hourn.
/ˈaʊə/, U.S. /ˈaʊ(ə)r/ 1.
a. A space of time containing sixty minutes; the twenty-fourth part of a civil day.Formerly the hours were commonly reckoned as each equal to one-twelfth of the natural day or night, whatever its length (called planetary, temporary, or unequal hours); the equal hours were sometimes distinguished as equinoctial, being each equal to a temporary hour at the equinoxes. sidereal hour, solar hour, 24th part of a sidereal, or solar, day.As with other nouns of time, the genitive is freely used: e.g. an hour's space, time, work, wages, sermon, notice, etc.
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the world > time > period > hour > [noun]
tidea900
hourc1250
timea1325
hourglass1588
planetary hour1593
clock hour1600
ghurry1638
stricken hour1820
lunar hour1862
c1250 Old Kent. Serm. in Old Eng. Misc. 34 Þos laste on ure habbeþ i-travailed.
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 23 Þe foure & tuenty houres he spended in holy life.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) John xi. 9 Wher ther ben not twelue ouris of the day [OE West Saxon Gospels: Corpus Cambr. hu ne synt twelf tida þæs dæges]?
c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 37 Late hym ben stepid .ij. or .iij. owrys in clene Water.
a1450 Fysshynge wyth Angle (1883) 9 Let hyt boyle softly halfe a nowyr.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry V f. l Thus this battaile continued .iii. long houres.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. xxxvijv What number..they were able to make within an houres warnynge.
1561 R. Eden tr. M. Cortés Arte Nauigation ii. xiv. sig. Eviii The houre naturall or equall, is a .24. parte of the day naturall... The artificiall or temperall houre, is a twelfth parte of the daye arcke or the nyght arcke.
1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 135 A Man that is young in yeeres may be old in houres, if he have lost no time.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) ii. ii. 121 I haue an houres talke in store for you. View more context for this quotation
1674 J. Moxon Tutor to Astron. & Geogr. (ed. 3) iv. 129 Astrologers divide the Artificial day (be it long or short) into 12 equal parts, and the Night into 12 equal parts: these parts they call Planetary Hours.
1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §339 It might be applied..on an hour's notice.
a1816 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal (rev. ed.) ii. ii, in Wks. (1821) II. 45 She's six and fifty if she's an hour!
1887 H. R. Haggard Jess xv. 136 On he went, hour after hour.
b. In plural (rarely singular) with numeral, expressing the number of hours since midnight or noon, and thus denoting a particular time of the day (sense 3): as ten hours = ten o'clock (obsolete, chiefly Scottish). In plural with numerals rendered in figures (followed by those of minutes), expressing the number of hours since midnight (chiefly in the armed services and in passenger timetables). Cf. hundred n. and adj. 1d.
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the world > time > particular time > [noun] > the time or time of day > expressed as hours after midnight
hours1427
hundred1953
the world > time > particular time > [noun] > the time or time of day > expressed as hours after midnight > in timetables, etc.
hours1939
1427 Sc. Acts Jas. I c. 118 Fra ten houres to twa efter nune.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iv. l. 121 Schir Ranald come by x houris of the day.
1567 R. Sempill in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. 31 To Edinburgh about vj. houris at morne, As I was passand.
c1620 A. Hume Of Orthogr. Britan Tongue (1870) ii. ix. §4 At four hoores I was wryting.
1657 Edinb. Kirk Sess. Reg. in Sc. Antiquary (1898) June 35 The first Bell shall ring at half-hour to seven hours on the week dayes, the second Bell at seven hours.
a1661 W. Brereton Trav. (1844) 138 There is a sermon euery sabbath at 10 hour.
1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem (1710) i. 34 He sees what hours it is in France.
1939 Punch 2 Aug. 124/1 It is 21.00 hours on the last day of our month's training.
1941 Punch 21 May 486 A lorry is leaving R.M.P. at 0915 hours.
1967 Hovercraft World Jan.–Apr. 14/1 We waved good-bye..at 10.15 hours heading for Wexford, 75 miles away. The fog soon lifted and this leg was a straightforward piece of ‘hovering’.
