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- moment of truth
collapse - a crucial moment on which much depends
- the moment in a bullfight when the matador kills the bull related words >
- A-day,
- D day,
- H hour,
- charged moment,
- critical moment,
- crucial moment,
- day,
- deadline,
- decisive moment,
- eleventh hour,
- fateful moment,
- hour,
- instant,
- interval,
- juncture,
- kairos,
- kairotic moment,
- minute,
- moment,
- nick of time,
- period,
- point,
- pregnant moment,
- psychological moment,
- season,
- space,
- span,
- spell,
- stage,
- stretch,
- target date,
- time,
- time lag,
- while,
- zero hour
- psychological moment
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- the most appropriate time for achieving a desired effect related words >
- A-day,
- D day,
- H hour,
- charged moment,
- critical moment,
- crucial moment,
- day,
- deadline,
- decisive moment,
- eleventh hour,
- fateful moment,
- hour,
- instant,
- interval,
- juncture,
- kairos,
- kairotic moment,
- minute,
- moment,
- moment of truth,
- nick of time,
- period,
- point,
- pregnant moment,
- season,
- space,
- span,
- spell,
- stage,
- stretch,
- target date,
- time,
- time lag,
- while,
- zero hour
- zero hour
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- the time set for the start of an action or operation related words >
- A-day,
- D day,
- H hour,
- charged moment,
- contingency,
- crisis,
- critical moment,
- crossroads,
- crucial moment,
- deadline,
- decisive moment,
- eleventh hour,
- emergency,
- exigency,
- kairos,
- kairotic moment,
- moment of truth,
- nick of time,
- pass,
- pinch,
- pregnant moment,
- psychological moment,
- strait,
- target date,
- target day,
- turning point
- eleventh hour
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- the latest possible moment; "money became available at the eleventh hour"; "at the last minute the government changed the rules" related words >
- A-day,
- D day,
- H hour,
- bedtime,
- belatedness,
- charged moment,
- critical moment,
- crucial moment,
- curfew,
- deadline,
- deathbed,
- decisive moment,
- high time,
- kairos,
- kairotic moment,
- last minute,
- last-minute,
- late hour,
- lateness,
- later,
- moment of truth,
- nick of time,
- pregnant moment,
- psychological moment,
- small hours,
- tardiness,
- target date,
- unpreparedness,
- unpunctuality,
- unreadiness,
- untimeliness,
- zero hour
- deadline
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- the point in time at which something must be completed related words >
- A-day,
- D day,
- H hour,
- border line,
- bound,
- boundary,
- boundary condition,
- boundary line,
- bourn,
- break boundary,
- breakoff point,
- ceiling,
- charged moment,
- circumscription,
- compass,
- confine,
- critical moment,
- crucial moment,
- cutoff,
- cutoff point,
- decisive moment,
- delimitation,
- determinant,
- division line,
- eleventh hour,
- end,
- extremity,
- finish,
- floor,
- frontier,
- hedge,
- high-water mark,
- interface,
- kairos,
- kairotic moment,
- limen,
- limit,
- limitation,
- limiting factor,
- line,
- line of demarcation,
- low-water mark,
- lower limit,
- march,
- mark,
- mete,
- moment of truth,
- nick of time,
- pregnant moment,
- psychological moment,
- start,
- starting line,
- starting point,
- target date,
- term,
- terminal date,
- terminus,
- threshold,
- time allotment,
- upper limit,
- zero hour
- A-day,
- D day,
- H hour,
- border line,
- bound,
- boundary,
- boundary condition,
- boundary line,
- bourn,
- break boundary,
- breakoff point,
- ceiling,
- charged moment,
- circumscription,
- compass,
- confine,
- critical moment,
- crucial moment,
- cutoff,
- cutoff point,
- deadline,
- decisive moment,
- delimitation,
- determinant,
- division line,
- eleventh hour,
- end,
- extremity,
- finish,
- floor,
- frontier,
- hedge,
- high-water mark,
- interface,
- kairos,
- kairotic moment,
- limen,
- limit,
- limitation,
- limiting factor,
- line,
- line of demarcation,
- low-water mark,
- lower limit,
- march,
- mark,
- mete,
- moment of truth,
- nick of time,
- pregnant moment,
- psychological moment,
- start,
- starting line,
- starting point,
- term,
- terminal date,
- terminus,
- threshold,
- time allotment,
- upper limit,
- zero hour
- while
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- a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition; "he was here for a little while"; "I need to rest for a piece"; "a spell of good weather"; "a patch of bad weather" related words >
- albeit,
- although,
- amuse,
- as far as,
- as long as,
- at which time,
- beguile,
- bit,
- brighten,
- chronology,
- continuity,
- day,
- divert,
- duration,
- duree,
- during which time,
- elbow grease,
- enliven,
- entertain,
- exertion,
- fateful moment,
- hour,
- howbeit,
- instant,
- interval,
- juncture,
- kairos,
- lastingness,
- lighten,
- meantime,
- meanwhile,
- minute,
- moment,
- moment of truth,
- pains,
- period,
- point,
- pregnant moment,
- psychological moment,
- psychological time,
- season,
- space,
- space-time,
- span,
- spell,
- stage,
- stretch,
- tense,
- term,
- the future,
