Hour vs. Houre — Which is Correct Spelling?
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Which is correct: Hour or Houre
How to spell Hour?
Hour
Correct Spelling
Houre
Incorrect Spelling
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Hour Definitions
An hour (symbol: h; also abbreviated hr) is a unit of time conventionally reckoned as 1⁄24 of a day and scientifically reckoned as 3,599–3,601 seconds, depending on conditions. There are 60 minutes in an hour, and 24 hours in a day.
A period of time equal to a twenty-fourth part of a day and night and divided into 60 minutes
Rates of pay were low, starting at £3.20 an hour
An extra hour of daylight in the winter evenings
A two-hour operation
A time of day specified as an exact number of hours from midnight or midday
The clock in the sitting room struck the hour
A fixed period of time for an activity, such as work, use of a building, etc.
The dinner hour
Opening hours
Licensing hours
(in the Western (Latin) Church) a short service of psalms and prayers to be said at a particular time of day, especially in religious communities
An organized life of prayer including the canonical hours
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15° of longitude or right ascension (one twenty-fourth part of a circle).
One of the 24 equal parts of a day.
One of the points on a timepiece marking off 12 or 24 successive intervals of 60 minutes, from midnight to noon and noon to midnight or from midnight to midnight.
The time of day indicated by a 12-hour clock.
Hours The time of day determined on a 24-hour basis
1730 hours is 5:30 PM.
A unit of measure of longitude or right ascension, equal to 15° or 1/24 of a great circle.
A customary or fixed time
The dinner hour.
Hours A set or customary period of time for a specified activity
Banking hours.
A particular time
Their hour of need.
A significant time
Her hour had come.
The present time
The man of the hour.
The work that can be accomplished in an hour.
The distance that can be traveled in an hour.
A single session of a school day or class.
A credit hour.
Hours(Ecclesiastical) The canonical hours.
A time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day.
I spent an hour at lunch.
A season, moment, or time.
(poetic) The time.
The hour grows late and I must go home.
Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time.
The set times of prayer, the canonical hours, the offices or services prescribed for these, or a book containing them.
A distance that can be traveled in one hour.
This place is an hour away from where I live.
The twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes.
The time of the day, as expressed in hours and minutes, and indicated by a timepiece; as, what is the hour? At what hour shall we meet?
Fixed or appointed time; conjuncture; a particular time or occasion; as, the hour of greatest peril; the man for the hour.
Woman, . . . mine hour is not yet come.
This is your hour, and the power of darkness.
Certain prayers to be repeated at stated times of the day, as matins and vespers.
A measure of distance traveled.
Vilvoorden, three hours from Brussels.
A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day;
The job will take more than an hour
Clock time;
The hour is getting late
A special and memorable period;
It was their finest hour
Distance measured by the time taken to cover it;
We live an hour from the airport
Its just 10 minutes away
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