Meaning of now | Babel Free

Definitions

1. At the present time.
   not-comparable
2. now (at the present time)
3. Used to introduce a point, a qualification of what has previously been said, a remonstration or a rebuke.
   not-comparable
4. just now, just a moment ago (in the past)
5. very soon, in a moment (in the future)
6. Differently from the immediate past; differently from a more remote past or a possible future; differently from all other times.
   not-comparable
7. of nowadays, of today, latter-day
8. At the time reached within a narration.
   not-comparable
9. today
10. Used to indicate a context of urgency.
    not-comparable
11. At the present point of a recurring cycle or event.
    informal, not-comparable
12. Very recently; not long ago; up to the present.
    not-comparable, obsolete
13. Used to address a switching side, or sharp change in attitude from before.
    not-comparable
14. Sometimes; occasionally; used to list a series of often assumed states.
    not-comparable

Equivalents

Examples

“Now I am six.”

“Stop that now, Jimmy!”

“I could have been Secretary of State now if I hadn’t left politics five years ago.”

“We can’t phone now – they will certaintly have gone to bed.”

“Now, we all want what is best for our children.”

“Now, Jimmy, stop that.”

“Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.”

““I don’t stare at her,” Steve insisted quickly. “It’s just that every once in a while she is looking at me when I look out the window.” / “A peeping Thomasina.” / “Now, Harry.” / “Well, it’s her name. Elizabeth Thomas.””

“Now I am ready.”

“We all now want the latest toys for our children.”

“We all want what is now best for our children.”

“Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness, the consciousness dawning upon him that his eccentricity was not receiving the ovation it merited.”

“Now he remembered why he had come.”

“He now asked her whether she had made pudding.”

“The pudding was now ready to be served.”

“Now listen, we must do something about this.”

“I always used to do my shopping now, to avoid the rush.”

“They that but now, for honour and for plate, / Made the sea blush with blood, resign their hate.”

“Now, you want to protect me. An hour ago, you were mercilessly bullying me!”

“His face fit his roles: now smiling, now earnest, now glowering, now raging.”

“And then they stood about, as soldiers do; now, with their hands loosely clasped before them; now, resting a knee or a shoulder; now, easing a belt or a pouch; now, opening the door to spit stiffly over their high stocks, out into the yard.”

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