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Meaning hour meaning

What does hour mean?

Definitions in simple English

hour Noun

— A measure of time, equal to 60 minutes. There are 60 minutes in one hour. There are 24 hours in one day.

hour

— 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 — noun (= minute) distance measured by the time taken to cover it we live an hour from the airport its just 10 minutes away

Synonyms hour synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as hour?

hour English » English

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Topics hour topics

What do people use hour to talk about?

States Time Period of time Day

Time of the day

What words refer to a time of the day?

time hour watch
What words refer to midnight?

midnight the middle of the night pumpkin hour

States Time

Examples hour examples

How do I use hour in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I waited for an hour, but he didn't appear.

I've been waiting for you for over an hour.

You will have to wait there about an hour.

Can't you ever be punctual? I have been waiting here for one hour.

The train was almost an hour behind time.

She came an hour beyond the appointed time.

I've been waiting half an hour.

I'm paid thirty dollars an hour.

You're supposed to meet Tom in front of his hotel in about an hour.

The clocks will be put back an hour this weekend.

See you in about an hour.

I've been waiting for the bus for half an hour.

We'll see each other in half an hour.

Tom earns more money per hour than I do per week.

I have to go shopping. I'll be back in an hour.

I have so much work that I will stay for one more hour.

At this hour, there is incredible traffic.

You look tired. You ought to rest for an hour or two.

You only started this job an hour ago.

The express train is an hour faster than the local.

The trains leave at two-hour intervals.

It takes us half an hour to walk to school.

Our train went at 200 kilometers an hour.

It's an hour's walk to the station.

It takes you an hour to go to the station on foot.

I can walk to school in half an hour.

Allow an hour to get to the station.

I waited for him at the station for an hour, but he didn't show up.

Movie subtitles

Over the next hour, we'll show you how the hunt for alien life has dramatically changed over the past few decades.

As per Harry's calculation, that's one litre per hour for the first eight hours.

Not even happy hour.

Yeah, I-I'll be home in, like, an hour, tops.

I know where that woman is every hour of every day.

Well, I worked in TV for one hour, and even I know how the headsets work.

Guys, come on, I know business meetings are boring, but can we just focus for the next half hour?

It was only a matter of an hour before the service that Mr Bugle delivered Declan, and I had my helpers with me.

I drove round for an hour trying to find that phantom corpse.

In Croatia. It's a 28-hour flight.

Uh, about an hour and 45.

Look, we've got happy hour coming up.

I'll leave you to your happy hour.

You know the funeral is in less than an hour?

The receiver changed frequency very slowly over a one or two hour period.

Talabot has been waiting for you for half an hour.

It was his hour of glory.

God picks the hour and mine has come.

We have an hour.

The hour of destruction is near.

Those people were your comrades until only an hour ago.

One hour in the courtyard.

He's been sitting at that cart for nearly an hour.

Mr Krafft left the hotel about an hour ago, but he has ordered dinner for two at 10pm.

I knew all about this and have come.to help you in your hour of need!

Calm down then; the sole joyful hour, you said it yourself, he owes to you.

You fancied yourself strong, for one hour, but you were not.

My most blissful hour, no one can take it away from me!

Be a long walk back, pal, we've been driving for nearly an hour.

How much time do we have? They'll be gone an hour.

It is expected to take about an hour.

We got here with a lot difficulties. Later when it's time to go to the boulevard to film the video of unity, come over an hour earlier.

We could finish morning surgery half an hour early -- we've very few appointments in the book.

If I'm not back within the hour, you may take it as a good sign.

I would sooner pound the treadmill in the workhouse or pick oakum... than spend another hour engaged in labour such as this.

Rigor mortis hadn't fully set in yet, so I'd estimate he died no more than an hour before you discovered him.

Scheduled to land at Andrews in an under an hour.

News and current affairs

Cutting speed limits to, say, 10 kilometers per hour would prevent most accidents and save many lives.

Productivity is a measure of output per hour worked.

Beginning in the mid-1990's, the rate of growth in output per hour worked - a key factor behind the rise in per capita income - slowed in most European countries while it rose in the US, reversing a decades-long pattern.

Breathtaking brinkmanship and 11th-hour decision-making leaving all bystanders wondering whether this time the cart might in fact go over the cliff?

Then, in the sixth month of the case, the Head Judge in the three-judge panel was suddenly promoted to become the head of a city court an hour from Jakarta.

But the plant was not designed to withstand the 14-meter-high tsunami waves that swept over its protective sea wall less than an hour later.

Trade unions held a symbolic one-hour strike to back the government.

But the stark reality is that Earth Hour teaches all the wrong lessons, and actually increases CO2 emissions.

Earth Hour teaches us that tackling global warming is easy.

If switching off the lights for one hour per year really were beneficial, why would we not do it for the other 8,759?

Hypothetically, switching off the lights for an hour would cut CO2 emissions from power plants around the world.

In fact, Earth Hour will cause emissions to increase.

Moreover, during Earth Hour, any significant drop in electricity demand will entail a reduction in CO2 emissions during the hour, but it will be offset by the surge from firing up coal or gas stations to restore electricity supplies afterwards.

The problem is that the tests must be administered by a trained neuropsychologist and take more than an hour to complete; moreover, many people with mild cognitive impairment do not progress to dementia.

Or we were invited to come at an earlier hour in the hope that we would leave before the official representatives arrived, which sometimes worked and sometimes didn't.

Asia's Hour?

All we have to do is lower the speed limit everywhere to five kilometers per hour.

MADRID - Diplomacy is not having its finest hour nowadays. Quite the contrary: resistance to diplomatic solutions is a common thread in most of today's major conflicts.

Having unsettled many of his neighbors, not just the Americans, his upcoming visit to Vietnam, and his prime minister Li Keqiang's visit to South Korea, are of a piece with his dinner-hour diplomacy with Ma.

MADRID - Diplomacy is not having its finest hour nowadays.

There was the US government's eleventh-hour decision to table hundreds of objections to the final Summit Declaration, effectively reducing it to a series of lowest-common-denominator platitudes.

But it is our fate as humans, and it is usually accepted with dignity when the hour comes.

An hour later, the senior figure had not shown up.

Although he returned an hour later and delivered the rest of his speech, Egyptians began to demand greater transparency regarding the president's health as well as other state affairs.

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