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Day-and-night

Definition: Day-and-night

Day-and-night

Adjective

1. At all times; "around-the-clock nursing care".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Day-and-night

Synonyms: around-the-clock (adj), nonstop (adj), round-the-clock (adj). (additional references)
Synonyms by domain: "day and night" selector switch (mechanical engineering), "day and night" switch, 2 rate time-of-day tariff (electrical engineering, engineering & technology), continuous day and night service (transportation, labor), day and night limit hours (geography, transportation), day night sound level (medicine, physics), day/night level (meteorology & standards, physics), day/night tariff (electrical engineering, engineering & technology), day-night selector switch (mechanical engineering), day-night switch, H 24 (transportation, labor), police headquarters open day and night (law), two-rate time-of-day tariff (electrical engineering, engineering & technology).

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Usage Frequency: Day-and-night

"Day-and-night" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Day-and-night" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Day-and-night

Language Translations for "day-and-night"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

ay-and-nightday.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

круглосуточный (around the clock, around-the-clock, day and night, round the clock, round-the-clock). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Day-and-night

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-d-g-h-i-n-n-t-y"

-3 letters: anything.

-4 letters: anhinga, antigay, handing, hanting, hydatid.

-5 letters: aahing, adding, angina, anting, dainty, dating, dinghy, hading, hating, haying, nighty, tyning.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Day-and-night


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 61 79 2D 61 6E 64 2D 6E 69 67 68 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01100001 01111001 00101101 01100001 01101110 01100100 00101101 01101110 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#97 &#121 &#45 &#97 &#110 &#100 &#45 &#110 &#105 &#103 &#104 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0061 0079 002D 0061 006E 0064 002D 006E 0069 0067 0068 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

38679115678070158075737486

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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