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UK
/mˈəʊmənt/
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[ US /ˈmoʊmənt/ ]
[ US /ˈmoʊmənt/ ]
NOUN
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having important effects or influence
that result is of no consequence
virtue is of more moment than security
decisions of great consequence are made by the president himself -
at this time
she is studying at the moment
the disappointments of the here and now - the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value
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an indefinitely short time
in just a bit
wait just a moment
it only takes a minute
in a mo - a turning force produced by an object acting at a distance (or a measure of that force)
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a particular point in time
the moment he arrived the party began
How To Use moment In A Sentence
- She tore her eyes from them for a moment to spy the bodhrán player in the tree, tapping out her rhythm with her eyes closed, not noticing the spy amongst them.
- When the moment finally comes, one look through his cataract lenses is all it takes. Christianity Today
- I used to think the worst feeling was losing someone you love. But, I was wrong. The worst feeling is the moment you have lost yourself.
- You know that moment when really liking someone turns into a radiant love - overwhelming, a little frightening and almost exasperatingly fresh?
- Dance the coxswain was the first affected in that way, but after a few moments Mark felt that the poor fellow had been suffering in The Black Bar
- For all the abuse, there are moments of unmitigated delight as well.
- For a few odd and unsettling moments, the song hovers on its own, left virtually untouched except for the subtle fuzz of static in the background.
- But as I was mulling this a little later, I was suddenly struck by one of those things that was probably already obvious to everyone else: There are a handful of strange inflection points where rock nerd culture and mass culture are in eerie synchrony for a few moments before skittering off in their respective ways for a bit — and one of them was my early teens. The (Rock) Stars Are Aligned
- I sat for a moment, wondering what on earth Kip would have done to me once he learned - if he did not already know - that it was I who snitched, when something stung the side of my face a bit.
- The truly poignant moments were those that followed. Times, Sunday Times
