The origin of the word day

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A day is the time period of a full rotation of the Earth with respect to the Sun. On average, this is 24 hours, 1440 minutes, or 86,400 seconds. In everyday life, the word «day» often refers to a solar day, which is the length between two solar noons or times the Sun reaches the highest point. The word «day» may also refer to daytime, a time period when the location receives direct and indirect sunlight. On Earth, as a location passes through its day, it experiences morning, noon, afternoon, evening, and night. The effect of a day is vital to many life processes, which is called the circadian rhythm.

A collection of sequential days is organized into calendars as dates, almost always into weeks, months and years. Most calendars’ arrangement of dates use either or both the Sun with its four seasons (solar calendar) or the Moon’s phasing (lunar calendar). The start of a day is commonly accepted as roughly the time of the middle of the night or midnight, written as 00:00 or 12:00 am in 24- or 12-hour clocks, respectively. Because the time of midnight varies between locations, time zones are set up to facilitate the use of a uniform standard time. Midnight is not the only convention used to determine the start of a new day. Other defining moments have been used throughout history, and some are used even today, such as with the Jewish religious calendar, which counts days from sunset to sunset, so the Jewish Sabbath begins at sundown on Friday. Astronomers also have a convention where their day begins at high noon. This way, all of their observations throughout a single night are recorded as happening on the same day. This method removes ambiguity of a particular observation happening on a calendar day, eliminating the need to further determine which night it happened on. Because when using midnight as the start of day, each calendar day is associated with two separate night periods.

In specific applications, the definition of a day is slightly modified, such as in the SI day (exactly 86,400 seconds) used for computers and standards keeping, local mean time accounting of the Earth’s natural fluctuation of a solar day, and stellar day and sidereal day (using the celestial sphere) used for astronomy. In most countries outside of the tropics, daylight saving time is practiced, and each year there will be one 23-hour civil day and one 25-hour civil day. Due to slight variations in the rotation of the Earth, there are rare times when a leap second will get inserted at the end of a UTC day, and so while almost all days have a duration of 86,400 seconds, there are these exceptional cases of a day with 86,401 seconds (in the half-century spanning 1972 through 2022, there have been a total of 27 leap seconds that have been inserted, so roughly once every other year).

Etymology[edit]

The term comes from the Old English term dæġ (/dæj/), with its cognates such as dagur in Icelandic, Tag in German, and dag in Norwegian, Danish, Swedish and Dutch – all stemming from a Proto-Germanic root *dagaz.[1] As of October 17, 2015, day is the 205th most common word in US English,[2] and the 210th most common in UK English.[2]

Definitions[edit]

Apparent and mean solar day[edit]

Several definitions of this universal human concept are used according to context, need and convenience. Besides the day of 24 hours (86,400 seconds), the word day is used for several different spans of time based on the rotation of the Earth around its axis. An important one is the solar day, defined as the time it takes for the Sun to return to its culmination point (its highest point in the sky). Because celestial orbits are not perfectly circular, and thus objects travel at different speeds at various positions in their orbit, a solar day is not the same length of time throughout the orbital year. Because the Earth moves along an eccentric orbit around the Sun while the Earth spins on an inclined axis, this period can be up to 7.9 seconds more than (or less than) 24 hours. In recent decades, the average length of a solar day on Earth has been about 86,400.002 seconds[3] (24.000 000 6 hours) and there are currently about 365.2421875 solar days in one mean tropical year.

Ancient custom has a new day start at either the rising or setting of the Sun on the local horizon (Italian reckoning, for example, being 24 hours from sunset, oldstyle).[4] The exact moment of, and the interval between, two sunrises or sunsets depends on the geographical position (longitude and latitude, as well as altitude), and the time of year (as indicated by ancient hemispherical sundials).

A more constant day can be defined by the Sun passing through the local meridian, which happens at local noon (upper culmination) or midnight (lower culmination). The exact moment is dependent on the geographical longitude, and to a lesser extent on the time of the year. The length of such a day is nearly constant (24 hours ± 30 seconds). This is the time as indicated by modern sundials.

A further improvement defines a fictitious mean Sun that moves with constant speed along the celestial equator; the speed is the same as the average speed of the real Sun, but this removes the variation over a year as the Earth moves along its orbit around the Sun (due to both its velocity and its axial tilt).

In terms of Earth’s rotation, the average day length is about 360.9856°. A day lasts for more than 360° of rotation because of the Earth’s revolution around the Sun. With a full year being slightly more than 360 days, the Earth’s daily orbit around the Sun is slightly less than 1°, so the day is slightly less than 361° of rotation.

Elsewhere in the Solar System or other parts of the universe, a day is a full rotation of other large astronomical objects with respect to its star.[5]

Civil day[edit]

For civil purposes, a common clock time is typically defined for an entire region based on the local mean solar time at a central meridian. Such time zones began to be adopted about the middle of the 19th century when railroads with regularly occurring schedules came into use, with most major countries having adopted them by 1929. As of 2015, throughout the world, 40 such zones are now in use: the central zone, from which all others are defined as offsets, is known as UTC±00, which uses Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

The most common convention starts the civil day at midnight: this is near the time of the lower culmination of the Sun on the central meridian of the time zone. Such a day may be referred to as a calendar day.

