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# {{lb|en|legal}} A [[timespan]] of exactly 24 hours, measured from one [[midnight]] to the next. |
# {{lb|en|legal}} A [[timespan]] of exactly 24 hours, measured from one [[midnight]] to the next. |
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#* {{quote-journal|en|date=Nov 21 1997|title=French shopping and lunch from pounds 29|titleurl=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/french-shopping-and-lunch-from-pounds-29-1295311.html|journal=The Independent|accessdate=26 May 2014|location=UK |
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|passage=Travel insurance is available at the special price of pounds 4 for one '''calendar day''', pounds 10 up to 36 hours.}} |
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#* {{quote-journal|en|date=June 24 2004|author=Laura Mansnerus|title=Trenton Approves $28 Billion Budget Plan|titleurl=http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/24/nyregion/trenton-approves-28-billion-budget-plan.html|journal=New York Times|accessdate=26 May 2014 |
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|passage=The $28 billion budget was approved by committees in both houses Wednesday. Since one '''calendar day''' must elapse before a floor vote, the votes will take place after midnight Thursday unless Republicans agree to suspend the rule.}} |
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#* {{quote-journal|en|date=May 2 2012|author=Simon Burnton|title=The terrorist outrage in Munich in 1972|titleurl=http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2012/may/02/50-stunning-olympic-moments-munich-72|journal=The Guardian|accessdate=26 May 2014|location=UK |
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|passage="[T]he Games were stopped for a full 24 hours, though it was not a '''calendar day'''."}} |
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# A day having a [[conventional]] [[designation]] on a recognized calendar, such as a numerical identification within a named month. |
# A day having a [[conventional]] [[designation]] on a recognized calendar, such as a numerical identification within a named month. |
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#* {{quote-text|en|year=1844|author=w:Ralph Waldo Emerson|title=Essays: Second Series|chapter=2|passage='[T]is wonderful where or when we ever got anything of this which we call wisdom, poetry, virtue. We never got it on any dated '''calendar day'''.}} |
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#* {{quote-book|en|year=2001|author=w:Yann Martel|title=Life of Pi|pageurl=http://books.google.ca/books?id=RmkhNOzuV5YC&pg=PA186&dq=%22calendar+day%22+subject:%22fiction%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ChOEU8PrEMiT8QHQxoC4Bw&ved=0CCwQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=%22calendar%20day%22%20subject%3A%22fiction%22&f=false|page=186|year_published=2007|isbn=9780156035811 |
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|passage=My story started on a '''calendar day''' — July 2nd,1977 — and ended on a '''calendar day''' — February 14th, 1978 — but in between there was no calendar.}} |
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#* {{quote-journal|en|date=June 5 2006|author=Jeremy Caplan|title=A Devil of a Day|titleurl=http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1200926,00.html|journal=Time|accessdate=26 May 2014 |
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|passage=The number 666 has long held significance . . . that it's a mark of the devil. But now that the actual '''calendar day''' is about to arrive — on Tuesday, 6/6/06 — it's not only the superstitious among us who are looking ahead nervously.}} |
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*: Mandarin: {{t|cmn|自然天|tr=Zìrán tiān}}, {{t|cmn|日历日|tr=Rìlì rì}} |
*: Mandarin: {{t|cmn|自然天|tr=Zìrán tiān}}, {{t|cmn|日历日|tr=Rìlì rì}} |
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* Finnish: {{t+|fi|kalenteripäivä}} |
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|kalenteripäivä}} |
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* German: {{t+|de|Kalendertag|m}} |
* German: {{t+|de|Kalendertag|m}} |
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* Spanish: {{t|es|día natural|m}} |
* Spanish: {{t|es|día natural|m}} |
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Latest revision as of 18:05, 31 August 2023
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]calendar day (plural calendar days)
- (law) A timespan of exactly 24 hours, measured from one midnight to the next.
- 1997 November 21, “French shopping and lunch from pounds 29”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 26 May 2014:
- Travel insurance is available at the special price of pounds 4 for one calendar day, pounds 10 up to 36 hours.
- 2004 June 24, Laura Mansnerus, “Trenton Approves $28 Billion Budget Plan”, in New York Times, retrieved 26 May 2014:
- The $28 billion budget was approved by committees in both houses Wednesday. Since one calendar day must elapse before a floor vote, the votes will take place after midnight Thursday unless Republicans agree to suspend the rule.
- 2012 May 2, Simon Burnton, “The terrorist outrage in Munich in 1972”, in The Guardian, UK, retrieved 26 May 2014:
- "[T]he Games were stopped for a full 24 hours, though it was not a calendar day."
- A day having a conventional designation on a recognized calendar, such as a numerical identification within a named month.
- 1844, Ralph Waldo Emerson, chapter 2, in Essays: Second Series:
- '[T]is wonderful where or when we ever got anything of this which we call wisdom, poetry, virtue. We never got it on any dated calendar day.
- 2001, Yann Martel, Life of Pi, published 2007, →ISBN, page 186:
- My story started on a calendar day — July 2nd,1977 — and ended on a calendar day — February 14th, 1978 — but in between there was no calendar.
- 2006 June 5, Jeremy Caplan, “A Devil of a Day”, in Time, retrieved 26 May 2014:
- The number 666 has long held significance . . . that it's a mark of the devil. But now that the actual calendar day is about to arrive — on Tuesday, 6/6/06 — it's not only the superstitious among us who are looking ahead nervously.
Synonyms
[edit]- (24 hours, measured from one midnight to the next): civil day
Translations
[edit]timespan
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References
[edit]- “calendar day”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.