Found 4 items, similar to now.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: now
sekarang
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: now
adapun, sekarang, waktu sekarang
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: now
now
n : the momentary present;
“Now is a good time to do it”;
“it
worked up to right now”
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) indicates a change of subject or
activity;
“Now the next problem is...”
5: used to preface a command or reproof or request;
“now hear
this!”;
“now pay attention”
6: 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,
right away,
at once,
forthwith,
in real time,
like a shot]
7: in the immediate past;
“told me just now”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Now
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.]
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1. At the present time; at this moment; at the time of
speaking; instantly; as, I will write now.
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I have a patient now living, at an advanced age, who
discharged blood from his lungs thirty years ago.
--Arbuthnot.
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2. Very lately; not long ago.
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They that but now, for honor and for plate,
Made the sea blush with blood, resign their hate.
--Waller.
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3. At a time contemporaneous with something spoken of or
contemplated; at a particular time referred to.
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The ship was now in the midst of the sea. --Matt.
xiv. 24.
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4. In present circumstances; things being as they are; --
hence, used as a connective particle, to introduce an
inference or an explanation.
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How shall any man distinguish now betwixt a parasite
and a man of honor? --L'Estrange.
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Why should he live, now nature bankrupt is? --Shak.
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Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but
Barabbas. Now, Barabbas was a robber. --John xviii.
40.
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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.
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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.
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Now
\Now\, a.
Existing at the present time; present. [R.]
“Our now
happiness.” --Glanvill.
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Now
\Now\, n.
The present time or moment; the present.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past;
But an eternal now does ever last. --Cowley.
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