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HOUR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Distance measured by the time taken to cover it
Example:
its just 10 minutes away
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("hour" is a kind of...):
distance (the property created by the space between two objects or points)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day
Example:
the job will take more than an hour
Synonyms:
60 minutes; hour; hr
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("hour" is a kind of...):
time unit; unit of time (a unit for measuring time periods)
Meronyms (parts of "hour"):
30 minutes; half-hour (a half of an hour)
15 minutes; quarter-hour (a quarter of an hour)
min; minute (a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour)
quarter (a unit of time equal to 15 minutes or a quarter of an hour)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hour"):
sidereal hour (1/24 of a sidereal day)
man hour; person hour (a time unit used in industry for measuring work)
Holonyms ("hour" is a part of...):
24-hour interval; day; mean solar day; solar day; twenty-four hour period; twenty-four hours (time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis)
Derivation:
horary (relating to the hours)
hourly (occurring every hour or payable by the hour)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Clock time
Example:
the hour is getting late
Synonyms:
hour; time of day
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("hour" is a kind of...):
clock time; time (a reading of a point in time as given by a clock)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hour"):
canonical hour ((Roman Catholic Church) one of seven specified times for prayer)
zero hour (the time set for the start of an action or operation)
rush hour (the times at the beginning and end of the working day when many people are traveling to or from work)
happy hour (the time of day when a bar sells alcoholic drinks at a reduced price)
none (a canonical hour that is the ninth hour of the day counting from sunrise)
crepuscle; crepuscule; dusk; evenfall; fall; gloam; gloaming; nightfall; twilight (the time of day immediately following sunset)
sundown; sunset (the time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon)
early-morning hour (an hour early in the morning)
aurora; break of day; break of the day; cockcrow; dawn; dawning; daybreak; dayspring; first light; morning; sunrise; sunup (the first light of day)
closing time (the regular time of day when an establishment closes to the public)
bedtime (the time you go to bed)
small hours (the hours just after midnight)
midnight (12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night)
late-night hour (the latter part of night)
mealtime (the hour at which a meal is habitually or customarily eaten)
high noon; midday; noon; noonday; noontide; twelve noon (the middle of the day)
Derivation:
horary (relating to the hours)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A special and memorable period
Example:
it was their finest hour
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("hour" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Context examples:
However, while screen time increased throughout toddlerhood, by age 7 and 8, screen time fell to under 1.5 hours per day.
(High amounts of screen time begin as early as infancy, National Institutes of Health)
Twenty-four hours after vaccination, the dimerizing agent AP1903 is administered.
(Adenovector-transduced AP1903-inducible MyD88/CD40-expressing Autologous PSMA-specific Prostate Cancer Vaccine BPX-201, NCI Thesaurus)
Prior to the hour of sleep.
(Before Bedtime, NCI Thesaurus)
They were indebted, the next day, to Charles Hayter, for all the minute knowledge of Louisa, which it was so essential to obtain every twenty-four hours.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Symptoms appear suddenly and are at their worst about 48 hours after they start.
(Bell's Palsy, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
A catheter is used to place the BCG solution into the bladder where it is held for about two hours.
(BCG solution, NCI Dictionary)
It is given through a catheter that is placed into the bladder where the solution is held for about two hours.
(bacillus Calmette-Guérin solution, NCI Dictionary)
The nurse must also have worked at least 1,000 hours out of the last 2-1/2 years in the field of oncology.
(Advanced Oncology Certified Nurse, NCI Thesaurus)
A registered nurse with a master's degree or higher in nursing and a minimum of 500 hours of supervised clinical practice of oncology nursing.
(Advanced Oncology Certified Nurse Practitioner, NCI Thesaurus)
A registered nurse who has a master's degree or higher in nursing and a minimum of 500 hours of supervised clinical practice of oncology nursing.
(Advanced Oncology Certified Nurse Specialist, NCI Thesaurus)
