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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Aug mean? 

• AUG (noun)
  The noun AUG has 1 sense:

1. the month following July and preceding September

  Familiarity information: AUG used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The month following July and preceding September

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Aug; August

Hypernyms ("Aug" is a kind of...):

Gregorian calendar month (a month in the Gregorian calendar)

Meronyms (parts of "Aug"):

Assumption; Assumption of Mary; August 15 (celebration in the Roman Catholic Church of the Virgin Mary's being taken up into heaven when her earthly life ended; corresponds to the Dormition in the Eastern Orthodox Church)

Dormition; Feast of Dormition (celebration in the Eastern Orthodox Church of the Virgin Mary's being taken up into heaven when her earthly life ended; corresponds to the Assumption in the Roman Catholic Church and is also celebrated on August 15th)

mid-August (the middle part of August)

Holonyms ("Aug" is a part of...):

Gregorian calendar; New Style calendar (the solar calendar now in general use, introduced by Gregory XIII in 1582 to correct an error in the Julian calendar by suppressing 10 days, making Oct 5 be called Oct 15, and providing that only centenary years divisible by 400 should be leap years; it was adopted by Great Britain and the American colonies in 1752)

 Context examples 

NASA's Cassini spacecraft will zip past Saturn's moon Dione on Monday, Aug. 17, the final close flyby of this icy satellite during the spacecraft's long mission.

(Cassini to Make Last Close Flyby of Saturn Moon Dione, NASA)

The object - designated C/2019 Q4 (Borisov) - was discovered on Aug. 30, 2019.

(Newly Discovered Comet Is Likely Interstellar Visitor, NASA)

However, the study published Aug. 12 in Nature Climate Change warns that trees can only absorb a fraction of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and their ability to do so beyond 2100 is unclear.

(Study Suggests Trees' Potential to Slow Global Warming in Next 100 Years, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

ESA and NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO, saw a bright comet plunge toward the sun on Aug. 3-4, 2016, at nearly 1.3 million miles per hour.

(ESA, NASA’s SOHO Sees Bright Sungrazer Comet, NASA)

The Teak test, which took place on Aug. 1, 1958, was notable for the artificial aurora that resulted.

(Space Weather Events Linked to Human Activity, NASA)

This domain can recognize and bind to altered DNA conformations, such as stem-loops, four-way junctions, and specifically kinked or underwound DNA. (Mol Cell Biol 1999 Aug;19(8):5237-46)

(HMG-Box, NCI Thesaurus)

Juno launched on Aug. 5, 2011, from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

(NASA Juno data indicate another possible volcano on Jupiter moon Io, NASA)

The majority of craniospinal tumors are of neuroepithelial origin. (From Dev Biol 1998 Aug 1;200(1):1-5)

(Neuroepithelial Neoplasm, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

All three events, including the largest, most powerful eruption of the trio on Aug. 29, 2013, were likely characterized by curtains of fire as lava blasted out of fissures perhaps several miles long.

(A Hellacious Two Weeks on Jupiter's Moon Io, NASA)

Pathologically, this condition may be associated with LEUKOMALACIA, PERIVENTRICULAR. (From Dev Med Child Neurol 1998 Aug;40(8):520-7)

(Cerebral Palsy, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)