A day is commonly divided into 24 hours of 60 minutes, with each minute composed of 60 seconds.

Sidereal day[edit]

Rotation of Ceres, the largest dwarf planet

A sidereal day or stellar day is the span of time it takes for the Earth to make one entire rotation[6] with respect to the celestial background or a distant star (assumed to be fixed).[7] Measuring a day as such is used in astronomy.[7] A sidereal day is about 4 minutes less than a solar day of 24 hours (23 hours 56 minutes and 4.09 seconds), or 0.99726968 of a solar day of 24 hours.[8] There are about 366.2422 stellar days in one mean tropical year (one stellar day more than the number of solar days).[9]

Besides a stellar day on Earth, other bodies in the Solar System have day times, the durations of these being:[10][11]

Name Daylength (hours)
Mercury 4222.6
Venus 2802
Earth’s Moon 708.7
Mars 24.7
Ceres 9[12]–9.1[13]
Jupiter 9.9
Saturn 10.7
Uranus 17.2
Neptune 16.1
Pluto 153.3

In the International System of Units[edit]

In the International System of Units (SI), a day not an official unit, but is accepted for use with SI.[14] A day, with symbol d, is defined using SI units as 86,400 seconds; the second is the base unit of time in SI units. In 1967–68, during the 13th CGPM (Resolution 1),[15] the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) redefined a second as «… the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom.»[16] This makes the SI-based day last exactly 794,243,384,928,000 of those periods.

In decimal and metric time[edit]

Decimal clock face, made in around the start of the 19th century

Various decimal or metric time proposals have been made, but do not redefine the day, and use the day or sidereal day as a base unit. Metric time uses metric prefixes to keep time. It uses the day as the base unit, and smaller units being fractions of a day: a metric hour (deci) is 110 of a day; a metric minute (milli) is 11000 of a day; etc.[17] Similarly, in decimal time, the length of a day is static to normal time. A day is also split into 10 hours, and 10 days comprise a décade – the equivalent to a week. 3 décades make a month.[18]: 35  Various decimal time proposals which do not redefine the day: Henri de Sarrauton’s proposal kept days, and subdivided hours into 100 minutes;[18]: 42  in Mendizábal y Tamborel’s proposal, the sidereal day was the basic unit, with subdivisions made upon it;[18]: 42–43  and Rey-Pailhade’s proposal divided the day 100 cés.[18]: 42 

Other definitions[edit]

The word refers to various similarly defined ideas, such as:

Full day
  • 24 hours (exactly) (a nychthemeron)
  • A day counting approximation, for example «See you in three days.» or «the following day»
  • The full day covering both the dark and light periods, beginning from the start of the dark period or from a point near the middle of the dark period
  • A full dark and light period, sometimes called a nychthemeron in English, from the Greek for night-day;[19] or more colloquially the term 24 hours. In other languages, 24 hours is also often used. Other languages also have a separate word for a full day.
  • Part of a date: the day of the year (doy) in ordinal dates, day of the month (dom) in calendar dates or day of the week (dow) in week dates.
  • Time regularly spend at paid work on a single work day, cf. man-day and workweek.
Daytime
  • The period of light when the Sun is above the local horizon (that is, the time period from sunrise to sunset)
  • The time period from 06:00–18:00 (6:00 am – 6:00 pm) or 21:00 (9:00 pm) or another fixed clock period overlapping or offset from other time periods such as «morning», «evening», or «night».
  • The time period from first-light «dawn» to last-light «dusk».
Other
  • A specific period of the day, which may vary by context, such as «the school day» or «the work day».

Variations in length[edit]

Mainly due to tidal deceleration – the Moon’s gravitational pull slowing down the Earth’s rotation – the Earth’s rotational period is slowing.[20] Because of the way the second is defined, the mean length of a solar day is now about 86,400.002 seconds, and is increasing by about 2 milliseconds per century.[21]

Since the rotation rate of the Earth is slowing, the length of a SI second fell out of sync with a second derived from the rotational period of the earth.[20] This arose the need for leap seconds, which insert extra seconds into Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).[20] Although typically 86,400 SI seconds in duration, a civil day can be either 86,401 or 86,399 SI seconds long on such a day. Other than the two-millisecond variation from tidal deceleration, other factors minutely affect the day’s length, which creates irregularity in the placement of leap seconds.[22] Leap seconds are announced in advance by the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS), which measures the Earth’s rotation and determines whether a leap second is necessary.

