TIME OF DAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does time of day mean? 

• TIME OF DAY (noun)
  The noun TIME OF DAY has 1 sense:

1. clock time

  Familiarity information: TIME OF DAY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TIME OF DAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Clock time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

hour; time of day

Context example:

the hour is getting late

Hypernyms ("time of day" is a kind of...):

clock time; time (a reading of a point in time as given by a clock)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "time of day"):

high noon; midday; noon; noonday; noontide; twelve noon (the middle of the day)

mealtime (the hour at which a meal is habitually or customarily eaten)

late-night hour (the latter part of night)

midnight (12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night)

small hours (the hours just after midnight)

bedtime (the time you go to bed)

closing time (the regular time of day when an establishment closes to the public)

aurora; break of day; break of the day; cockcrow; dawn; dawning; daybreak; dayspring; first light; morning; sunrise; sunup (the first light of day)

early-morning hour (an hour early in the morning)

sundown; sunset (the time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon)

crepuscle; crepuscule; dusk; evenfall; fall; gloam; gloaming; nightfall; twilight (the time of day immediately following sunset)

none (a canonical hour that is the ninth hour of the day counting from sunrise)

happy hour (the time of day when a bar sells alcoholic drinks at a reduced price)

rush hour (the times at the beginning and end of the working day when many people are traveling to or from work)

zero hour (the time set for the start of an action or operation)

canonical hour ((Roman Catholic Church) one of seven specified times for prayer)

 Context examples 

I reached Highbury at the time of day when, from my knowledge of their late breakfast hour, I was certain of a good chance of finding her alone.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

A device designed to indicate the time of day or to measure the time duration of an event or action.

(Clock Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have learned that the effect of exercise may differ depending on the time of day it is performed.

(Morning, Evening Exercise Provides Different Health Benefits, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In contrast, phosphorous uptake uses much less energy and so does not seem to be as affected by the time of day, the analysis found.

(Research reveals harmful algal blooms' daily cycles, National Science Foundation)

This is however not a time of day with abundant communications but around 6 or 7 o'clock these levels will rise significantly.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

But you and I have done one another some good, Trot,—at all events, you have done me good, my dear; and division must not come between us, at this time of day.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This is just the time of day for it to clear up, and I do think it looks a little lighter.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

A new high-precision feeding system for lab mice reinforces the idea that the time of day food is eaten is more critical to weight loss than the amount of calories ingested.

(Eating at 'Wrong Time' Affects Body Weight, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

You wouldn’t think there was anyone living at this time of day who had such a hatred of Napoleon the First that he would break any image of him that he could see.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Plants have circadian rhythms that help them tell the time of day, preparing plants for photosynthesis prior to dawn, turning on heat-protection mechanisms before the hottest part of the day, and producing nectar when pollinators are most likely to visit.

(Plants can tell time even without a brain, University of Cambridge)