(n.) The time of light, or interval between one night and the next; the time between sunrise and sunset, or from dawn to darkness; hence, the light; sunshine.
(n.) The period of the earth's revolution on its axis. -- ordinarily divided into twenty-four hours. It is measured by the interval between two successive transits of a celestial body over the same meridian, and takes a specific name from that of the body. Thus, if this is the sun, the day (the interval between two successive transits of the sun's center over the same meridian) is called a solar day; if it is a star, a sidereal day; if it is the moon, a lunar day. See Civil day, Sidereal day, below.
(n.) Those hours, or the daily recurring period, allotted by usage or law for work.
(n.) A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time.
(n.) (Preceded by the) Some day in particular, as some day of contest, some anniversary, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) On both days, blood was collected by jugular venepuncture at 10.30 h, and then again 2, 4, 6 and 24 h later.
(2) Direct fetal digitalization led to a reduction in umbilical artery resistance, a decline in the abdominal circumference from 20.3 to 17.8 cm, and resolution of the ascites within 72 h. Despite this dramatic response to therapy, fetal death occurred on day 5 of treatment.
(3) Furthermore, it had early diagnostic (seven days) as well as prognostic value, as revealed by response to therapy and decrease in COA titer.
(4) Patient plasma samples demonstrated evidence of marked complement activation, with 3-fold elevations of C3a desArg concentrations by the 8th day of therapy.
(5) Of the patients 73% demonstrated clinically normal sensibility test results within 23 days after operation.
(6) Clinical signs of disease developed as early as 15 days after transition to the experimental diets and included impaired vision, decreased response to external stimuli, and abnormal gait.
(7) These organic compounds were found to be stable on the sorbent tubes for at least seven days.
(8) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
(9) within 12 h of birth followed by similar injections every day for 10 consecutive days and then every second day for a further 8 weeks, with mycoplasma broth medium (tolerogen), to induce immune tolerance.
(10) "This is the third event in the last few days following An-26 and SU-25 planes being brought down.
(11) It was shown in experiments on four dogs by the conditioned method that the period of recovery of conditioned activity after one hour ether anaesthesia tested 7 to 7.5 days.
(12) We considered the days of the disease and the persistence of symptoms since the admission as peculiar parameters between the two groups.
(13) Spontaneous locomotor activity was lower in naloxone-infused rats on day 3 only.
(14) Serial sections of mouse foetal liver, during the 9th and 16th days of gestation, were studied.
(15) Whereas strain Ga-1 was practically avirulent for mice, strain KL-1 produced death by 21 days in 50% of the mice inoculated.
(16) Would people feel differently about it if, for instance, it happened on Boxing Day or Christmas Eve?
(17) The patients should have received treatment for at least seven days and they should not be "ill".
(18) However, some contactless transactions are processed offline so may not appear on a customer’s account until after the block has been applied.” It says payments that had been made offline on the day of cancellation may be applied to accounts and would be refunded when the customer identified them; payments made on days after the cancellation will not be taken from an account.
(19) After 55 days of unrestricted food availability the body weight of the neonatally deprived rats was approximately 15% lower than that of the controls.
(20) Our results indicate that increasing the delay for more than 8 days following irradiation and TCD syngeneic BMT leads to a rapid loss of the ability to achieve alloengraftment by non-TCD allogeneic bone marrow.
Workday
Definition:
(n. & a.) A day on which work is performed, as distinguished from Sunday, festivals, etc., a working day.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, on Monday, during his first workday in office, he reinstated the global gag order, an executive order that bans international not-for-profit organizations from providing abortion services or offering information about abortions if they receive US funding.
(2) The amine concentrations and the excretion rates increased considerably during the workday.
(3) Determination of work capability may require assessment of function at speeds consistent with the patient's workday requirements.
(4) Observations on five workdays at a large terminus for a number of commuter rail lines indicated that among 4731 passengers 5% of 2794 men and 31% of 1937 women wore white sport shoes.
(5) When change of provider occurred, days lost from work and cost of care varied widely across the care options, but generally, fewer workdays were lost and lower amounts of disability compensation and provider cost paid when chiropractic was included in the care pattern.
(6) Passive smokers experienced greater CO levels during the workday.
(7) To study whether fluorescent lighting at work might increase carcinogenesis, hairless mice were exposed to a bank of six 36 W standard fluorescent lamps (neutral-white) every workday for 8 h at an illuminance level of 1,000 lx.
(8) Metabolite formation was compared following exposure to benzene over the course of an 8-hr workday and following a single exposure for 15 min.
(9) All workers were examined immediately before and after each workday.
(10) I’m not forcing them to pull their phone out.” In front of Times Square’s iconic billboards, Eric, a thirtysomething Pennsylvanian web developer in beige chinos and striped tucked-in shirt, wraps his arms around Amanda and Saira as they near the end of their workday.
(11) Frostbite injuries of the lower extremities occurred at milder temperatures, required more lost workdays, and were more costly than cold injuries to the head and face or to the upper extremities.
(12) The amount of lost workdays was calculated during periods of 2 yr pre- and posttransplantation: the figure decreased by 44% in group 1 (from 278 to 155) and was unchanged in group 2 (from 211 to 213).
(13) The mean heart rate of the forestry workers was 9 beats.min-1 less than that of the office workers at the initial exercise intensity of 50 W. This difference increased to 25 beats.min-1 at 175 W. For 6 of the 22 forestry workers, heart rates were recorded continuously during a usual workday.
(14) Six Medex working with family practitioners were followed by an observer for a total of 18 days to gain an objective profile of how Medex spent their workday.
(15) The occurrence of ferruginous bodies in sputa is found to increase as a logarithmic function of the length of occupational exposure to asbestos in workdays.
(16) I asked that they release me from the pressure manufactured by them and enacted by the prisoners they control; that they abolish slave labour at the colony by cutting the length of the workday and decreasing the quotas so that they correspond with the law.
(17) The plant-wide incidence rate of OSHA reportable repetitive trauma disorders was 2.2 cases per 200,000 workhours and resulted in 1,001 lost workdays.
(18) Occupational xylene exposure in the breathing zone of 15 painters was measured during three consecutive workdays.
(19) The hope is that these policy makers (national, state, local and company) help re-envision their workdays and work structures to help women better on and off ramp.
(20) At all ages, less than 1% of both men and women performed workday activities requiring high energy output.