Geological day lengths[edit]

Discovered by paleontologist John W. Wells, the day lengths of geological periods have been estimated by measuring sedimentation rings in coral fossils,[23][21] due to some biological systems being affected by the tide.[21] The length of a day at the Earth’s formation is estimated at 6 hours.[21] Arbab I. Arbab plotted day lengths over time and found a curved line.[21] Arbab attributed this to the change of water volume present affecting Earth’s rotation.[21]

Date Geological period Number of days per year[23] Duration of the day
Present Current 365 24 hours
−100 million years Cretaceous 380 23 hours and 20 minutes
−200 million years Triassic 390 22 hours and 40 minutes
−300 million years Carboniferous 400 22 hours
−400 million years Devonian 410 21 hours and 20 minutes
−500 million years Cambrian 425 20 hours and 40 minutes

Boundaries[edit]

For most diurnal animals, the day naturally begins at dawn and ends at sunset. Humans, with their cultural norms and scientific knowledge, have employed several different conceptions of the day’s boundaries. In the Hebrew Bible, Genesis 1:5 defines a day in terms of «evening» and «morning» before recounting the creation of a sun to illuminate it: «And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.» Common convention among the ancient Romans,[24] ancient Chinese[25] and in modern times is for the civil day to begin at midnight, i.e. 00:00, and to last a full 24 hours until 24:00 (i.e. 00:00 of the next day).
In ancient Egypt the day was reckoned from sunrise to sunrise. The Jewish day begins at either sunset or nightfall (when three second-magnitude stars appear).

Medieval Europe also followed this tradition, known as Florentine reckoning: in this system, a reference like «two hours into the day» meant two hours after sunset and thus times during the evening need to be shifted back one calendar day in modern reckoning.[citation needed] Days such as Christmas Eve, Halloween, and the Eve of Saint Agnes are remnants of the older pattern when holidays began during the prior evening. Prior to 1926, Turkey had two time systems: Turkish (counting the hours from sunset) and French (counting the hours from midnight).

Parts[edit]

Humans have divided the day in rough periods, which can have cultural implications, and other effects on humans’ biological processes. The parts of the day do not have set times; they can vary by lifestyle or hours of daylight in a given place.[26]

Daytime[edit]

A day, in the sense of daytime that is distinguished from night time, is commonly defined as the period during which sunlight directly reaches the ground, assuming that there are no local obstacles. The length of daytime averages slightly more than half of the 24-hour day. Two effects make daytime on average longer than nights. The Sun is not a point, but has an apparent size of about 32 minutes of arc. Additionally, the atmosphere refracts sunlight in such a way that some of it reaches the ground even when the Sun is below the horizon by about 34 minutes of arc. So the first light reaches the ground when the centre of the Sun is still below the horizon by about 50 minutes of arc.[27] Thus, daytime is on average around 7 minutes longer than 12 hours.[28]

Daytime is further distinguished into morning, afternoon, and evening. Morning occurs between sunrise and noon.[29] Afternoon occurs between noon and sunset.[30] This period of time sees human’s highest body temperature,[31] an increase of traffic collisions,[32] and a decrease of productivity.[33] Evening occurs between the end of afternoon and before sleep.[34]

Twilight[edit]

Twilight is the period before sunset and after sunrise in which there is natural light but no direct sunlight.[35] Twilight can be subdivided into dawn or dusk, or into civil twilight, nautical twilight, and astronomical twilight. Civil twilight begins when the sun is 6 degrees below the horizon; nautical begins at 12 degrees, and astronomical begins at 18 degrees.[36]

Night[edit]

Night is the period in which the sky is dark,[37] or the period between dusk and dawn where no light is visible.[38] Due to the darkness of night, it affects the circadian rhythm; artificial light during night can disrupt circadian rhythms and sleep.[39]

See also[edit]

  • Determination of the day of the week
  • Holiday
  • ISO 8601
  • Season, for a discussion of daylight and darkness at various latitudes
  • Synodic day
  • World Meteorological day

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Translingual[edit]

Symbol[edit]

day

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Land Dayak languages.

English[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

  • daie, daye (obsolete)

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English day, from Old English dæġ (day), from Proto-West Germanic *dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz (day); see there for more.

Cognate with Saterland Frisian Dai (day), West Frisian dei (day), Dutch dag (day), German Low German Dag (day), Alemannic German Däi (day), German Tag (day), Swedish, Norwegian and Danish dag (day), Icelandic dagur (day), Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌲𐍃 (dags, day). Possible cognates beyond Germanic relatives include Albanian djeg (to burn), Lithuanian degti (to burn), Tocharian A tsäk-, Russian жечь (žečʹ, to burn) from *degti, дёготь (djógotʹ, tar, pitch), Sanskrit दाह (dāhá, heat), दहति (dáhati, to burn), Latin foveō (to warm, keep warm, incubate).

Latin diēs is a false cognate; it derives from Proto-Indo-European *dyew- (to shine).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (UK, US) enPR: , IPA(key): /deɪ̯/
  • (General Australian, New Zealand) enPR: , IPA(key): /dæɪ̯/
  • Rhymes: -eɪ
  • Homophone: dey

Noun[edit]

day (plural days)

  1. Any period of 24 hours.

    I’ve been here for two days and a bit.

