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Afternoon


Definition:

  • (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.

Midday


Definition:

  • (a.) The middle part of the day; noon.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to noon; meridional; as, the midday sun.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
  • (2) I will ask that by [next] Saturday midday the text will be transmitted to me, the president of the COP, and at that moment everyone will know where we are and the procedure to follow.
  • (3) Now he must go | Momodou Musa Touray Read more As midday and 4pm deadlines to go passed on Friday, two regional leaders arrived in the capital, Banjul, in a last-ditch diplomatic effort to persuade him to step down.
  • (4) It is important that the daily tablet is taken at midday because the maximum effect on the cervical mucus of the mini-pill therapy is most pronounced 4-6 hours after tablet intake.
  • (5) He said the Health Services Executive informed him that he could pick up the child at a HSE centre around midday on Wednesday.
  • (6) By midday the group said it had surrounded Sheikh Zuwaid’s police station, a move reportedly confirmed by the station’s commander in a phonecall with a local newspaper.
  • (7) Residents of Aden’s central Crater district told Reuters that Houthi fighters and their allies were in control of the area by midday on Thursday, deploying tanks and foot patrols through its otherwise empty streets after heavy fighting in the morning.
  • (8) In the midday sun, young women and girls around Accra’s Makola market take a break from walking the streets carrying their wares to seek solace under the shade of a tree, napping with their babies in their laps.
  • (9) Monsieur Blue open daily midday-2am; Tokyo Eat open daily midday-midnight; Le Smack open midday-midnight Le Musée de la Vie Romantique Cafe Vie Romantique This is one of the most discrete but enchanting Parisian museums, an early 19th-century mansion tucked away down a narrow cul-de-sac in the backstreets of Pigalle.
  • (10) The tourists ambling down Ledra Street in the hot midday sun are a welcome sight – and not just for crisis-hit Cyprus's shopkeepers.
  • (11) By midday on Monday, workers had managed to clear landslides from one lane of the main highway connecting Sikkim with the rest of India , and an initial convoy of 75 paramilitaries had started moving toward Mangan, the village closest to the quake's epicentre, officials said.
  • (12) The demonstrators ended their protest shortly after midday and were arrested.
  • (13) A tendency to sunburn after 0.5 h midday summer sun exposure increased risk for uveal melanoma (burn with tanning RR = 1.5, P = 0.02; burn with little tanning RR = 1.8, P less than 0.001; burn with no tanning RR = 1.7, P = 0.002); as did exposure to UV or black lights (RR = 3.7, P = 0.003); and welding burn, sunburn of the eye, or snow blindness (RR = 7.2, P less than 0.001).
  • (14) I don’t want Tunisians to go there, it would be a horrible back-pedalling.” The attack began just after midday as gunmen armed with Kalashnikovs opened fire in front of the Bardo museum, the country’s largest and an important tourist attraction, which houses one of the world’s biggest collections of Roman mosaics and is built in a 19th-century palace adjacent to parliament.
  • (15) A proteinuria of more than one gramme per litre in spontaneously voided midday urine indicated a high probability for the presence of urinary tract obstruction and was considered an urgent indication for antischistosomal treatment.
  • (16) The National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning for parts of north Texas from noon Sunday until midday Monday.
  • (17) As has been the case in much of the recent unrest in Yemen, the protests were already winding down by midday and the streets around the university were empty by 2pm.
  • (18) The PTA is now trying to persuade parents to contribute 15,000 (£4.24) a term so the students can eat at midday.
  • (19) After midday if you crack an April Fool, the joke is on you.
  • (20) A news blackout was imposed until he appeared alongside Hamid Karzai at the presidential palace at midday local time after flying in from Abu Dhabi on an RAF C130 Hercules aircraft.