What's the difference between ferial and weekday?

Ferial


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Feria.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to holidays.
  • (a.) Belonging to any week day, esp. to a day that is neither a festival nor a fast.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ferial Haffajee, the paper's editor-in-chief, questioned the ANC's motives, noting that pictures of The Spear are now widely available on Facebook, Twitter and Wikipedia.
  • (2) During the spring fair ( Feria de Abril , 30 April-7 May), half the city decamps to the casetas of the Recinto Ferial to parade on horseback, drink sherry with lemonade, and dance sevillanas .
  • (3) Ferial Haffajee, the editor of the City Press newspaper, who had faced death threats and an ANC boycott, said she had decided to remove the image from the newspaper's website out of "care and fear".
  • (4) "The journalist in me thinks it's sensible planning but the citizen in me completely gets the natural anxiety about losing this man," said Ferial Haffajee , the editor of South Africa's City Press newspaper.

Weekday


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Currently, junior doctors – anyone below the level of consultant – are paid extra for working after 7pm on a weekday and at any point over the weekend.
  • (2) In a month where the price of the paper increased its price to £1.40 on weekdays and £2.30 on a Saturdayand launched the "Own the Weekend" advertising campaign, the headline figure increased by 0.11% to 204,440, the third month-on-month increase in a row.
  • (3) The publisher is offering readers the chance to sign up for packages of either weekday, weekend or seven days' worth of newspapers.
  • (4) The data are drawn from a 1% sample of all weekday general practice office encounters in the Hamilton health district recorded over a twelve-month period from February 1979.
  • (5) One member of the BMA’s junior doctors committee said they might agree to the 10pm extension on weekdays in return for Saturdays remaining as they are.
  • (6) The contract Hunt is set to impose on trainee medics in England will extend the hours that count as part of their normal working week from 7pm-10pm on weekdays and include Saturday from 7am-5pm for the first time.
  • (7) So yes, if we are going to remove more doctors from weekday shifts to staff the weekends, weekday care will deteriorate.
  • (8) However, 6Music's average weekday audience, divided into half-hour chunks by official ratings body Rajar, peaks at 40,000 in the second half-hour of Lamb's morning show between 10.30am and 11am.
  • (9) The most famous is Borough Market (the pioneer but has the tendency to bankrupt) but Maltby Street (weekends only) in Bermondsey and Lower Marsh Street (weekdays) in Waterloo are worth a detour.
  • (10) This is their story: Stephen Holden, Weekday Cross, Nottingham: £730,000 returned after tribunal ruling Microbiologist Stephen Holden.
  • (11) There was no significant difference between group average weekday and weekend-day excretion of Na or K, for either males or females.
  • (12) The results suggest that weekday drinking after work or class is a culturally defined occasion for "time out" from stress.
  • (13) testing trial per day was administered to a group of 19 subjects for 15 consecutive weekdays.
  • (14) per-day test was administered to 12 of the 19 original subjects for an additional 15 consecutive weekdays.
  • (15) I get the feeling Mr Hunt just makes things up to generate a soundbite.” Under the current arrangements, junior doctors get extra payments for working outside normal hours, which are 7am-7pm on weekdays.
  • (16) In the rest of England and Wales the Sun costs 35p on weekdays.
  • (17) End-shift urinary cobalt values showed a good relationship with present as well as with mean past exposure on the first and the fifth weekday, but the third day did not.
  • (18) Perhaps you share a home with fans of CBeebies , or maybe your weekday evenings are incomplete without a trip to Albert Square ?
  • (19) One member of the BMA’s junior doctors committee said they might agree to the 10pm extension on weekdays in return for Saturdays remaining as outside normal working hours.
  • (20) News International today increased the cover price of the weekday edition of the Times by 10p to 90p.

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