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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Now \Now\, 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 ?, ?, Skr. nu n[=u]. [root]193. Cf {New}.] 1. At the present time; at this moment; at the time of speaking; instantly; as I will write now I have a patient now living, at an advanced age, who discharged blood from his lungs thirty years ago. --Arbuthnot. 2. Very lately; not long ago. They that but now for honor and for plate, Made the sea blush with blood, resign their hate. --Waller. 3. At a time contemporaneous with something spoken of or contemplated; at a particular time referred to The ship was now in the midst of the sea. --Matt. xiv. 24. 4. In present circumstances; things being as they are -- hence used as a connective particle, to introduce an inference or an explanation. How shall any man distinguish now betwixt a parasite and a man of honor ? --L'Estrange. Why should he live, now nature bankrupt is ? --Shak. Then cried they all again saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber. --John xviii. 40. 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. {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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Now \Now\, a. Existing at the present time; present. [R.] ``Our now happiness.'' --Glanvill. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Now \Now\, n. The present time or moment; the present. Nothing is there to come and nothing past; But an eternal now does ever last --Cowley. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: now n : the momentary present; "Now is a good time to do it"; "it worked up to right now" adv 1: 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: {at present}] 2: 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}, {today}] 3: 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" 4: (prefatory or transitional) "Now the next problem is..." 5: used to preface a command or reproof or request; "now hear this!"; "now pay attention" 6: without delay; with no time intervening; "he answered immediately"; "found an answer straightaway"; "an official accused of dishonesty should be supended forthwith"; "Come here now!" [syn: {immediately}, {instantly}, {straightaway}, {directly}, {right away}, {at once}, {forthwith}, {in real time}] 7: in the immediate past; "told me just now" From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]: NOW Network Of Workstations (Cluster)
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