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TWENTY-FOUR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The cardinal number that is the sum of twenty-three and one
Synonyms:
24; twenty-four; two dozen; XXIV
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("twenty-four" is a kind of...):
large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being four more than twenty
Synonyms:
24; twenty-four; xxiv
Classified under:
Similar:
cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)
Context examples:
The oldest of us was but twenty-four, and we gamed on, as I say, until the Captain had cleared the board.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
” Fanny thought and thought again of the difference which twenty-four hours had made in that room, and all that part of the house.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
A dose calculation unit expressed in milliliter(s) per kilogram per period of time equal to twenty-four hours.
(Milliliter per Kilogram per Day, NCI Thesaurus)
Twenty-four of these showed differences between patients with cancer and healthy controls, suggesting these markers could be useful for diagnosis.
(Biomarker Signatures of Prostate Cancer, NIH)
A dose calculation unit expressed in milliliter(s) per gram per period of time equal to twenty-four hours.
(Milliliter per Gram per Day, NCI Thesaurus)
Twenty-four hours after vaccination, the dimerizing agent AP1903 is administered.
(Adenovector-transduced AP1903-inducible MyD88/CD40-expressing Autologous PSMA-specific Prostate Cancer Vaccine BPX-201, NCI Thesaurus)
A little disordered always the first twenty-four hours of going to sea, but never knew what sickness was afterwards.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
A frequency rate of occurrences of something within a period of time equal to twenty-four hours.
(Per Day, NCI Thesaurus)
Within twenty-four hours I was in his sick-room, and was relieved to find that there was nothing formidable in his symptoms.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Meanwhile I have so much sympathy for you that, if you choose to disappear in the next twenty-four hours, I will promise you that no one will hinder you.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
