one hour’s sleep before midnight is worth two after — 1640 G. HERBERT Outlandish Proverbs no. 882 One houres sleepe before midnight is worth three after. 1670 J. RAY English Proverbs 37 One hours sleep before midnight’s worth two hours after. 1829 COBBETT Advice to Young Men I. xxxviii. It is said… … Proverbs new dictionary
hour — [our] n. [ME < OFr hore < L hora < Gr hōra, hour, time, period, season < IE base * yē , year, summer (< * ei , to go) > YEAR] 1. a) a division of time, one of the twenty four parts of a day; sixty minutes b) one of the twelve… … English World dictionary
hour — W1S1 [auə US aur] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(60 minutes)¦ 2¦(business/work etc)¦ 3 (work) long/regular etc hours 4¦(time of day)¦ 5¦(long time)¦ 6¦(o clock)¦ 7 1300/1530/1805 etc hours 8 by the hour/from hour to hour 9 lunch/din … Dictionary of contemporary English
Midnight regulations — is a term for United States federal government regulations created by executive branch agencies in the lame duck period of an outgoing President’s administration. Contents 1 Process of creating new regulations 2 History 2.1 Clinton … Wikipedia
Midnight Love (TV series) — Midnight Love Format Music Video Series Created by Alvin Jones Country of origin United States Production Running time 120 minutes … Wikipedia
After Dark (TV series) — infobox television show name = After Dark caption = [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After Dark (TV series)#Harry Belafonte.2C Denis Worrall and South Africa South Africa 11th June 1988 ] format = Talk show runtime = Open ended creator = Flagicon|UK … Wikipedia
Hour — The hour (symbol: h) is a unit of time. It is not an SI unit but is accepted for use with the SI.DefinitionIn modern usage, an hour is a unit of time 60 minutes, or 3,600 seconds in length. It is approximately 1/24 of a median Earth… … Wikipedia
hour — hourless, adj. /oweur, ow euhr/, n. 1. a period of time equal to one twenty fourth of a mean solar or civil day and equivalent to 60 minutes: He slept for an hour. 2. any specific one of these 24 periods, usually reckoned in two series of 12, one … Universalium
Midnight Office — The Midnight Office (Greek: Μεσονύκτικον, Mesonýtikon; Slavonic: Полунощница, Polúnoshnitsa; Romanian: Miezonoptică) is one of the Canonical Hours that compose the cycle of daily worship in the Eastern Orthodox Church. The office originated as a… … Wikipedia
after — 1 preposition 1 when a particular time or event has happened or is finished: After the war many soldiers stayed in France. | I go swimming every day after work. | It s on after the 9 o clock news. | Do you believe in life after death? | 2 days/3… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English