1968 A. Hammersley Weather & Life iv. 49 6 hours G.M.T., i.e. 6 a.m.
1971 R. Bucknall Trains 46 With this time scale, 6 minutes would represent six hours, or 06.00.
c. Used to denote the distance of the sun above the horizon in the morning or afternoon. U.S.
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the world > the universe > sun > position > [noun] > hour
hour1637
1637 in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1869) IX. 66 The keeper..[is] to take the Cattle at the pen at Sun halfe an hour highe.
1683 in New Hampsh. Hist. Soc. Coll. (1866) VIII. 133 At night, about sun half an hour high.
1762 in Narragansett Hist. Reg. (1884) Jan. 219 We..got to the Ferry the sun about two hours high at night.
1824 New Hampsh. Hist. Soc. Coll. I. 244 Though the sun was an hour above the horizon, it was now as dark as midnight.
1836 Knickerbocker 8 352 The sun is two hours up yet.
1907 M. H. Norris Veil i. 3 The sun was an hour high when he entered a narrow road overgrown with grass.
d. Originally hour-mile. The distance which can be traversed in an hour.
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the world > space > distance > [noun] > distance (to be) travelled > which can be traversed in an hour
hour1785
a1646 J. Gregory Posthuma (1649) 318 One Hour-Mile of a Journie upon Hors, answereth to four English Miles.]
1785 G. Forster tr. A. Sparrman Voy. Cape Good Hope II. 81 This place is situated at the distance of two hours (uurs) from that which we had just quitted.
1792 E. Riou tr. J. van Reenen Jrnl. Journey from Cape Good Hope p. xii Throughout the journal the word hour is to be considered as distance, and not time. Travellers at the Cape of Good Hope reckon distance by hours: one hour being supposed equal to about a league.
1798 S. H. Wilcocke tr. J. S. Stavorinus Voy. E.-Indies I. 58 A Dutch mile, which they in general call an hour, is about three miles and a half English.
1877 J. C. Geikie Life & Words Christ II. li. 313 Three hours from Jerusalem.
1907 in A. H. Anderson Reading Advts. p. xlviii a Dulverton... 4 Hours from London, 1 Hour from Taunton and Exeter.
1970 Country Life 2 July 62/1 (advt.) Radnorshire... Kington 61/ 2 miles. Birmingham 11/ 2 hours. An attractive period house.
e. Used as the second element, representing ‘for one hour’, in the names of some units of measurement, as ampere-hour, horsepower-hour, kilowatt-hour, man-hour (see under the first element).
f. A unit of measure of work done.
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society > occupation and work > work > amounts of work > [noun] > amount per person per time unit
hour1900
man-hour1915
woman-hour1915
man-shift1930
work rate1957
1900 Daily News 10 Jan. 8/3 It should be understood that the tailors' ‘hour’ is not one of time, but merely the word employed for an unit of calculation.
2.
a. Used somewhat indefinitely for a short or limited space of time, more or less than an hour.
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the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > [noun] > a short or moderate space of time
weekeOE
littleOE
roomOE
stoundOE
startc1300
houra1350
furlong wayc1384
piecea1400
weea1400
speed whilec1400
hanlawhilea1500
snack1513
spirt?1550
snatch1563
fit1583
spurta1591
shortness1598
span1599
bit1653
thinking time1668
thinking-while1668
onwardling1674
way-bit1674
whilie1819
fillip1880
a1350 in K. Böddeker Altengl. Dichtungen (1878) 201 Þis hure of loue to drynke so, Þat fleysshliche lust be al for do.
1576 A. Fleming tr. Seneca in Panoplie Epist. 310 If wee looke to live, till our last day and houre, without troublesome thoughtes.
1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. i. 158 Sad houres seeme long. View more context for this quotation
1673 Humours of Town 52 They have made Love to be the hot passion of an hour.
1789 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. II 47 In dreams, we cannot compare them with our previous knowledge of things, as we do in our waking hours.
1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece V. 345 In a convivial hour, when they were all conversing on the subject.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Love & Duty in Poems (new ed.) II. 85 The slow sweet hours that bring us all things good, The slow sad hours that bring us all things ill.
