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As nouns the difference between month and shirt

is that month is a period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon in the gregorian calendar there are twelve months: january, february, march, april, may, june, july, august, september, october, november and december while shirt is an article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body, and often has sleeves, either long or short, that cover the arms.

As a verb shirt is

to cover or clothe with a shirt, or as if with a shirt.

month

English

(wikipedia month)

Alternative forms

* (l) (dialectal)

Noun

  • (en noun) The plural is occasionally seen as month (unchanged)
  • A period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon. In the Gregorian calendar there are twelve months: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title=[http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21582498-america-has-changed-way-it-measures-gdp-boundary-problems Boundary problems] , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month .}}
  • A period of 30 days, 31 days, or some alternation thereof.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
    • , passage=Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour.}}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 29, author=Jon Smith, work=BBC Sport
    • , title=[http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/15014632.stm Tottenham 3-1 Shamrock Rovers] , passage=With the north London derby to come at the weekend, Spurs boss Harry Redknapp opted to rest many of his key players, although he brought back Aaron Lennon after a month out through injury.}}
  • (obsolete, in the plural) A woman's period; menstrual discharge.
  • *, vol.I, New York, 2001, p.234:
    • Sckenkius hath two other instances of two melancholy and mad women, so caused from the suppression of their months .

    Related terms

    * monthly * month of Sundays * time of the month

    See also

    * quarter * week * year *

    Statistics

    * 1000 English basic words

    shirt

    English

    (wikipedia shirt)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body, and often has sleeves, either long or short, that cover the arms.
  • * Addison
    • Several persons in December had nothing over their shoulders but their shirts .
  • * Bishop Fisher
    • She had her shirts and girdles of hair.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 9 , author=Mandeep Sanghera , title=Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Holt was furious referee Michael Oliver refused to then award him a penalty after Ledley King appeared to pull his shirt and his anger was compounded when Spurs immediately levelled.}}
  • a member of the shirt-wearing team.

    • Derived terms

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cover or clothe with a shirt, or as if with a shirt.
    • (Dryden)

    Anagrams

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