  2. (informal or meteorology) A 24-hour period beginning at 6am or sunrise.

    Your 8am forecast: The high for the day will be 30 and the low, before dawn, will be 10.

  3. A period from midnight to the following midnight.

    The day begins at midnight.

    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:day
  4. (astronomy) Rotational period of a planet (especially Earth).

    A day on Mars is slightly over 24 hours.

  5. The part of a day period which one spends at one’s job, school, etc.

    I worked two days last week.

    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 7, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients:

      [] if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there’ll be trouble. It’s bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that ’cause I’m paid for it. What I won’t stand is to have them togs called a livery. []

  6. Part of a day period between sunrise and sunset where one enjoys daylight; daytime.

    day and night;  I work at night and sleep during the day.

    • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

      The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, [].

    Synonyms: daylight, upsun; see also Thesaurus:daytime
    Antonyms: night; see also Thesaurus:nighttime
  7. A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time.

    Every dog has its day.

    • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

      This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. [] Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.

    • If they had no more food than they had had in Jones’s day, at least they did not have less.
    • 2011, Kat Martin, A Song for My Mother[200], Vanguard Press, →ISBN:

      In his senior year, he had run across an old ’66 Chevy Super Sport headed for the junkyard, bought it for a song, and overhauled it with his dad’s help, turning it into the big red muscle car it was back in its day.

    Synonyms: era, epoch; see also Thesaurus:era
  8. A period of contention of a day or less.

    The day belonged to the Allies.

Hypernyms[edit]

  • month
  • time
  • week
  • year

Hyponyms[edit]

  • bad hair day
  • Bastille Day
  • birthday
  • Boxing Day
  • bridal day
  • calendar day
  • Canada Day
  • Christmas Day
  • civil day
  • D-Day
  • Day of Atonement
  • Day of Judgment
  • day of reckoning
  • day of rest
  • Days of Awe
  • days of grace
  • dollar day
  • doomsday
  • duvet day
  • feast day
  • field day
  • flag day
  • Flag Day
  • foreday
  • Friday
  • heyday
  • holiday
  • holy day
  • judgment day
  • lifeday
  • loveday
  • May Day
  • midday
  • Monday
  • name day
  • New Year’s Day
  • noonday
  • one day
  • payday
  • polling day
  • race day, raceday
  • rainy day
  • rest day
  • saint’s day
  • Saturday
  • scambling day
  • sick day
  • solar day
  • someday
  • St. Andrew’s Day
  • St. David’s Day
  • St. George’s Day
  • St. Patrick’s Day
  • St. Stephen’s Day
  • Sunday
  • synodic day
  • the other day
  • Thursday
  • Tuesday
  • Twelfth Day
  • Victoria day
  • wedding day
  • Wednesday
  • weekday
  • workday
  • working day

Derived terms[edit]