- the past,
- the present,
- the while,
- tide,
- time,
- time lag,
- timebinding,
- trouble,
- when,
- whereas,
- whet,
- whilst,
- wile
- afterthought,
- bind,
- block,
- blockage,
- bureaucratic delay,
- day,
- delay,
- delayage,
- delayed reaction,
- detention,
- double take,
- dragging,
- fateful moment,
- halt,
- hang-up,
- hindrance,
- holdup,
- hour,
- instant,
- interim,
- interval,
- jam,
- juncture,
- kairos,
- lag,
- lagging,
- logjam,
- minute,
- moment,
- moment of truth,
- moratorium,
- obstruction,
- paperasserie,
- pause,
- period,
- point,
- pregnant moment,
- psychological moment,
- red tape,
- red-tapeism,
- red-tapery,
- reprieve,
- respite,
- retardance,
- retardation,
- season,
- slow-up,
- slowdown,
- slowness,
- space,
- span,
- spell,
- stage,
- stay,
- stay of execution,
- stop,
- stoppage,
- stretch,
- suspension,
- tie-up,
- time,
- wait,
- while
- hour
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- distance measured by the time taken to cover it; "we live an hour from the airport"; "its just 10 minutes away"
- a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day; "the job will take more than an hour"
- clock time; "the hour is getting late"
- a special and memorable period; "it was their finest hour" related words >
- abundant year,
- academic year,
- annum,
- bell,
- bissextile year,
- calendar month,
- calendar year,
- century,
- common year,
- day,
- decade,
- decennary,
- decennium,
- defective year,
- fateful moment,
- fiscal year,
- fortnight,
- instant,
- interval,
- juncture,
- kairos,
- leap year,
- lunar month,
- lunar year,
- lunation,
- luster,
- lustrum,
- man-hour,
- microsecond,
- millennium,
- millisecond,
- minute,
- moment,
- moment of truth,
- month,
- moon,
- period,
- point,
- pregnant moment,
- psychological moment,
- quarter,
- quinquennium,
- regular year,
- season,
- second,
- semester,
- session,
- sidereal year,
- solar year,
- space,
- span,
- spell,
- stage,
- stretch,
- sun,
- term,
- the time,
- time,
- time lag,
- time of day,
- time signal,
- trimester,
- twelvemonth,
- week,
- weekday,
- while,
- year
- anon
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- (old-fashioned or informal) in a little while; "see you anon"
- at another time; "ever and anon" related words >
- after a time,
- after a while,
- afterward,
- afterwards,
- again,
- at another time,
- at that moment,
- at that time,
- before long,
- betimes,
- by and by,
- by destiny,
- directly,
- ere long,
- fatally,
- hopefully,
- imminently,
- in a moment,
- in a while,
- in aftertime,
- in due course,
- in due time,
- in that case,
- in the future,
- later,
- on that occasion,
- predictably,
- presently,
- probably,
- proximo,
- shortly,
- soon,
- then,
- thereat,
- tomorrow,
- when
- ad interim,
- as of now,
- as things are,
- at present,
- at this juncture,
- at this moment,
- at this point,
- at this time,
- awhile,
- between acts,
- betweentimes,
- betweenwhiles,
- but now,
- during the interval,
- en attendant,
- even now,
- for a time,
- for the meantime,
- for the moment,
- for the nonce,
- for the time,
- for this occasion,
- here,
- here and now,
- hereat,
- hic et nunc,
- in our time,
- in the interim,
- in the meanwhile,
- in these days,
- just now,
- meantime,
- meanwhile,
- now,
- nowadays,
- on the spot,
- pendente lite,
- pro tem,
- pro tempore,
- temporarily,
- this day,
- this night,
- today,
- tonight,
- until then
- juncture
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- an event that occurs at a critical time; "at such junctures he always had an impulse to leave"; "it was needed only on special occasions"
- a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made; "at that juncture he had no idea what to do"; "he must be made to realize that the company stands at a critical point" related words >
- ankle,
- articulation,
- boundary,
- butt,
- caesura,
- cervix,
- circumstance,
- clause boundary,
- clause terminal,
- clinch,
- close juncture,
- closure,
- colon,
- comma,
- condition,
- conjuncture,
- connecting link,
- connecting rod,
- connection,
- contingency,
- coupling,
- crisis,
- crossroads,
- crux,
- day,
- dovetail,
- elbow,
- embrace,
- emergency,
- event,
- eventuality,
- exigency,
- falling terminal,
- fateful moment,
- gliding joint,
- hinge,
- hinged joint,
- hip,
- hour,
- incident,
- instant,
- interface,
- interval,
- join,
- joining,
- joint,
- junction,
- kairos,
- knee,
- knuckle,
- link,
- minute,
- miter,
- moment,
- moment of truth,
- mortise,
- neck,
- occasion,
- occurrence,
- open juncture,
- pass,
- pause,
- period,
- pinch,
- pivot,
- pivot joint,
- plight,
- point,
- posture,
- predicament,
- pregnant moment,
- psychological moment,
- quandary,
- rabbet,
- rising terminal,
- sandhi,
- scarf,
- seam,
- season,
- semicolon,
- shoulder,
- situation,
- space,
- span,
- spell,
- stage,
- state,
- status,
- stitch,
- stop,
- strait,
- stretch,
- suture,
- symphysis,
- terminal,
- tie rod,
- time,
- time lag,
- toggle,
- toggle joint,
- turning point,
- union,
- weld,
- while,
- word boundary,
- wrist,
- zero hour
- day
