different between now vs moreover

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Etymology 1

From Middle English now, nou, nu, from Old English n?, from Proto-West Germanic *n?, from Proto-Germanic *nu, from Proto-Indo-European *n? (“now”).

Adjective

now (not comparable)

1. Present; current.
2. (informal) Fashionable; popular; up to date; current.
3. (archaic, law) At the time the will is written. Used in order to prevent any inheritance from being transferred to a person of a future marriage. Does not indicate the existence of a previous marriage.

See also

• happening

Adverb

now (not comparable)

1. At the present time.

2. (sentence) Used to introduce a point, a qualification of what has previously been said, a remonstration or a rebuke.
3. Differently from the immediate past; differently from a more remote past or a possible future; differently from all other times.
4. Differently from the situation before a stated event or change of circumstance.
5. At the time reached within a narration.

6. In the context of urgency.

7. (obsolete) As 'but now': Very recently; not long ago; up to the present.
   • c. 1656, Edmund Waller, Of a War with Spain, and Fight for Sea

     They that but now, for honour and for plate, / Made the sea blush with blood, resign their hate.

Derived terms

Translations

Conjunction

now

1. Since, because, in light of the fact; often with that.

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Interjection

now!

1. Indicates a signal to begin.

Translations

Noun

now (usually uncountable, plural nows)

1. (uncountable) The present time.

2. (often with "the") The state of not paying attention to the future or the past.

   Synonyms: here and now; see also Thesaurus:the present

3. (countable, chiefly in phenomenology) A particular instant in time, as perceived at that instant.

Derived terms

• eternal now

Translations

References

• now at OneLook Dictionary Search

Etymology 2

See know.

Verb

now

1. Misspelling of know.

Anagrams

• NWO, own, won

English

Etymology

From Middle English moreover, moreovere, morover, mooreover, more-overe, mare over, equivalent to more +? over.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: môr-?'v?r, IPA^(key): /m???o?v?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m??????v?/
• Hyphenation: more?over

Adverb

moreover (not comparable)

1. (conjunctive) In addition to what has been said; furthermore; additionally.

Synonyms

• du reste
• furthermore
• further

Translations

References

• “moreover”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ?ISBN
• “moreover” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "moreover" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

Anagrams

• overmore