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WEEK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Hours or days of work in a calendar week
Example:
they worked a 40-hour week
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("week" is a kind of...):
work time (a time period when you are required to work)
Holonyms ("week" is a part of...):
calendar week; week (a period of seven consecutive days starting on Sunday)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A period of seven consecutive days starting on Sunday
Synonyms:
calendar week; week
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("week" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Meronyms (parts of "week"):
week; workweek (hours or days of work in a calendar week)
midweek (the middle of a week)
Holonyms ("week" is a part of...):
calendar month; month (one of the twelve divisions of the calendar year)
Derivation:
weekly (of or occurring every seven days)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Any period of seven consecutive days
Example:
it rained for a week
Synonyms:
hebdomad; week
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("week" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Meronyms (parts of "week"):
calendar day; civil day (a day reckoned from midnight to midnight)
day of the week (any one of the seven days in a week)
weekend (a time period usually extending from Friday night through Sunday; more loosely defined as any period of successive days including one and only one Sunday)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "week"):
week from Monday (a time period of a week or more)
rag; rag week (a week at British universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities)
Holy Week; Passion Week (the week before Easter)
shibah; shiva; shivah ((Judaism) a period of seven days of mourning after the death of close relative)
Derivation:
weekly (of or occurring every seven days)
Context examples:
With or without treatment, most people begin to get better within 2 weeks and recover completely within 3 to 6 months.
(Bell's Palsy, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
High blood pressure (3/23), reaching 154+/-1.0 (SEM) mmHg at 10 weeks of age (Tanase et al 1982).
(OM, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)
The symptoms often disappear within a few weeks.
(Optic neuritis, NCI Dictionary)
This was his programme for a week.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) Please rate your pain by circling the one number that best describes your pain at its least in the last week.
(BPI - Pain at its Least in Last Week, NCI Thesaurus)
Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) Please rate your pain by circling the one number that best describes your pain at its worst in the last week.
(BPI - Pain at its Worst in Last Week, NCI Thesaurus)
He said, ‘Let us get her married first and after a week or two she may see things a bit different.’
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You ought to be tired at the end of six weeks.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) Circle the one number that describes how, during the past week, pain has interfered with your relations with other people.
(BPI - Pain Interfered with Relations, NCI Thesaurus)
They were short of weight and in poor condition when they made Dawson, and should have had a ten days’ or a week’s rest at least.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
