midday

«midday» in Mova's school dictionary: twelve o'clock in the middle of the day; noon — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (midday — uncountable); adjective (midday)

meaning for a pupil

1) Midday is twelve o'clock in the middle of the day; noon. tree →

2) Midday can also mean around the middle of the day. tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths and time, midday is 12:00, or 12 pm, or 12 noon; times before it are am, times after it are pm; midnight is 12 hours later. In science and safety, the Sun is highest in the sky around midday (about 1 pm in summer time), so the sun's rays are strongest: stay in the shade, wear a hat and sunscreen, and shadows are shortest then. In everyday life, «a midday meal» is lunch.

examples

• We eat lunch at midday. tree →
• The Sun is highest in the sky around midday. tree →
• Stay out of the strong sun at midday. tree →
• Midday is 12 o'clock. tree →
• The shop closes at midday on Saturdays. tree →
• Shadows are shortest at midday. tree →
• From 9 am to midday is three hours. tree →

note

Uncountable: «at midday», not «at a midday». Midday = noon = 12:00 = 12 pm. Midnight = 12:00 at night = 12 am. In maths, counting time across midday: from 11 am to 2 pm is 3 hours. Opposite: «midnight».

In the corpora

• At midday the Sun is in the southern part of the sky in the USA, Canada, the UK and Ireland.
• At midday the Sun is in the northern part of the sky in Australia and New Zealand.
• "Good morning" is said before midday, "good afternoon" until about six, and "good evening" after that.
• In the UK and Ireland, tradition says April Fool tricks are done before midday; whoever pranks after noon is the fool.
• When it is midday in one country, it is midnight on the opposite side of the Earth.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «midday» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.