| 单词 | hour |
| 释义 | hour (once / 15 pages) n An hour is a unit of time — it's sixty minutes, 3,600 seconds, or the length it takes the long hand on your watch to move in a full circle. If your math class lasts an hour, it might start at 9:30 and end at 10:30, one hour later. Hour also means "time of day." If your phone rings at two a.m., you could ask, "Why are you calling at such a late hour, Mom?" The word stems from the Old French hore, "one-twelfth of a day," with its roots in the Latin hora, "hour" or "season," and Greek hora, "the season." WORD FAMILYhour: horary, hourly, hours+/hours: after-hours USAGE EXAMPLESAn hour after the game, after the trophy ceremony, the senior was still in defensive-back mode. Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) I wait in the reception area for an hour before the X-ray technician calls my name. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) “It’s ludicrous and arbitrary,” according to Devinsky, who says getting government approval for his epilepsy trial required dozens of hours of extra work. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) 1n a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day the job will take more than an hour Syn|Hypo|Hyper 60 minutes, hr sidereal hour 1/24 of a sidereal day man hour, person houra time unit used in industry for measuring work time unit, unit of time a unit for measuring time periods 2n distance measured by the time taken to cover it we live an hour from the airport Syn|Hyper minute distance the property created by the space between two objects or points 3n clock time the hour is getting late Syn|Hypo|Hyper time of day high noon, midday, noon, noonday, noontide, twelve noon the middle of the day mealtimethe hour at which a meal is habitually or customarily eaten late-night hourthe latter part of night midnight12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night small hoursthe hours just after midnight bedtimethe time you go to bed closing timethe regular time of day when an establishment closes to the public aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, dawning, daybreak, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunupthe first light of day early-morning houran hour early in the morning sundown, sunsetthe time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilightthe time of day immediately following sunset nonea canonical hour that is the ninth hour of the day counting from sunrise happy hourthe time of day when a bar sells alcoholic drinks at a reduced price rush hourthe times at the beginning and end of the working day when many people are traveling to or from work zero hourthe time set for the start of an action or operation canonical hour(Roman Catholic Church) one of seven specified times for prayer breakfast timethe customary or habitual hour for eating breakfast lunch period, lunchtimethe customary or habitual hour for eating lunch dinnertime, suppertimethe customary or habitual hour for the evening meal lights-outa prescribed bedtime nighta shortening of nightfall matins, morning prayerthe first canonical hour; at daybreak primethe second canonical hour; about 6 a.m. terce, tiercethe third canonical hour; about 9 a.m. sextthe fourth of the seven canonical hours; about noon nonesthe fifth of the seven canonical hours; about 3 p.m. evensong, vespersthe sixth of the seven canonical hours of the divine office; early evening; now often made a public service on Sundays complin, complinelast of the seven canonical hours just before retiring clock time, time a reading of a point in time as given by a clock 4n a special and memorable period it was their finest hour Hyper period, period of time, time period an amount of time |
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