Word Finder - noon

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The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.

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Time of day when the sun is in its zenith; twelve o'clock in the day, midday.

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The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.

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1885, When night was at its noon I heard a voice chanting the Koran in sweetest accents — Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 17:

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The highest point; culmination.

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To relax or sleep around midday

Finally, approaching noon, we crossed over a wide stream.

A little after noon he emerged from his room.

By noon, the dark clouds made the sky as dark as early evening.

I'll probably be gone until noon or so.

It wasn't even noon yet.

By noon the snow was all gone.

The painkillers didn't work, and by noon, she had a pulsing headache and no idea how to change the leaky bandage around her wrist.

By noon she had the pictures and mirrors on the walls and was hanging the curtains when Cade came in.

So after a cab ride to the airport rental agency, we escaped the fumes of Manhattan on an August Friday noon and joined the city escapees heading north.

It is the general rule, with frequent exceptions, that the quotidian paroxysm comes on in the morning, the tertian about noon, and the quartan in the afternoon.

The only thing she had to eat since yesterday noon was a glass of milk in the wee hours of the morning.

When she ducked out for lunch at noon, the line showed no signs of decreasing in size.

Hardee opened his attack at noon on the 22nd of July (battle of Atlanta).

But at noon the adjutant of the regiment came into Rostov's and Denisov's dugout with a grave and serious face and regretfully showed them a paper addressed to Major Denisov from the regimental commander in which inquiries were made about yesterday's occurrence.

At noon he would come in from a path in the woods, eat and then return by the same path.

I was discharged before noon and driven home by my wife.

Her father returned around noon, his agitation apparent the moment he stepped in the door.

Besides, by noon the sun would have cleared all but the most shaded roadways.

It was noon by the time the rig was hitched, lessons given, and Deans, mittened and mufflered, were on their way.

The treuga or treva Dei, the prohibition of every act of private warfare during certain days, goes back at least to the Synod of Elne, held in the Pyrenees in 1027, which suspended all warfare from noon on Saturday till prime on Monday.

About noon, I guess.

About noon Berthier returned and after hearing his explanation Massena received orders to move from Augsburg towards Ingolstadt.

Not until 11 was it possible to open fire, for want of a visible target, but about noon, after a preliminary cannonade, Gustavus gave the word to advance.

San Antonio was easily taken about noon of the same day, and in the afternoon the main division of the Mexican army was driven from the stone church and intrenchments at Churubusco.

It was nearing noon when the emperor reached the front with the Young Guard, whom he had personally hurried forward.

At noon the rocket goes off and the fiesta really begins... look out its sangria time !

Whether you want to sing along with your favorites show tunes or watch two gun slingers showdown at noon there 's something for everyone.

He immediately took action, and under his direction the bridge at Charleroi was stormed shortly after noon.

His cavalry gained contact before noon with Thielemann's corps, which was resting at Gembloux, but the enemy was allowed to slip away and contact was lost for want of a serious effort to keep it.

Although the emperor wrote to Ney again at noon, from Ligny, that troops had now been placed in position at Marbais to second the marshal's attack on Quatre Bras, yet Ney remained quiescent, and Wellington effected so rapid and skilful a retreat that, on Napoleon's arrival at the head of his supporting corps, 1 There appears to be no reason to believe that Grouchy pushed any reconnaissances to the northward and westward of Gentinnes on June 17; had he done so, touch with Blucher's retiring columns must have been established, and the direction of the Prussian retreat made clear.

Both the office and the meal taken about that time were shifted to an earlier hour, and by the 14th century the ordinary use of "noon" is that current to-day.

It was used at the Sunday noon instruction of children, on which Calvin laid much stress, and was adopted and similarly used by the Reformed Church of Scotland.

Prime (6 A.M.), Terce (9 A.M.), Sext (noon) and None (3 P.M.) are called the Little Day Hours, are often said together, and are alike in character, consisting of a hymn and some sections of Ps.

Orders were therefore issued during the 18th for the whole army to concentrate during the following days in the position held by the Austrians around Wagram in 1809, and these orders were in process of execution when on the 21st an armistice was agreed upon to commence at noon on the 22nd.

It seemed to Petya that at the moment the shot was fired it suddenly became as bright as noon.

But up till noon he took no serious step to capture the cross-roads, which then lay at his mercy.

When they were growing, I used to hoe from five o'clock in the morning till noon, and commonly spent the rest of the day about other affairs.

Let the noon find thee by other lakes, and the night overtake thee everywhere at home.

The night is the winter, the morning and evening are the spring and fall, and the noon is the summer.

They were instrumental in the ceremonies, tending the altar fires, and offering prayers to Mithra at dawn, noon and dusk.

Opening times - Sunday to Thursday - 12 noon til late Fridays and Saturdays - 12 noon til even later !

The sun's apogee occurs at noon.

Often you'll see products discounted from the time the store opens to 11 a.m. or, more common, Noon.

Once determined, the rate is published by noon UK time so that other lenders and investors can utilize it.

Most Easter dinners are hosted near the noon hour, leaving fewer hours to prepare than a later evening meal.

Then Smallville picked me up at the studio at noon to work until three or four in the morning.

The remission or abatement lasts generally throughout the morning; and about noon there is an exacerbation, seldom ushered in by chills, which continues till the early morning following, when it remits or abates as before.

On the 18th the fighting was resumed and by about noon Bernadotte came up and closed the gap to the N.E.

Several men and vessels were lost in crossing the bar; but by noon on the 26th of February the bridge of 26 vessels had been thrown and secured; batteries and a boom placed to protect it, 8000 troops passed over, and the enemy's gunboats driven up the river.

The torch-bearers sometimes seen on the relief represent one being in three aspects - the morning, noon and evening sun, or the vernal, summer and autumn sun.