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day
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[ noun ] time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
Synonyms Examples "two days later they left" "they put on two performances every day" "there are 30,000 passengers per day" Used in print (The Atlanta Constitution...)Schley_County_Rep._B._D._Pelham will offer a resolution Monday in the House to rescind the body 's action of Friday in voting itself a $ 10 per day increase in expense allowances . The former county school_superintendent , George_P._Callan , shot himself to death March 18 , four days after he resigned his post in a dispute with the county school_board . (The Sun, [Baltimore],...)If the Orioles are to break their losing_streak within the next two days , it will have to be at_the_expense_of the American_League champion New_York Yankees , who come in here tomorrow for a night_game and a single test Sunday afternoon . Prior to the featured race , the stewards announced that apprentice James_P._Verrone is suspended ten days for crowding horses and crossing the field sharply in two races on Wednesday . (Rocky Mountains News, [Denver, Colorado],...)Jim_Landis ' 380 - foot home_run over left in the first inning gave the Sox a 1 - 0 lead , but Harmon_Killebrew came_back in the bottom of the first with his second homer in two days with the walking Bob_Allison aboard . |
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[ noun ] some point or period in time
Examples "it should arrive any day now" "after that day she never trusted him again" "those were the days" "these days it is not unusual" Used in print (Rocky Mountains News, [Denver, Colorado],...)THE MODEST AND HAPPY Spahn waved_off his new laurels as one of those good days . (St. Louis Post-Dispatch,...)`` Pittsburgh definitely is the team to beat '' , Mauch said here the other day . Stengel probably preached too_much in the early days when the kid wanted to pop his bubble_gum and sow_his_oats . (The Times-Picayune, [New Orleans]...)Edison could hardly have guessed , however , that Sophocles would one day appear in stereo . Volumes One and Two , selected from the sound_tracks of a television series , contain `` conversations with the elder wise_men of our day '' . Related terms |
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[ noun ] the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside
Examples "the dawn turned night into day" "it is easier to make the repairs in the daytime" Used in print (David Boroff, "Jewish Teen-Age Culture"...)Perhaps the Jewish students at Brooklyn_College - constituting 85 per_cent of those who attend the day session - can serve as a paradigm of the urban , lower_middle_class Jewish student . (Committee for Economic Development, Distressed...)Courses are provided mainly for post high_school day programs ; but sometimes arrangements also are made for high_school students to attend , and evening extension courses also may be conducted . (Harry Olesker, Impact....)It was a cold , windy day , the day after Kitti 's death , but Stanley_Gilborn paid no attention to the blustery October wind . It was a cold , windy day , the day after Kitti 's death , but Stanley_Gilborn paid no attention to the blustery October wind . (Breni James, Nights of the Kill....)It was nine o_'_clock in the morning : the hour which , like a spade turning clods of earth , exposed to the day a myriad of busy creatures that had lain_dormant in the quiet night . Related terms |
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[ noun ] a day assigned to a particular purpose or observance
Examples "Mother's Day" Used in print (Rocky Mountains News, [Denver, Colorado],...)`` Spahnie does n't know how to merely go_through_the_motions '' , remarked Enos_Slaughter , another all-out guy , who played rightfield that day and popped one over the clubhouse . Willie 's big day revived the running argument about the relative merits of Mays and Mickey_Mantle . (St. Louis Post-Dispatch,...)That means Stan_Musial probably will ride_the_bench on the seventh anniversary of his record five home_run day against the Giants . Benington said , `` I 've never seen a player have a game as great as Mankowski did against Bradley that day '' . Mays ' day came a day earlier for Willie than for the kids and Commies this year . Related terms calendar_day anniversary holiday New_Year's_Eve payday wedding_day Flag_Day Halloween polling_day Nov_5 May_Day Walpurgis_Night Robert_E_Lee's_Birthday Tet Armed_Forces_Day Father's_Day rag_day V-day Midsummer_Eve school_day saint's_day washday Valentine_Day Lincoln's_Birthday Groundhog_Day commencement_day Washington's_Birthday Texas_Independence_Day field_day St_Patrick's_Day April_Fools' Jefferson_Davis'_Birthday field_day Inauguration_Day Citizenship_Day American_Indian_Day United_Nations_Day April_14 Patriot's_Day ides Mother's_Day speech_day market_day leap_day Arbor_Day red-letter_day november_5 Admission_Day |
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[ noun ] (work) the recurring hours when you are not sleeping (especially those when you are working)
Examples "my day began early this morning" "it was a busy day on the stock exchange" "she called it a day and went to bed" Used in print (Peter J. White, "Report on Laos"...)It was a spleen crushing day . We did it for three days . (Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)At four o_'_clock , or four thirty , the coming of the newsboy marked the end of the day ; he tossed a paper toward every front_door , and housewives came down to their steps to pick them up and read what their neighbors had been doing . (Raymond J. Corsini et al., Roleplaying in Business...)At the end of work one day , the personnel man took the applicants one_at_a_time , asked them to sit behind the receptionist 's desk and he then played the role of a number of people who might come to the receptionist with a number of queries and for a number of purposes . She was hired and was found to be entirely satisfactory when she played the role eight hours a day . |
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[ noun ] an era of existence or influence
Examples "in the day of the dinosaurs" "in the days of the Roman Empire" "in the days of sailing ships" "he was a successful pianist in his day" Used in print (John Harnsberger and Robert P. Wilkins,...)These carts were of a type devised in Pembina in the days of Alexander_Henry the Younger about a decade before the Selkirk colony was begun . (Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)There were fences in the old days when we were children . (John F. Hayward, "Mimesis and Symbol in the Arts"...)And although these insights into the nature of art may be in themselves insufficient for a thoroughgoing philosophy of art , their peculiar authenticity in this day and age requires that they be taken seriously and gives promise that from their very substance , new and valid chapters in the philosophy of art may be written . (Randall Stewart, "A Little History, a Little Honesty: A...)Prohibition was the law of the land , but it was unpopular ( how many of us oldsters took_up drinking in prohibition days , drinking was so gay , so fashionable , especially in the sophisticated Northeast ! ) (R. F. Shaw, "The `Private Eye`"...)Holmes rebels against the social conventions of his day not on moral but rather on aesthetic grounds . Related terms |
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[ noun ] a period of opportunity
Examples "he deserves his day in court" "every dog has his day" Related terms |
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[ noun ] the period of time taken by a particular planet (e.g. Mars) to make a complete rotation on its axis
Examples "how long is a day on Jupiter?" Related terms |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 245
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[ noun ] (writing) United States writer best known for his autobiographical works (1874-1935)
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[ noun ] the time for one complete rotation of the earth relative to a particular star, about 4 minutes shorter than a mean solar day
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