1864 R. Browning Abt Vogler x When eternity affirms the conception of an hour.
b. In plural. Stated time of occupation or duty.
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the world > time > reckoning of time > [noun] > a calculated space of time > office, business, or school hours
school hour1581
hours of business1693
business hours1767
schoolday1840
times1847
hours1852
1852 12th Rep. Col. Land & Emigr. Comm. in Parl. Papers XVIII. 151 They are not required to work ‘long hours’, five hours a day is what is required of them.
1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. iii. 60 But the school hours were long and Tom's patience short.
1865 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. (ed. 6) v. xi. §12 A reduction of hours without any diminution of wages.
1878 W. S. Jevons Polit. Econ. 63 The employer would generally prefer long hours.
1890 ‘L. Falconer’ Mademoiselle Ixe (1891) ii. 35 Extra lessons had to be learnt, play-hours were curtailed.
1899 N.E.D. at Hour Mod. After office hours he goes for a ride.
c. (See quot. 1955.) Cf. children's hour n. at child n. Compounds 3b.
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society > communication > broadcasting > a broadcast programme or item > [noun] > types of
news bulletin1857
news summary1875
police message1886
newsflash1904
headline1908
play-by-play1909
feature1913
spot ad1916
magazine1921
news1923
time signal1923
outside broadcast1924
radiocast1924
amateur hour1925
bulletin1925
serial1926
commentary1927
rebroadcast1927
school broadcast1927
feature programme1928
trailer1928
hour1930
schools broadcast1930
show1930
spot advertisement1930
spot announcement1930
sustaining1931
flash1934
newscast1934
commercial1935
clambake1937
remote1937
repeat1937
snap1937
soap opera1939
sportcast1939
spot commercial1939
daytimer1940
magazine programme1941
season1942
soap1943
soaper1946
parade1947
public service announcement1948
simulcasting1949
breakfast-time television1952
call-in1952
talkathon1952
game show1953
kidvid1955
roundup1958
telenovela1961
opt-out1962
miniseries1963
simulcast1964
soapie1964
party political1966
novela1968
phone-in1968
sudser1968
schools programme1971
talk-in1971
God slot1972
roadshow1973
trail1973
drama-doc1977
informercial1980
infotainment1980
infomercial1981
kideo1983
talk-back1984
indie1988
omnibus1988
teleserye2000
kidult-
1930 Economist 3 May 985/1 It is argued that an advertiser who broadcasts tedious over-vulgar, or over-highbrow material in his ‘hour’ will eventually discover that he is losing money.
1955 M. Reifer Dict. New Words 102/1 Hour, a scheduled radio or television feature, originally one hour long; the term now refers to any length program.
1972 Daily Tel. 20 Apr. 12/5 The star of The Bob Monkhouse Comedy Hour (ITV)..is almost guaranteed to turn me off.
3.
a. Each of those points of time at which the twelve successive divisions after noon or midnight, as shown by a dial or time-piece, are completed; by extension, any definite point or ‘time of day’. the eleventh hour: see eleventh adj. 1a. small hours: see small adj. and n.2 Compounds 4.
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the world > time > particular time > [noun] > the time or time of day
tidea900
timeOE
time of the dayc1225
hourc1315
clocka1616
age of the day1632
c1315 Shoreham 87 At evesanges oure.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xx. 6 Aboute the elleuenthe houre [a1425 L.V. our] he wente out, and foond other stondynge.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8933 Ilk dai a certain hore, þar lighted dun of heuen ture Angels.
c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) Prol. 3 A table of the verray Moeuyng of the Mone from howre to howre.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) John iv. f. cxxiijv Hit was about the sixte houre.
1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 158 By this Compasse (the Sonne shynynge) men shall perfitly know the houre of the day.
c1560 Hunting Cheviot in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1889) III. vi. 307 It drewe to the oware off none.
1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 10 What hour o' th' day The Clock does strike.
1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest I. ii. 53 She awoke at an early hour.
