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Definition: Day |
DayNoun1. Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis; "two days later they left"; "they put on two performances every day"; "there are 30,000 passengers per day". 2. Some point or period in time; "it should arrive any day now"; "after that day she never trusted him again"; "those were the days"; "these days it is not unusual". 3. The time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside; "the dawn turned night into day"; "it is easier to make the repairs in the daytime". 4. A day assigned to a particular purpose or observance; "Mother's Day". 5. The recurring hours when you are not sleeping (especially those when you are working); "my day began early this morning"; "it was a busy day on the stock exchange"; "she called it a day and went to bed". 6. An era of existence or influence; "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". 7. A period of opportunity; "he deserves his day in court"; "every dog has his day". 8. The period of time taken by a particular planet (e.g. Mars) to make a complete rotation on its axis; "how long is a day on Jupiter?". 9. The time for one complete rotation of the earth relative to a particular star, about 4 minutes shorter than a mean solar day. 10. : United States writer best known for his autobiographical works (1874-1935). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "day" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Day \Day\, noun. [Old English day, dai,, dei, Anglo-Saxon d[ae]g; akin to Old Saxon, Dutch, Danish, & Swedish dag, German, tag, Icelandic dagr, Gothic dags; compare to Sanskrit dah (for dhagh) to burn. Compare to Dawn.]. (references) |
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Satire | DAY, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. This period is divided into two parts, the day proper and the night, or day improper -- the former devoted to sins of business, the latter consecrated to the other sort. These two kinds of social activity overlap. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Aerospace | 1. The duration of one rotation of the earth, or another celestial body, on its axis. A day is measured by successive transits of a reference point on the celestial sphere over the meridian, and each type takes its name from the reference used. Thus, for a solar day the reference is the sun; a mean solar day if the mean sun; and an apparent solar day if the apparent sun. For a lunar day the reference is the moon; for sidereal day the vernal equinox; for a constituent day an astre fictif or fictitious star. The expression lunar day refers also to the duration of one rotation of the moon with respect to the sun. A Julian day is the consecutive number of each day, beginning with January 1, 4713 BC.2. A period of 24 hours beginning at a specified time, as the civil day beginning at midnight, or the astronomical day beginning at noon. (references) |
Bible | Day The Jews reckoned the day from sunset to sunset (Lev. 23:32). It was originally divided into three parts (Ps. 55:17). "The heat of the day" (1 Sam. 11:11; Neh. 7:3) was at our nine o'clock, and "the cool of the day" just before sunset (Gen. 3:8). Before the Captivity the Jews divided the night into three watches, (1) from sunset to midnight (Lam. 2:19); (2) from midnight till the cock-crowing (Judg. 7:19); and (3) from the cock-crowing till sunrise (Ex. 14:24). In the New Testament the division of the Greeks and Romans into four watches was adopted (Mark 13:35). (See WATCHES.) The division of the day by hours is first mentioned in Dan. 3:6, 15; 4:19; 5:5. This mode of reckoning was borrowed from the Chaldeans. The reckoning of twelve hours was from sunrise to sunset, and accordingly the hours were of variable length (John 11:9). The word "day" sometimes signifies an indefinite time (Gen. 2:4; Isa. 22:5; Heb. 3:8, etc.). In Job 3:1 it denotes a birthday, and in Isa. 2:12, Acts 17:31, and 2 Tim. 1:18, the great day of final judgment. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of the day, denotes improvement in your situation, and pleasant associations. A gloomy or cloudy day, foretells loss and ill success in new enterprises. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Day When it begins. (1) With sun-set: The Jews in their "sacred year," and the Church - hence the eve of feast-days; the ancient Britons "non dierum numerum, ut nos, sed noctium computant, " says Tacitus - hence "se'n-night" and "fortnight;" the Athenians, Chinese, Mahometans, etc., Italians, Austrians, and Bohemians. (2) With sun-rise: The Babylonians, Syrians, Persians, and modern Greeks. (3) With noon: The ancient Egyptians and modern astronomers. (4) With midnight: The English, French, Dutch, Germans, Spanish, Portuguese, Americans, etc. A day after the fair. Too late; the fair you came to see is over. Day in, day out. All day long. "Sewing as she did, day in, day out." - W. R. Wilkins: The Honest Soul. Every dog has its day. (See under DOG.) I have had my day. My prime of life is over; I have been a man of light and leading, but am now "out of the swim. " "Old Joe, sir ... was a bit of a favourite ... once; but he has had his day." - Dickens. I have lost a day (Perdidi diem) was the exclamation of Titus, the Roman emperor, when on one occasion he could call to mind nothing done during the past day for the benefit of his subjects. To-day a man, to-morrow a mouse. In French, "Aujourd'hui roi, demain rien. " Fortune is so fickle that one day we may be at the top of the wheel, and the next day at the bottom. