day
天,日,一天,白天
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Definitions
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- : the interval of light between two successive nights; the time between sunrise and sunset: Since there was no artificial illumination, all activities had to be carried on during the day.
- : the light of day; daylight: The owl sleeps by day and feeds by night.
- : Astronomy. Also called mean solar day .a division of time equal to 24 hours and representing the average length of the period during which the earth makes one rotation on its axis.Also called solar day .a division of time equal to the time elapsed between two consecutive returns of the same terrestrial meridian to the sun.Also called civil day .a division of time equal to 24 hours but reckoned from one midnight to the next.See also lunar day, sidereal day.
- : an analogous division of time for a planet other than the earth: the Martian day.
- : the portion of a day allotted to work: an eight-hour day.
- : a day on which something occurs: the day we met.
- : a day assigned to a particular purpose or observance: New Year's Day.
- : a time considered as propitious or opportune: His day will come.
- : a day of contest or the contest itself: to win the day.
- : Often days . a particular time or period: the present day; in days of old.
Phrases
- day after day
- day and night
- day by day
- day in court, have one's
- day in, day out
- day off
- days are numbered, one's
- day to day
- all in a day's work
- any day
- apple a day
- bad hair day
- break of day
- by the day
- call it a day
- carry the day
- different as night and day
- dog days
- every dog has its day
- field day
- for days on end
- forever and a day
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Biden, who has held public events less regularly, has been seen wearing a mask on 28, including on all but five days this month.
The rules are defined day by day by people with subjective points of view.
When you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.
Earlier in the day, Redfield had said wearing a mask was more effective than a vaccine.
It’s light enough to wear in the middle of the day here in the muggy South, and dries fast enough that I usually keep it on while I go overboard for a dip.
He added: “People say he deserves his day in court… Do we have enough time?”
For many years afterward it was a never-ending topic of conversation, and is more or less talked of even to this day.
“We talked about the science the whole time the other day,” Krauss told The Daily Beast in a phone interview.
Gunshots rang out in Paris this morning on a second day of deadly violence that has stunned the French capital.
In the middle of all of that past suffering and present-day conflict, this Cosby bomb was dropped.
The afternoon was a lovely one—the day was a perfect example of the mellowest mood of autumn.
Edna did not reveal so much as all this to Madame Ratignolle that summer when they sat with faces turned to the sea.