英语词汇“hourplates”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

hourplates

释义

hour /owr/

noun

60 minutes, or the 24th part of the day
The time as indicated by a clock, etc
An hour's journey, or (old) three miles
A time or occasion
An angular unit (15º) of right ascension
(in pl) the goddesses of the seasons and the hours (mythology)
(in pl) set times of prayer, the canonical hours, the offices or services prescribed for these, or a book containing them, often illustrated (also book of hours)
(in pl) the prescribed times for doing business

ORIGIN: OFr hore (Fr heure), from L hora, from Gr hōrā

hourˈly adjective

adverb

hourˈ-angle noun (astronomy)

The angle (usu measured as time) between the declination circle of a body observed and the observer's meridian

hourˈ-circle noun (astronomy)

hourˈglass noun

An instrument for measuring the hours by the running of sand through a narrow neck

adjective

hour hand noun

The hand that shows the hour on a clock, etc

hourˈlongˈ adjective and adverb

Lasting an hour

hourˈplate noun

A timepiece dial

after hours

After the normal hours of business

at all hours

At irregular hours, esp late hours

at the eleventh hour

At the last moment (Bible, Matthew 20.6,9)

in a good (or evil) hour

Under a fortunate (or an unfortunate) impulse (from the old belief in astrological influences)

keep good hours

on the hour

At exactly one, two, etc o'clock

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