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A. A term used to signify the surface; e.g., driven to day, meaning to daylight, therefore to the surface. b. Wales. The surface of the ground over a mine. c. In mining, generally a period of 8 h for work on the three-shiftsystem, or 24 h if referring to the output or to machinery e.g., driven to day, meaning to daylight, therefore to the surface. b. Wales. The surface of the ground over a mine. c. In mining, generally a period of 8 h for work on the three-shiftsystem, or 24 h if referring to the output or to machinery. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A day is any of several different units of time. The word refers either to the period of light when the Sun is above the local horizon or to the full day covering a dark and a light period. Different definitions of the day are based on the apparent motion of the Sun across the sky (solar day). The reason for this apparent motion is the rotation of the Earth around its axis, as well as the revolution of the Earth in an orbit around the Sun.
Ancient custom has a new day start at either the rise or set of the Sun on the local horizon. The exact moment, and the interval beween two sunrises or two sunsets, depends on the geographical position (longitude as well as latitude), and the time of year.
A more constant day can be defined by the Sun passing through the local meridian, which happens at local noon (upper culmination) or midnight (lower culmination). The exact moment is dependent on the geographical longitude, and to a lesser extent on the time of the year. The length of a such a day is nearly constant. This is the time as indicated by sundials.
A further improvement defines a fictituous mean Sun that moves with constant speed over the equator; the speed is the same as the average speed of the real Sun, but this removes the variation over a year as the Earth runs its orbit around the Sun.
For civil purposes, since the middle of the 19th century when railroads with regular schedules came into use, a common clock time has been defined for an entire region based on the mean local solar time at some central meridian. For the whole world, about 30 such time zones are defined. The main one is "world time" or UTC (Coordinated Universal Time).
The present common convention has the civil day start at midnight, which is near the time of the lower culmination of the mean Sun on the central meridian of the time zone. A day is commonly divided into 24 hours of 60 minutes of 60 seconds each.
When taking leap seconds into account, a civil clock day is 86400 or 86401 SI seconds long (or theoretically 86399 s on occasion, which never happened).
In astronomy also the sidereal day is used; it is ca. 3 minutes 56 seconds shorter than the solar day, and close to the actual rotation period of the Earth.
- See also times from 10 kiloseconds to 100 kiloseconds, night.
Some noted Days include Doris Day and Stockwell Day.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Day."
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Day is a town located in Saratoga County, New York. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 920.Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 180.1 km² (69.6 mi²). 166.6 km² (64.3 mi²) of it is land and 13.6 km² (5.2 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 7.53% water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 920 people, 382 households, and 275 families residing in the town. The population density is 5.5/km² (14.3/mi²). There are 1,507 housing units at an average density of 9.0/km² (23.4/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 98.26% White, 0.00% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.11% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.65% from other races, and 0.98% from two or more races. 0.43% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 382 households out of which 26.4% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 61.5% are married couples living together, 6.3% have a female householder with no husband present, and 28.0% are non-families. 23.6% of all households are made up of individuals and 10.2% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.41 and the average family size is 2.80. In the town the population is spread out with 22.2% under the age of 18, 6.0% from 18 to 24, 25.5% from 25 to 44, 30.7% from 45 to 64, and 15.7% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 43 years. For every 100 females there are 104.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 101.7 males. The median income for a household in the town is $36,131, and the median income for a family is $38,281. Males have a median income of $32,375 versus $30,357 for females. The per capita income for the town is $17,949. 19.1% of the population and 14.4% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 32.9% are under the age of 18 and 12.0% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Day, New York."