1857 G. MacDonald Poems 239 The little clock rung out the hour of ten.
1882 W. Ballantine Some Exper. Barrister's Life I. ii. 24 Watchmen..called the hours of the night.
b. plural. Habitual time of getting up and going to bed, esp. the latter; usually with such adjectives as good, regular, early, bad, late, etc.
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. iii. 5 You must come in earlyer a nights: your Cosin, my Lady, takes great exceptions to your ill houres . View more context for this quotation
1716 A. Pope Let. 29 Nov. in Wks. (1871–89) III. 24 I rule the family very ill, and keep bad hours.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. xi. iii. 110 The Sun..keeps very good Hours at this Time of the Year. View more context for this quotation
1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals i. i Their regular hours stupify me—not a fiddle nor a card after eleven!
1816 J. Austen Emma II. vii. 123 I am not fond of dinner-visiting... Late hours do not agree with us. View more context for this quotation
1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto III lxvi. 36 Late hours, wine, and love are able To do not much less damage than the table.
1832 L. Hunt Sir Ralph Esher I. vii. 152 I was nearly killed with his Grace's hours.
1834 T. Wentworth West India Sketch Bk. I. 18 The fatigues and late hours of the preceding night.
1891 Mrs. S. Edwards Secret of Princess II. xvi. 195 I keep early hours.
1970 Brewer's Dict. Phrase & Fable (rev. ed.) 550/2 To keep good hours, to go home early every night; to go to bed betimes; to be punctual at one's work.
c. to (also till) all hours: late at night; after midnight.
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the world > time > day and night > night > [adverb] > at or after midnight
midnightly1836
to (also till) all hours1931
1931 H. Belloc Hist. Eng. IV. i. 161 She..had had him, and one, Culpepper, in her room up to all hours.
1932 A. J. Worrall Eng. Idioms viii. 58 I sat up to all hours trying to finish my work.
1934 B. de Holthoir tr. Duhamel News from Havre xiii. 196 She made up for lost time by sitting up till all hours of the night.
1945 E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited iv. 264 She sits up to all hours with her wireless.
1961 R. Chapman Father Faber viii. 161 He read till all hours and undertook heavy penances.
4.
a. A definite time in general; an appointed time; an occasion. spec. of the hour: of the present hour, of the very time that is now with us; as in ‘the question of the hour’.
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the world > time > particular time > [noun] > an appointed or fixed time, day, or date
tidea900
stemOE
stevena1225
term?c1225
dayc1300
term dayc1300
stagea1325
hourc1380
setnessa1400
tryst1488
journeyc1500
big day1827
trysting day1842
the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [adverb] > precisely at present or just now
as nowc1390
instantlyc1485
just now?1615
of the hour1887
c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. II. 222 Seiþ Poul here þat our is now to rise fro sleep.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4665 His nam þai chaunged, fra þat our.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos lii. 147 The ladyes..cursed turnus and the owre in whiche he bigan first the bataylle.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) John ii. f. cxxj Myne houre is not yett come.
1544 Letanie in Exhort. vnto Prayer sig. Bvi In the houre of deth, in the day of iugement, Good lord delyuer vs.
1553 T. Wilson Arte Rhetorique (1580) 150 Sir Thomas More..whose witte even at this hower, is a wonder to all the worlde.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) ii. ii. 16 Shee's very neere her howre . View more context for this quotation
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 373 Twelve Ships were sent to the bottom, in a well-chosen hour.
1751 T. Gray Elegy ix. 7 The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r..Awaits alike th' inevitable hour.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 173 To hasten the hour of his own return.
1887 A. Jessopp Arcady v. 136 The subject of the hour..[is] the housing of the working classes.
b. in a good (also happy, etc.) hour [partly = French à la bonne heure] : at a fortunate time; happily, fortunately: so in an evil (also ill, etc.) hour. †in good hour [French de bonne heure] : in good time, early; so †in due hour (obsolete).
