Hour vs Days - What's the difference?
hour | days |
A time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day.
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*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
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*: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)
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, 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.
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*:Now will be a good hour to show you Milly Erne's grave.
(lb) The time.
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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.
A particular time or period of vague extent.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1
, passage=In the old days', […], he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after ' days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.}}
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
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As nouns the difference between hour and days
is that hour is a time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day while days is .As an adverb days is
during the day.hour
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Alternative forms
* hower (archaic)Noun
(wikipedia hour) (en noun)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, hrsStatistics
* 1000 English basic wordsdays
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(wikipedia days)Noun
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Keeping the mighty honest, passage=The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days , Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account. That is a very American position.}}