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Day is a town located in Marathon County, Wisconsin. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 1,023.Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 88.0 km² (34.0 mi²). 87.4 km² (33.7 mi²) of it is land and 0.6 km² (0.2 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 0.71% water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 1,023 people, 357 households, and 294 families residing in the town. The population density is 11.7/km² (30.3/mi²). There are 367 housing units at an average density of 4.2/km² (10.9/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 98.92% White, 0.00% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.10% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.98% from two or more races. 0.10% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 357 households out of which 37.0% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 71.1% are married couples living together, 5.6% have a female householder with no husband present, and 17.6% are non-families. 15.1% of all households are made up of individuals and 8.4% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.87 and the average family size is 3.18. In the town the population is spread out with 25.8% under the age of 18, 9.2% from 18 to 24, 29.5% from 25 to 44, 24.6% from 45 to 64, and 10.9% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 36 years. For every 100 females there are 109.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 110.2 males. The median income for a household in the town is $47,500, and the median income for a family is $50,288. Males have a median income of $30,455 versus $21,417 for females. The per capita income for the town is $17,725. 4.1% of the population and 3.7% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 1.9% are under the age of 18 and 13.0% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Day, Wisconsin."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
DAY | English | Dayton | Transportation |
| DAP | English | Day after pollination | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: DaySynonyms: daylight (n), daytime (n), mean solar day (n), sidereal day (n), solar day (n), twenty-four hours (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: night (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Period | Noun: period, age, era; second, minute, hour, day, week, month, quarter, year, decade, decenniumm lustrum, quinquennium, lifetime, generation; epoch, ghurry, lunation, moon. |
The Present Time | Noun: the present, the present time, the present day, the present moment, the present juncture, the present occasion; the times, the existing time, the time being; today, these days, nowadays, our times, modern times, the twentieth century; nonce, crisis, epoch, day, hour. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Day |
| Non-English Usage: "Day" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (day), Pidgin English (day), Somali (try). |
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Screenplays | Mammals, a day of reckoning is coming (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) And that's the day I knew there was this entire life behind things, and this incredibly benevolent force, that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball) It's kind of like when you go on vacation: you plan everything out, but then one day you make a wrong turn, or take a detour, and you end up in some crazy place you can't even find on the map, doing something you never thought you'd do. Maybe you feel a little lost while it's happening, but later you realize it was the best part of the whole trip (Threesome; writing credit: Andrew Fleming.) Her eyes alone told the story of her age, staring out from under her doll-like curls, with a questioning that will one day need an answer (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) The temperature topped out at ninety-eight degrees the day our lives were forever altered (Sleepers; writing credit: Barry Levinson) | |
Lyrics | Baby one day in your life (One Day In Your Life; performing artist: Anastacia) You always said the day that you would leave me (Cold Day In July; performing artist: Dixie Chicks) Oh I had a bad day again (Bad Day; performing artist: Fuel) I can't believe, today was a good day (It Was a Good Day; performing artist: Ice Cube) Make it trough the day without you (Just Another Day; performing artist: Jon Secada) | |
Clever | Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. (references; author: Mark Twain) Prayers should be the key to the day and the lock of night. (references; author: English Proverb) Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. (references; author: Chinese Proverb.) A clean tie attracts the soup of the day. (references; author: unknown) Plenty of love, tons of kisses, hope some day to be your Mrs. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Daddy Day Care (2003) A Day with (1995) The Day the Earth Moved (1974) A Quiet Day in Belfast (1974) John Ford: Memorial Day 1970 (1974) | |