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- United States writer best known for his autobiographical works (1874-1935)
- a period of opportunity; "he deserves his day in court"; "every dog has his day"
- some point or period in time; "it should arrive any day now"; "after that day she never trusted him again"; "those were the days"; "these days it is not unusual"
- the recurring hours when you are not sleeping (especially those when you are working); "my day began early this morning"; "it was a busy day on the stock exchange"; "she called it a day and went to bed"
- 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 30,000 passengers per day"
- a day assigned to a particular purpose or observance; "Mother's Day"
- the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside; "the dawn turned night into day"; "it is easier to make the repairs in the daytime"
- the period of time taken by a particular planet (e.g. Mars) to make a complete rotation on its axis; "how long is a day on Jupiter?"
- an era of existence or influence; "in the day of the dinosaurs"; "in the days of the Roman Empire"; "in the days of sailing ships"; "he was a successful pianist in his day" related words >
- International Date Line,
- Platonic year,
- abundant year,
- academic year,
- aeon,
- age,
- annum,
- annus magnus,
- antedate,
- bissextile year,
- broad day,
- calendar month,
- calendar year,
- century,
- common year,
- cycle,
- cycle of indiction,
- date,
- date line,
- datemark,
- dawn,
- day glow,
- daylight,
- dayshine,
- daytide,
- daytime,
- decade,
- decennary,
- decennium,
- defective year,
- dusk,
- epoch,
- era,
- fateful moment,
- fiscal year,
- fortnight,
- full sun,
- generation,
- great year,
- green flash,
- heyday,
- hour,
- indiction,
- instant,
- interval,
- juncture,
- kairos,
- leap year,
- lifetime,
- light,
- light of day,
- lunar month,
- lunar year,
- lunation,
- luster,
- lustrum,
- man-hour,
- microsecond,
- midday sun,
- millennium,
- millisecond,
- minute,
- moment,
- moment of truth,
- month,
- moon,
- noonlight,
- noontide light,
- period,
- point,
- point of time,
- postdate,
- pregnant moment,
- prime,
- psychological moment,
- quarter,
- quinquennium,
- ray of sunshine,
- regular year,
- season,
- second,
- semester,
- session,
- shine,
- sidereal year,
- solar year,
- space,
- span,
- spell,
- stage,
- stretch,
- sun,
- sun spark,
- sunbeam,
- sunbreak,
- sunburst,
- sunlight,
- sunshine,
- term,
- time,
- time lag,
- trimester,
- twelvemonth,
- twilight,
- week,
- weekday,
- while,
- year
- emergent
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- coming into existence; "an emergent republic"
- occurring unexpectedly and requiring urgent action; "emergent repair of an aorta" related words >
- approaching,
- arising,
- charged,
- climacteric,
- coming,
- critical,
- crucial,
- decisive,
- desired,
- destinal,
- destined,
- determined,
- emanating,
- emanative,
- emanent,
- emerging,
- eventual,
- exigent,
- extrapolated,
- fatal,
- fated,
- fatidic,
- forthcoming,
- future,
- futuristic,
- hereafter,
- hoped-for,
- imminent,
- issuing,
- kairotic,
- later,
- loaded,
- nearing,
- pivotal,
- planned,
- plotted,
- predicted,
- pregnant,
- probable,
- projected,
- prophesied,
- prospective,
- surfacing,
- to come,
- to-be,
- transeunt,
- transient,
- ultimate
- shortly
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- for a short time; "he was at the airport shortly before she was expected to arrive"
- at a short distance; "the hem fell shortly below her knees" related words >
- abruptly,
- after a while,
- anon,
- aphoristically,
- bearishly,
- before long,
- betimes,
- bluffly,
- bluntly,
- boorishly,
- brashly,
- briefly,
- brusquely,
- by and by,
- cavalierly,
- churlishly,
- compendiously,
- concisely,
- crisply,
- crustily,
- curtly,
- directly,
- economically,
- ere long,
- fleetingly,
- flickeringly,
- flittingly,
- for a moment,
- gruffly,
- harshly,
- immediately,
- in a moment,
- in a while,
- in an instant,
- in brief,
- in brief compass,
- in due course,
- in due time,
- in short,
- just,
- laconically,
- momentarily,
- nastily,
- peremptorily,
- pithily,
- pointedly,
- presently,
- pronto,
- quickly,
- right,
- rudely,
- sententiously,
- sharply,
- snippily,
- soon,
- sparely,
- succinctly,
- summarily,
- swiftly,
- synoptically,
- tartly,
- tersely,
- testily,
- transiently
- climacteric
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- a period in a man's life corresponding to menopause related words >
- change of life,
- charged,
- clutch,
- convergence of events,
- crisis,
- critical,
- critical juncture,
- critical point,
- crossroads,
- crucial,
- crucial period,
- crunch,
- decisive,
- desperate,
- dire,
- emergency,
- emergent,
- exigency,
- exigent,
- extremity,
- grand climacteric,
- hinge,
- kairotic,
- loaded,
- menopause,
- pass,
- pinch,
- pivotal,
- pregnant,
- push,
- rub,
- strait,
- turn,
- turning point
- today
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- the day that includes the present moment (as opposed to yesterday or tomorrow); "Today is beautiful"; "did you see today's newspaper?"
