THE HOUR

Definition: THE HOUR

THE HOUR

1. To regulate one's actions by the requirements of the time instead of by one's duty; to be a timeserver. [Obs.] They think herein we serve the time, because thereby we either hold or seek preferment. --Hooker. Syn: To obey; minister to; subserve; promote; aid; help; assist; benefit; succor.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Borrowing

Hire, rent, farm; take a lease, take a demise; take by the hour, take by the mile, take by the year; hire by the hour, hire by the mile, hire by the year; adopt, apply, appropriate, imitate, make use of, take.

Transientness

Phrase: one's days are numbered; the time is up; here today and gone tomorrow; non semper erit aestas; eheu! fugaces labuntur anni; sic transit gloria mundi; a schoolboy's tale, the wonder of the hour!; dum loquimur fugerit invidia aetas; fugit hora; all that is transitory is but an illusion.

Crosswords: THE HOUR

Late is the hour in which this conjurer chooses to appear. (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

Like sands through the hour glass, so are the days of our lives! (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure; writing credit: Chris Matheson; Ed Solomon)

There's two things that just can't be rushed - anyone who is paid by the hour, and an office-building elevator. (Kolchak: The Night Stalker; writing credit: David Chase; Rudolph Borchert)

We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast. (Final Destination; writing credit: Glen Morgan)

It's 19 minutes after the hour, and now it's time for our daily feature The Astrological Hour. (The Kentucky Fried Movie; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; David Zucker)

Are you waiting for the hour (Wall Street Shuffle; performing artist: 10CC)

Getting thinner by the hour. (Extra Ordinary; performing artist: Better Than Ezra)

Are losing control by the hour. (Land Of Confusion; performing artist: Genesis)

Cupid by the hour sends (Wishing Well (A Tone Poem); performing artist: Terence Trent D'arby)

Clocks strikes upon the hour (I Wanna Dance With Somebody; performing artist: Whitney Houston)

The Hour of Independence (1963)

Men of the Hour (1935)

The Men of the Hour (1918)

In the Hour of Disaster (1915)

The Hour and the Man (1914)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The Hour Glass Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• The Hour of No Impossibility: What to Do When It's Time for a Miracle (reference)

• Manus Lorne and the Hour of the Wolf [DOWNLOAD: MICROSOFT READER] (reference)

• The Hour That Changes the World: A Practical Plan for Personal Prayer (reference)

• Book for the Hour of Recreation (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe) (reference)

• Voyage to the Sonorous Land, or the Art of Asking and the Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Babylon 5 - Season 4 - Deathcloud (The Hour of the Wolf / Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi? / The Summoning / Falling Toward Apotheosis / The Long Night / Into the Fire) (reference)

• The Twilight Zone: The Dummy/ The Lateness of the Hour (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

New sand in the hour glass.Credit: Library of Congress.

Jake the telegraph clerk, who was too small to be a soldier, had talked to her by the hour.Credit: Library of Congress.

The watchword of the hour.Credit: Library of Congress.

The hour has come -- let it not be missed.Credit: Library of Congress.

Farewell at the hour of parting.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

We cannot give any body the disagreeable hints that we may have been very full of the hour before.

So he listened for the hour.

Pearl had not found the hour pass wearisomely, while her mother sat talking with the clergyman.

It was the hour for the departure of the mails and diligences.

Now is the hour.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Political Economy

MEXICO

This is why unions jealously defend the legal ban on hiring and paying wages by the hour. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The hour of God

Expressions using "THE HOUR": by the hour ♦ in the hour of peril ♦ on the hour ♦ the hero of the hour ♦ the hour hand of a watch ♦ the question of the hour ♦ to serve the hour. Additional references.

Catalan

l'hora. (various references)

Czech

přesnì v celou hodinu (on the hour), hrdina dne (the hero of the hour), hodinová ruèièka (hour hand, the hour hand of a watch). (various references)

Finnish

tuntipalkalla (by the hour), tunneittain (by the hour, hourly), kellonlyömällä (on the stroke of the hour), hetki on lyönyt (the hour has struck), hädän tullen (in the hour of need), eron hetki (the hour of parting). (various references)

French

l'heure (the time). (various references)

German

stundenweise (by the hour, every hour, part time). (various references)

Greek 

η προχωημένη ώρα (lateness of the hour). (various references)

Hungarian

idő előrehaladottsága (lateness of the hour), órabér alapján fizetik (to be paid by the hour). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

辰の刻 (8 am, the fifth hour, the Hour of the Dragon). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たつの�"く (8 am, the fifth hour, the Hour of the Dragon). (various references)

Pig Latin

ethay ourhay

Romanian

ora, ceasul. (various references)

Sotho

hora (hour). (various references)

Swedish

timvis (by the hour), per timme (by the hour), i farans stund (in the hour of peril). (various references)

Turkmen 

зasowoя (r) (by the clock, by the hour). (various references)

Xhosa

kwentsimbi (Of the hour). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: other, outer, outre, route, routh, throe.

-3 letters: euro, hero, heth, hoer, hour, hurt, rote, roue, rout, ruth, thou, thro, thru, tore, tour, true.

-4 letters: eth, heh, her, het, hoe, hot, hue, huh, hut, ore, ort, our, out, ret, rho, roe, rot, rue, rut, the, tho, toe, tor.

-5 letters: eh, er, et, he, ho, oe.

+2 letters: rethought.

+3 letters: thorougher.

+4 letters: forethought, hardmouthed, housefather, housemother, motherhouse, overthought, thornbushes, thoroughest.

+5 letters: aforethought, afterthought, breakthrough, forethoughts, housefathers, housemothers, merrythought, motherhouses, subthreshold, thoroughbred, thoroughfare, thoroughness, throughither, throughother, toothbrushes, wherethrough.

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