noon
part of speech
noun (noon)
meaning for a pupil
1) Noon is twelve o'clock in the middle of the day. Noon is 12 o'clock in the daytime, also called midday. tree →
2) It is the time when the sun is about highest in the sky. tree →
sense in the lessons
In maths: a time on the clock: 12:00 in the day; problems count hours before or after noon; morning times are a.m., times after noon are p.m. In science: around noon shadows are shortest. Everyday life: lunch around noon. Phrases: at noon, before noon, after noon, by noon, from noon until, noon and midnight.
examples
- The shop opens at 9 and closes at noon. How long is it open? tree →
- Lunch is at noon. tree →
- He worked from noon until 5 o'clock. tree →
- It is 2 hours after noon. tree →
- At noon our shadows are very short. tree →
- We must finish the hike by noon. tree →
- The church bell rings twelve times at noon. tree →
- Noon is 12:00 in the day, and midnight is 12:00 at night. tree →
- It was past noon when he awoke. tree →
note
No «a» or «the»: say «at noon». Noon = 12 p.m. (midday); midnight = 12 a.m. Means 12:00; hours from a morning time to noon = 12 − start. Trap: from 10 in the morning to 3 in the afternoon is 5 hours, passing through noon. Trap: do not mix up noon (day) with midnight (night).
In the corpora
- "xiàwǔ" means afternoon, literally "after noon"; shàngwǔ, "before noon", is the late morning.
- Fronted adverbials of time include Later that day, After lunch, At noon and Once upon a time.
- A palindrome reads the same forwards and backwards, such as mum, dad, Nan, level and noon.
- In the UK and Ireland, tradition says April Fool tricks are done before midday; whoever pranks after noon is the fool.
- midi means noon and minuit means midnight; le Midi is also a name for the south of France.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «noon» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.