Daily
['deɪlɪ] or ['delɪ]
Definition
(noun.) a newspaper that is published every day.
(adj.) of or belonging to or occurring every day; 'daily routine'; 'a daily paper' .
(adv.) every day; without missing a day; 'he stops by daily'.
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Definition
(a.) Happening, or belonging to, each successive day; diurnal; as, daily labor; a daily bulletin.
(n.) A publication which appears regularly every day; as, the morning dailies.
(adv.) Every day; day by day; as, a thing happens daily.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Diurnal, quotidian.
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Definition
adj. and adv. every day.—n. a daily paper.
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Examples
- None can imagine her ferocious cruelty who has not witnessed her daily acts for over half a year. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- We should go mad had we to endure the hundredth part of those daily pains which are meekly borne by many women. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But now my boasted independence was daily instigating me to acts of tyranny, and freedom was becoming licentiousness. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The daily appearance of a brougham and pair could hardly have been overlooked in such Sleepy Hollows. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- In the Bell System there are over 18,000,000 miles of wire which carry over 26,000,000 telephone talks daily--or nearly 9,000,000,000 per year. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- What her thoughts were I did not know, for as yet I had learned but little of the Martian tongue; enough only to suffice for my daily needs. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Wireless press messages between America and Europe are also matters of daily performances. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Steamers plied daily between San Francisco and both Stockton and Sacramento. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I had been the author of unalterable evils; and I lived in daily fear, lest the monster whom I had created should perpetrate some new wickedness. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Why, said the lady, with much affectation, you see I was daily, nay hourly, expecting to get settled in life. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- In the mean time Keimer's credit and business declining daily, he was at last forced to sell his printing-house to satisfy his creditors. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- After a while there was a daily immigrant train put on. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He turned into his florist's to send her the daily box of lilies-of-the-valley which, to his confusion, he found he had forgotten that morning. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Mycroft picked up the Daily News, which was lying on the side-table. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- To whom could the poor little martyr tell these daily struggles and tortures? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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