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OVERNIGHT
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lasting, open, or operating through the whole night
Example:
an overnight trip
Synonyms:
all-night; nightlong; overnight
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Similar:
long (primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified)
II. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
During or for the length of one night
Example:
the fish marinates overnight
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Sense 2
Meaning:
Happening in a short time or with great speed
Example:
these solutions cannot be found overnight!
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Context examples:
Some episodes may even begin overnight when a person is sleeping, which is a particularly uncommon presentation for anaphylaxis.
(NIAID scientists link cases of unexplained anaphylaxis to red meat allergy, National Institutes of Health)
If you don’t have the time to stay away overnight, then take your road trip on Sunday, December 8, your best, most romantic day of the weekend.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Keratitis due to infection by acanthamoeba; it is usually associated with soft contact lens wear, particularly overnight wear.
(Acanthamoeba Keratitis, NCI Thesaurus)
All this passed overnight, for the journey was to begin very early in the morning; and when the small, diminished party met at breakfast, William and Fanny were talked of as already advanced one stage.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
She was going early, so she bade them all goodbye overnight, and when his turn came, she said warmly, Now, Sir, you won't forget to come and see us, if you ever travel our way, will you?
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The tooth-drawer and the gleeman called for a cup of small ale apiece, and started off together for Ringwood fair, the old jongleur looking very yellow in the eye and swollen in the face after his overnight potations.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A facility which primary purpose is to provide elective surgical care, in which the patient is admitted to and discharged from within the same working day and is not permitted to stay overnight, and which is not part of a hospital.
(Ambulatory Surgical Center, NCI Thesaurus)
He cut out the work again overnight and found it done in the morning, as before; and so it went on for some time: what was got ready in the evening was always done by daybreak, and the good man soon became thriving and well off again.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Researchers from the University of Granada, University Hospital La Paz (Madrid) and the University of Texas (USA) have identified a new molecular mechanism underlying the anti-obesity effects of the chronic administration of melatonin, a naturally occurring hormone released by the pineal gland overnight.
(Study confirms melatonin helps burn calories and curbs weight gain, University of Granada)
