Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or occurring during the day.
- adj. Happening or done every day: the physician's daily rounds.
- adj. Computed or assessed for each day: a daily record.
- adj. Everyday: casual clothes only for daily use.
- adv. Every day: Exercise daily.
- adv. Once a day: Wind the clock daily.
- n. A newspaper published every day or every weekday.
- n. The first, unedited print of movie film usually viewed after a day's shooting; the rushes.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Happening or being every day; pertaining to each successive day; diurnal: as, daily labor; a daily allowance; a daily newspaper.
- n. A newspaper or other periodical published each day, or each day except Sunday: in distinction from one published semi-weekly, weekly, or at longer intervals. See journal, semi-weekly, weekly, monthly, quarterly, annual, as nouns.
- Every day; day by day.
Wiktionary
- adj. quotidian, that occurs every day, or at least every weekday/ working day
- adj. diurnal, by daylight, as opposed to nightly
- adv. quotidianly, every day
- adv. diurnally, by daylight
- n. a newspaper that is published every day.
- n. UK a cleaner who comes in daily.
- n. UK, slang a daily disposable.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Happening, or belonging to, each successive day; diurnal.
- n. A publication which appears regularly every day.
- adv. Every day; day by day.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or belonging to or occurring every day
- adv. every day; without missing a day
- adj. appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions
- n. a newspaper that is published every day
- adv. gradually and progressively
Etymologies
- From Middle English dayly, from Old English dæġlīċ, from dæġ + -līċ (equivalent to modern day + -ly). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English dayly, from Old English dæglīc, from dæg, day; see day. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“- used the Delicious firefox extension to replace my bookmarks folder toolbar - Instead, I use the 'Favorite tags' view and use delicious tags like '@daily' (borrowing the at symbol from GTD's contexts) to have quick access to all the sites I use on a daily basis.”
“The foot-rests, which cannot be removed, accumulate the dirt carried in daily from the street by the many little feet.”
“It was not of great account, as he ran not the slightest risk of contradiction whatever he said; and as no person ever willingly went twice to his exhibitions, he could vary the title daily without fear of discovery.”
“He said the alliance has moved to 24-hour surveillance by sophisticated aircraft and is closely monitoring what he called daily, even hourly, "reports about new acts of violence perpetrated by the Libyan regime against civilians.”
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“However, he dropped a threat to the show's production house Warner Bros. during his one of his workouts, or what he calls his "daily descent into death.”
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“Enclave Liberation Front (FLEC) denounced what it called daily repression and serious human rights violations by Angolan forces in”
“There remained, as a source of much gratification, what I called the daily dramatic performance at St. Jude's; and there remained as the one study worthy of serious devotion and interest -- Sylvia Wheeler's own soul.”
“His lordship was in the garden, where Woodward found him in hobnailed shoes, digging himself into what he called his daily perspirations.”
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“As extreme as these events sound, everything is interrelated in some way to everything else and the culmination of all these infinite factors result in what we call daily life.”
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“Many of the sketches presented their subjects as seen in daily life.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘daily’.
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Old words
Old words: modern English words that are old according to criteria that are still vague: Either words common to several old languages or words substantially similar in old English. Please add to or...
mother, father, bark, spit, old, fire, this, that, black, thou, to give, hand and 259 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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Time
clock, forever, never, ever, ago, when, then, now, past, present, future, timeline and 119 more...
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SoSheShall's list
slurp, coeur, slurple, glop, perp, fluarxx, ropechno, herrherr, burrduhherrherr, sloppy, cheezie balls, eccentric and 634 more...
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Masthead Staples
Words from newspaper names/titles. Not the place names or titles of specific publications, just the reusable bits.
times, courier, advocate, news, telegraph, mirror, mail, bulletin, the, post, tribune, chronical and 108 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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newspaper names
Feel free to combine these in any way to create your own newspaper. Use lots of hyphens! (And yes, these are all used at real newspapers.)
times, union, post, dispatch, outlook, star, news, courier, herald, advertiser, daily, eagle and 178 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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The Wordie Times Courier Life Bulleti...
Newspaper names.
times, courier, globe, bugle, chronicle, gazette, herald, ledger, sentinel, tribune, digest, news and 46 more...
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Old English Spelling Bee List
need to know these words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
quell, bower, keen, alderman, cleanser, sallow, gristle, nestle, abide, gospel, nether, farthing and 84 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for daily.
danama “All of the sudden, I had a sluggish digestive system and on the daily was plagued with chronic abdominal discomfort.”
“I figured if it didn’t have gluten, it was healthy, so I ate my weight in grains, especially corn (psuedo grain), on the daily.”
– blog post
Is this a regionalism? I’ve not before heard the expression “on the daily” subbing for “daily.”
Mar 29, 2013