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As nouns the difference between adventure and hour

is that adventure is the encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat while hour is a time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day.

As a verb adventure

is to risk or hazard; jeopard; venture.

adventure

English

(wikipedia adventure)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) aventure, aunter, anter, from (etyl) aventure, from , which in the Romance languages took the sense of "to happen, befall" (see also advene).

Noun

(en noun)
  • The encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat.
  • * Macaulay
    • He loved excitement and adventure .
  • A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
  • (video games) A text adventure or an adventure game.
  • * 1984 , Spyplane'' (review, in ''Crash , issue 4, May 1984) [http://www.crashonline.org.uk/04/spyplne.htm]
    • The first thing to strike me about Spyplane was that it is more like a verbal simulation than an adventure .
  • * 1988 , Mike Gerrard, The Guild Of Thieves'' (review, in ''Your Sinclair , issue 29, May 1988) [http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/articles/theguildofthieves.htm]
    • To sum up, I think this is definitely one of the best adventures around for the Spectrum now, along with Gnome Ranger
  • * 1992 , Larry Horsfield, The SU Guide to Playing and Writing Adventure Games'' (in ''Sinclair User magazine, issue 128, October 1992)
    • Before you sit down in front of your Speccy to play an adventure , equip yourself with a pencil, eraser and plenty of paper. This so that you may draw a 'map' of the adventure as you move around.
  • (obsolete) That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.
  • * Milton
    • Nay, a far less good to man it will be found, if she must, at all adventures , be fastened upon him individually.
  • (obsolete) Risk; danger; peril.
  • * Berners
    • He was in great adventure of his life.
    Derived terms
    * (remarkable occurrence) boredom
    Antonyms
    * abstention, peradventure, unadventurous
    Related terms
    * advent * advene

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) aventuren, auntren, which from (etyl) aventurer, from aventure.

    Verb

    (adventur)
  • To risk or hazard; jeopard; venture.
  • * Bible, Acts xix. 31
    • He would not adventure himself into the theatre.
  • To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
  • * Bunyan
    • Yet they adventured to go back.
  • * J. Taylor
    • Discriminations might be adventured .
  • To try the chance; to take the risk.
  • * '>citation
    • Derived terms
    * adventurer * adventuresome * adventuress * adventurous * adventurously * adventurousness

    References

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    hour

    English

    Alternative forms

    * hower (archaic)

    Noun

    (wikipedia hour) (en noun)
  • A time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day.
  • :
  • *1661 , , [http://archive.org/stream/a615775104worduoft/a615775104worduoft_djvu.txt The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond]
  • *:During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
  • *
  • *:It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title=[http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21604535-real-sir-isaac-newton-was-not-first-king-reason-last Magician’s brain] , passage=[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes. The truth is that Newton was very much a product of his time.}}
  • A season, moment, time or stound.
  • *(Edgar Allen Poe) (1809-1849), Alone :
  • *:From childhood's hour I have not been / As others were; I have not seen / As others saw; I could not bring / My passions from a common spring.
  • *
  • *:Now will be a good hour to show you Milly Erne's grave.
  • (lb) The time.
  • :
  • Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time.
  • *T. C. G. James and Sebastian Cox, The Battle of Britain :
  • *:By 1300 hours the position was fairly clear.

    • Synonyms

    * stound (obsolete)

    Derived terms

    * ampere-hour * canonical hour * credit hour * eleventh hour * F-Hour * finest hour * flower-of-an-hour * H-hour * half-hour * happy hour * hour angle * hour circle * hourglass/hour glass/hour-glass * hourless * hour hand * hourly * kilowatt-hour * man-hour * off-hour * on the hour * person-hour * quarter-hour * rush hour * witching hour * zero hour (hour)

    Abbreviations

    * Singular: h, hr * Plural: h, hrs

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