  • 0-day
  • 10-day measles
  • 3-day measles
  • 7-day fever
  • 7-day measles
  • 90-day wonder
  • a broken clock is right twice a day
  • a cold day in hell
  • a cold day in July
  • a day after the fair
  • a day late and a dollar short
  • a stopped clock is right twice a day
  • access day
  • account day
  • ace in a day
  • ahemeral day
  • all day, all-day
  • all in a day’s work
  • all-day
  • all-day sucker
  • an apple a day
  • an apple a day keeps the doctor at bay
  • an apple a day keeps the doctor away
  • another day, another dollar
  • any day
  • any day now
  • any day of the week
  • any day of the week and twice on Sunday
  • any day of the week and twice on Sundays
  • as the day is long
  • at the end of the day
  • away day
  • b-day
  • back in day
  • back in the day
  • bad old days
  • Baker day
  • banyan day
  • basket days
  • be on days
  • beginning of day
  • big day
  • bin day
  • borrowed days
  • borrowing days
  • boxing day
  • break of day
  • business day
  • button day
  • by day
  • by the day
  • call it a day
  • can do this all day
  • canicular days
  • carry the day
  • catch of the day
  • chair days
  • cheat day
  • Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  • clear as day
  • cold day in Hell
  • contango day
  • continuation day
  • cooling-off day
  • could go all day
  • daily
  • dan day
  • dawn of a new day
  • day after
  • day after day
  • day after tomorrow
  • day and age
  • day and night
  • day at the beach
  • day bed, daybed
  • day before yesterday
  • day blind
  • day blindness
  • day boarder
  • day book
  • day boy
  • day by day
  • day care center
  • day care, day centre, daycentre
  • day centre
  • day coal
  • day count convention
  • day cream
  • day dot
  • day fine
  • day for night
  • day gone by
  • day hospital
  • day in court
  • day in the sun
  • day in, day out
  • day job
  • day labor
  • day laborer, day labourer
  • day lark
  • day lily
  • day name
  • day of days
  • day of days
  • day of judgement
  • day of judgment
  • day of the rope
  • day off
  • day one
  • day or night
  • day order
  • day out
  • day pack
  • day patient
  • day pupil
  • day release
  • day return
  • day room
  • day school
  • day shape
  • day shift
  • day sign
  • day the music died
  • day time
  • day to day
  • day trade, daytrade
  • day trader, daytrader
  • day trading
  • day trip
  • day tripper
  • day work
  • day worker
  • day-after recall test
  • day-age
  • day-age creationism
  • day-age creationist
  • day-ager
  • day-and-date
  • day-biter
  • day-blind
  • day-blindness
  • day-break
  • day-clean
  • day-dawn
  • day-ee
  • day-fine
  • Day-Glo
  • day-moth
  • day-net
  • day-neutral
  • day-nighter
  • day-old
  • day-over-day
  • day-peep
  • day-scholar
  • day-sight
  • day-time
  • day-to-day
  • day-to-night
  • day-trade
  • day-trader
  • day-trip
  • day-tripper
  • day-work
  • day-worker
  • day-year principle
  • daybeam
  • dayboat
  • daybook
  • dayboy
  • daybreak
  • daydream
  • dayfly
  • daygirl
  • daylight
  • daylily
  • daylong
  • daymare
  • daymark
  • daypack
  • daypart
  • days
  • days of wine and roses
  • days of yore
  • daysack
  • daysail
  • daysailer
  • dayspring
  • daystar
  • daytime
  • dayward
  • daywear
  • degree day
  • degree-day
  • dish of the day
  • ditch day
  • dog day
  • dog days
  • dog-day cicada
  • don’t give up the day job
  • don’t give up your day job
  • don’t quit your day job
  • doona day
  • double day
  • dress-down day
  • E-day
  • early day motion
  • early days
  • Earth day
  • eight-day clock
  • Ember day
  • end of day
  • end of the day
  • end one’s days
  • end one’s days
  • every day
  • every day is a school day
  • every day of the week
  • every day of the week and twice on Sunday
  • every day of the week and twice on Sundays
  • every dog has his day
  • every dog has its day
  • every dog must have his day
  • every dog must have its day
  • every-day
  • everyday
  • evil day
  • eye of day
  • fat day
  • fifth-day fits
  • first day cover
  • first notice day
  • first order of the day
  • First-day
  • first-day cover
  • fish and company stink after three days
  • five-day fever
  • five-day week
  • for days
  • forever and a day
  • free day
  • from day to day
  • from one day to the next
  • Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  • gag-a-day
  • game day
  • garbage day
  • give the time of day
  • glory days
  • go about one’s day
  • God be with the days
  • good day
  • good old days
  • halcyon days
  • half day
  • happy day scenario
  • have a nice day
  • have a nice day syndrome
  • have had its day
  • have had one’s day
  • have had one’s day under the sun
  • have seen better days
  • have seen one’s day
  • high days and holidays
  • holiday
  • holy day of obligation
  • hump day
  • I don’t have all day
  • I haven’t got all day
  • if a day
  • if one is a day
  • in all one’s born days
  • in one’s born days
  • in one’s day
  • in the cold light of day
  • in this day and age
  • in three days
  • INSET day
  • intraday
  • it’s early days
  • judgement day
  • judicial day
  • Julian day
  • laced day-moth
  • Lady-day
  • last day
  • late in the day
  • latter-day
  • Latter-day Saint
  • law day
  • lawful day
  • lay day
  • leap day
  • leg day
  • length of days
  • light day
  • live to fight another day
  • Lord’s day
  • lunar day
  • M-day
  • make a day of it
  • make one’s day
  • make someone’s day
  • man day
  • man-day
  • market day
  • match day
  • May-day sweep
  • me day
  • mean solar day
  • members’ day
  • middle day
  • modern-day
  • muck-up day
  • mufti day
  • naked as the day one was born
  • name the day
  • natal day
  • national day
  • next-day
  • night and day
  • night-and-day
  • nine days wonder
  • nine-day wonder, nine day wonder, nine days’ wonder
  • ninety days
  • ninety-day wonder
  • not look a day over
  • now a days
  • now-a-days
  • off day
  • oh my days
  • old days
  • one of these days
  • one of these days
  • one of those days
  • one-day
  • one-day cricket
  • one-day international
  • one-day match
  • one’s days are numbered
  • open day
  • order of the day
  • paper day
  • pass the time of day
  • pasture day moth
  • pay day
  • peep of day
  • personal day
  • plain as day
  • POETS day
  • poet’s day
  • poets day
  • poets’ day
  • post day
  • present-day
  • quarter day
  • quarter-day
  • queen for a day
  • rag day
  • rain day
  • red day
  • red letter day
  • red-letter day
  • return day
  • Rome wasn’t built in a day
  • Rome wasn’t burned in a day
  • rue the day
  • rule the day
  • running day
  • Sabba-day
  • Sabbath-day
  • Sabber-day
  • safe day
  • salad days
  • same-day
  • save something for a rainy day
  • save the day
  • school day
  • sea day
  • sea-day
  • see the day
  • see the light of day
  • seize the day
  • seven-day wonder
  • Seventh-day Adventism
  • Seventh-day Adventist
  • Seventh-day Adventist Church
  • ship’s days
  • show day
  • sidereal day
  • six bob a day tourist
  • skier day
  • slow news day
  • snow day
  • solar day
  • some day
  • some days a diamond, some days a stone
  • speech day
  • sports day
  • stellar day
  • sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof
  • summer’s day
  • sunny-day flooding
  • sweat like a nigger on election day
  • tag day
  • take one day at a time
  • teacher work day
  • term day
  • that’ll be the day
  • the day
  • the day before
  • the next day
  • these days
  • those were the days
  • three day eventing
  • three day sickness
  • three days ago
  • three-day fever
  • three-day measles
  • three-day sickness
  • ticket day
  • tide day
  • time of day
  • to one’s dying day
  • to the day
  • to this day
  • to-day
  • today
  • today is a good day to die
  • tomorrow is another day
  • twelfth day cake
  • twenty-four hours a day
  • two days after tomorrow
  • until one’s dying day
  • vacation day
  • varnishing day
  • washing day
  • we haven’t got all day
  • weather day
  • wedding-day
  • weekday
  • what a lovely day
  • what day is it today
  • win the day
  • without day
  • woman-day
  • work day
  • workaday
  • yesterday
  • you learn something new every day
  • zero day
  • zero-day
  • zero-day exploit