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the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [adverb]
in (earlier on) untimec897
untimelyc1200
out of timea1325
in unseasona1400
importunelyc1425
in an evil (also ill, etc.) hour1490
importunatelya1492
at ungaina1500
untimeously1513
intempestively1548
out of season1548
timeless1586
unseasonably1586
inopportunely1609
unseasonablea1634
unopportunely1651
timelessly1673
unseasonally1941
the world > action or operation > prosperity > in prosperous condition [phrase] > fortunately
in a good (also happy, etc.) hour1490
well1577
as well1649
the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > unfortunately [phrase] > at an unfortunate time
in the wanianda1352
in an evil (also ill, etc.) hour1490
the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > [adverb] > early or in good time
soon?a1366
timelyc1390
in good timea1440
in good hour1603
timelily1608
in due hour1689
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) i. 38 In an euyll oure was he put to deth.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xx. 340 Arthur..thought that in goode houre were he born that it myght conquere.
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1294 As if a man should say, In good houre and happily may this or that come.
1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes 2nd Pt. Don Quixote iv. xvi. 198 He resumes his Musick..In a good Hour, quoth Donna Clara, and then because she herself would not hear him, she stoppd her Ears with her Fingers.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 126 In a happy houre, the king..tooke notice of him.
1685 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 474 The next morning [we] set out for Gildford where we arived in good houre.
1689 J. Evelyn Let. in Diary & Corr. (1959) IV. 310 Retiring in due hour.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 7 In an ill Hour..I went on Board.
1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. iv. 67 In an evil hour, I..changed my lodgings.
5. Ecclesiastical In plural. The prayers or offices appointed to be said at the seven stated times of the day allotted to prayer (canonical hours: see canonical adj. 1b); (also, short for book of hours) a book containing these. Rare in singular.The earliest recorded use, = Latin horae, Old French ures; in Old English (seofon) tída.
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society > faith > worship > canonical hours > [noun]
service?c1225
houra1250
officec1300
divine service1389
canonical hours1483
course1570
little hours1688
choir offices1876
society > faith > artefacts > book (general) > breviary or office book > [noun]
houra1250
journal1355
diurnal?a1550
breviary1611
horary1631
office-book1709
horologium1724
brevial1847
horae1875
hour-book1896
a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 2 Sum is clergesse. & sum nis nout. & mot te more wurchen. & an oþer wise siggen hire vres.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. Prol. 97 Here messe and here matynes and many of here oures Arn don vndeuoutlych.
c1400 St. Alexius (Laud 622) 30 Forto seruen god almiȝth By tides and by houres.
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 1427 When þe oure of terce was done.
1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) ii. 164 Complyn ys the Seuenthe and the laste houre of dyuyne seruyce..in the ende therof the seuen howres of dyuyne seruyce ar fulfylled.
1669 A. Woodhead tr. Life St. Teresa (1671) ii. xviii. 121 They recited their Canonical Hours.
1873 W. H. Dixon Hist. Two Queens I. iii. i. 119 Illuminated hours, and golden missals.
1894 S. Baring-Gould Deserts S. France II. 130 A nun saying her hours.
6. Mythology. In plural, with capital H (= Latin Horae, Greek Ὧραι). Female divinities supposed to preside over the changes of the seasons.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > other classical deities
Plutoc1330
Herculesc1369
Proteusa1425
Tellusc1425
chaosa1522
grace1538
terminus1565
victory1569
Hymena1593
harvest queen1598
Hades1599
aurora1610
puffer1615
Egeria1624
hour1637
Hygeia1737
Kore1844
Nike1846
vintage-god1873
1637 J. Milton Comus 34 The Graces, and the rosie-bosom'd Howres.
1748 T. Gray Ode in R. Dodsley Coll. Poems II. 265 Lo! where the rosy-bosom'd hours, Fair Venus' train appear.
1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. vi. 221 The goddesses who preside over them [the seasons]—the Hours—were originally three in number.
1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. IV. 1286 The Hours bringing the horses to the chariot of the Sun; from the basso-relievo..by John Gibson, R.A.
7. Astronomy and Geography. An angular measure of right ascension or longitude, being the 24th part of a great circle of the sphere, or 15 degrees.
