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{ "term": "hour", "partOfSpeech": "noun", "ox3000": true, "cefr": "a1", "definitions": [ { "senseNumber": 1, "definition": "60 minutes; one of the 24 parts that a day is divided into", "sensetop": "for an hourin an hourby the hourper/an hourwithin the hour", "cefr": "a1", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "I **spent an hour **on the phone." }, { "text": "It will **take** about **an hour** to get there." }, { "text": "It usually takes me two hours to walk there." }, { "text": "The interview **lasted half an hour**." }, { "text": "It was a three-hour exam." }, { "text": "Most cats sleep 13–16 **hours a day**." }, { "text": "Architects can expect to spend 40 hours a week in meetings." }, { "text": "I waited for a couple of hours and then I left.", "contextForm": "for an hour" }, { "text": "He'll be back in an hour.", "contextForm": "in an hour" }, { "text": "In less than **twenty-four hours** it would be Christmas." }, { "text": "We're paid by the hour.", "contextForm": "by the hour" }, { "text": "Top speed is 120 miles per hour.", "contextForm": "per/an hour" }, { "text": "The rate of pay is £10.50 an hour." }, { "text": "We hope to be there within the hour *(= in less than an hour)*.", "contextForm": "within the hour" }, { "text": "York was within an hour's drive." }, { "text": "He crossed the line in a time of 2 hours and 40 minutes." }, { "text": "Chicago is two hours away *(= it takes two hours to get there)*." }, { "text": "We're four hours ahead of New York *(= referring to the time difference)*." }, { "text": "I sat there, **hour after hour**, staring at a blank computer screen." }, { "text": "He's been gone for over an hour." }, { "text": "I should be back within a couple of hours." }, { "text": "I sat there for two hours." }, { "text": "I slept for eight solid hours." }, { "text": "It takes two hours to get to London." }, { "text": "She grew more worried with every passing hour." }, { "text": "She worked for three hours." }, { "text": "The performance lasted three hours." }, { "text": "There are still two hours of daylight left." }, { "text": "You gain five hours when you fly from New York to London." }, { "text": "an hour of rest" } ], "topics": ["Time"], "collocations": { "adjective": ["full", "solid", "contact"], "verb + hour": ["take", "spend", "waste"], "hour + verb": ["go by", "pass"], "preposition": ["by the hour", "for an hour", "in an hour"], "phrases": ["half an hour", "hour after hour", "in an hour’s time"] } }, { "senseNumber": 2, "definition": "a period of about an hour, used for a particular purpose", "cefr": "a2", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "I spent my **lunch hour** shopping." } ], "topics": ["Time"], "collocations": { "adjective": ["lunch", "peak", "rush"], "verb + hour": ["spend"], "preposition": ["hour of"] } }, { "senseNumber": 3, "definition": "a fixed period of time during which people work, an office is open, etc.", "sensetop": "during office, business, etc. hours after hoursout of hours", "cefr": "a2", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "**Opening hours** are from 10 to 6 each day." }, { "text": "Most people in this kind of job tend to work **long hours**." }, { "text": "The library is open during normal **working hours**.", "contextForm": "during office, business, etc. hours" }, { "text": "What are your **office hours**?" }, { "text": "a hospital’s **visiting hours**" }, { "text": "Britain's **licensing hours** *(= when pubs are allowed to open)* used to be very restricted." }, { "text": "This is the only place to get a drink after hours *(= after the normal closing time for pubs)*.", "contextForm": "after hours" }, { "text": "You can contact me on this number out of hours *(= when the office is closed)*.", "contextForm": "out of hours" }, { "text": "Doctors often have to work out of hours." }, { "text": "He keeps regular hours." }, { "text": "He spends a lot of time in his office after hours." }, { "text": "Bakers have to work unsocial hours." }, { "text": "She works very long hours." }, { "text": "the number of contact hours (= working hours spent with students or clients, not working alone) per week" }, { "text": "The office is closed between the hours of twelve and two." }, { "text": "the hours of darkness" } ], "topics": ["Time"], "collocations": { "adjective": ["office", "opening", "visiting"], "verb + hours": ["work", "keep"], "preposition": ["after hour", "out of hour"] } }, { "senseNumber": 4, "definition": "a long time", "sensetop": "for hours", "cefr": "a2", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "It **took hours** getting there." }, { "text": "It took us hours to find out what was wrong." }, { "text": "‘How long did it last?’ ‘Oh, **hours and hours**.’" }, { "text": "Where have you been? I've been **waiting hours**." }, { "text": "I've been **waiting for hours**.", "contextForm": "for hours" } ], "topics": ["Time"] }, { "senseNumber": 5, "definition": "a particular point in time", "examples": [ { "text": "You can't turn him away at this hour of the night." }, { "text": "The hour had come for us to leave." } ] }, { "senseNumber": 6, "definition": "the time when something important happens", "examples": [ { "text": "This was often thought of as the country's **finest hour**." }, { "text": "She thought her **last hour** had come." }, { "text": "Don't desert me in my **hour of need**." }, { "text": "She helped me in my hour of need." } ], "collocations": { "adjective": ["darkest", "finest", "antisocial"], "hour + verb": ["come"], "preposition": ["between the hours of", "hour of"], "phrases": ["your hour of need"] } }, { "senseNumber": 7, "definition": "the time when it is exactly 1 o’clock, 2 o’clock, etc.", "sensetop": "on the hour", "examples": [ { "text": "The clock **struck the hour**." }, { "text": "ten minutes past the hour" }, { "text": "There's a bus every hour on the hour", "contextForm": "on the hour" } ], "collocations": { "verb + the hour": ["chime", "strike"], "preposition": ["on the hour", "past the hour", "to the hour"] } }, { "senseNumber": 8, "definition": "used when giving the time according to the 24-hour clock, usually in military or other official language", "examples": [ { "text": "The first missile was launched at 2300 hours *(= at 11 p.m.)*." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "any time, especially a time that is not usual or suitable", "examples": [ { "text": "He's started staying out **till all hours** *(= until very late at night)*." }, { "text": "She thinks she can call me **at all hours of the day and night**." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "at the last possible moment; just in time", "examples": [] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "very early, especially when this is annoying", "labels": "(informal)", "examples": [ { "text": "The job involved getting up at some unearthly hour to catch the first train." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "very early or very late and therefore annoying", "labels": "(informal)", "examples": [ { "text": "I apologize for calling you at this ungodly hour." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "the time when you have to do something difficult or unpleasant", "labels": "(often humorous)", "examples": [ { "text": "I’d better go and see the dentist—I can’t put off the evil hour any longer." }, { "text": "If you keep on borrowing, you are only postponing the evil day when you have to pay it all back." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "if you keep regular, strange, etc. hours, the times at which you do things (especially getting up or going to bed) are regular, strange, etc.", "examples": [], "topics": ["Time"] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "to spend time doing something that is not important while you are waiting for something else to happen", "examples": [ { "text": "We killed time playing cards." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "the period of time very early in the morning, soon after midnight", "examples": [ { "text": "We worked well into the small hours." }, { "text": "The fighting began in the early hours of Saturday morning." }, { "text": "The party continued well into the early hours." } ], "topics": ["Time"] } ], "pronunciations": { "uk": [ { "pronunciation": "/ˈaʊə(r)/", "audio": "ho/hour/hour__gb_1.mp3" } ], "us": [ { "pronunciation": "/ˈaʊər/", "audio": "ho/hour/hour__us_2.mp3" } ] }, "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French ure, via Latin from Greek hōra ‘season, hour’." }