(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.
Yesterday
Definition:
(n.) The day last past; the day next before the present.
(n.) Fig.: A recent time; time not long past.
(adv.) On the day last past; on the day preceding to-day; as, the affair took place yesterday.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yesterday's flight may not quite have been one small step for man, but the hyperbole and the sense of history weighed heavily on those involved.
(2) Crown prince Sultan Bin Abdel Aziz said yesterday that the state had "spared no effort" to avoid such disasters but added that "it cannot stop what God has preordained.
(3) Which must make yesterday's jobs figures doubly alarming for the coalition.
(4) Uruguay's coach, Oscar Tabárez, had insisted yesterday that his player should face only a one-match ban.
(5) Analysts say Zuma's lawyers may try to reach agreement with the prosecutors, while he can also appeal against yesterday's ruling before the constitutional court.
(6) A senior shadow minister, who has not been named by the Telegraph in its exposé of MPs' expenses , was yesterday asked by county councillors not to campaign for next month's local elections.
(7) UPDATE II [Tues.] Two other items that may be of interest: first, Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger was the guest for the full hour yesterday on Democracy Now, discussing the paper's role in reporting the NSA stories, and the video and transcript of the interview are here ; second, marking our collaboration on a series of articles about spying on Indians, the Hindu has a long interview with me on a variety of related topics, here .
(8) Yesterday streams of worshippers and tourists entered Sir Christopher Wren's building for Sunday services, apparently unconcerned by events outside.
(9) Yesterday a new French president was elected – he was elected with a strong mandate which he can take into a strong position in negotiations.
(10) At yesterday's EGM in London some 93% of votes cast by non-Bolloré Group shareholders opposed his plan.
(11) "Oil is extending the weakness that we saw yesterday.
(12) A number of other news organisations yesterday published reports based on files they had received from WikiLeaks.
(13) This was incredible - Selby somehow hung in there yesterday, taking frames when apparently outclassed, and then when he needed to turn it up today, he did - 13-4 turned it up.
(14) I woke up yesterday morning with an inbox, in full capacity of love and compassion,” she wrote.
(15) Yesterday's results: Torino 1-0 Cagliari, Siena 0-0 Livorno, Sampdoria 2-1 Atalanta, Reggina 1-1 Fiorentina, Palermo 0-0 Milan, Lazio 3-1 Catania, Inter 1-1 Udinese, Empoli 3-1 Messina, Chievo 2-2 Roma, Ascoli 0-0 Parma.
(16) Letterman was summoned to a grand jury hearing later yesterday at which he gave his side of the story.
(17) Jeremy Hunt, the culture secretary, confirmed in his first media policy speech yesterday that Labour's plan for independently financed news consortiums would be scrapped .
(18) Yesterday, John McDonnell spelled out the new Labour leadership’s public investment-driven economic alternative to austerity.
(19) Yesterday student occupations were continuing in at least nine universities – including sit-ins in Leeds, Cambridge, Manchester, Edinburgh, University College London, Brighton, Newcastle and the School of African and Oriental Studies in London.
(20) Mandela was admitted to a hospital in Johannesburg yesterday and South African media report that he has been seen by a specialist pulmonologist who treats respiratory disorders.