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| English Dictionary: Now |
by the
DICT Development Group |
| 4 results for Now |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- now
- adv
- in the historical present; at this point in the narration
of a series of past events; "President Kennedy now calls in the National Guard"; "Washington now decides to cross the Delaware"; "the ship is now listing to port"
- in these times; "it is solely by their language that the upper classes nowadays are distinguished"- Nancy Mitford; "we now rarely see horse-drawn vehicles on city streets"; "today almost every home has television"
Synonym(s): nowadays, now, today
- used to preface a command or reproof or request; "now hear this!"; "now pay attention"
- at the present moment; "goods now on sale"; "the now-aging dictator"; "they are now abroad"; "he is busy at present writing a new novel"; "it could happen any time now"
Synonym(s): now, at present
- without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening; "he answered immediately"; "found an answer straightaway"; "an official accused of dishonesty should be suspended forthwith"; "Come here now!"
Synonym(s): immediately, instantly, straightaway, straight off, directly, now, right away, at once, forthwith, like a shot
- (prefatory or transitional) indicates a change of subject or activity; "Now the next problem is..."
- in the immediate past; "told me just now"
- n
- the momentary present; "Now is a good time to do it"; "it
worked up to right now"
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Now \Now\, adv. [OE. nou, nu, AS. n[d4], nu; akin to D., OS., &
OHG. nu, G. nu, nun, Icel., n[d4], Dan., Sw., & Goth. nu, L.
nunc, Gr. [?], [?], Skr. nu, n[d4]. [fb]193. Cf. {New}.]
1. At the present time; at this moment; at the time of
speaking; instantly; as, I will write now.
I have a patient now living, at an advanced age, who
discharged blood from his lungs thirty years ago.
--Arbuthnot.
2. Very lately; not long ago.
They that but now, for honor and for plate, Made the
sea blush with blood, resign their hate. --Waller.
3. At a time contemporaneous with something spoken of or
contemplated; at a particular time referred to.
The ship was now in the midst of the sea. --Matt.
xiv. 24.
4. In present circumstances; things being as they are; --
hence, used as a connective particle, to introduce an
inference or an explanation.
How shall any man distinguish now betwixt a parasite
and a man of honor ? --L'Estrange.
Why should he live, now nature bankrupt is ? --Shak.
Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but
Barabbas. Now, Barabbas was a robber. --John xviii.
40.
The other great and undoing mischief which befalls
men is, by their being misrepresented. Now, by
calling evil good, a man is misrepresented to others
in the way of slander. --South.
{Now and again}, now and then; occasionally.
{Now and now}, again and again; repeatedly. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
{Now and then}, at one time and another; indefinitely;
occasionally; not often; at intervals. [bd]A mead here,
there a heath, and now and then a wood.[b8] --Drayton.
{Now now}, at this very instant; precisely now. [Obs.]
[bd]Why, even now now, at holding up of this finger, and
before the turning down of this.[b8] --J. Webster (1607).
{Now . . . now}, alternately; at one time . . . at another
time. [bd]Now high, now low, now master up, now miss.[b8]
--Pope.
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Now \Now\, a.
Existing at the present time; present. [R.] [bd]Our now
happiness.[b8] --Glanvill.
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Now \Now\, n.
The present time or moment; the present.
Nothing is there to come, and nothing past; But an
eternal now does ever last. --Cowley.
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