(n.) The part of the day which follows noon, between noon and evening.
Example Sentences:
(1) And I want to do this in partnership with you.” In the Commons, there are signs the home secretary may manage to reduce a rebellion by backbench Tory MPs this afternoon on plans to opt back into a series of EU justice and home affairs measures, notably the European arrest warrant .
(2) 'This is the upside of the downside': Women's March finds hope in defiance Read more As thousands gathered for the afternoon rally and march, Trump tweeted his solidarity with their action.
(3) We have examined the serum MT response in the male hamster to a single dose of 25 micrograms MT administered in the morning or in the afternoon--the same timing and dose used by others to produce reproductive effects.
(4) There was instead a significant relationship between starting FEV1 and histamine PC20 in the morning and in the afternoon both after placebo and fenoterol.
(5) Referee: Peter Bankes (Merseyside) This gnome, who lives in the shrubbery of Guardian gardening expert Jane Perrone, will be rooting for Luton Town this afternoon.
(6) "This is the guy we've all seen in Borders or HMV on a Friday afternoon, possibly after a drink or two, tie slightly undone, buying two CDs, a DVD and maybe a book - fifty quid's worth - and frantically computing how he's going to convince his partner that this is a really, really worthwhile investment."
(7) Late that Friday afternoon, Harold told police, Assange agreed to take a test, but the clinics had closed for the weekend.
(8) After the formal PIRC inquiry was triggered by the lord advocate, Frank Mulholland, Bayoh’s family said police gave them five different accounts of what had happened before eventually being told late on Sunday afternoon how he died.
(9) Glucose tolerance tests were performed on six hyperthyroid patients in the morning and afternoon before, and at the end of treatment with propranolol for 2 weeks.
(10) The maximal changes in the sympathetic activity at rest and during active orthostasis were revealed in the morning hours and in the second half of the day, the minimal ones--in the afternoon hours.
(11) In the dynamic phase the weight of interscapular brown adipose tissue was significantly increased in the VMH-lesioned rats, but the specific GDP binding was depressed both in the morning and afternoon when compared with either the sham-operated or PVN-lesioned groups.
(12) These results suggest that aerobic training is most effective in the afternoon.
(13) Although great individual variations were noted in both sexes, in men the mean blood sugar (BS) values did not significantly differ between the two tests; in women, however, the mean values after glucose loading were significantly higher during the afternoon test.
(14) 8.56pm BST Howard Amos, who spent this afternoon and evening in Odessa on the scene of clashes between pro-Kiev and pro-Moscow protesters , has filed a report on what he saw.
(15) In addition, the study of afternoon sleep has shown itself to be a sensitive and reliable test for the analysis of the effects of a low dose of alcohol on nonalcohol-dependent subjects.
(16) The purpose of this research was to examine the influence of day, afternoon, night and rotating shift schedules on the job performance and job-related stress of nurses.
(17) But there will be as much as George Osborne as Ed Balls or Miliband in today's budget delivered this afternoon in the Dail by two ministers: Fine Gael's Finance Minister Michael Noonon and Labour's Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Brendan Howlin.
(18) 3.51pm GMT 116 min: John Motson says that Bobby Robson told him this afternoon that the five penalty takers, if needed, would be Lineker, Beardsley, Gascoigne, Pearce and Platt.
(19) On a snowless but chilly afternoon early in the Moscow winter, a 29-year-old man with a gaunt, emaciated face stepped on to the vast expanse of Red Square.
(20) Blood samples were taken from intact, freely moving rats via venous catheters at 6- to 10-min intervals for 3-4 h. LH pulse height and LH interpulse interval were quantified on each day of the cycle, and the transition on the afternoon of proestrus from tonic LH release to the preovulatory LH surge was detailed.
Forenoon
Definition:
(n.) The early part of the day, from morning to meridian, or noon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some changes were observed in the level of glucose, with a decrease from 12.00 to 14.00 o'clock, followed by an increase continuing until late at night (1.00 a.m. to 3.00 a.m.); another decline came in the other half of the night and during the forenoon.
(2) Calcitonin administered intramuscularly in one single dose inhibited the physiological decrease of blood glucose levels during the forenoon fast.
(3) Meriones unguiculatus seems to be more active during the night than during the day and showsed activity in the forenoon was registered.
(4) On this basis, three equal subgroups of subjects arose, tentatively called afternoon, night, and forenoon types, respectively, in accordance with information about their preference for working and sleeping.
(5) The maximum TP level during the 24-hour cycle was found most often in the early morning or forenoon, while the blood glucose level was highest at about midday and in some cases in the early morning.
(6) Three statistically balanced trials were always carried out: before, and one and two hours after the administration of the tested drug combinations during the early and late forenoon hours.
(7) Time-zones were categorized as follows: (a) time from rising to leaving home for the place of work, (b) commuting time in the forenoon, (c) working time in the forenoon, (d) noon recess time, (e) working time in the afternoon, (f) commuting time in the afternoon, (g) time from returning home to going to bed, and (h) sleeping time.
(8) ACTH content in the adenohypophysis was lowest at 6 a.m. then increased gradually until 12 p.m. CRF level in the median eminence fell during the forenoon, was lowest at noon, to rise up to 6 p.m. and persist at a high level between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m.
(9) Since the sleep after westward flight corresponds to that in the early morning to forenoon in the place before the flight, it is necessary to investigate the effect of sleep reversal and naps in daytime.
(10) All sample collections were done in the forenoon between 9 and 11 a.m.
(11) They observed the dynamics of selected visual functions as the time went by in the forenoon hours.
(12) We plan to arrive by ship at Malta early forenoon 1 February and hope to proceed at once by plane without faltering.