Present; current.
Fashionable; popular; up to date; 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.
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.
Since, because, in light of the fact; often with that.
Not new or recent; having been in place or in effect for some time.
Out of date, unpaid for an unreasonable amount of time, particularly in reference to checks.
Of data: out of date; not synchronized with the newest copy.
No longer fresh, in reference to food, urine, straw, wounds, etc.
Unreasonably long in coming, in reference to claims and actions.
No longer fresh, new, or interesting, in reference to ideas and immaterial things; cliche, hackneyed, dated.
Worn out, particularly due to age or over-exertion, in reference to athletes and animals in competition.
To make stale; to cause to go out of fashion or currency; to diminish the novelty or interest of, particularly by excessive exposure or consumption.
To become stale; to grow odious from excessive exposure or consumption.
To stalemate.
To become stale; to grow unpleasant from age.
A stalemate; a stalemated game.
One of the rungs on a ladder.
The shaft of an arrow, spear, etc.
Something stale; a loaf of bread or the like that is no longer fresh.
A long, thin handle (of rakes, axes, etc.)
One of the posts or uprights of a ladder.