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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The month following March and preceding May
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("April" is a kind of...):
Gregorian calendar month (a month in the Gregorian calendar)
Meronyms (parts of "April"):
All Fools' day; April Fools'; April Fools' day (the first day of April which is celebrated by playing practical jokes)
April 14; Pan American Day (a day celebrating political and economic unity among American countries)
Patriot's Day (the 3rd Monday in April; Massachusetts and Maine celebrate the battle of Lexington and Concord in 1775)
mid-April (the middle part of April)
Holonyms ("April" is a part of...):
Gregorian calendar; New Style calendar (the solar calendar now in general use, introduced by Gregory XIII in 1582 to correct an error in the Julian calendar by suppressing 10 days, making Oct 5 be called Oct 15, and providing that only centenary years divisible by 400 should be leap years; it was adopted by Great Britain and the American colonies in 1752)
Context examples:
This sunspot will rotate out of our view over the right side of the sun by April 20, 2016.
(Solar Dynamics Observatory Captures Images of a Mid-Level Solar Flare, NASA)
Despite a recent decline in earthquakes, Ubinas Volcano erupted an ash plume on April 28, 2014.
(Fresh lava arrives at Ubinas volcano, NASA)
The robotic spacecraft briefly turned its gaze away from the ringed beauty of Saturn on April 11, 2014, to observe the distant planet, which is the seventh planet from the sun.
(Cassini spies the ice-giant planet Uranus, NASA)
The study began recruiting participants in April 1992 and closed enrollment in September 1997.
(Breast Cancer Prevention Trial, NCI Thesaurus)
“He’s the best bit of new stuff that I’ve seen since Jem Belcher fought his first fight with Paddington Jones at Wormwood Scrubbs four years ago last April,” said Berkeley Craven.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Measuring 10,000 miles (16,000 kilometers) in width as of April 3, 2017, the Great Red Spot is 1.3 times as wide as Earth.
(NASA's Juno Probes the Depths of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, NASA)
The MESSENGER spacecraft entered orbit around Mercury in March 2011, and spent four years observing this nearest planet to our Sun until it was deliberately brought down to the planet’s surface in April 2015.
(A Closer Look at Mercury’s Spin and Gravity Reveals the Planet’s Inner Solid Core, NASA)
NASA's Cassini spacecraft is back in contact with Earth after its successful first-ever dive through the narrow gap between the planet Saturn and its rings on April 26, 2017.
(Cassini Spacecraft Dives Between Saturn and Its Rings, NASA)
Measuring in at 10,159 miles (16,350 kilometers) in width (as of April 3, 2017) Jupiter's Great Red Spot is 1.3 times as wide as Earth.
(NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Spots Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
The April 25, 2015, magnitude 7.8 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal created waves of energy that penetrated into Earth's upper atmosphere in the vicinity of Nepal, disturbing the distribution of electrons in the ionosphere.
(GPS Data Show How Nepal Quake Disturbed Earth’s Upper Atmosphere, NASA)
