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Ago vs Now - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between ago and now

is that ago is gone; gone by; gone away; passed; passed away while now is present; current.

As a preposition ago

is in the past.

As an adverb now is

at the present time.

As a conjunction now is

since something is true : because of the fact that something happened.

As an interjection now is

indicates a signal to begin.

As a noun now is

the present time.

As an acronym NOW is

national Organization for Women.

ago

English

Alternative forms

* ygo (obsolete), ygoe (obsolete), agon (obsolete), agone

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (archaic, or, dialectal) Gone; gone by; gone away; passed; passed away.
  • in days ago'''/in days '''agone
  • (archaic, or, dialectal) Nearly gone; dead (used in )''
  • Usage notes

    * Usually follows the noun.

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • In the past.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Damned if you don’t , passage=Two years ago a pair of scientists sparked fears of a devastating virus. [They] separately found ways to make a strain of bird flu called H5N1 more contagious. Critics fretted that terrorists might use this knowledge to cook up a biological weapon. American officials ordered that the papers be redacted. Further research was put on hold. But after much debate, the papers were published in full last year.}}

    Derived terms

    * long ago

    See also

    * (projectlink)

    References

    * G. A. Cooke, The County of Devon

    Statistics

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    now

    English

    (wikipedia now)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Present; current.
  • * 17th C , , Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; in an Essay of the Vanity of Dogmatizing and Confident Opinion , 1885, page 207,
  • Defects seem as necessary to our now happiness as their Opposites.
  • * 1855 , Conrad Swackhamer, The United States democratic review , Volume 5?,
  • The history of the infant colonies teaches us that the country comprised within the limits of the now United States of America was originally patented in the reign of James I., of England, into two portions:'' that in less than eighty years from that period, the same was again divided into ''twelve'' distinct provinces; a ''thirteenth being after added in the creation of the State of Georgia.
  • * 1908 , The English reports ,
  • Where in assumpsit for money lent, the defendant pleaded that in an action in which the now' defendant was plaintiff, and the ' now plaintiff was defendant,.
  • * 2010 March 17, The Telegraph'', news website, '' Radio 4 apologises for day old shipping forecast ,
  • Radio 4's continuity announcer said at the end of the show: "As many of you will have noticed, that edition of The Now Show wasn't very now . It was actually last week's programme. Our apologies for that."
  • (archaic, legal) At the time the will is written. Used in order to prevent any inheritance from being transferred to a person of a future marriage. Does not indicate the existence of a previous marriage.
  • Now wife.
  • (informal) Fashionable; popular; up to date; current.
  • I think this band's sound is very now .

    See also

    * happening

    Adverb

    (-)
  • At the present time.
  • * Arbuthnot
  • I have a patient now living, at an advanced age, who discharged blood from his lungs thirty years ago.
  • (sentence)
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=3 , passage=Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.}}
  • Differently from the immediate past; differently from a more remote past or a possible future; differently from all other times.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness, the consciousness dawning upon him that his eccentricity was not receiving the ovation it merited.}}
  • Differently from the situation before a stated event or change of circumstance.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= The attack of the MOOCs , passage=Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations.}}
  • At the time reached within a narration.
  • (obsolete) Very recently; not long ago.
  • * Waller
  • They that but now , for honour and for plate, / Made the sea blush with blood, resign their hate.

    Derived terms

    * nowadays * now and then * right now *

    Conjunction

    (English Conjunctions)
  • since something is true : because of the fact that something happened
  • : Now you mention it, I am kind of hungry.
  • since, because, in light of the fact.
  • ''We can play football now that the rain has stopped.
  • — usually + that
  • : Now that you mention it, I am kind of hungry.
  • : Now that''' we're all here, let's start the meeting. = Let's start the meeting '''now that everyone's here.
  • Interjection

    (en-interj)!
  • Indicates a signal to begin.
  • ''Now! Fire all we've got while the enemy is in reach!

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (uncountable) The present time.
  • Now is the right time.
    There is no better time than now .
  • # The state of not paying attention to the future or the past.
  • She is living in the now .
  • # A particular instant in time, as perceived at that instant.
  • #* (Emily Dickinson)
  • Forever is composed of nows .
  • #* {{quote-book, ##*, 1982, Albert Hofstadter, The Basic Problems of Phenomenology, by=Martin Heidegger, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=VmatHCLJ4Q4C&pg=PA249, page=249
  • , passage=Time is not thrust together and summed up out of nows , but the reverse: with reference to the now we can articulate the stretching out of time always only in specific ways.}}

    Synonyms

    * (not paying attention to the future or past) here and now

    Statistics

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