English Dictionary

24TH

 Dictionary entry overview: What does 24th mean? 

24TH (adjective)
  The adjective 24TH has 1 sense:

1. coming next after the twenty-third in positionplay

  Familiarity information: 24TH used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


24TH (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Coming next after the twenty-third in position

Synonyms:

24th; twenty-fourth

Similar:

ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)


 Context examples 


A dietary sterol similar to cholesterol but with an ethyl group at the 24th carbon of the side chain.

(Beta-Sitosterol, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

Phytosterol with a methyl group at the 24th carbon.

(Campesterol, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

Precipitation for the year totaled 31.70 inches, ranking as the 24th wettest year.

(2016 was 2nd warmest year on record for U.S., NOAA)

I left Lisbon the 24th day of November, in an English merchantman, but who was the master I never inquired.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

It was with some surprise, therefore, that I saw him walk into my consulting-room upon the evening of the 24th of April.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Phytosterol with a double bond at the 22nd carbon and a methyl group at the 24th carbon.

(Brassicasterol, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

The evening before this great event (for it was a very great event that Mr. Woodhouse should dine out, on the 24th of December) had been spent by Harriet at Hartfield, and she had gone home so much indisposed with a cold, that, but for her own earnest wish of being nursed by Mrs. Goddard, Emma could not have allowed her to leave the house.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

William was required to be at Portsmouth on the 24th; the 22nd would therefore be the last day of his visit; but where the days were so few it would be unwise to fix on any earlier.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)



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