- the present time or age; "the world of today"; "today we have computers"
- on this day as distinct from yesterday or tomorrow; "I can't meet with you today" related words >
- as of now,
- as things are,
- at present,
- at this juncture,
- at this moment,
- at this point,
- at this time,
- but now,
- contemporaneity,
- contemporaneousness,
- even now,
- for the nonce,
- for this occasion,
- here,
- here and now,
- hereat,
- hic et nunc,
- historical present,
- in our time,
- in these days,
- just now,
- modernity,
- newness,
- now,
- nowadays,
- nowness,
- on the spot,
- our times,
- present,
- present tense,
- presently,
- presentness,
- the Now Generation,
- the nonce,
- the now,
- the present,
- the present age,
- the present day,
- the present hour,
- the present juncture,
- the present time,
- the time being,
- the times,
- these days,
- this day,
- this hour,
- this instant,
- this moment,
- this night,
- this point,
- this stage,
- tonight
- crucial
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- of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis; "a crucial moment in his career"; "a crucial election"; "a crucial issue for women"
- having the power or quality of deciding; "the crucial experiment"; "cast the deciding vote"; "the determinative (or determinant) battle"
- having crucial relevance; "crucial to the case"; "relevant testimony" related words >
- aboriginal,
- acute,
- basal,
- basic,
- central,
- charged,
- clamorous,
- climacteric,
- compelling,
- critical,
- crying,
- deciding,
- decisive,
- desperate,
- dire,
- elemental,
- elementary,
- embryonic,
- emergent,
- essential,
- exigent,
- fundamental,
- generative,
- genetic,
- germinal,
- high-pressure,
- high-priority,
- imperative,
- imperious,
- important,
- in embryo,
- in ovo,
- insistent,
- instant,
- kairotic,
- loaded,
- major,
- momentous,
- necessary,
- original,
- pivotal,
- pregnant,
- pressing,
- primal,
- primary,
- primeval,
- primitive,
- primordial,
- pristine,
- protogenic,
- radical,
- rudimentary,
- seminal,
- urgent,
- vital
- pivotal
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- being of crucial importance; "a pivotal event"; "Its pivotal location has also exposed it to periodic invasions"- Henry Kissinger; "the polar events of this study"; "a polar principal" related words >
- acute,
- axial,
- behind the scenes,
- capital,
- cardinal,
- causal,
- causative,
- centermost,
- central,
- centralized,
- centric,
- centroidal,
- centrosymmetric,
- charged,
- clamorous,
- climacteric,
- compelling,
- concentrated,
- constitutive,
- critical,
- crucial,
- crying,
- decisive,
- determinative,
- effectual,
- emergent,
- essential,
- etiological,
- exigent,
- focal,
- formative,
- geocentric,
- high-pressure,
- high-priority,
- imperative,
- imperious,
- important,
- insistent,
- instant,
- institutive,
- kairotic,
- key,
- loaded,
- middle,
- middlemost,
- midmost,
- momentous,
- occasional,
- omphalic,
- originative,
- overriding,
- overruling,
- pregnant,
- pressing,
- principal,
- radical,
- ruling,
- significant,
- umbilical,
- urgent,
- vital
- season
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- one of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions; "the regular sequence of the seasons"
- a recurrent time marked by major holidays; "it was the Christmas season"
- a period of the year marked by special events or activities in some field; "he celebrated his 10th season with the ballet company"; "she always looked forward to the avocado season"
- make fit; "This trip will season even the hardiest traveller"
- lend flavor to; "Season the chicken breast after roasting it" related words >
- abate,
- acclimate,
- acclimatize,
- accommodate,
- accustom,
- adapt,
- adjust,
- adjust to,
- age,
- alter,
- anhydrate,
- assuage,
- attain majority,
- available,
- beautify,
- besprinkle,
- blast-freeze,
- bloom,
- box in,
- break,
- break in,
- breathe,
- brew,
- brine,
- case harden,
- circumscribe,
- color,
- come of age,
- come to maturity,
- condition,
- confirm,
- corn,
- cultivate,
- cure,
- day,
- decoct,
- dehydrate,
- desiccate,
- develop,
- diminish,
- discipline,
- domesticate,
- domesticize,
- dredge,
- dry,
- dry-cure,
- dry-salt,
- dye,
- edible,
- elaborate,
- embalm,
- embellish,
- enliven,
- entincture,
- establish,
- evaporate,
