Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- preposition Throughout the course or duration of.
- preposition At some time in.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Duration; existence.
- Lasting; continuing; enduring.
- In the time of; in the course of; throughout the continuance of: as, during life; during our earthly pilgrimage; during the space of a year.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- preposition In the time of; as long as the action or existence of
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- preposition For all of a given time interval.
- preposition At any time or period within a given time interval.
- verb Present participle of
dure .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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When those measurements were done within more years/7, during Outumn exuinoxes was cosmic ray source visible to be near Castor and Polux/constellation Gemini,..during spring equinoxes at Aldebaran-Hyades,paralaxa of X.. ,…hamops1.szm.sk,…and other over there mentioned webs Those two areas, where are cosmic rays coming from is close to plane of ecliptic!
Must Watch: Teaser Trailer for Roland Emmerich's 2012! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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The second session provides for the suspension of an officer during the recess, and for a temporary appointment _during the recess_.
Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. John Sherman
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Therefore we must probably picture to ourselves that the sensation from the strip of the retina stimulated during the quick eye-movement is, _during the interval of movement or at least during the greater part of it, localized as if the axis of vision were still directed toward the original fixation-point.
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What is such a state of things but a mere connection during pleasure, or, to use the phraseology of the times, _during feeling_?
Select Speeches of Daniel Webster, 1817-1845 Daniel Webster 1817
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Napoleon in modern, times, from enlarged and firmly consolidated the force of individual genius, or by well-guided ambition and the accidents of (54) casual persevering energy, [38] during a fortune, but has slowly advanced, long succession of ages. and (40 _a_) been firmly consolidated (15) _during a succession of ages_, from the combined influence of ambition skilfully directed and energy (15
How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition Edwin A. Abbott
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The former Massachusetts governor forcefully rejected the label during Thursday night's debate, noting that his father was born in Mexico and his father-in-law in Wales.
www.startribune.com 2012
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Here at the Health Blog, we're always grateful for vocabulary-building exercises and it occurred to us when Gold dropped the term during an interview it was Dendreon-speak for "really expensive cancer drugs."
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Meanwhile, Stephen Elop, the chief executive of Nokia, used the term during a news conference to defend the competitiveness of the company's new Lumia 900 smartphone, even though it doesn't run on the fastest quad core processors.
NYT > Home Page By NICK WINGFIELD 2012
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The priest is never supposed to use your name during confession.
The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011
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We have known the giant "V" of bright stars high in our S sky on August nights as the Summer Triangle since Sir Patrick Moore popularized the name during his early Sky at Night TV programmes in the 1950s.
takchess commented on the word during
During the ...., serves as an introductory phrase
February 19, 2012