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JULY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The month following June and preceding August
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("July" is a kind of...):
Gregorian calendar month (a month in the Gregorian calendar)
Meronyms (parts of "July"):
Fourth of July; Independence Day; July 4 (a legal holiday in the United States)
Dominion Day; July 1 (a legal holiday in Canada commemorating receiving Dominion status in 1867)
14 July; Bastille Day (a legal holiday in France celebrating the storming of the Paris bastille in 1789)
mid-July (the middle part of July)
Holonyms ("July" 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:
The Amazon lost 7,989 square kilometres of rainforest between August 2015 and July 2016, according to a survey published by the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM) based on late 2016 government data.
(Amazon lost 7,989 km² of forest in 12 months, Agência Brasil)
The JunoCam camera aboard NASA's Juno mission is operational and sending down data after the spacecraft's July 4 arrival at Jupiter.
(Juno Spacecraft Sends First In-orbit View, NASA)
But, my dear child, the time is drawing near; here is April, and June, or say even July, is very near, with such business to accomplish before us.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
It was a bright July morning four months after that fatal fight in the Spanish barranca.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But in June and July, low atmospheric pressures and cloudy skies slowed down the melt.
(Arctic Sea Ice Annual Minimum Ties Second Lowest on Record, NASA)
One July day she came in with her hands full, and went about the house leaving letters and parcels like the penny post.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The ancient KBO, which is more than four billion miles (6.5 billion kilometers) from Earth, passed in front of a star on July 17, 2017.
(New Horizons' Next Target Just Got a Lot More Interesting, NASA)
On 16 July mate reported in the morning that one of crew, Petrofsky, was missing. Could not account for it.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Juno has logged nearly 146 million miles (235 million kilometers) since entering Jupiter's orbit on July 4, 2016.
(NASA Juno data indicate another possible volcano on Jupiter moon Io, NASA)
This observation program is perfectly timed as NASA’s Juno spacecraft is currently in the solar wind near Jupiter and will enter the orbit of the planet in early July 2016.
(Hubble Captures Vivid Auroras in Jupiter’s Atmosphere, NASA)