[edit]

  • Friday
  • Monday
  • Saturday
  • Sunday
  • Thursday
  • Tuesday
  • Wednesday

Descendants[edit]

  • Sranan Tongo: dei

Translations[edit]

References[edit]

  • Day (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb[edit]

day (third-person singular simple present days, present participle daying, simple past and past participle dayed)

  1. (rare, intransitive) To spend a day (in a place).
    • 1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XXIII, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 233:

      I nighted and dayed in Damascus town[.]

See also[edit]

  • (days of the week) day of the week; Sunday,‎ Monday,‎ Tuesday,‎ Wednesday,‎ Thursday,‎ Friday,‎ Saturday (Category: en:Days of the week) [edit]
  • Sabbath
  • calendar

Anagrams[edit]

  • d’ya, y’ad, yad

Azerbaijani[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Common Turkic *dāy.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [dɑj]

Noun[edit]

day (definite accusative dayı, plural daylar)

  1. colt, foal

Declension[edit]

    Declension of day
singular plural
nominative day daylar
definite accusative dayı dayları
dative daya daylara
locative dayda daylarda
ablative daydan daylardan
definite genitive dayın dayların
    Possessive forms of day
nominative
singular plural
mənim (my) dayım daylarım
sənin (your) dayın dayların
onun (his/her/its) dayı dayları
bizim (our) dayımız daylarımız
sizin (your) dayınız daylarınız
onların (their) dayı or dayları dayları
accusative
singular plural
mənim (my) dayımı daylarımı
sənin (your) dayını daylarını
onun (his/her/its) dayını daylarını
bizim (our) dayımızı daylarımızı
sizin (your) dayınızı daylarınızı
onların (their) dayını or daylarını daylarını
dative
singular plural
mənim (my) dayıma daylarıma
sənin (your) dayına daylarına
onun (his/her/its) dayına daylarına
bizim (our) dayımıza daylarımıza
sizin (your) dayınıza daylarınıza
onların (their) dayına or daylarına daylarına
locative
singular plural
mənim (my) dayımda daylarımda
sənin (your) dayında daylarında
onun (his/her/its) dayında daylarında
bizim (our) dayımızda daylarımızda
sizin (your) dayınızda daylarınızda
onların (their) dayında or daylarında daylarında
ablative
singular plural
mənim (my) dayımdan daylarımdan
sənin (your) dayından daylarından
onun (his/her/its) dayından daylarından
bizim (our) dayımızdan daylarımızdan
sizin (your) dayınızdan daylarınızdan
onların (their) dayından or daylarından daylarından
genitive
singular plural
mənim (my) dayımın daylarımın
sənin (your) dayının daylarının
onun (his/her/its) dayının daylarının
bizim (our) dayımızın daylarımızın
sizin (your) dayınızın daylarınızın
onların (their) dayının or daylarının daylarının

Derived terms[edit]

  • dayça

Descendants[edit]

  • Lezgi: тай (taj) (or < Kumyk)

References[edit]

  • Clauson, Gerard (1972), “ta:y”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Further reading[edit]

  • “day” in Obastan.com.

Cebuano[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Initial clipping of inday.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (General Cebuano) IPA(key): /ˈd̪aɪ/
  • Rhymes: -aɪ
  • Hyphenation: day

Noun[edit]

day

  1. (colloquial) A familiar address to a girl.
  2. A familiar address to a daughter.

