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TIME OF DAY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Clock time
Example:
the hour is getting late
Synonyms:
hour; time of day
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("time of day" is a kind of...):
clock time; time (a reading of a point in time as given by a clock)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "time of day"):
high noon; midday; noon; noonday; noontide; twelve noon (the middle of the day)
mealtime (the hour at which a meal is habitually or customarily eaten)
late-night hour (the latter part of night)
midnight (12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night)
small hours (the hours just after midnight)
bedtime (the time you go to bed)
closing time (the regular time of day when an establishment closes to the public)
aurora; break of day; break of the day; cockcrow; dawn; dawning; daybreak; dayspring; first light; morning; sunrise; sunup (the first light of day)
early-morning hour (an hour early in the morning)
sundown; sunset (the time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon)
crepuscle; crepuscule; dusk; evenfall; fall; gloam; gloaming; nightfall; twilight (the time of day immediately following sunset)
none (a canonical hour that is the ninth hour of the day counting from sunrise)
happy hour (the time of day when a bar sells alcoholic drinks at a reduced price)
rush hour (the times at the beginning and end of the working day when many people are traveling to or from work)
zero hour (the time set for the start of an action or operation)
canonical hour ((Roman Catholic Church) one of seven specified times for prayer)
Context examples:
It involved enlisting around a thousand screened volunteers — including snake-rescuers, naturalists and forestry workers — to upload photograph sightings of India’s four most medically important snakes, along with information such as location, time of day and weather.
(Snakebite resolution set for Health Assembly approval, SciDev.Net)
Researchers from University of Copenhagen—in collaboration with researchers from University of California, Irvine—have learned that the effect of exercise may differ depending on the time of day it is performed.
(Morning, Evening Exercise Provides Different Health Benefits, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
He left the room, and Catherine, with a disappointed, anxious face, began to speak of her unwillingness that he should be taking them out of doors against his own inclination, under a mistaken idea of pleasing her; but she was stopped by Miss Tilney's saying, with a little confusion, I believe it will be wisest to take the morning while it is so fine; and do not be uneasy on my father's account; he always walks out at this time of day.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Scientists at the Great Lakes Center for Fresh Waters and Human Health showed that shifts in metabolic functions of freshwater cyanobacteria present in toxic algal blooms take place according to the time of day.
(Research reveals harmful algal blooms' daily cycles, National Science Foundation)
