Now vs Him - What's the difference?
now | him |
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,
* 1855 , Conrad Swackhamer, The United States democratic review , Volume 5?,
* 1908 , The English reports ,
* 2010 March 17, The Telegraph'', news website, ''
(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.
(informal) Fashionable; popular; up to date; current.
At the present time.
* Arbuthnot
(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= At the time reached within a narration.
(obsolete) Very recently; not long ago.
* Waller
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.
— 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.
Indicates a signal to begin.
(uncountable) The present time.
# The state of not paying attention to the future or the past.
# A particular instant in time, as perceived at that instant.
#* (Emily Dickinson)
#* {{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.}}
# With dative effect or as an indirect object.
#* '1897' (578 m)'', (Bram Stoker), ''Dracula :
# Following a preposition.
#* '1813' (553 m)'', (Jane Austen), ''Pride and Prejudice :
# With accusative effect or as a direct object.
#* '1853' (565 m)'', (Charles Dickens), ''Bleak House :
* '1526' (465 m)'', (William Tyndale), trans. ''Bible , Acts XII:
* '1765' (538 m)'',
With nominative effect: he, especially as a predicate after (be), or following a preposition.
* 'c. 1616' (493 m)'', (William Shakespeare), ''Macbeth , First Folio 1623, V.10:
* '2003' (611 m)'', Claire Cozens, ''The Guardian , 11 Jun 2003:
As nouns the difference between now and him
is that now is new moon while him is male (someone of masculine gender).As an adjective him is
male.now
English
(wikipedia now)Adjective
(-)page 207,
- Defects seem as necessary to our now happiness as their Opposites.
- 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.
- 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,.
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."
- Now wife.
- I think this band's sound is very now .
See also
* happeningAdverb
(-)- I have a patient now living, at an advanced age, who discharged blood from his lungs thirty years ago.
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.}}
- 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)- ''We can play football now that the rain has stopped.
Interjection
(en-interj)!- ''Now! Fire all we've got while the enemy is in reach!
Noun
(en-noun)- Now is the right time.
- There is no better time than now .
- She is living in the now .
- Forever is composed of nows .
Synonyms
* (not paying attention to the future or past) here and nowStatistics
*him
English
(wikipedia him)Pronoun
- ‘I promise,’ he said as I gave him the papers.
- She was in no humour for conversation with anyone but himself; and to him she had hardly courage to speak.
- ‘He's got it buttoned in his breast. I saw him put it there.’
- Apon a daye apoynted, the kynge arayed hym' in royall apparell, and set ' hym in his seate, and made an oracion unto them.
- Though poor the peasant’s hut, his feasts though small,
- He sees his little lot the lot of all;
- [...]
- But calm, and bred in ignorance and toil,
- Each wish contracting, fits him to the soil.
- Before my body, I throw my warlike Shield: Lay on Macduffe, And damn'd be him , that first cries hold, enough.
- Lowe quit the West Wing last year amid rumours that he was unhappy that his co-stars earned more than him .
