'clock, time), tidpunkt (date, juncture, moment, time, when). (various references) | |
Tagalog | óras (o'clock, time). (various references) | |
Tahitian | hora. (various references) | |
Thai | ช่วงเวลาใดเวลาหนึ่ง, ชั่วโมง. (various references) | |
Tswana | ura (o'clock). (various references) | |
Turkish | saat (clock, horologe, meter, o'clock, ticker, time, timer, watch). (various references) | |
Turkmen | sagat (clock, healthy, watch). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | строк (date, day, spell, term), час (date, tense, time, while), година (o'clock, one, time), період (age, cycle, date, day, period, spell). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vấn đề nóng hổi lúc đó, giờ (assignation). (various references) | |
Welsh | awr (o'clock, time). (various references) | |
Xhosa | ngeyure (By the hour). (various references) | |
Yucatec | ora (o'clock, time). (various references) | |
Zulu | ihora (o'clock, time). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | hora. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | hore. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 9, Verse 22 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | O de ihsouV epistrafeiV kai idwn authn eipen qarsei qugater h pistiV sou seswken se kai eswqh h gunh apo thV wraV ekeinhV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | At Iesus conversus et videns eam dixit confide filia fides tua te salvam fecit et salva facta est mulier ex illa hora |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | & se hælend be-wende hine & hyoge-seah & cwæð. Ge-lyf dohter þin ge-leafeþe helde. & þæt wif wæs ge-hæled on þaretide. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And Jhesus turnede, and say hir, and seide, Douytir, haue thou trist; thi feith hath maad thee saaf. And the womman was hool fro that our. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Then Iesus tourned him about and behelde her sayinge: Doughter be of good conforte thy faith hath made the safe. And she was made whole even that same houre. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | But Jesus turned himself about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.) |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | But Jesus, turning and seeing her, said, Daughter, take heart; your faith has made you well. And the woman was made well from that hour. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Matthew Chapter 9, Verse 22 |
| Cebuano | Ug si Jesus miliso, ug sa iyang pagkakita kaniya, miingon, "Pagkalipay, anak; ang imong pagsalig nakapaayo kanimo." Ug ang babaye naayo dihadiha. |
| Croatian | A Isus se okrenu i vidjevši je reèe: "Hrabro, kæeri, vjera te tvoja spasila." I žena bi spašena od toga èasa. |
| Danish | Men Jesus vendte sig om, og da han så hende, sagde han: "Datter! vær frimodig, din Tro har frelst dig." Og Kvinden blev frelst fra den samme Time. |
| Finnish | Silloin Jeesus kääntyi, näki hänet ja sanoi: "Tyttäreni, ole turvallisella mielellä; sinun uskosi on tehnyt sinut terveeksi". Ja sillä hetkellä nainen tuli terveeksi. |
| French | Jésus se retourna, et dit, en la voyant: Prends courage, ma fille, ta foi t`a guérie. Et cette femme fut guérie à l`heure même. |
| German | Da wandte sich Jesus um und sah sie und sprach: Sei getrost, meine Tochter; dein Glaube hat dir geholfen. Und das Weib ward gesund zu derselben Stunde. |
| Haitian Creole | Jezi vire tèt li, li wè fanm lan. Li di l' konsa: Pran kouraj, mafi. Konfyans ou nan Bondye ap geri ou. Menm lè a, fanm lan geri. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Saat itu Yesus menoleh dan melihat wanita itu lalu berkata kepadanya, "Tabahlah, anak-Ku! Karena engkau percaya kepada-Ku, engkau sembuh!" Pada saat itu juga wanita itu sembuh. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka berpalinglah Yesus, serta melihat dia, kata-Nya, "Tetapkanlah hatimu, hai anak-Ku, imanmu sudah menyembuhkan dikau." Maka pulihlah perempuan itu daripada ketika itu juga. |