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the world > the universe > cosmology > science of observation > astronomical calculation > [noun] > unit
hour1777
astronomical unit1848
gravitational system1888
au1910
parsec1913
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) 15 Degrees of the Equator answer to an Hour.]
1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1783) I. 316 The longitude..is seven hours, or one hundred and fifteen degrees from the meridian of the Canary Islands.
1861 G. F. Chambers Handbk. Descr. Astron. VI. iii. 249 The Right Ascension..is..reckoned..either in angular measure,..or in time, of hours, minutes, and seconds.
Compounds
hour-angle n. Astronomy the angular distance between the meridian and the declination-circle passing through a heavenly body, which is the measure of the sidereal time elapsed since its culmination.
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the world > the universe > heavenly body > position of heavenly body > [noun] > other
declinationc1400
meridian altitudec1400
angle of position?a1560
zenith distance1588
refraction1603
azimuth1626
amplitude1627
horizontal parallax1665
complement1703
aberration1737
hour-angle1837
intercept1901
1837 Penny Cycl. IX. 488 The difference between the observed hour angle and true hour angle.
hour-bell n. a bell rung every hour, or that sounds the hours.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > signal marking the time > [noun] > bell, gun, etc.
undern-bella1400
bell1422
clock-bell1508
minute-gun1728
hour-bell1785
ghurry1816
1785 W. Cowper Task v. 404 To count the hour-bell and expect no change.
1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 15 Jan. 2/3 The hour bell in the clock-tower.
hour-book n. Ecclesiastical a book of hours (sense 5).
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society > faith > artefacts > book (general) > breviary or office book > [noun]
houra1250
journal1355
diurnal?a1550
breviary1611
horary1631
office-book1709
horologium1724
brevial1847
horae1875
hour-book1896
1896 Daily News 28 Nov. 3/6 An Hour book..illustrated with richly painted miniatures.
hour-cup n. a cup in a clepsydra that empties itself hourly.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > [noun] > water-clock > part of
hour-cup1799
1799 J. Gilchrist in Asiatic Researches (London ed.) 5 87 The water gradually fills the cup, and sinks it, in the space [of time] to which this hour-cup or kutoree has previously been adjusted.
hour distance n.
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1690 W. Leybourn Cursus mathematicus f. 703v Before you can calculate the Hour distances for these Plains, there are three Requisites to be first enquired.
hour-figure n. a figure denoting the hour, esp. on a dial-plate.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > part(s) of
