hour
小时,小时的,小时的时间
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Definitions
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- : a period of time equal to one twenty-fourth of a mean solar or civil day and equivalent to 60 minutes: He slept for an hour.
- : any specific one of these 24 periods, usually reckoned in two series of 12, one series from midnight to noon and the second from noon to midnight, but sometimes reckoned in one series of 24, from midnight to midnight: He slept for the hour between 2 and 3 a.m. The hour for the bombardment was between 1300 and 1400.
- : any specific time of day; the time indicated by a timepiece: What is the hour?
- : a short or limited period of time: He savored his hour of glory.
- : a particular or appointed time: What was the hour of death? At what hour do you open?
- : a customary or usual time: When is your dinner hour?
- : the present time: the man of the hour.
- : hours, time spent in an office, factory, or the like, or for work, study, etc.: The doctor's hours were from 10 to 4. What an employee does after hours is his or her own business.customary time of going to bed and getting up: to keep late hours. the seven stated times of the day for prayer and devotion.the offices or services prescribed for these times.a book containing them.
- : distance normally covered in an hour's traveling: We live about an hour from the city.
- : Astronomy. a unit of measure of right ascension representing 15°, or the twenty-fourth part of a great circle.
- : a single period, as of class instruction or therapeutic consultation, usually lasting from 40 to 55 minutes.Compare clock-hour.
- : Education.Also called credit hour. one unit of academic credit, usually representing attendance at one scheduled period of instruction per week throughout a semester, quarter, or term.
- : the Hours, Classical Mythology. the Horae.
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- : of, relating to, or noting an hour.
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Examples
Even in our southern areas, the snow will not last that long, tapering off in the predawn hours Friday and mostly over by sunrise.
Even an hour after Capitol barricades were breached — something that played widely on cable news — we have no real evidence he was truly “horrified,” and plenty that he wasn’t.
The best heated vests will have batteries that are easy and quick to recharge, heat the vest quickly upon wearing, and offer many hours of warmth and comfort between charges.
Martin likes to compare the challenge that RapidSOS is setting out to tackle to that of an hour glass.
If your pet is an Afghan hound or a St Bernard, you should not expect it to be interested in spending hours fetching toys for you.
So here I am in my requisite Lululemon pants, grunting along to an old hip-hop song at a most ungodly hour.
An hour later, he scored a second flight to Johannesburg for $380.
He was released within the hour without a bond on his own recognizance.
The child almost died from the delay of an hour in seeking help.
Her phone rings at least once an hour with questions from journalists, which she answers in Arabic, English, and sometimes French.
The night wore on, and the clock downstairs was striking the hour of two when she suddenly awakened.
The sound of my step shall make your heart jump; a look from me shall make you dumb for an hour.
Words are often everywhere as the minute-hands of the soul, more important than even the hour-hands of action.
After an hour, however, he reached this decision: He would not go to or call up Mrs. Merley.
It was the darkest hour of twilight, when there was just enough of gleam from the lurid sky, to shew the outline of objects.