'NOW' definitions:
Definition of 'now'
(from WordNet)
adverb
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"
adverb
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" [syn: nowadays, now, today]
adverb
Used to preface a command or reproof or request; "now hear this!"; "now pay attention"
adverb
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" [syn: now, at present]
adverb
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!" [syn: immediately, instantly, straightaway, straight off, directly, now, right away, at once, forthwith, like a shot]
adverb
(prefatory or transitional) indicates a change of subject or activity; "Now the next problem is..."
adverb
In the immediate past; "told me just now"
noun
The momentary present; "Now is a good time to do it"; "it worked up to right now"
Definition of 'Now'
From: GCIDE
- Now \Now\, a. Existing at the present time; present. [R.] "Our now happiness." --Glanvill. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Now'
From: GCIDE
- Now \Now\, n. The present time or moment; the present. [1913 Webster]
- Nothing is there to come, and nothing past; But an eternal now does ever last. --Cowley. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Now'
From: GCIDE
- Now \Now\ (nou), adv. [OE. nou, nu, AS. n[=u], nu; akin to D., OS., & OHG. nu, G. nu, nun, Icel., n[=u], Dan., Sw., & Goth. nu, L. nunc, Gr. ny`, ny^n, Skr. nu, n[=u]. [root]193. Cf. New.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. At the present time; at this moment; at the time of speaking; instantly; as, I will write now. [1913 Webster]
- I have a patient now living, at an advanced age, who discharged blood from his lungs thirty years ago. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Very lately; not long ago. [1913 Webster]
- They that but now, for honor and for plate, Made the sea blush with blood, resign their hate. --Waller. [1913 Webster]
- 3. At a time contemporaneous with something spoken of or contemplated; at a particular time referred to. [1913 Webster]
- The ship was now in the midst of the sea. --Matt. xiv. 24. [1913 Webster]
- 4. In present circumstances; things being as they are; -- hence, used as a connective particle, to introduce an inference or an explanation. [1913 Webster]
- How shall any man distinguish now betwixt a parasite and a man of honor? --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster]
- Why should he live, now nature bankrupt is? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now, Barabbas was a robber. --John xviii. 40. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. "A mead here, there a heath, and now and then a wood." --Drayton.
- Now now, at this very instant; precisely now. [Obs.] "Why, even now now, at holding up of this finger, and before the turning down of this." --J. Webster (1607).
- Now . . . now, alternately; at one time . . . at another time. "Now high, now low, now master up, now miss." --Pope. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'now'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a la mode,
- advanced,
- all at once,
- all together,
- as,
- as long as,
- as of now,
- as things are,
- at a blow,
- at a stroke,
- at once,
- at one blow,
- at one jump,
- at one stroke,
- at one swoop,
- at one time,
- at present,
- at this juncture,
- at this moment,
- at this point,
- at this time,
- avant-garde,
- away,
- but now,
- cause,
- considering,
- contemporaneity,
- contemporaneousness,
- contemporary,
- directly,
- even now,
- far out,
- fashionable,
- for,
- for the nonce,
- for this occasion,
- forthwith,
- forward-looking,
- here,
- here and now,
- hereat,
- hic et nunc,
- historical present,
- immediately,
- in,
- in a hurry,
- in our time,
- in these days,
- inasmuch as,
- instanter,
- instantly,
- just now,
- lately,
- latterly,
- mod,
- modern,
- modernistic,
- modernity,
- modernized,
- modish,
- newfashioned,
- newness,
- not long ago,
- nowadays,
- nowness,
- of late,
- on the spot,
- only yesterday,
- our times,
- per saltum,
- present,
- present tense,
- present-day,
- present-time,
- presently,
- presentness,
- progressive,
- pronto,
- recently,
- right away,
- right now,
- right off,
- seeing,
- simultaneously,
- since,
- straightaway,
- straightway,
- streamlined,
- subito,
- the nonce,
- the now,
- the Now Generation,
- the other day,
- the present,
- the present age,
- the present day,
- the present hour,
- the present juncture,
- the present time,
- the time being,
- the times,
- then and there,
- these days,
- this day,
- this hour,
- this instant,
- this minute,
- this moment,
- this night,
- this point,
- this stage,
- this very minute,
- today,
- tonight,
- twentieth-century,
- ultra-ultra,
- ultramodern,
- uno saltu,
- up-to-date,
- up-to-datish,
- up-to-the-minute,
- way out,
- whereas,
- without delay
Acronyms for 'now'
From: V.E.R.A.
- Network Of Workstations (Cluster)