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WEEKLY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A periodical that is published every week (or 52 issues per year)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("weekly" is a kind of...):
serial; serial publication; series (a periodical that appears at scheduled times)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or occurring every seven days
Example:
weekly paper
Synonyms:
hebdomadal; hebdomadary; weekly
Classified under:
Similar:
periodic; periodical (happening or recurring at regular intervals)
Derivation:
week (a period of seven consecutive days starting on Sunday)
week (any period of seven consecutive days)
III. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Without missing a week
Example:
she visited her aunt weekly
Synonyms:
each week; every week; hebdomadally; weekly
Classified under:
Context examples:
His last whim had been to bring with him on his weekly visits some new, useful, and ingenious article for the young housekeeper.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The scientists were surprised to find that, whatever the level of salt consumed, sodium was stored and released from the men’s bodies in roughly weekly and monthly patterns.
(How the body regulates salt levels, NIH)
In a mouse model of severe muscular dystrophy, in which muscle tissue undergoes repeated cycles of regeneration and degeneration, weekly treatment with a Stat3 inhibitor for a month improved muscle repair.
(Controlling Muscle Repair, NIH)
The team found that children who reported eating fish weekly scored 4.8 points higher on the IQ exams than those who said they "seldom" or "never" consumed fish.
(Weekly Fish Consumption Linked to Better Sleep, Higher IQ, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
His majesty sent for three great scholars, who were then in their weekly waiting, according to the custom in that country.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The spacecraft's fateful dive is the final beat in the mission's Grand Finale, 22 weekly dives, which began in late April, through the gap between Saturn and its rings.
(Cassini Spacecraft Makes Its Final Approach to Saturn, NASA)
One person was tested daily over 7 days while the other had weekly sessions for 8 weeks.
(Spinal cord stimulation helps paralyzed people move hands, NIH)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommends that children and women of childbearing age eat two to three weekly servings of fish low in mercury as part of a healthy diet.
(Brain benefits of aerobic exercise lost to mercury exposure, NIH)
I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which contained a verbatim account of the inquest.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They found that using any NSAID nearly halved the effect of particulate matter on lung function, with the association consistent across all four weekly air pollution measurements.
(Aspirin Could Cut Air Pollution Harms, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
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