What's the difference between aitch and hour?

Aitch


Definition:

  • (n.) The letter h or H.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 10.12pm GMT Patriots 3-20 Broncos, 2:25, 3rd quarter Dan Aitch (@aitch_dan) @HunterFelt It's over.
  • (2) In the gloom of Aitches ale house, a favourite watering hole for oilmen coming ashore after working on the North Sea rigs, the barman spoke for well-paid customers who want things to stay the way they are: " It's all no in here, mate.
  • (3) Updated at 10.26pm GMT 10.14pm GMT Dan Aitch (@aitch_dan) @LengelDavid Can't wait to see Philip Rivers 'scream and scream until he's sick' next time there's a delay of game.
  • (4) Updated at 11.21pm BST 11.19pm BST QPR have signed Niko Kranjcar and Benoit Assou-Ekotto and Tom Carroll, Aitch confirms through his car window, natch.
  • (5) A few days later, drop your aitches, or talk as if English is not your first language, and see if you receive the same service.
  • (6) Dan Aitch (@aitch_dan) @HunterFelt @Paolo_Bandini "Unsportsmanlike Premiership-style simulation, no.1, offense."
  • (7) Dan Aitch (@aitch_dan) @GdnUSsports @HunterFelt @LengelDavid The baseball season is still going?
  • (8) Iain Aitch, a Margate-born journalist, has helped make a series of “Ukip put me off my beer” beermats to distribute around local pubs.
  • (9) 10.48pm BST Tweets Dan Aitch (@aitch_dan) @HunterFelt Akin to last night, RISPs and LOBs will make or break @Dodgers tonight.
  • (10) Maggie Aitch (@FreeBesieged) Seems to me #Miliband is talking about things that REALLY matter to ordinary folk - not the scapoegoats being pushed by #Tory media .
  • (11) Dan Aitch (@aitch_dan) @HunterFelt This just doesn't look like the Dodgers night, again.
  • (12) Dan Aitch (@aitch_dan) @HunterFelt Kershaw needs to stop bouncing pitches or, with men on base, 'there may be trouble ahead'.
  • (13) As we have seen with the “three aitches” – Hinkley , Heathrow and HS2 – May is putty in the hands of any costly pressure group that pops over the horizon and gets itself tabloid support.

Hour


Definition:

  • (n.) The twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes.
  • (n.) The time of the day, as expressed in hours and minutes, and indicated by a timepiece; as, what is the hour? At what hour shall we meet?
  • (n.) Fixed or appointed time; conjuncture; a particular time or occasion; as, the hour of greatest peril; the man for the hour.
  • (n.) Certain prayers to be repeated at stated times of the day, as matins and vespers.
  • (n.) A measure of distance traveled.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Propranolol resulted in a significantly lower mean hourly, mean 24 h and minimum heart rate.
  • (2) One hour after direct mechanical cardiomassage (DMCM) a moderately pronounced edema of the intercellular spaces in the basal compartment of the seminiferous epithelium, normal content of lactate and succinate dehydrogenases, and a certain decrease in the activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenases and NAD- and NADP-diaphorases were noted.
  • (3) It was shown in experiments on four dogs by the conditioned method that the period of recovery of conditioned activity after one hour ether anaesthesia tested 7 to 7.5 days.
  • (4) After 4 to 6 hours of recirculation, accumulation of vasoactive amine, 5-hydroxytryptamine, its major metabolite, 5-hydroxyindole acetic acid, and its precursor amino acid, tryptophan were detected.
  • (5) The half-life of 45Ca in the various calcium fractions of both types of bone was 72 hours in both the control and malnourished groups except the calcium complex portion of the long bone of the control group, which was about 100 hours.
  • (6) They had allegedly agreed that Younous would not be charged with any crime upon his arrival there and that he would not be detained in Morocco for longer than 72 hours.
  • (7) Six hours later, bronchoalveolar lavage was performed.
  • (8) They spend about 4.3 minutes of each working hour on a smoking break, the study shows.
  • (9) Blood flow decreased immediately after skin expansion in areas over the tissue expander on days 0 and 1 and returned to baseline levels within 24 hours.
  • (10) The difference in BP between a hospital casual reading and the mean 24 hour ambulatory reading was reduced only by atenolol.
  • (11) Further, at the end of treatment fewer patients had depressive symptoms and the total daily number of hours of wellbeing and normal movement increased.
  • (12) DI James Faulkner of Great Manchester police said: “The men and women working in the factory have told us that they were subjected to physical and verbal assaults at the hands of their employers and forced to work more than 80-hours before ending up with around £25 for their week’s work.
  • (13) On 9 January 2002, a few hours after Blair became the first western leader to visit Afghanistan's new post-Taliban leader, Hamid Karzai, an aircraft carrying the first group of MI5 interrogators touched down at Bagram airfield, 32 miles north of Kabul.
  • (14) A mean difference for individual patients between the first and second recording within 5 mm Hg was observed in 49.3% and 52.1% of patients for 24-hour systolic and diastolic blood pressure, respectively.
  • (15) The half-life was very variable between subjects [2-8 hours], but less variable within subjects and it was unaffected by the formulation.
  • (16) Investigations on the influence of the diuresis effect on the results of quantitative estrogen and human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) determination revealed that the estrogen values increase with the 24-hour amount of urine.
  • (17) At 24 or 48 hours after ischemia, 63Ni, 99TcO4, and 22Na were preferentially concentrated in the damaged striatum and hippocampus, whereas 65Zn, 59Fe, 32PO4, and 147Pm did not accumulate in irreversibly injured tissue.
  • (18) The reproducibility of the killing-curve method suggests that at least two different concentrations should be used and that a decrease in viable counts below 2 log10 after 24 hours does not exclude a synergistic action.
  • (19) Mieko Nagaoka took just under an hour and 16 minutes to finish the race as the sole competitor in the 100 to 104-year-old category at a short course pool in Ehime, western Japan , on Saturday.
  • (20) Two hours after refeeding rats fasted for 48 h, ODC activity increased 40-fold in mucosa from the intact jejunum and 4-fold in the mucosa of the bypassed segments.

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