Song Titles | Start Off Each Day With A Song (performing artist: Jimmy Durante) Scorched Earth Day (performing artist: The Foremen) What Did You Do On Election Day (performing artist: The Foremen) Bad Day (performing artist: Fuel) The Best Day (performing artist: George Strait) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Pictured are two young women riding a horse. It is outdoors on a summer day. These two young women are part of a larger Mormon family. The Mormons are presently being studied for their low cancer death rate. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | Shown is the 5 A Day ad "The Original Fast Food" that appeared in Washington D.C.'s Metrorail stations during September 1993. The ad has running figurines in the shapes of a banana, an orange juice box, a tomato, carrot and broccoli. Credit: Fred Hirsch (photographer). |
 | 11,000 babies born in the United States each day. Credit: CDC. |  | 53 year old female, employed 10 years in the spinning department of a goat-hair processing mill. Cutaneous anthrax lesion on right cheek; lesion as seen on 11th day. Credit: CDC. |
 | Dedication Day - Visitors to the AERL. Credit: NASA. |  | This Hubble telescope picture of Mars was taken Sept. 12, 1997, one day after the arrival of ... Credit: NASA. |
 | A steller sea lion lollygagging about on a warm Alaskan day. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |  | San Francisco skyline from the bay on a hazy day. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | A foggy misty day on the Alaska coast. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Sunrise at the Point Udall Millennium Monument. Here the new day begins for the United States in the Western Hemisphere. The marker represents "a continuum between all who have come before and all who are yet to come.". Credit: America's Coastlines. |
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| "Another rainy day in mancheste" by Lynda Booth Commentary: "View from office window of Manchester canal on a rainy day." | "Slow Day" by Wayne J. Gilbert Commentary: "People watching @ One Financial Center - Atrium in Lower Manhattan." |
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 | Beginning; start; commencement; day one; embark; embarkation; first step; inauguration; inception; initiation; jump off; jumping-off place; kickoff; onset; opening; origin; outset; setting out; source; springboard; square one; start off; takeoff; starting. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Anonymous Miscellaneous | On the day of victory no one is tired. |
Apelles | Not a day without a line. |
Author Unknown | Let each day be your masterpiece. |
| To a wise man every day is a new life. | |
Benjamin Franklin | He that rises late must trot all day. |
Charles Baudelaire | Inspiration comes of working every day. |
John Heywood | Rome was not built in one day. |
Lord Alfred Tennyson | A day may sink or save a realm. |
Titus Vespasianus | Friends, I have lost a day. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Magna Carta | 1215 | We will not retain beyond one year and one day, the lands those who have been convicted of felony, and the lands shall thereafter be handed over to the lords of the fiefs. (reference) |
John Locke | 1690 | The Lord the Judge (says he) be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon, Judg. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Constitution | 1791 | Clause 4: The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States. (reference) |
Amendment to US Constitution | 1795-1992 | And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a President whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then the Vice-President shall act as President, as in case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President. (reference) |
The Emancipation Proclamation | 1862 | "That the executive will on the 1st day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof, respectively, shall then be in rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any State or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such States shall have participated shall, in the absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that such State and the people thereof are not then in rebellion against the United States." (Abraham Lincoln) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Agenda: (1) Application of principle of the 8-hours day or of the 48-hours week. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | We must make sure that its work is fruitful, that it is a reality and not a sham, that it is a force for action, and not merely a frothing of words, that it is a true temple of peace in which the shields of many nations can some day be hung up, and not merely a cockpit in a Tower of Babel. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1939) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | Were he ever able to get away, the day would be spent in coming and returning |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | Some day, I hope to publish an essay on this subject |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | But I suppose you must have the whole day. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | It would probably be on the fourth day from the present |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | One day, however, his strange manner appeared to make an impression upon Monsieur Madeleine |
