hour hand

Questions about hour hand

What is another word for hour hand?

It depends which hour hand you mean. In the sense “the shorter hand of a clock that points to the hours”, the synonyms are little hand. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of hour hand?

WordNet records no antonym for hour hand. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for hour hand come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of hour hand

• Full entry for hour handAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for hour handWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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