nut1428
peise1428
plumbc1450
Jack1498
clockwork1516
larum1542
Jack of the clockhouse1563
watch-wheel1568
work1570
plummeta1578
Jack of the clock1581
snail-cam1591
snail-work1591
pointer1596
quarter jack1604
mainspring1605
winder1606
notch-wheel1611
fusee1622
count-wheel1647
jack-wheel1647
frame1658
arbor1659
balance1660
fuse1674
hour-figure1675
stop1675
pallet1676
regulator1676
cock1678
movement1678
detent1688
savage1690
clock1696
pinwheel1696
starred wheel1696
swing-wheel1696
warning-wheel1696
watch1696
watch-part1696
hoop-wheel1704
hour-wheel1704
snail1714
step-wheel1714
tide-work1739
train1751
crutch1753
cannon pinion1764
rising board1769
remontoire1774
escapement1779
clock jack1784
locking plate1786
scapement1789
motion work1795
anchor escapement1798
scape1798
star-wheel1798
recoil escapement1800
recoiling pallet1801
recoiling scapement1801
cannon1802
hammer-tail1805
recoiling escapement1805
bottle jack1810
renovating spring1812
quarter-boy1815
pin tooth1817
solar wheel1819
impulse-teeth1825
pendulum wheel1825
pallet arbor1826
rewinder1826
rack hook1829
snail-wheel1831
quarter bell1832
tow1834
star pulley1836
watch train1838
clock train1843
raising-piece1843
wheelwork1843
gravity escapement1850
jumper1850
vertical escapement1850
time train1853
pin pallet1860
spade1862
dead well1867
stop-work1869
ringer1873
strike-or-silent1875
warning-piece1875
guard-pin1879
pendulum cock1881
warning-lever1881
beat-pin1883
fusee-piece1884
fusee-snail1884
shutter1884
tourbillion1884
tumbler1884
virgule1884
foliot1899
grasshopper1899
grasshopper escapement1899
trunk1899
pin lever1908
clock spring1933
1675 London Gaz. No. 1052/4 The hour of the day, pointed at by an Archer engraved on the Plate within the hour-figures.
hour-hand n. the short hand of a clock or watch which indicates the hours.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > part(s) of > hand(s)
pinOE
hand1563
teller1574
index1594
finger1603
palm1629
hour-hand1669
minute hand1720
index-hand1742
second-hand1760
moment-hand1766
little hand1829
big hand1849
set-hands1884
sweep hand1948
sweep second1948
1669 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 4 944 In case the Hour-hand hath..pass'd that hour.
1895 Q. Rev. July 222 The two failures..put back the hour-hand of time for centuries.
hour-index n. an index or pointer which can be turned to any hour marked on the hour-circle of an artificial globe.
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1674 J. Moxon Tutor to Astron. & Geogr. (ed. 3) iii. 112 Turn the Globe Westwards till the Hour-Index points at the Hour of the Night.
hour-line n. a line on a dial indicating the hour by the passage of the shadow across it.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > [noun] > sundial > parts of
pinOE
gnomon1546
style1577
cock1585
hour-line1593
substyle1593
index1594
noon-line1596
incliner1638
substylara1652
substylar linea1652
staff1669
nodus1678
node1704
stylus1796
noon-mark1842
sun line1877
1593 T. Fale Horologiographia f. 6 From the centre C. by these markes the houre-line must be drawne.
1768 J. Ferguson in Philos. Trans. 1767 (Royal Soc.) 57 390 The true hour-lines for a horizontal dial.
hour-long adj. lasting for an hour.
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the world > time > period > hour > [adjective] > lasting specific number of hours
sesquihoral1652
houred1665
hour-long1803
twenty-four-hour1908
1803 T. Beddoes Hygëia III. xi. 91 Requiring no hour-long harangues.
hour-plate n. the dial-plate of a clock or watch, inscribed with figures denoting the hours.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > part(s) of > dial or markings on dial
tablea1400
dial1440
watch1588
punctilio1596
dial platea1652
recliner1652
dial piece1658
face1659
horary circle1664
night dial1670
horizontal dial1674
hour-stroke1674
hour-plate1690
clock face1764
niche1822
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xxiii. 141 If Eyes so framed, could not view at once the Hand, and the Characters of the Hour-plate,..their Owner could not be much benefited by that acuteness.
hour-stroke n. one of the strokes or marks on a dial-plate indicating the hours.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > part(s) of > dial or markings on dial
tablea1400
dial1440
watch1588
punctilio1596
dial platea1652
recliner1652
dial piece1658
face1659
horary circle1664
night dial1670
horizontal dial1674
hour-stroke1674
hour-plate1690
clock face1764
niche1822
1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 121 The hand or Index on the Dial-plate..creeping from hour-stroke to hour-stroke.
hour-watch n. a watch indicating only the hours.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > watch > [noun] > particular types of watch
German watch1611
larum watch1619
clock-watch1625
minute watch1660
pendulum watch1664
watch1666
alarm watch1669
finger watch1679
string-watch1686
scout1688
balance-watch1690
hour-watch1697
warming-pan1699
minute pendulum watch1705
jewel watch1711
suit1718
repeater1725
Tompion1727
pendulum spring1728
second-watch1755
Geneva watch1756
cylinder-watch1765
watch-paper1777
ring watch1788
verge watch1792
watch lamp1823
hack1827
bull's-eye1833
vertical watch1838
quarter-repeater1840
turnip1840
hunting-watch1843
minute repeater1843
hunter1851
job watch1851
Geneva1852
watch-lining1856
touch watch1860
musical watch1864
lever1865
neep1866
verge1871
independent seconds watch1875
stem-winder1875
demi-hunter1884
fob-watch1884
three-quarter plate1884
wrist-watch1897
turnip-watch1898
sedan-chair watch1904
Rolex1922
Tank watch1923
strap watch1926
chatelaine watch1936
sedan clock1950
quartz watch1969
pulsar1970
1697 London Gaz. No. 3352/4 A plain hour Watch.
hour-wheel n. (a) = hour-circle n. 2; (b) that wheel in a clock which carries the hour-hand.
