Synonyms of the word

hour

• n. A time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day.
• n. A season, moment, time or stound.
• n. (poetic) The time.
• n. (military, in the plural) Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time.
• n. (chiefly US) A distance that can be traveled in one hour.

distance

• n. (countable) The amount of space between two points, usually geographical points, usually (but not necessarily)…
• n. Length or interval of time.
• n. (countable, informal) The difference; the subjective measure between two quantities.
• n. Remoteness of place; a remote place.
• n. Remoteness in succession or relation.
• n. A space marked out in the last part of a racecourse.
• n. (uncountable, figuratively) The entire amount of progress to an objective.
• n. (uncountable, figuratively) A withholding of intimacy; alienation; variance.
• n. The remoteness or reserve which respect requires; hence, respect; ceremoniousness.
• v. (transitive) To move away (from) someone or something.
• v. (transitive) To leave at a distance; to outpace, leave behind.

hr

• abbr. hour.
• abbr. (computing) horizontal rule.

minute

• n. A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour).
• n. (informal) A short but unspecified time period.
• n. A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
• n. (chiefly in the plural, minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
• n. A unit of purchase on a telephone or other network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent…
• n. A point in time; a moment.
• n. A nautical or a geographic mile.
• n. An old coin, a half farthing.
• n. (obsolete) A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.
• n. (architecture) A fixed part of a module.
• n. (slang, US, dialectal) A while or a long unspecified period of time.
• v. (transitive) Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.
• v. To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.
• adj. Very small.
• adj. Very careful and exact, giving small details.

period

• adj. Appropriate for a given historical era.
• adj. (of a film, or play, or similar) Set in and designed to evoke a particular historical period, especially…
• interj. (chiefly Canada, US) And nothing else; and nothing less; used for emphasis.
• n. A length of time.
• n. A period of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era.
• n. (now chiefly Canada, US) The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
• n. The length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition…
• n. Female menstruation.
• n. A section of an artist's, writer's (etc.) career distinguished by a given quality, preoccupation etc.
• n. Each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity.
• n. (chiefly Canada, US) Each of the intervals into which various sporting events are divided.
• n. (obsolete, medicine) The length of time for a disease to run its course.
• n. An end or conclusion; the final point of a process etc.
• n. (rhetoric) A complete sentence, especially one expressing a single thought or making a balanced, rhythmic…
• n. (obsolete) A specific moment during a given process; a point, a stage.
• n. (chemistry) A row in the periodic table of the elements.
• n. (geology) A subdivision of an era, typically lasting from tens to hundreds of millions of years, see Appendix:…
• n. (genetics) A Drosophila gene which gene product is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm.
• n. (music) Two phrases (an antecedent and a consequent phrase).
• n. (mathematics) One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed…
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To come to a period; to conclude.
• v. (obsolete, transitive, rare) To put an end to.

time

• n. (uncountable) The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present events into the past.
• n. A duration of time.
• n. An instant of time.
• n. (countable) The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.
• n. (countable) Ratio of comparison.
• n. (grammar, dated) Tense.
• n. (music) The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division.
• v. To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of.
• v. To choose when something begins or how long it lasts.
• v. (obsolete) To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.
• v. (obsolete) To pass time; to delay.
• v. To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
• v. To measure, as in music or harmony.
• interj. (tennis) Reminder by the umpire for the players to continue playing after their pause.