Word Finder - moment

definition

A brief, unspecified amount of time.

example

Wait a moment, while I lock the front door.

synonyms

• instant
• stound
• trice

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The smallest portion of time; an instant.

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Weight or importance.

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The turning effect of a force applied to a rotational system at a distance from the axis of rotation.

synonyms

• moment of force

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(unit) A definite period of time, specifically one-tenth of a point, or one-fortieth or one-fiftieth of an hour.

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A petit mal episode; such a spell.

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A fit; a brief tantrum.

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An infinitesimal change in a varying quantity; an increment or decrement.

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A quantitative measure of the shape of a set of points.

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If the points represent mass, then the zeroth moment is the total mass, the first moment divided by the total mass is the center of mass, and the second moment is the rotational inertia.

For a moment he studied her face.

It was a moment of supreme happiness.

Every woman should have her princess moment, don't you think?

He stood still for a moment, thinking.

For a moment she struggled with him until something changed in his eyes.

It seems fitting to end this part of the list—ways that information and communication will help end war—by noting that every day, every moment, more and more people have access to the Internet.

He looked startled for a moment, and then composed himself.

Quint hesitated a moment, watching Lisa with an uncertain expression.

The others picked themselves up from the ground one by one and quickly rejoined their fellows, so for a moment the horse thought he had won the fight with ease.

For a moment she watched them gracefully move across the room - totally in sync.

For a moment she stared at it.

A moment later, veins of light threaded through dark low clouds.

But let's adopt the cynic's view for a moment and assume people in these corporations are chiefly concerned about their financial benefit, not about human suffering, when it comes to war.

He walked down the hill, pausing a reverent moment at the headstone, and then ducked under a limb as he continued down the hill.

In that moment she cringed inwardly.

For a moment he simply gazed into her eyes, and then he drew a deep breath.

At the same moment the bell struck and school was dismissed.

But why, after displaying so much cunning, did he invariably betray himself the moment he came up by that loud laugh?

The next moment two bees flew eagerly in.

But lo! the lovely maiden only smiles more sweetly, and breathes upon the icy battlements of her enemies, and in a moment they vanish, and the glad Earth gives her a royal welcome.

Natasha, raising her face for a moment from her mother's mantilla, glanced up at her through tears of laughter, and again hid her face.

Dulce turned, and for a moment Carmen thought she might strike her.

It is most perplexing and exasperating that just at the moment when you need your memory and a nice sense of discrimination, these faculties take to themselves wings and fly away.

Here is a hogshead of molasses or of brandy directed to John Smith, Cuttingsville, Vermont, some trader among the Green Mountains, who imports for the farmers near his clearing, and now perchance stands over his bulkhead and thinks of the last arrivals on the coast, how they may affect the price for him, telling his customers this moment, as he has told them twenty times before this morning, that he expects some by the next train of prime quality.

Len's face was pasty white and for a moment she thought he was going to throw up.

In spite of the lapse of years, they seem so close to me that I should not think it strange if at any moment they should clasp my hand and speak words of endearment as they used to before they went away.

Anger seized me, my fingers refused to move, I sat rigid for one long moment, the blood throbbing in my temples, and all the hatred that a child can feel concentrated in my heart.

The little kitten, feasting her eyes on him, seemed ready at any moment to start her gambols again and display her kittenish nature.

Every moment is precious.

For a moment she surrendered to his warm lips and secure embrace, clinging to him as her heart stepped up pace.

I did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar.

A single video a moment long can increase empathy and understanding.

It was because she seized the right moment to impart knowledge that made it so pleasant and acceptable to me.

He stood still a moment to look about him, and think what he should do first.

Consider for a moment how much Borlaug accomplished with almost no technology.

If at first the members of the council thought that Kutuzov was pretending to sleep, the sounds his nose emitted during the reading that followed proved that the commander-in-chief at that moment was absorbed by a far more serious matter than a desire to show his contempt for the dispositions or anything else--he was engaged in satisfying the irresistible human need for sleep.

For a moment they stared at each other.

For one horrible long moment he was silent.

Of the sources of his vocabulary he is, for the most part, as unaware as he is of the moment when he ate the food which makes a bit of his thumbnail.

For a moment she envisioned him and felt a pang of loneliness.

I knew, too, it was immense! awful! and for a moment some of the sunshine seemed to have gone out of the day.

The moment had made him acutely aware of the instinct to replicate.

He was silent a moment.

She paused a moment.

For a moment Lisa was too stunned to say anything.

At the moment, it felt more domestic than romantic.

I thought a moment before answering.

Destiny didn't need her at the moment.

Just embrace the moment.

He hesitated a moment.