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TUESDAY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The third day of the week; the second working day
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("Tuesday" is a kind of...):
weekday (any day except Sunday (and sometimes except Saturday))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Tuesday"):
Whit-Tuesday; Whitsun Tuesday (the day after Whitmonday)
Context examples:
The body was found at six on Tuesday morning.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Scientists meeting Tuesday in Vienna said if no action is taken, the problem will increase by 65 percent by 2050.
(Experts Warn Prescription, Over-the-Counter Drugs Polluting World's Rivers, VOA)
That was the state of things, Watson, when upon the Tuesday morning I, at the request of Major Murphy, went down to Aldershot to supplement the efforts of the police.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And I assure you I am quite sorry that they are going home on Tuesday, which is the day before the first day of Michaelmas Term.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The company announced Tuesday it was shutting down production for good in the interest of consumer safety.
(Samsung Ends Production of Problem-Plagued Galaxy Note 7, Voanews)
Tests on deceased former professional American football players showed nearly all of them had a chronic traumatic brain disease, according to scientific research published Tuesday in the JAMA medical journal.
(Study: Brain Disease Found in Nearly All Deceased US Football Players, VOA News)
For older women, breathing air that is heavily polluted by vehicle exhaust and other sources of fine particulates nearly doubles the likelihood of developing dementia, finds a study published Tuesday.
(The Surprising Link between Air Pollution, Alzheimer’s Disease, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Sputnik News reported Leonov, who died in Moscow, will be buried at the Federal Military Memorial Cemetery on Tuesday.
(Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov dies at age 85, Wikinews)
On Tuesday, Feb. 28, the spacecraft carried out a rocket motor burn that boosted its velocity by 0.4 meters per second (less than 1 mile per hour).
(NASA Orbiter Steers Clear of Mars Moon Phobos, NASA)
She spoke briskly, but in her secret soul she wished she had said nothing about Tuesday, for her interest like her cake was getting a little stale.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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