Definitions for hourly
ˈaʊər li, ˈaʊ ər-hour·ly

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hourlyadverb

   occurring every hour or payable by the hour

   "hourly chimes"; "hourly pay"

2. hourlyadverb

   every hour; by the hour

   "daily, hourly, I grew stronger"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hourlynoun

   Something produced each hour.

   She never reads her hourly report, but let her hourlies be fifteen minutes late and she raises a ruckus.

2. hourlyadverb

   At intervals of an hour.

   Express buses depart hourly.

3. hourlyadjective

   That happens every hour

   There are hourly express buses.

4. hourlyadjective

   Non-salaried, blue-collared

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hourlyadjective

   Happening or done every hour; frequent; often repeated.

   Etymology: from hour.

   Alcyone
   Computes how many nights he had been gone,
   Observes the waining moon with hourly view,
   Numbers her age, and wishes for a new. Dryden.

   We must live in hourly expectation of having those troops recalled, which they now leave with us. Jonathan Swift.

2. Hourlyadverb

   Every hour; frequently.

   Etymology: from hour.

   She deserves a lord,
   That twenty such rude boys might tend upon,
   And hourly call her mistress. William Shakespeare, All’s well that ends well.

   Our estate may not endure
   Hazard so near us, as doth hourly grow
   Out of his lunacies. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

   They with ceaseless cry
   Surround me, as thou saw’st; hourly conceiv’d,
   And hourly born, with sorrow infinite
   To me! John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. ii.

   Great was their strife, which hourly was renew’d,
   ’Till each with mortal hate his rival view’d. Dryden.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hourlyadjective

   happening or done every hour; occurring hour by hour; frequent; often repeated; renewed hour by hour; continual

2. Hourlyadverb

   every hour; frequently; continually

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hourly

   Happening once per hour.

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hourly

   A measurement by the hour.

   Our pay is given on a hourly rate.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on March 5, 2020  

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of hourly in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of hourly in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of hourly in a Sentence

1. Chyke Doubeni:

   I would say as a public health community, we're very good at repeating the same mistakes multiple times, it's the same story, the same underlying causes. There are barriers to care and information. Systems that require people to stand in line for hours for a vaccine do not work for people with hourly jobs, for instance.

2. Christy Delafield:

   The shelling is hourly, it has been a significant increase, this is the longest stretch we haven't been able to get in.

3. Nils Haupt:

   We have proof by the logbook, which is updated hourly, that the vessel did not move, marineTraffic in this case is wrong and the position is indeed incorrect.

4. Brian Stelter:

   All these daily, hourly, even minute by minute headlines about Covid making us feel like we're heading back in time, when in fact we are not.

5. Jennifer Emmolo:

   Things like talking when you weren't supposed to be talking, fidgeting with some kind of object on your desk, standing around the room and moving at not great times, all of those undesirable behaviors decreased by incredible amounts, it was pretty amazing. Kids that you might have to talk to sometimes on more than an hourly basis to refocus them or redirect them, you no longer had to do that.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=hourly
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Hourly
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=hourly
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hourly
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=hourly