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📖 Определения и значения для слова hour

📒 60 minutes; one of the 24 parts that a day is divided into

  • I spent an hour on the phone.
  • It will take about an hour to get there.
  • It usually takes me two hours to walk there.

📒 a period of about an hour, used for a particular purpose

  • I spent my lunch hour shopping.

📒 a fixed period of time during which people work, an office is open, etc.

  • Opening hours are from 10 to 6 each day.
  • Most people in this kind of job tend to work long hours.
  • during office, business, etc. hours The library is open during normal working hours.

📒 a long time

  • It took hours getting there.
  • It took us hours to find out what was wrong.
  • ‘How long did it last?’ ‘Oh, hours and hours.’

📒 a particular point in time

  • You can't turn him away at this hour of the night.
  • The hour had come for us to leave.

📒 the time when something important happens

  • This was often thought of as the country's finest hour.
  • She thought her last hour had come.
  • Don't desert me in my hour of need.

📒 the time when it is exactly 1 o’clock, 2 o’clock, etc.

  • The clock struck the hour.
  • ten minutes past the hour
  • on the hour There's a bus every hour on the hour

📒 used when giving the time according to the 24-hour clock, usually in military or other official language

  • The first missile was launched at 2300 hours (= at 11 p.m.). This is pronounced ‘23 hundred hours’.

📒 any time, especially a time that is not usual or suitable

  • He's started staying out till all hours (= until very late at night).
  • She thinks she can call me at all hours of the day and night.

📒 at the last possible moment; just in time

📒 very early, especially when this is annoying

  • The job involved getting up at some unearthly hour to catch the first train.

📒 very early or very late and therefore annoying

  • I apologize for calling you at this ungodly hour.

📒 the time when you have to do something difficult or unpleasant

  • I’d better go and see the dentist—I can’t put off the evil hour any longer.
  • If you keep on borrowing, you are only postponing the evil day when you have to pay it all back.

📒 if you keep regular, strange, etc. hours, the times at which you do things (especially getting up or going to bed) are regular, strange, etc.

📒 to spend time doing something that is not important while you are waiting for something else to happen

  • We killed time playing cards.

📒 the period of time very early in the morning, soon after midnight

  • We worked well into the small hours.
  • The fighting began in the early hours of Saturday morning.
  • The party continued well into the early hours.
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