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TWENTY-FOUR HOURS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
Example:
there are 30,000 passengers per day
Synonyms:
24-hour interval; day; mean solar day; solar day; twenty-four hour period; twenty-four hours
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("twenty-four hours" is a kind of...):
time unit; unit of time (a unit for measuring time periods)
Meronyms (parts of "twenty-four hours"):
day; daylight; daytime (the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside)
high noon; midday; noon; noonday; noontide; twelve noon (the middle of the day)
dark; night; nighttime (the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside)
60 minutes; hour; hr (a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "twenty-four hours"):
tomorrow (the day after today)
today (the day that includes the present moment (as opposed to yesterday or tomorrow))
yesterday (the day immediately before today)
morrow (the next day)
eve (the day before)
date; day of the month (the specified day of the month)
date (a particular day specified as the time something happens)
Context examples:
A dose calculation unit expressed in gram(s) per animal per period of time equal to twenty-four hours.
(Gram per Animal per Day, NCI Thesaurus)
A dose calculation unit expressed in milliliter(s) per cage per period of time equal to twenty-four hours.
(Milliliter per Cage per Day, NCI Thesaurus)
A dose calculation unit expressed in gram(s) per cage per period of time equal to twenty-four hours.
(Gram per Cage per Day, NCI Thesaurus)
A dose calculation unit expressed in microgram(s) per gram per period of time equal to twenty-four hours.
(Microgram per Gram per Day, NCI Thesaurus)
There are twenty-four hours in each day, and I must spend them somehow. Come and have a drink.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
A dose calculation unit expressed in gram(s) per square meter per period of time equal to twenty-four hours.
(Gram per Square Meter per Day, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
A dose calculation unit expressed in gram(s) per gram per period of time equal to twenty-four hours.
(Gram per Gram per Day, NCI Thesaurus)
A dose calculation unit expressed in microgram(s) per kilogram per period of time equal to twenty-four hours.
(Microgram per Kilogram per Day, NCI Thesaurus)
The wind blew him fifteen hundred miles in twenty-four hours, and he fell in the middle of Russia.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Meanwhile I have so much sympathy for you that, if you choose to disappear in the next twenty-four hours, I will promise you that no one will hinder you.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
