hour betydelse and definition

Betydelse av hour på svenska

• 0 a period of 60 minutes:

  • The exam lasted an hour and a half.

  • There are 24 hours in a day.

  • How many hours' sleep do you need?

  • I'll be back in an hour's/two hours' time (= after one/two hours).

  • My hometown is an hour from Houston/an hour away (= it takes an hour to travel there).

  • He gets paid by the hour (= gets a particular amount of money for each hour he works).

  • Trains leave every hour on the hour (= at exactly one o'clock, two o'clock, etc.).

  • Buses leave at ten minutes past/to the hour (= at ten past/to one o'clock, two o'clock, etc.).

  • formal War was declared at eighteen hundred hours/18.00 hours (= at six o'clock in the evening).

  • I try to spend my lunch hour walking.

  • office/working hours

  • Our opening hours are from 8.00 to 6.00.

  • Who could be calling us at this unearthly/ungodly hour (= so late at night)?

  • He returned in the early/small hours (= at night, after midnight).

  • She's a nurse so she often works unsocial hours.

  • He's paid well but he works long hours.

  • I waited for him for hours.

  • They keep calling me at all hours (of the day and night).

• 1 a period of 60 minutes:

  • Take this an hour after eating.

  • It’s open 24 hours a day.

  • He works long hours (= starts work early and finishes late).

  • He gets paid by the hour (= for each hour worked).

  • Buses pull out every hour on the hour (= at the time an hour begins).

  • a lunch hour

  • San Francisco is only a couple of hours away.