semester hour credit hour | a unit of academic credit, one hour a week for an academic semester |
haste hurry rush rushing | the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner, in his haste to leave he forgot his book |
rush rushing | (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line, the linebackers were ready to stop a rush |
gold rush | a large migration of people to a newly discovered gold field |
hour hand little hand | the shorter hand of a clock that points to the hours |
rushlight rush candle | a tallow candle with a rush stem as the wick |
hour minute | distance measured by the time taken to cover it, we live an hour from the airport, its justminutes away |
rush | a sudden burst of activity, come back after the rush |
rush spate surge upsurge | a sudden forceful flow |
boom bonanza gold rush gravy godsend manna from heaven windfall bunce | a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money), the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line |
bang boot charge rush flush thrill kick | the swift release of a store of affective force, they got a great bang out of it, what a boot!, he got a quick rush from injecting heroin, he does it for kicks |
hour angle | the angular distance along the celestial equator from the observer's meridian to the hour circle of a given celestial body |
hour circle | a great circle on the celestial sphere that passes through both celestial poles |
Rush Benjamin Rush | physician and American Revolutionary leader, signer of the Declaration of Independence (-) |
Juncaceae family Juncaceae rush family | tufted herbs resembling grasses: rushes |
rush | grasslike plants growing in wet places and having cylindrical often hollow stems |
bulrush bullrush common rush soft rush Juncus effusus | tall rush with soft erect or arching stems found in Eurasia, Australia, New Zealand, and common in North America |
jointed rush Juncus articulatus | rush of Australia |
toad rush Juncus bufonius | low-growing annual rush of damp low-lying ground, nearly cosmopolitan |
hard rush Juncus inflexus | tall rush of temperate regions |
salt rush Juncus leseurii | rush of the Pacific coast of North America |
slender rush Juncus tenuis | tufted wiry rush of wide distribution |
rush aster | a variety of aster |
rush grass rush-grass | grass having wiry stems and sheathed panicles |
chufa yellow nutgrass earth almond ground almond rush nut Cyperus esculentus | European sedge having small edible nutlike tubers |
papyrus Egyptian paper reed Egyptian paper rush paper rush paper plant Cyperus papyrus | tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber that served many purposes in historic times |
cotton grass cotton rush | any sedge of the genus Eriophorum, north temperate bog plants with tufted spikes |
spike rush | a sedge of the genus Eleocharis |
needle spike rush needle rush slender spike rush hair grass Eleocharis acicularis | fine-leaved aquatic spike rush, popular as aerator for aquariums |
creeping spike rush Eleocharis palustris | cylindrical-stemmed sedge |
flower-of-an-hour flowers-of-an-hour bladder ketmia black-eyed Susan Hibiscus trionum | annual weedy herb with ephemeral yellow purple-eyed flowers, Old World tropics, naturalized as a weed in North America |
rush rose Helianthemum scoparium | woody yellow-flowered perennial of southeastern United States |
scouring rush rough horsetail Equisetum hyemale Equisetum hyemale robustum Equisetum robustum | evergreen erect horsetail with rough-edged stems, formerly used for scouring utensils |
variegated horsetail variegated scouring rush Equisetum variegatum | northern North America, Greenland, northern and central Europe |
ampere-hour | a unit of charge equal to coulombs |
light hour | the distance light travels in a vacuum in one hour, approximately one billion kilometers |
watt-hour | a unit of energy equal to the power of one watt operating for one hour |
kilowatt hour kW-hr Board of Trade unit B.T.U. | a unit of energy equal to the work done by a power of watts operating for one hour |
horsepower-hour | a unit of work equal to the work done by one horsepower in one hour |
hour angle HA | (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing, the right ascension for an observer at a particular location and time of day |
day twenty-four hours twenty-four hour period -hour interval solar day mean solar day | time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis, two days later they left, they put on two performances every day, there are , passengers per day |
late-night hour | the latter part of night |
early-morning hour | an hour early in the morning |
sidereal hour | of a sidereal day |
hour hr minutes a | a period of time equal to th of a day, the job will take more than an hour |
half-hour minutes | a half of an hour |
quarter-hour minutes | a quarter of an hour |
hour time of day | clock time, the hour is getting late |
hour | a special and memorable period, it was their finest hour |
happy hour | the time of day when a bar sells alcoholic drinks at a reduced price |