Hawaiian Creole[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English day.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /deɪ/, /deː/

Noun[edit]

day

  1. day

Kalasha[edit]

Verb[edit]

day

  1. I am

Middle English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old English dæġ, from Proto-West Germanic *dag.

Alternative forms[edit]

  • dai, dæi, dey, daȝ, dæȝ, dei, daye, daȝȝ, daȝh, daiȝ, *dah

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (Early ME) IPA(key): /daj/, /dɛj/
  • IPA(key): /dɛi̯/

Noun[edit]

day (plural dayes or days or dawes)

  1. day (composed of 24 hours)
    • 1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The [Clerkys] Tale [of Oxenford]”, in The Tales of Caunt́burẏ (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 184, verso, lines 783-784:

      Toward Saluces / shapyng hir iourney / ffro day to day / they ryden in hir wey []

      Towards Saluzzo they make their journey, / From day to day they ride on their way []
  2. day (as opposed to night)
    • a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “Genesis 1:5”, in Wycliffe’s Bible:

      and he clepide the liȝt, dai, and the derkneſſis, nyȝt. And the euentid and morwetid was maad, o daie.

      And he called light «day» and the darkness «night». And the evening and morning was made; one day.
  3. daylight, sunlight
  4. epoch, age, period
  5. A certain day.
Antonyms[edit]
  • nyght
[edit]
  • Childermasse day
  • dayly
  • ende-day
  • endyng day
  • Friday
  • holiday
  • lawday
  • loveday
  • Monday
  • Paske day
  • Saterday
  • Sunnenday
  • Tewesday
  • Thursday
  • Wednesday
  • weke-day
  • yesterday
Descendants[edit]
  • English: day
  • Scots: day
  • Yola: die, dei, dey, daie
References[edit]
  • “dai, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-20.

Etymology 2[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

day

  1. Alternative form of þei (they)

Scots[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English day.

Noun[edit]

day (plural days)

  1. day
  2. (in the definite singular) today

    A’m sorry, A’ve no seen Angus the day.

    I’m sorry, I haven’t seen Angus today.

Tagalog[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈdaj/, [ˈdaɪ̯]

Noun[edit]

day

  1. Alternative spelling of ‘day

There are two competing interpretations of where «day» comes from—one OP’s; the other yours—and both have some problems.

OP is referring to the etymology that derives «day» from PIE **dʰegʷʰ-*, a root that gives the adjective «warm» and the verb «to burn». Just as you said, a «d» in English ought to come from a * in PIE, and that is the case here, though OP did a rather poor job of transliterating the reconstructed form. If this is the source of «day» in English, then it doesn’t really have any semantic parallels in other daughters, where it generally means «burn» in some way (Latin fovere is «to make warm», source of English «foment»; Ancient Greek τέϕρα «ashes»). There are a few other phonological hiccups that have to have occurred between PIE and Proto-Germanic too, which are also difficult to explain away.

Your interpretation has semantic parallels in Indo-Iranian languages, but we have to account for that «d», which isn’t in the PIE root and is absent from the other putative cognates. The etymological dictionary you linked assumes (I think?) that the «d» is an epenthesis that arose between the indefinite article ān «a(n)» and the noun itself, which then spread through the paradigm, though that is less than a given as well.

At any rate, you are definitely not wrong about the conflicting evidence. OP is at least guilty of sloppiness, though his/her information has some merit too.

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noun

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.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.

(often initial capital letter) 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.

Usually days . period of life or activity: His days are numbered.

period of existence, power, or influence: in the day of the dinosaurs.

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Idioms about day

    call it a day, to stop one’s activity for the day or for the present; quit temporarily: After rewriting the paper, she decided to call it a day.

    day in, day out, every day without fail; regularly: They endured the noise and dirt of the city day in, day out. Also day in and day out .

Origin of day

before 950; Middle English; Old English dæg; cognate with German Tag

OTHER WORDS FROM day

half-day, nounpre·day, noun

Words nearby day

dawn redwood, Dawson, Dawson Creek, dawsonite, Dax, day, day after day, Dayak, dayan, day and night, daybeacon

Other definitions for day (2 of 2)


noun

Benjamin Henry, 1810–89, U.S. newspaper publisher.

Clarence (Shep·ard) [shep-erd], /ˈʃɛp ərd/, 1874–1935, U.S. author.

Dorothy, 1897–1980, U.S. Roman Catholic social activist, journalist, and publisher.

Also Daye .Stephen, 1594?–1668, U.S. colonist, born in England: considered the first printer in the Colonies.

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Words related to day

period, term, time, daylight, daytime, light, sunlight, sunshine, age, ascendancy, cycle, epoch, generation, height, heyday, prime, years, zenith, bright, mean solar day

How to use day in a sentence

  • 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 day when they sat with faces turned to the sea.

  • Each day she resolved, «To-morrow I will tell Felipe;» and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.

