Hourly

Definition

hour /'aƱǝ(r)/ n ၁။ [C] မိနစ္ေျခာက္ဆယ္။ (တစ္) နာရီ။ The interview lasted half an hour. ❍ a three-hour exam paper ❍ an hour-long speech ❍ an hour's delay ❍ My attorney charges $ 200 an hour. ❍ He was driving at about 50 miles an/per hour. ❍ Paris is six hours ahead of New York. See also THE SMALL HOURS ၂။ [C usu sing ] (ေန႔လယ္စာစား၊ လူက်) ခ်ိန္။ She took a long lunch hour. See also RUSH HOUR ၃။ [C] … နာရီ ခရီး။ London's only two hours away. ၄။ hours [pl] (အလုပ္ဖြင့္) ခ်ိန္။ hours of business ❍ opening hours ❍ Office hours are from 9 am to 5 pm. ❍ Doctors work long hours. ၅။ [C] (သည္) အခ်ိန္။ Who can be ringing us at this hour? See also ZERO-HOUR ၆။ hours [pl] ( fml ) (နာရီကို ကိန္းႏွစ္ေနရာျဖင့္ ၀၀ မွ ၂၄ ထိ လည္းေကာင္း၊ မိနစ္ကိုလည္း ယင္းသို႔ပင္ ၀၀ မွ ၆၀ ထိ လည္းေကာင္း သတ္မွတ္တြက္ခ်က္သည့္ စနစ္ျဖင့္) ထိုးနာရီ။ It's eighteen hundred hours (ie 6 pm). ❍ It's twenty-one thirty hours (ie 9:30 pm). ၇။ [C usu sing] (fml) အခိုက္အတံ့။ အခ်ိန္။ the country's finest hour ❍ She helped me in my hour of need. ၈။ hours [pl] ( infml ) အၾကာႀကီး။ She spent hours preparing the meal. ❍ We waited for hours. ❏ after hours [ IDM ] ပံုမွန္အလုပ္ခ်ိန္ေနာက္ပိုင္း။ stay behind after hours to refill the shelves. ❏ at/till all hours [ IDM ] အခ်ိန္မဟုတ္အခါမဟုတ္။ အခ်ိန္မေတာ္။ She stays out till all hours (ie very late). ❍ He telephones me at all hours (of the day and night). ❏ at the eleventh hour [ IDM ] ( esp Brit ) အခ်ိန္ နီးခါမွ။ အခ်ိန္ကပ္ၿပီး။ The president's visit was called off at the eleventh hour. ❏ hour-hand n လက္တံတို။ နာရီလက္တံ။ ❏ hourly /'aƱǝli/ adv တစ္နာရီတစ္ခါ။ Forecasts are updated hourly. adj ၁။ တစ္နာရီတစ္ခါ။ တစ္နာရီျခား။ an hourly bus service ❍ Buses leave at hourly intervals. ၂။ (လုပ္ခ်ိန္) နာရီေပၚမူတည္၍။ be paid on an hourly basis ❍ an hourly rate of $ 30. ❏ keep late, early, regular, etc hours [ IDM ] အၿမဲ ေစာေစာ/ေနာက္က်၍ ထသည္၊ အလုပ္ဆင္းသည္။ ❏ on the hour [ IDM ] … နာရီ တိတိတြင္။ ထိုးနာရီ တိုင္း။ The bus leaves every hour on the hour. ❏ out of hours [ IDM ] အလုပ္ခ်ိန္ အပတြင္။

Examples

1. [every hour] : She checked on the children every hour.
2. [an hour ago] : He left about an hour ago.
3. [an hour of something] : After an hour of arguing
4. he agreed.
5. [an hour’s sleep/exercise/practice etc] : Why don’t you get an hour’s sleep?
6. [for an hour] : I’ve been waiting for over an hour.
7. [take an hour to do something] : This dish takes about an hour to cook.
8. [it takes an hour to do something] : It takes nearly an hour to get there by bus.
9. [in an hour/an hour’s time] : I can be there in an hour.
10. [an hour along/past something] : An hour along the beach road are some shops.
11. [an hour away (from something)] : Brighton is only an hour away from here.
12. I’m hungry and it’s hours until dinner.
13. [for hours (on end)] : I lay awake for hours thinking about John.
14. My job is very flexible – I can fit my hours around my children.
15. [long hours] : She’s putting in long hours at the library.
16. [school/working hours] : Courses that take place outside school hours
17. You can call me at any hour of the day or night.
18. What are you doing out of bed at this hour (=so early or late)?
19. [the hours of daylight/darkness] : They usually hunt during the hours of darkness.
20. [at all hours] : You get cars coming down here at all hours.
21. [someone’s/something’s finest hour] : His finest hour came in 1982 when his film Gandhi won eight Oscars.
22. [someone’s/something’s darkest hour] : We have lived through our country’s darkest hour.
23. [in someone’s hour of need] : No one had helped him in his hour of need.
24. [on the hour] : Trains for Edinburgh leave every hour on the hour.
25. [past the hour] : The bus stops here at six minutes past the hour.