- evolve,
- familiarize,
- fateful moment,
- finish,
- fit,
- fix,
- flavor,
- fledge,
- flower,
- freeze,
- freeze-dry,
- fume,
- gentle,
- grow,
- grow up,
- habituate,
- harden,
- hedge,
- hedge about,
- hour,
- housebreak,
- imbrue,
- imbue,
- impregnate,
- infiltrate,
- infuse,
- instant,
- instill,
- interval,
- inure,
- irradiate,
- jerk,
- juncture,
- kairos,
- kipper,
- leave the nest,
- leaven,
- limit,
- marinade,
- marinate,
- mature,
- mellow,
- minute,
- mitigate,
- moderate,
- modify,
- modulate,
- moment,
- moment of truth,
- mummify,
- narrow,
- naturalize,
- occasion,
- opportunity,
- orient,
- orientate,
- palliate,
- penetrate,
- pep up,
- pepper,
- perfect,
- period,
- permeate,
- pervade,
- pickle,
- point,
- polish,
- pregnant moment,
- prepare,
- preservatize,
- psychological moment,
- qualify,
- quick-freeze,
- reach manhood,
- reach twenty-one,
- reach voting age,
- ready,
- reduce,
- refine,
- refrigerate,
- regulate by,
- restrain,
- restrict,
- ripe,
- ripen,
- salt,
- saturate,
- sauce,
- savor,
- school,
- seasonable,
- seasoned,
- set conditions,
- set limits,
- settle down,
- smoke,
- smoke-cure,
- soften,
- space,
- span,
- spell,
- spice,
- stage,
- steel,
- steep,
- stretch,
- stuff,
- suffuse,
- tame,
- temper,
- term,
- time,
- time lag,
- tincture,
- tinge,
- toga virilis,
- toughen,
- train,
- transfuse,
- while,
- wont
- instant
collapse
- in or of the present month; "your letter of the 10th inst" related words >
- a breath,
- about to be,
- actual,
- acute,
- alert,
- already in sight,
- approaching,
- apt,
- as is,
- at hand,
- being,
- bit,
- breath,
- breathing,
- brewing,
- burning,
- clamant,
- clamorous,
- close,
- close at hand,
- coming,
- compelling,
- contemporaneous,
- contemporary,
- coup,
- crack,
- critical,
- crucial,
- crying,
- current,
- cursory,
- day,
- decisive,
- demanding,
- dire,
- direct,
- draining,
- earnest,
- exacting,
- exigent,
- existent,
- existing,
- exorbitant,
- expeditious,
- extant,
- extortionate,
- fateful moment,
- festinate,
- feverish,
- flash,
- flying,
- forthcoming,
- fresh,
- furious,
- future,
- gathering,
- going to happen,
- grasping,
- hair-trigger,
- half a jiffy,
- half a mo,
- half a second,
- half a shake,
- hasty,
- high-pressure,
- high-priority,
- hour,
- hurried,
- immanent,
- immediate,
- imminent,
- impendent,
- impending,
- imperative,
- imperious,
- importunate,
- in danger imminent,
- in prospect,
- in reserve,
- in store,
- in the cards,
- in the offing,
- in the wind,
- in view,
- insistent,
- instantaneous,
- interval,
- jiff,
- jiffy,
- juncture,
- kairos,
- last-minute,
- latest,
- lightning-like,
- little,
- little bit,
- little while,
- looming,
- loud,
- lowering,
- lurking,
- menacing,
- microsecond,
- millisecond,
- minute,
- modern,
- moment,
- moment of truth,
- momentaneous,
- momentary,
- near,
- near at hand,
- nearing,
- new,
- no time,
- on the horizon,
- on the spot,
- overhanging,
- overnight,
- pair of winks,
- passing,
- period,
- persistent,
- pertinacious,
- pivotal,
- point,
- pregnant moment,
- prepared,
- preparing,
- present,
- present-age,
- present-day,
- present-time,
- pressing,
- presto,
- prompt,
- psychological moment,
- punctual,
- quick,
- quick as lightning,
- quick as thought,
- ready,
- ready-made,
- ready-mixed,
- running,
- season,
- sec,
- second,
- shake,
- short spell,
- short time,
- slap-bang,
- slapdash,
- small space,
- snap,
- space,
- span,
- speedy,
- spell,
- split second,
- spurt,
- stage,
- stretch,
- stroke,
- summary,
- superficial,
- swift,
- taxing,
- that be,
- that is,
- that will be,
- threatening,
- tick,
- time,
- time lag,
- to come,
- topical,
- trice,
- twink,
- twinkle,
- twinkling,
- twitch,
- two shakes,
- up-to-date,
- up-to-the-minute,
- upcoming,
- urgent,
- waiting,
- while,
- wink
- interval
collapse
- the distance between things; "fragile items require separation and cushioning"
- a set containing all points (or all real numbers) between two given endpoints
- the difference in pitch between two notes related words >
- abeyance,
- amount,
- aperture,
- arrearage,
- breach,
- break,
- broaching,
- caesura,
- caliber,
- cavity,
- cease-fire,
- cessation,
- chasm,
- check,
- clearing,
- cleft,
- coffee break,
- comma,
- compass,
- consecutive intervals,
- crack,
- cut,
- day,
- day off,