| Maori | Na ka tahuri a Ihu, a ka kite i a ia, ka mea, Kia maia, e ko; na tou whakapono koe i ora ai. A ora ake te wahine i taua wa ano. |
| Norwegian | Men han vendte sig om, og da han så henne, sa han: Vær frimodig, datter! din tro har frelst dig. Og kvinnen blev helbredet fra samme stund. |
| Portuguese | Mas Jesus, voltando-se e vendo-a, disse: Tem ânimo, filha, a tua fé te salvou. E desde aquela hora a mulher ficou sã. |
| Rumanian | Isus S`a kntors, a vqzut -o, wi i -a zis: ,,Kndrqznewte, fiicq! Credinya ta te -a tqmqduit.`` Wi s`a tqmqduit femeia chiar kn ceasul acela. |
| Shuar | Nuna Nekáa Jesus ayantar nuwan Tímiayi "Shiir Enentáimprata, nawantru. Yus shiir Enentáimtusu asam pénker ajasume." Nu chichamtaik ni Jáamuri pénker ajasmiayi. |
| Spanish | Pero Jesús, volviéndose y mirándola, dijo: --Ten ánimo, hija, tu fe te ha salvado. Y la mujer fue sanada desde aquella hora. |
| Swahili | Basi, Yesu akageuka akamwona, akamwambia, "Binti, jipe moyo! Imani yako imekuponya." Mama huyo akapona saa ileile. |
| Swedish | Då vände Jesus sig om, och när han fick se henne, sade han: "Var vid gott mod, min dotter; din tro har hjälpt dig." Och kvinnan var hulpen från den stunden. |
| Uma | Nto'u toe wo'o-hawo, me'ili' -imi Yesus hi tobine toei, pai' na'uli' -ki: "Ana' -ku, pakaroho nono-nu! Mo'uri' -moko, sabana pepangala' -nu hi Aku'." Ngkai ree, mo'uri' mpu'u-imi. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "hour": hourglass, hourglasses, houri, houris, hourly, hours. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "hour": watthour. (additional references) | |
Words containing "hour": bihourly, dhourra, dhourras, watthours, yoghourt, yoghourts. (additional references) | |
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"Hour" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ghor, habur, Haruo, hauer, hauf, haure, Haux, heure, hoara, hoarf, hoarg, hoaru, Hoburne, hoir, honr, honur, honure, hoor, hor, horc, Horejc, horet, horf, Horun, hou, Houa, houc, houd, houe, houer, houf, houl, houm, Houn, hourd, houre, Houria, hourk, hous, hout, houw, Houx, houy, huar, huo, huon, hur, huro, Huruk, Ihor, khou, mhoir, nour, ohr, phwoar, Phwooar, shour, zour. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "hour" (pronounced ou"er or ou"r) |
| 2 | ou" er | empower, Bower, cower, devour, dour, flour, flower, glower, our, overpower, power, scour, shower, sour, superpower, tower. |
| 2 | ou" r | dour, dower, flour, lour, our, scour, sour. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "h-o-r-u" | |
-1 letter: our, rho. | |
-2 letters: ho, oh, or, uh. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-o-r-u" | |
+1 letter: houri, hours, humor, mohur, rough, routh. | |
+2 letters: author, chorus, crouch, dourah, drouth, fourth, grouch, honour, houris, hourly, houser, humors, humour, mohurs, onrush, rouche, roughs, rouths, shroud, trough, uphroe. | |
+3 letters: aurochs, authors, bohrium, borough, brought, chouser, cothurn, coucher, cougher, couther, dhourra, dourahs, drought, drouths, drouthy, euphroe, fourths, futhorc, futhork, grouchy, harbour, haviour, homburg, honours, hotspur, hounder, housers, humidor, humoral, humored, humours, hydrous, jodhpur, mouther, nourish, ochrous, outhear, outrush, prutoth, pushrod, rehouse, retouch, rhodium, rhombus, roguish, rouches, roughed, roughen, rougher, roughly, sahuaro, shouter, shrouds, sorghum, sourish, souther, thorium, through, toucher, tougher, troughs, unhorse, unrough, unshorn, uphoard, uphroes, upthrow, urolith, voucher, wrought, yoghurt. | |
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