What (who) is day - definition
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DAY; Day (book); Days (song); Day (novel); Days (disambiguation)
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UNIT OF TIME LASTING 24 HOURS, DERIVED FROM THE PERIOD OF EARTH'S ROTATION ABOUT ITS AXIS
Day duration; Days; SI day; SI days; Civil day; Day unit; Seconds in a day; Parts of the day; Parts of a day; 🝰
n.
1) a chilly, cool; clear, nice; cloudy; cold; foggy; gloomy; hot, stifling; rainy; sunny; warm day
2) an eventful, field, memorable, red-letter day (we had a field day criticizing their report)
3) a holy; opening; visiting; wedding; working day (opening day of the baseball season)
4) day breaks, dawns (poetic)
5) by day (London by day)
6) by the day (to be paid by the day)
7) for a day (we are going to town for the day)
8) in a day (we cannot do the whole job in a day; back in the old days)
9) on a certain day (on the following day; on New Year's Day)
10) within several days (within ten days)
11) (misc.) day after day; day and night ('all the time'); D-day ('a day on which a significant event is scheduled to begin'); to take a day off; I rue the day ('I wish that that day had never been'); from day to day; day in, day out; to carry the day ('to be victorious'); the other day ('recently'); his days are numbered ('he will die soon'); the dog days ('the hot days of July and August'); halcyon days; the good old days; it was a big ('successful') day for our team; to take one day at a time; judgment day; on the day (BE; colloq.) ('when the time comes')
USAGE NOTE: The collocation by day contrasts with by night (London by day is very different from London by night), (see the Usage Note for night)
day
UNIT OF TIME LASTING 24 HOURS, DERIVED FROM THE PERIOD OF EARTH'S ROTATION ABOUT ITS AXIS
Day duration; Days; SI day; SI days; Civil day; Day unit; Seconds in a day; Parts of the day; Parts of a day; 🝰
(days)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
A day is one of the seven twenty-four hour periods of time in a week.
N-COUNT
2.
Day is the time when it is light, or the time when you are up and doing things.
27 million working days are lost each year due to work accidents and sickness...
He arranged for me to go down to London one day a week...
The snack bar is open during the day.
? night
N-VAR
3.
You can refer to a particular period in history as a particular day or as particular days.
He began to talk about the Ukraine of his uncle's day...
She is doing just fine these days.
N-COUNT: with supp
4.
If something happens day after day, it happens every day without stopping.
The newspaper job had me doing the same thing day after day.
PHRASE
5.
In this day and age means in modern times.
Even in this day and age the old attitudes persist.
PHRASE
6.
If you say that something has seen better days, you mean that it is old and in poor condition.
The tweed jacket she wore had seen better days.
PHRASE: V inflects
7.
If you call it a day, you decide to stop what you are doing because you are tired of it or because it is not successful.
Faced with mounting debts, the decision to call it a day was inevitable...
PHRASE: V inflects
8.
If someone carries the day, they are the winner in a contest such as a battle, debate, or sporting competition. (JOURNALISM)
For the time being, the liberals seem to have carried the day.
PHRASE: V inflects
9.
If you say that something has had its day, you mean that the period during which it was most successful or popular has now passed.
Beat music may finally have had its day...
PHRASE: V inflects
10.
If something makes your day, it makes you feel very happy. (INFORMAL)
Come on, Bill. Send Tom a card and make his day...
PHRASE: V inflects
11.
One day or some day or one of these days means at some time in the future.
I too dreamed of living in London one day...
I hope some day you will find the woman who will make you happy...
PHRASE: PHR with cl
12.
If you say that something happened the other day, you mean that it happened a few days ago.
I phoned your office the other day...
PHRASE: PHR with cl
13.
If someone or something saves the day in a situation which seems likely to fail, they manage to make it successful.
...this story about how he saved the day at his daughter's birthday party...
PHRASE: V inflects
14.
If something happens from day to day or day by day, it happens each day.
Your needs can differ from day to day...
I live for the moment, day by day, not for the past.
PHRASE
15.
If it is a month or a year to the day since a particular thing happened, it is exactly a month or a year since it happened.
It was January 19, a year to the day since he had arrived in Singapore...
PHRASE: amount PHR
16.
To this day means up until and including the present time.
To this day young Zulu boys practise fighting.
PHRASE: PHR with cl
17.
If a particular person, group, or thing wins the day, they win a battle, struggle, or competition. If they lose the day, they are defeated. (mainly JOURNALISM)
His determination and refusal to back down had won the day...
PHRASE: V inflects
18.
If you say that a task is all in a day's work for someone, you mean that they do not mind doing it although it may be difficult, because it is part of their job or because they often do it.
For war reporters, dodging snipers' bullets is all in a day's work...
PHRASE: usu v-link PHR, oft PHR for n
19.
it's early days: see early
someone's days are numbered: see number
the good old days: see old
Day
UNIT OF TIME LASTING 24 HOURS, DERIVED FROM THE PERIOD OF EARTH'S ROTATION ABOUT ITS AXIS
Day duration; Days; SI day; SI days; Civil day; Day unit; Seconds in a day; Parts of the day; Parts of a day; 🝰
·noun Those hours, or the daily recurring period, allotted by usage or law for work.
II. Day ·noun (Preceded by the) Some day in particular, as some day of contest, some anniversary, ·etc.
III. Day ·noun A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time.
IV. Day ·noun The time of light, or interval between one night and the next; the time between sunrise and sunset, or from dawn to darkness; hence, the light; sunshine.
V. Day ·noun The period of the earth's revolution on its axis.
- ordinarily divided into twenty-four hours. It is measured by the interval between two successive transits of a celestial body over the same meridian, and takes a specific name from that of the body. Thus, if this is the sun, the day (the interval between two successive transits of the sun's center over the same meridian) is called a solar day; if it is a star, a sidereal day; if it is the moon, a lunar day. ·see Civil day, Sidereal day, below.
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Day (disambiguation)
A day is a unit of temporal measurement for a literal day or epoch of time.
Day, DAY or Days may also refer to:
Pronunciation examples for day
1. a day, day, after day, after day.
The Touring Tandem _ Katy & Clayton Pratt _ Talks at Google
2. day after day, day after day.
Phil Zimbardo + More _ Talks at Google
3. day after day after day.
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4. day after day after day.
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5. 30-day, 60-day, sometimes 90-day.
The Silver Lining of Work Culture _ Claude Silver _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of day
1. ABOUT THE SERIES This series explores how class influences destiny in America. • Day 1÷ Overview • Day 2÷ Health • Day 3÷ Marriage • Day 4÷ Religion • Day 5÷ Education • Day 6÷ Immigration • Day 7÷ New Status Markers • Day 8÷ The ‘Relo‘ Class • Day '÷ The Hyper–Rich • Day 10÷ Class and Culture • Sunday÷ Up From the Projects Where Do You Fit In?
2. "You get day after day of severe weather and day after day of tornadoes until the pattern changes," Houston said.
3. Focus÷ Hiroshima The Holocaust Focus÷ the Holocaust D–day Focus÷ D–day Interactive guide VE Day Focus÷ VE Day
4. "We were doing stuff every day – press releases every day, sometimes a couple a day, e–alerts every day or every other day," she said.
5. PARIS (Reuters) – After Smoke Free Day and Car Free Day comes Sarkozy Free Day.