- defalcation,
- defect,
- deficiency,
- deficit,
- degree,
- delay,
- diapason,
- diatessaron,
- diatonic interval,
- diatonic semitone,
- disclosure,
- discontinuity,
- distance,
- downtime,
- drop,
- enharmonic diesis,
- enharmonic interval,
- extent,
- fateful moment,
- fenestra,
- fifth,
- fissure,
- fistula,
- fontanel,
- foramen,
- fourth,
- gap,
- gape,
- gat,
- grade,
- gulf,
- half step,
- half time,
- half-time intermission,
- halftone,
- height,
- hesitation,
- hiatus,
- hole,
- holiday,
- hollow,
- hour,
- inlet,
- instant,
- interim,
- interlude,
- intermezzo,
- intermission,
- intermittence,
- interregnum,
- interruption,
- interstice,
- juncture,
- kairos,
- lack,
- lacuna,
- lapse,
- laying open,
- layoff,
- leak,
- leap,
- less semitone,
- letup,
- level,
- lull,
- mark,
- meantime,
- meanwhile,
- measure,
- melodic interval,
- minute,
- missing link,
- moment,
- moment of truth,
- need,
- notch,
- note,
- nuance,
- octave,
- off-time,
- omission,
- opening,
- opening up,
- orifice,
- outage,
- outlet,
- parallel octaves,
- parenthesis,
- pas,
- passageway,
- pause,
- peg,
- period,
- pitch,
- plane,
- plateau,
- point,
- point of repose,
- pore,
- pregnant moment,
- proportion,
- psychological moment,
- quiet spell,
- range,
- ratio,
- reach,
- recess,
- relief,
- remission,
- remove,
- respite,
- rest,
- resting point,
- round,
- rung,
- scale,
- scope,
- season,
- second,
- semitone,
- seventh,
- shade,
- shadow,
- shortage,
- sixth,
- slot,
- space,
- span,
- spell,
- split,
- stage,
- stair,
- stand-down,
- standard,
- stay,
- step,
- stint,
- stoma,
- stretch,
- suspension,
- third,
- throwing open,
- time,
- time lag,
- time off,
- time out,
- tone,
- tread,
- truce,
- ullage,
- uncorking,
- unison interval,
- unstopping,
- vacation,
- void,
- wait,
- want,
- wantage,
- while,
- whole step,
- yawn
- tonight
collapse
- the present or immediately coming night
- during the night of the present day; "drop by tonight" related words >
- momentarily
collapse
- at any moment; "she will be with you momently"
- for an instant or moment; "we paused momentarily before proceeding"; "a cardinal perched momently on the dogwood branch" related words >
- presently
collapse
- at this time or period; now; "he is presently our ambassador to the United Nations"; "currently they live in Connecticut" related words >
- now
collapse
- the momentary present; "Now is a good time to do it"; "it worked up to right now"
- used to preface a command or reproof or request; "now hear this!"; "now pay attention"
- 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"
- 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"
- in the immediate past; "told me just now"
- (prefatory or transitional) indicates a change of subject or activity; "Now the next problem is..." related words >
- 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 Now Generation,
- the nonce,
- the now,
- 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
- moment
collapse
- the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value
- a turning force produced by an object acting at a distance (or a measure of that force)
- a particular point in time; "the moment he arrived the party began"
- an indefinitely short time; "wait just a moment"; "it only takes a minute"; "in just a bit" related words >
- a breath,
- abundant year,
- academic year,
- accent,
- advantage,
- annum,
- ascendancy,
- authority,
- avail,
- bissextile year,
- bit,
- breath,
- breathing,
- calendar month,
- calendar year,
- century,
- charisma,
- charm,
- clout,
- common year,
- compulsion,
- concern,
- concernment,
- consequence,
- consequentiality,
- consideration,
- control,
- coup,
- crack,
- credit,
- day,
- decade,
- decennary,
- decennium,
- defective year,
- dominance,
- domination,
- drive,
- driving force,
- effect,
- eminence,
- emphasis,
- enchantment,
- esteem,
- excellence,
- fateful moment,
- favor,
- fiscal year,
- flash,
- force,
- fortnight,
- good feeling,
- gravity,
- greatness,
- half a jiffy,
- half a mo,
- half a second,
- half a shake,
- high order,
- high rank,
- hold,
- hour,
- impellent,
- impelling force,
- impetus,
- import,
- importance,
- impulse,
- impulsion,
- incentive,
- incidental power,
- incitement,
- influence,
- influentiality,
- influentialness,
- insinuation,
- instant,
- interest,
