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DAILY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does daily mean?
• DAILY (noun)
The noun DAILY has 1 sense:
1. a newspaper that is published every day
Familiarity information: DAILY used as a noun is very rare.
• DAILY (adjective)
The adjective DAILY has 2 senses:
1. of or belonging to or occurring every day
2. appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions
Familiarity information: DAILY used as an adjective is rare.
• DAILY (adverb)
The adverb DAILY has 2 senses:
1. every day; without missing a day
2. gradually and progressively
Familiarity information: DAILY used as an adverb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A newspaper that is published every day
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("daily" is a kind of...):
newspaper; paper (a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or belonging to or occurring every day
Synonyms:
daily; day-after-day; day-by-day; day-to-day
Context example:
a daily paper
Similar:
periodic; periodical (happening or recurring at regular intervals)
Derivation:
day (time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions
Synonyms:
Context example:
everyday clothes
Similar:
informal (not formal)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Every day; without missing a day
Context example:
he stops by daily
Pertainym:
daily (of or belonging to or occurring every day)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Gradually and progressively
Synonyms:
daily; day by day
Context example:
his health weakened day by day
Context examples
Nor did Meg miss any of the romance from the daily parting, when her husband followed up his kiss with the tender inquiry, "Shall I send some veal or mutton for dinner, darling?"
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
To predict incoming space weather, scientists summarize current conditions on the sun twice daily.
(Detecting solar flares in real time, National Science Foundation)
The researchers also classified the children into percentiles based on their total daily screen time.
(High amounts of screen time begin as early as infancy, National Institutes of Health)
Also called activities of daily living.
(ADL, NCI Dictionary)
Those physical activities which are required for our daily existence.
(Activity of Daily Living, NCI Thesaurus)
Instrumental activities of daily living are activities related to independent living and include preparing meals, managing money, shopping, doing housework, and using a telephone.
(Activities of daily living, NCI Dictionary)
A section of the Older Americans Resource Scale Multidimensional Functional Assessment Questionnaire (OMFAQ) that seeks information on a person's level of functioning on daily activities of living.
(Activities of Daily Living Dimension of Functioning Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)
While otherwise avoiding peanut throughout the trial, 95 participants received gradually increasing daily doses of peanut protein up to 4 grams, and 25 participants received daily placebo oat flour OIT.
(Few people with peanut allergy tolerate peanut after stopping oral immunotherapy, National Institutes of Health)
Cycles in daily and annual sunlight cause the familiar swings in temperatures and seasons.
(Deep-sea sediments lead to new understanding of solar system, National Science Foundation)
He had little to bite and to break, and once when great dearth fell on the land, he could no longer procure even daily bread.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
| Learn English with... Proverbs |
"Good remains are nice to have." (Breton proverb)
"Don't eat your bread on someone else's table." (Arabic proverb)
"Just toss it in my hat and I'll sort it to-morrow." (Dutch proverb)