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TODAY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The day that includes the present moment (as opposed to yesterday or tomorrow)
Example:
did you see today's newspaper?
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("today" is a kind of...):
24-hour interval; day; mean solar day; solar day; twenty-four hour period; twenty-four hours (time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The present time or age
Example:
today we have computers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("today" is a kind of...):
nowadays; present (the period of time that is happening now; any continuous stretch of time including the moment of speech)
II. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In these times
Example:
today almost every home has television
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Sense 2
Meaning:
On this day as distinct from yesterday or tomorrow
Example:
I can't meet with you today
Classified under:
Context examples:
Was she out with him today?
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Today, however, they were not playing.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
I have met him forever at the Bedford; and I knew his face again today the moment he came into the billiard-room.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Let me go out today, and you look after the house by yourself.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Ancient climate change and ancient human impacts are important for understanding why and how species became distributed the way we see them today.
(Connecting the prehistoric past to the global future, National Science Foundation)
Today, astrologers look to both planets to forecast your upcoming opportunities.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
I feel as if I shall need your company and your moral support today.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They're tracking how marsh plants grow in a world with carbon dioxide levels nearly twice as high as today — levels we could see by the end of the century.
(High carbon dioxide can create 'shrinking stems' in marshes, National Science Foundation)
The most recent week, including today.
(Past Week, NCI Thesaurus)
Rodents used in today's biomedical research must not only be free of disease that may influence experimental results, but also be well-defined in terms of their genetic makeup.
(Laboratory Animal Genetic Monitoring Resource, NCI Thesaurus)