The Hind and the Panther | John Dryden | And kind as kings upon their coronation day. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | You could die just the same on a sunny day. |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Happy, indeed, as we have spent the day. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Nearly a hundred people have to go out and wander on the roads for your three dollars a day. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I had the good fortune to divert the Emperor one day after a very extraordinary manner |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | It can involve many steps and decisions each day. (references) | |
Be sure no one smokes at a child’s day care center. (references) | ||
During a normal day, we breathe nearly 25,000 times. (references) | ||
Business | Between distributors and retailers, a 60 - 90 day credit is allowed. (references) | |
Appointments should always be confirmed and reconfirmed a day before. (references) | ||
Local suppliers usually provide 30 to 60 day credit to private sector customers. (references) | ||
Children | Morocco | The report denounced the poor treatment a number of the children received, such as being forced to work all day with no breaks. (references) |
Bangladesh | As a result, most children in grades one and two spend 21/2 hours a day in school; children in grades 3 to 5 are in school for 4 hours. (references) | |
China | Those parents who choose to keep such children at home generally face difficulty in getting adequate medical care, day care, and education for them. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Nepal | Both were released the following day. (references) |
Ghana | The editor was released later that day. (references) | |
Saint Lucia | A second male, age 34, was arrested a day later. (references) | |
Economic History | Nepal | Showers occur almost every day. (references) |
Indonesia | Each additional day is $250 more. (references) | |
Senegal | National holiday: April 4, Independence Day. (references) | |
Human Rights | Nepal | He had been arrested the previous day. (references) |
El Salvador | He died from his injuries the same day. (references) | |
Nepal | Police arrested three suspects the same day. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Gabon | A typical family lives on 13 cents per day. (references) |
Indonesia | The day was observed peacefully in most parts of Papua. (references) | |
Guatemala | In late May, the military base at Quetzaltenango hosted a day of reconciliation with representatives of 23 ethnic groups from around the country. (references) | |
Minorities | Pakistan | Three other clerics were killed on the same day. (references) |
Slovak Republic | September 10 was celebrated as a memorial day to victims of the Holocaust. (references) | |
Morocco | Official media broadcast in the Berber language for limited periods each day. (references) | |
Political Economy | EL SALVADOR | For general agricultural workers, it is $2.47 per day. (references) |
EL SALVADOR | Workers hired for harvests have a minimum wage of $2.70 day. (references) | |
NICARAGUA | The standard legal workweek is a maximum of 48 hours, with one day of rest. (references) | |
Political Rights | Jamaica | Supporters of all the parties were notably civil to each other throughout the day. (references) |
Pakistan | However, on election day far fewer registered women than registered men actually voted. (references) | |
Central African Republic | On election day, a shortage of ballots was reported in some largely pro-opposition districts. (references) | |
Trade | Spain | Payment practices are 30, 60 and 90 day terms. (references) |
Qatar | B. QR 1 (US$ 0.27) per ton per day for the next 10 days. (references) | |
El Salvador | As of June 2000, 210 leading local firms were utilizing the system for some 6,500 operations per day. (references) | |
Travel | Poland | Boxing Day (December 26). (references) |
Indonesia | Rates for this exceed $100 per day. (references) | |
Oman | Devout Muslims pray five times each day. (references) | |
Women | Indonesia | The hotline receives several calls each day from battered women. (references) |
Portugal | After return to work, a new mother (or father) may take time off every day to nurse or feed an infant. (references) | |