- interval,
- irresistible force,
- jiff,
- jiffy,
- juncture,
- kairos,
- leadership,
- leap year,
- leverage,
- little,
- little bit,
- little while,
- lunar month,
- lunar year,
- lunation,
- luster,
- lustrum,
- magnetism,
- magnitude,
- man-hour,
- mark,
- mastery,
- materiality,
- merit,
- microsecond,
- millennium,
- millisecond,
- minute,
- moment of truth,
- momentousness,
- momentum,
- month,
- moon,
- motive power,
- no time,
- note,
- pair of winks,
- paramountcy,
- period,
- personality,
- persuasion,
- pith,
- point,
- potency,
- power,
- precedence,
- predominance,
- preeminence,
- pregnant moment,
- preponderance,
- pressure,
- prestige,
- primacy,
- priority,
- profit,
- prominence,
- propulsion,
- psychological moment,
- purchase,
- quarter,
- quinquennium,
- rank,
- regular year,
- reign,
- repute,
- rule,
- say,
- season,
- sec,
- second,
- self-importance,
- semester,
- seniority,
- seriousness,
- session,
- shake,
- short spell,
- short time,
- sidereal year,
- significance,
- signification,
- small space,
- solar year,
- space,
- span,
- spell,
- split second,
- spurt,
- stage,
- stature,
- stress,
- stretch,
- stroke,
- suasion,
- subtle influence,
- suggestion,
- sun,
- superiority,
- supremacy,
- sway,
- term,
- thrust,
- tick,
- time,
- time lag,
- trice,
- trimester,
- twelvemonth,
- twink,
- twinkle,
- twinkling,
- twitch,
- two shakes,
- upper hand,
- use,
- value,
- week,
- weekday,
- weight,
- weightiness,
- while,
- whip hand,
- wink,
- worth,
- year
- by and by
collapse
- at some eventual time in the future; "By and by he'll understand"; "I'll see you later" related words >
- after a time,
- after a while,
- afterward,
- afterwards,
- anon,
- before long,
- behind,
- betimes,
- by destiny,
- directly,
- ere long,
- fatally,
- hopefully,
- imminently,
- in a moment,
- in a while,
- in aftertime,
- in due course,
- in due time,
- in the future,
- infra,
- later,
- latterly,
- next,
- predictably,
- presently,
- probably,
- proximo,
- shortly,
- soon,
- subsequently,
- tomorrow
- momentum
collapse
- the product of a body's mass and its velocity; "the momentum of the particles was deduced from meteoritic velocities"
- an impelling force or strength; "the car's momentum carried it off the road" related words >
- antagonism,
- antipathy,
- antithesis,
- clashing,
- climax,
- collision,
- conflict,
- confrontation,
- contradiction,
- contradistinction,
- contraindication,
- contraposition,
- contrariety,
- contrast,
- counterposition,
- cross-purposes,
- disagreement,
- discrepancy,
- hostility,
- inconsistency,
- inimicalness,
- moment of truth,
- oppositeness,
- opposition,
- opposure,
- oppugnance,
- oppugnancy,
- perversity,
- polarity,
- repugnance
- exigent
collapse
- requiring precise accuracy; "an exacting job"; "became more exigent over his pronunciation" related words >
- Spartan,
- Spartanic,
- accurate,
- acute,
- astringent,
- attentive,
- austere,
- authoritarian,
- burdensome,
- burning,
- charged,
- choiceless,
- clamant,
- clamorous,
- climacteric,
- close,
- compelling,
- compulsory,
- conscientious,
- correct,
- critical,
- crucial,
- crying,
- decisive,
- delicate,
- demanding,
- detailed,
- dour,
- draining,
- emergent,
- exact,
- exacting,
- exorbitant,
- exquisite,
- extortionate,
- fine,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- fussy,
- grasping,
- grievous,
- grim,
- harsh,
- high-pressure,
- high-priority,
- imperative,
- imperious,
- importunate,
- insistent,
- instant,
- kairotic,
- loaded,
- loud,
- mandatory,
- menacing,
- meticulous,
- minute,
- narrow,
- necessary,
- necessitous,
- nice,
- obligatory,
- oppressive,
- particular,
- persistent,
- pertinacious,
- pivotal,
- precise,
- precisianistic,
- precisionistic,
- pregnant,
- pressing,
- punctilious,
- punctual,
- refined,
- religious,
- rigid,
- rigorous,
- rugged,
- scrupulous,
- scrutinizing,
- severe,
- stern,
- strict,
- stringent,
- subtle,
- superincumbent,
- taxing,
- threatening,
- tough,
- unsparing,
- urgent,
- weighty,
- without choice
- always,
- amain,
- apace,
- at all times,
- at flank speed,
- at full speed,
- at once,
- briskly,
- ceaselessly,
- constantly,
- continually,
- daily,
- daily and hourly,
- day after day,
- day and night,
- double-quick,
- ever,
- ever and anon,
- every day,
- every hour,
- every moment,
