Fashionable; popular; up to date; current.
Present; current.
Used to indicate a context of urgency.
Sometimes; occasionally.
Used to address a switching side, or sharp change in attitude from before. (In this usage, now is usually emphasized).
At the present time.
Used to introduce a point, a qualification of what has previously been said, a remonstration or a rebuke.
At the time reached within a narration.
Differently from the immediate past; differently from a more remote past or a possible future; differently from all other times.
Since, because, in light of the fact; often with that.
Indicates a signal to begin.
The state of not paying attention to the future or the past.
The present time.
A particular instant in time, as perceived at that instant.
Smart, trim, and elegant in appearance; fastidious (said of a person).
Made of the wood of the spruce.
The wood of a spruce.
Any of various large coniferous evergreen trees or shrubs from the genus Picea, found in northern temperate and boreal regions; originally and more fully spruce fir.
To tease.
To make oneself spruce (neat and elegant in appearance).
To arrange neatly; tidy up.