Portugal | An NGO-operated, toll-free hot line for victims of domestic violence operated 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Philippines | The law mandates a full day of rest weekly. (references) |
Jordan | Employees are entitled to 1 day off per week. (references) | |
Singapore | Many contracts allow only 1 day off per month. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. By most writers the invention of gunpowder is ascribed to the Chinese, but not upon very convincing evidence. Milton says it was invented by the devil to dispel angels with, and this opinion seems to derive some support from the scarcity of angels. Moreover, it has the hearty concurrence of the Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture. Secretary Wilson became interested in gunpowder through an event that occurred on the Government experimental farm in the District of Columbia. One day, several years ago, a rogue imperfectly reverent of the Secretary's profound attainments and personal character presented him with a sack of gunpowder, representing it as the sed of the Flashawful flabbergastor, a Patagonian cereal of great commercial value, admirably adapted to this climate. The good Secretary was instructed to spill it along in a furrow and afterward inhume it with soil. This he at once proceeded to do, and had made a continuous line of it all the way across a ten-acre field, when he was made to look backward by a shout from the generous donor, who at once dropped a lighted match into the furrow at the starting-point. Contact with the earth had somewhat dampened the powder, but the startled functionary saw himself pursued by a tall moving pillar of fire and smoke and fierce evolution. He stood for a moment paralyzed and speechless, then he recollected an engagement and, dropping all, absented himself thence with such surprising celerity that to the eyes of spectators along the route selected he appeared like a long, dim streak prolonging itself with inconceivable rapidity through seven villages, and audibly refusing to be comforted. "Great Scott! what is that?" cried a surveyor's chainman, shading his eyes and gazing at the fading line of agriculturist which bisected his visible horizon. "That," said the surveyor, carelessly glancing at the phenomenon and again centering his attention upon his instrument, "is the Meridian of Washington." H |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
David Berkowitz | Well, because I work and go to chapel and so forth, I can spend a good portion of my day outside of the cell. |
Dennis Miller | You had your day, but it's over. |
Ed McMahon | That's right. Water cooler conversation. And the next day, you got a pretty good perspective as to what was happening in the country. |
King Constantine of Greece | It's interesting that you mentioned Cassius Clay or Muhammad Ali, because I remember watching him win his gold medal the day after I had won mine. |
Mark Shields | Mr. Secretary, a year ago, you were the chairman of the Bush-Cheney committee, which won the White House. And next Tuesday is election day. |
Rosie O'Donnell | I'm getting better. Taking yoga every day. Madonna was funny in teaching me that six years ago, she begged me to do yoga, and I was like, shut up. |
Rush Limbaugh | Freedom didn't work on the first day. |
Samantha Geimer | Oh, right, we took pictures all day. He took many, many pictures of all different rooms, different outfits, inside, outside. It was like a regular photo shoot. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Jove fix'd it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Inauguration Day will be a great demonstration of the Democratic Process. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | For as such things come to pass, the more certain will be the coming of that day when our peoples may freely meet in friendship. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Each day we draw nearer the hour of maximum danger, as weapons spread and hostile forces grow stronger. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | There is nothing I want more than to see the day come when I do not have to write any of those letters. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | But all of us can conserve energy--every one of us, every day of our lives. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | All of you have made our day, just by being here. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Accept our thanks for the peace that yields this day and the shared faith that makes its continuance likely. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | It's a message she is passionately advocating every day. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | And we look forward to the day that no child in this country is ever left behind. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Day" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.01% of the time. "Day" is used about 60,616 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.01% | 58,801 | 145 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.99% | 1,810 | 4,672 |
