Everyday
['evrɪdeɪ;-'deɪ] or ['ɛvrɪde]
Definition
(adj.) commonplace and ordinary; 'the familiar everyday world' .
(adj.) found in the ordinary course of events; 'a placid everyday scene'; 'it was a routine day'; 'there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute'- Anita Diamant .
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Definition
(a.) Used or fit for every day; common; usual; as, an everyday suit or clothes.
Checker: Lowell
Examples
- The latter is not motivated and impregnated with a sense of reality by being intermingled with the realities of everyday life. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The cumulative power of feeble forces acting frequently at definite intervals is seen in many ways in everyday life. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Houston & Kennelly in their Electricity in Everyday Life sum the matter up as follows: The Edison chemical meter is capable of giving fair measurements of the amount of current passing. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The liberal and advanced churches recognize this fact by exhibiting a great preoccupation with everyday affairs. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- She was glad the everyday world held good, and she need not recognise anything beyond. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Finding by whom he was observed, Henry Crawford addressed himself on the same subject to Sir Thomas, in a more everyday tone, but still with feeling. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- In addition, the written form tends to select and record matters which are comparatively foreign to everyday life. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It became fashionable for everyday use by the nobility and wealthier families, who put aside their solid silverware to be used on state occasions only. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- There are many ways of serving everyday needs,--turning churches into social reform organs and political rostra is, it seems to me, an obvious but shallow way of performing that service. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- His person was charming; but that won't do, even with gentlemanlike manners, for one's everyday companion. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- But few of the eighty known elements play an important part in our everyday life. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- In any other place, these everyday sounds might have spoken pleasantly of the everyday world outside. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Far less conspicuous at first in everyday life, but finally far more important, was the extension of man's power over various structural materials. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The everyday conception of water is more available for ordinary uses of drinking, washing, irrigation, etc. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- A motor constructed in accordance with Section 309 would be of little value in practical everyday affairs; its armature rotates too slowly and with too little force. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- On the other hand, the value of concrete, everyday intelligence is constantly underestimated, and even deliberately depreciated. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The real life of the ordinary man is his everyday life, his little circle of affections, fears, hungers, lusts, and imaginative impulses. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- These simple everyday occurrences seem to show that the molecules of a gas must be in a state of continual and rapid motion. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- That's what they are--animals and birds, sometimes odd small people in everyday dress, really rather wonderful when they come off. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Take the most matter-of-fact and prosy half hour of the day, that at the time of rising, and see what a faithful account of the average man’s everyday life would present. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- What is there similar to the conditions of everyday life which will generate difficulties? John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It is part of the everyday routine of your life. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of everyday life. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Checker: Lowell