What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Hour vs Ever - What's the difference?

hour | ever |

As a noun hour

is a time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day.

As an adverb ever is

always.

As an adjective ever is

(epidemiology) occurring at any time, occurring even but once during a timespan.

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

    ever

    English

    (wikipedia ever)

    Adverb

    (-)
  • Always.
  • :
  • *
  • *:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever -renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
  • At any time.
  • :
  • *
  • , 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.}}
  • In any way.
  • :
  • (lb)
  • :
  • Derived terms

    (terms derived from ever) * e’er * everchanging * everlasting * everloving * evermind * ever-present * ever since * ever smoker * ever so * every * forever, for ever, for ever more * for ever and ever, forever and ever * happily ever after * however * never * never ever * whatever * whatsoever * whenever * whichever * whoever

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (epidemiology) Occurring at any time, occurring even but once during a timespan.
  • * 1965 , Reuben Hill, The family and population control: a Puerto Rican experiment in social change
  • This family empathy measure is highly related to ever use of birth control but not to any measure of continuous use.

    Statistics

    *