- expeditiously,
- fast,
- flat-out,
- full tilt,
- hand over fist,
- hand over hand,
- hastily,
- hell for leather,
- hell-bent,
- hell-bent for election,
- hour after hour,
- hourly,
- in a flash,
- in a jiffy,
- in a moment,
- in a trice,
- in a wink,
- in double time,
- in double-quick time,
- in high,
- in high gear,
- in seven-league boots,
- incessantly,
- instantaneously,
- instanter,
- instantly,
- lickety-cut,
- lickety-split,
- like a shot,
- like blazes,
- like greased lightning,
- like mad,
- like one possessed,
- month after month,
- night and day,
- on and on,
- on the double,
- perennially,
- perpetually,
- post,
- posthaste,
- promptly,
- quick,
- quickly,
- regularly,
- right along,
- right away,
- snappily,
- speedily,
- steadily,
- sustainedly,
- swiftly,
- trippingly,
- unceasingly,
- under forced draft,
- unintermittently,
- uninterruptedly,
- unvaryingly,
- whip and spur,
- with all haste,
- with giant strides,
- with rapid strides,
- with speed,
- without cease,
- without delay,
- without letup,
- without stopping,
- year after year
- here
collapse
- the present location; this place; "where do we go from here?"
- in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is; "I work here"; "turn here"; "radio waves received here on Earth"
- to this place (especially toward the speaker); "come here, please"
- in this circumstance or respect or on this point or detail; "what do we have here?"; "here I must disagree"
- at this time; now; "we'll adjourn here for lunch and discuss the remaining issues this afternoon" related words >
- aboard,
- among us,
- as of now,
- as things are,
- at present,
- at this juncture,
- at this moment,
- at this point,
- at this time,
- but now,
- even now,
- for the nonce,
- for this occasion,
- here and now,
- hereabout,
- hereabouts,
- hereat,
- hereinto,
- hereto,
- hereunto,
- hic et nunc,
- hither,
- hitherto,
- hitherward,
- hitherwards,
- in our time,
- in these days,
- in this place,
- in this vicinity,
- just here,
- just now,
- now,
- nowadays,
- on board,
- on the spot,
- somewhere about,
- there,
- this day,
- this night,
- to this place,
- today,
- tonight,
- with us
- briefly
collapse
- for a short time; "she visited him briefly"; "was briefly associated with IBM" related words >
- accurately,
- aphoristically,
- bluntly,
- brusquely,
- compendiously,
- concisely,
- crisply,
- curtly,
- economically,
- exactly,
- fleetingly,
- flickeringly,
- flittingly,
- for a moment,
- hastily,
- hurriedly,
- in a capsule,
- in a nutshell,
- in an instant,
- in brief,
- in brief compass,
- in short,
- laconically,
- momentarily,
- pithily,
- pointedly,
- precisely,
- quickly,
- sententiously,
- shortly,
- sparely,
- succinctly,
- summarily,
- swiftly,
- synoptically,
- tersely,
- transiently
- according to expectation,
- any day,
- any hour,
- any minute,
- any moment,
- any time,
- any time now,
- as a rule,
- as expected,
- as may be,
- as per usual,
- as things go,
- as usual,
- chiefly,
- commonly,
- counted on,
- customarily,
- expected of,
- generally,
- habitually,
- imminently,
- impendingly,
- in character,
- just as predicted,
- just like one,
- mainly,
- most often,
- mostly,
- naturally,
- normally,
- normatively,
- one all over,
- ordinarily,
- prescriptively,
- regularly,
- taken for granted,
- usually
- trice
collapse
- hoist up or in and lash or secure with a small rope
- raise with a line; "trice a window shade" related words >
- breath,
- coup,
- crack,
- flash,
- half a jiffy,
- half a mo,
- half a second,
- half a shake,
- instant,
- jiff,
- jiffy,
- microsecond,
- millisecond,
- minute,
- moment,
- sec,
- second,
- shake,
- split second,
- stroke,
- tick,
- twink,
- twinkle,
- twinkling,
- twitch,
- two shakes,
- wink
- meanwhile
collapse
- during the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified"
- at the same time but in another place; "meanwhile, back at the ranch..." related words >
- ad interim,
- at a stretch,
- between acts,
- betweentimes,
- betweenwhiles,
- during the interval,
- during the time,
- en attendant,
- for a time,
- for the meantime,
- for the moment,
- for the nonce,
- in the interim,
- in the meanwhile,
- interim,
- interval,
- meantime,
- pendente lite,
- temporarily,
- the while,
- until then,
- while
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