hour

[hour]

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.

...

The twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes.

Noun
distance measured by the time taken to cover it; "we live an hour from the airport"; "its just 10 minutes away"

Noun
a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day; "the job will take more than an hour"

Noun
clock time; "the hour is getting late"

Noun
a special and memorable period; "it was their finest hour"

n.
The twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes.

n.
The time of the day, as expressed in hours and minutes, and indicated by a timepiece; as, what is the hour? At what hour shall we meet?

n.
Fixed or appointed time; conjuncture; a particular time or occasion; as, the hour of greatest peril; the man for the hour.

n.
Certain prayers to be repeated at stated times of the day, as matins and vespers.

n.
A measure of distance traveled.

Hour

Hour , n. [OE. hour, our, hore, ure, OF. hore, ore, ure, F. heure, L. hora, fr. Gr. , orig., a definite space of time, fixed by natural laws; hence, a season, the time of the day, an hour. See Year, and cf. Horologe, Horoscope.] 1. The twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes. 2. The time of the day, as expressed in hours and minutes, and indicated by a timepiece; as, what is the hour? At what hour shall we meet? 3. Fixed or appointed time; conjuncture; a particular time or occasion; as, the hour of greatest peril; the man for the hour.

Woman, . . . mine hour is not yet come.

This is your hour, and the power of darkness.

4. pl. (R. C. Ch.) Certain prayers to be repeated at stated times of the day, as matins and vespers. 5. A measure of distance traveled.

Vilvoorden, three hours from Brussels.

After hours, after the time appointed for one's regular labor. -- Canonical hours. See under Canonical. -- Hour angle (Astron.), the angle between the hour circle passing through a given body, and the meridian of a place. -- Hour circle. (Astron.) (a) Any circle of the sphere passing through the two poles of the equator; esp., one of the circles drawn on an artificial globe through the poles, and dividing the equator into spaces of 15°, or one hour, each. (b) A circle upon an equatorial telescope lying parallel to the plane of the earth's equator, and graduated in hours and subdivisions of hours of right ascension. (c) A small brass circle attached to the north pole of an artificial globe, and divided into twenty-four parts or hours. It is used to mark differences of time in working problems on the globe. -- Hour hand, the hand or index which shows the hour on a timepiece. -- Hour line. (a) (Astron.) A line indicating the hour. (b) (Dialing) A line on which the shadow falls at a given hour; the intersection of an hour circle which the face of the dial. -- Hour plate, the plate of a timepiece on which the hours are marked; the dial. Locke. -- Sidereal hour, the twenty-fourth part of a sidereal day. -- Solar hour, the twenty-fourth part of a solar day. -- The small hours, the early hours of the morning, as one o'clock, two o'clock, etc. -- To keep good hours, to be regular in going to bed early.

The twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes.

...

Usage Examples

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

Every night, half an hour before curtain up, the bells of St. Malachy's, the Actors' Chapel on New York's 49th Street, peal the tune of 'There's No Business Like Show Business.' If you walk the streets of the theatre district before a show and see the vast, enthusiastic lines it sounds like a calling: there is certainly no place like Broadway.

Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action.

Competitiveness is really what it costs you per man-hour to get you what you want. In other words, there's an education level that plays into the mix and so if it's inexpensive to buy an hour of real good education in places like China versus the U.S., that factors in.

But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

Misspelled Form

hour, ghour, yhour, uhour, jhour, nhour, gour, your, uour, jour, nour, hgour, hyour, huour, hjour, hnour, hiour, h9our, h0our, hpour, hlour, hiur, h9ur, h0ur, hpur, hlur, hoiur, ho9ur, ho0ur, hopur, holur, hoyur, ho7ur, ho8ur, hoiur, hojur, hoyr, ho7r, ho8r, hoir, hojr, houyr, hou7r, hou8r, houir, houjr, houer, hou4r, hou5r, houtr, houfr, houe, hou4, hou5, hout, houf, houre, hour4, hour5, hourt, hourf.

Other Usage Examples

But in a 24-hour day, the 25th hour is also the impossible hour, an hour that doesn't exist, that can only be created by the imagination.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

But, you know, they don't enjoy the dinner hour together. It's just not as much of a ritual at night and it's interesting. I think the ritual is taking place perhaps more in the morning.

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.

Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.