| Total | 100.00% | 60,616 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "day" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Day | Last name | 43,000 | 245 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "day". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Jemima | N/A | Biblical | Handsome as the day |
| Jemuel | N/A | Biblical | God's day |
| Daisy | Female | English | A day eye |
| Dagmar | Female | German | A day |
| Dagrun | Female | Norwegian | A day |
| Dag | Male | Scandinavian | A day |
| Dagfinn | Male | Scandinavian | A day |
| Dagmar | Female | Scandinavian | A day |
| Dagny | Female | Scandinavian | A new day |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Switzerland | Day Interactive Holding AG | USA | Day International Group, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Day, FL |
Expressions using "day": 21 Day Rejuvenation Program ♦ a busy day ♦ a cold day ♦ a day ♦ a day after the fair ♦ a day and a night ♦ a day of rest ♦ a glorious day ♦ a wet day ♦ Absolution day ♦ admission day ♦ all day ♦ all day long ♦ all fools day ♦ all fool's day ♦ All Fools' Day ♦ all hallows' day ♦ all saints day ♦ all saint's day ♦ all saints' day ♦ all souls day ♦ All Souls' Day ♦ all the day ♦ all the day long ♦ american Indian Day ♦ Anniversary day ♦ annunciation day ♦ any day ♦ any day at all ♦ any day now ♦ any old day ♦ april fools day ♦ april fool's day ♦ april fools' day ♦ arbor day ♦ arbour day ♦ armed Forces Day ♦ armistice day ♦ as clear as day ♦ as the day is long ♦ ascension day ♦ assumption day ♦ astronomical day ♦ at peep of day ♦ at the close of the day ♦ at the end of the day ♦ autumn day ♦ banner day ♦ banyan day ♦ bargain day ♦ barrels per calendar day ♦ barrels per stream day ♦ bastille day ♦ be in the order of the day ♦ be on the go all day ♦ before day ♦ ben Day ♦ bissextile day ♦ block or day release ♦ block or day release courses ♦ boxing day ♦ break of day ♦ break of the day ♦ business day ♦ business of the day ♦ by day ♦ by day and by night ♦ by the day ♦ calendar day ♦ call it a day ♦ calling day ♦ calm day ♦ Candlemas Day ♦ Canyon Day ♦ captain of the day ♦ carry the day ♦ cheap day return fare ♦ Child Day Care Centers ♦ childermas day ♦ christian holy day ♦ christmas day ♦ citizenship Day ♦ Civil day ♦ Clarence Day ♦ Clarence Shepard Day Jr. ♦ Class day ♦ clear as day ♦ closing day ♦ Collar day ♦ columbus day ♦ combat day of supply ♦ come a day after the fair ♦ Commemoration day ♦ commencement day ♦ commonwealth Day ♦ court day ♦ cow day ♦ dark day ♦ day after ♦ day after a feast ♦ day after day. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "day": day-a, day-after, day-after party, day-after-day, day-and-a-bit, day-and-a-half, day-and-night, day-at-a-time, day-bed, day-before-payday, day-boarder, day-book, day-boy, day-boys, day-break, day-bug, day-bugs, day-bundles, day-by-day, day-cabin, day-cap, day-care, day-care mother, day-carriage, day-case, day-centre, day-centres, day-clients, day-clothes, Day-coal, day-colleges, day-conductress, day-conferences, day-count, day-degree, day-dream, day-dreamed, day-dreamer, day-dreamers, day-dreaming, day-dreams, day-dreamt, day-fearing, day-flying, day-frock, day-girl, day-girls, day-glo, day-glow, day-gown, Day-hockin, day-home for schoolchildren, day-hospital, day-hunting, day-in, day-in-day-out, day-job, day-jobs, Day-labor, Day-laborer, day-labour, day-labourers, day-length, Day-lewis, day-like, day-lily, day-lined, day-lodge, day-long, day-long seminar, day-mare, day-names, Day-net, day-night, day-nursery, day-o, day-off, day-of-the, day-of-the-week, day-old, day-on, day-out, day-pack, day-patient, Day-peep, day-pupil, day-pupils, day-rate, day-release, day-return, day-room, day-rooms, day-scholar, day-school, day-schools, day-set, day-sheet, day-shift, day-spring, day-stage, Day-star, day-surgery, day-taler, day-they, day-this, day-time, day-time work, Day-timer, day-times, day-to, day-today, day-to-day, day-to-day money, day-trip, day-tripper, day-trippers, day-tripping, day-trips, day-tutor, day-visas, day-visitor, day-were, day--which, day-work, day-worker, day-workers. | |
Ending with "day": A-day, all-day, best-of-the-day, bio-day, day-by-day, early-day, eight-day, every-day, feast-day, field-day, fifteen-day, final-day, first-day, four-day, full-day, good-day, hey-day, last-day, long-day, market-day, match-day, May-day, mid-day, next-day, nine-day, off-day, one-day, pay-day, seven-day, seventh-day, six-day, ten-day, three-day, time-of-day, to-day, two-day, washing-day, wedding-day, week-day, work-a-day. | |
Containing "day": five-day-old, four-day-old, one-day-old, seven-day-a-week, three-day-old, two-day-old. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
father day | 28,627 | die another day | 1,956 |
day of our life | 16,368 | 28 day later still | 1,888 |