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the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > map > [noun] > globe > fitments
quadrant of altitude1581
hour-wheel1594
hour-circle1674
the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > part(s) of
nut1428
peise1428
plumbc1450
Jack1498
clockwork1516
larum1542
Jack of the clockhouse1563
watch-wheel1568
work1570
plummeta1578
Jack of the clock1581
snail-cam1591
snail-work1591
pointer1596
quarter jack1604
mainspring1605
winder1606
notch-wheel1611
fusee1622
count-wheel1647
jack-wheel1647
frame1658
arbor1659
balance1660
fuse1674
hour-figure1675
stop1675
pallet1676
regulator1676
cock1678
movement1678
detent1688
savage1690
clock1696
pinwheel1696
starred wheel1696
swing-wheel1696
warning-wheel1696
watch1696
watch-part1696
hoop-wheel1704
hour-wheel1704
snail1714
step-wheel1714
tide-work1739
train1751
crutch1753
cannon pinion1764
rising board1769
remontoire1774
escapement1779
clock jack1784
locking plate1786
scapement1789
motion work1795
anchor escapement1798
scape1798
star-wheel1798
recoil escapement1800
recoiling pallet1801
recoiling scapement1801
cannon1802
hammer-tail1805
recoiling escapement1805
bottle jack1810
renovating spring1812
quarter-boy1815
pin tooth1817
solar wheel1819
impulse-teeth1825
pendulum wheel1825
pallet arbor1826
rewinder1826
rack hook1829
snail-wheel1831
quarter bell1832
tow1834
star pulley1836
watch train1838
clock train1843
raising-piece1843
wheelwork1843
gravity escapement1850
jumper1850
vertical escapement1850
time train1853
pin pallet1860
spade1862
dead well1867
stop-work1869
ringer1873
strike-or-silent1875
warning-piece1875
guard-pin1879
pendulum cock1881
warning-lever1881
beat-pin1883
fusee-piece1884
fusee-snail1884
shutter1884
tourbillion1884
tumbler1884
virgule1884
foliot1899
grasshopper1899
grasshopper escapement1899
trunk1899
pin lever1908
clock spring1933
1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iv. f. 206v Vpon this Brazen meridian is placed at the North pole another little brazen Circle..called the houre wheele.
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. at Pinion The Hour Wheel [of a clock].
hour-zone n. each of the lunes on the earth's surface bounded by two meridians, fifteen degrees apart on the equator, equal to an hour in the standard system of time, within which all places have the same standard time, except where a line has been shifted slightly for local convenience.
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1898 Geogr. Jrnl. (Royal Geogr. Soc.) 11 677 The groups of 10 degrees of longitude form naturally the 24 hour-zones into which the circumference of the equator is divided.
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on the hour: (a) exactly at the hour named; (b) at the beginning of every hour; frequently in every hour on the hour.
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1845 Times 8 Dec. 5/4 The solicitor with the plans of the Great West of England Railway..dashed up to the Great Ball turnpike-gate..just on the hour of 12.
a1902 B. F. Morris Pit (1903) x. 405 When six o'clock struck, she made haste to assure herself that of course she could not expect him exactly on the hour.
1975 Listener 11 Dec. 788/2 News reporting on the hour..meant a great deal of repetition.
1977 C. Thomas Firefox (1978) vii. 201 The sensors are being thrust up through the floe from the submarine's sail every hour, on the hour.
1991 Sky Warriors 1 ii. 25/2 So, we are on the southerly route, we will out-brief on the hour, power on at 10 past the hour, for a roll time of 13.31 for an EP at Baggy Point at 14.30.
2002 T. Pinchuck et al. Rough Guide S. Afr. (ed. 3) 691 Open vehicles depart from here every hour on the hour to take visitors around pens and cages containing..endangered species.
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