  • There are three things a wise man will not trust: the wind, the sunshine of an April day, and woman’s plighted faith.

  • The proceedings of the day commenced with divine service, performed by Unitarian and Baptist ministers.

British Dictionary definitions for day (1 of 2)


noun

Also called: civil day the period of time, the calendar day, of 24 hours’ duration reckoned from one midnight to the next

  1. the period of light between sunrise and sunset, as distinguished from the night
  2. (as modifier)the day shift

the part of a day occupied with regular activity, esp workhe took a day off

(sometimes plural) a period or point in timehe was a good singer in his day; in days gone by; any day now

the period of time, the sidereal day, during which the earth makes one complete revolution on its axis relative to a particular star. The mean sidereal day lasts 23 hours 56 minutes 4.1 seconds of the mean solar day

the period of time, the solar day, during which the earth makes one complete revolution on its axis relative to the sun. The mean solar day is the average length of the apparent solar day and is some four minutes (3 minutes 56.5 seconds of sidereal time) longer than the sidereal day

the period of time taken by a specified planet to make one complete rotation on its axisthe Martian day

(often capital) a day designated for a special observance, esp a holidayChristmas Day

all in a day’s work part of one’s normal activity; no trouble

at the end of the day in the final reckoning

day of rest the Sabbath; Sunday

end one’s days to pass the end of one’s life

every dog has his day one’s luck will come

in this day and age nowadays

it’s early days it’s too early to tell how things will turn out

late in the day

  1. very late (in a particular situation)
  2. too late

that will be the day

  1. I look forward to that
  2. that is most unlikely to happen

a time of success, recognition, power, etchis day will soon come

a struggle or issue at handthe day is lost

  1. the ground surface over a mine
  2. (as modifier)the day level

from day to day without thinking of the future

call it a day to stop work or other activity

day after day without respite; relentlessly

day by day gradually or progressively; dailyhe weakened day by day

day in, day out every day and all day long

from Day 1 or from Day One from the very beginning

one of these days at some future time

(modifier) of, relating to, or occurring in the daythe day shift

Other words from day

Related adjective: diurnal

Word Origin for day

Old English dæg; related to Old High German tag, Old Norse dagr

British Dictionary definitions for day (2 of 2)


noun

Sir Robin. 1923–2000, British radio and television journalist, noted esp for his political interviews

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Scientific definitions for day


See under sidereal time solar day.

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Other Idioms and Phrases with day


In addition to the idioms beginning with day

  • 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

also see:

  • 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
  • from this day forward
  • good day
  • had its day
  • happy as the day is long
  • heavenly days
  • in all one’s born days
  • in the cold light of day
  • in this day and age
  • late in the day
  • make a day of it
  • make one’s day
  • name the day
  • night and day
  • not give someone the time of day
  • not one’s day
  • one of these days
  • order of the day
  • pass the time (of day)
  • plain as day
  • rainy day
  • red-letter day
  • Rome wasn’t built in a day
  • salad days
  • save the day
  • seen better days
  • see the light of day
  • that’ll be the day
  • the other day
  • time of day
  • tomorrow is another day
  • win through (the day)

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ЭТИМОЛОГИЯ СЛОВА DAY

Old English dæg; related to Old High German tag, Old Norse dagr.

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ПРОИЗНОШЕНИЕ СЛОВА DAY

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ГРАММАТИЧЕСКАЯ КАТЕГОРИЯ СЛОВА DAY

ЧТО ОЗНАЧАЕТ СЛОВО DAY

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День

Day

День — это единица времени. При обычном использовании это интервал, равный 24 часам. Это также может означать последовательный период времени, в течение которого Солнце находится над горизонтом местоположения, также известное как дневное. Период времени, измеренный от местного полудня до следующего полудня, называется солнечным днем. Несколько определений этой универсальной концепции человека используются в соответствии с контекстом, потребностью и удобством. В 1967 году вторая была переопределена по длине волны света и стала единицей времени СИ. Единица измерения во времени, называемая «днем», переопределенная в 1967 году как 86 400 SI секунд и символом d, не является единицей СИ, но она принимается для использования с SI. Гражданский день, как правило, также составляет 86 400 секунд плюс плюс минус возможный прыжок в скоординированном универсальном времени UTC, а в некоторых местах иногда плюс или минус час при переходе от или к летнему времени. Слово день может также означать день недели или календарную дату, как в ответ на вопрос «В какой день?» День также относится к той части дня, которая не ночная — также известная как дневная. A day is a unit of time. In common usage, it is an interval equal to 24 hours. It also can mean the consecutive period of time during which the Sun is above the horizon of a location, also known as daytime. The period of time measured from local noon to the following local noon is called a solar day. Several definitions of this universal human concept are used according to context, need and convenience. In 1967, the second was redefined in terms of the wavelength of light, and it became the SI base unit of time. The unit of measurement for time called «day», redefined in 1967 as 86,400 SI seconds and symbolized d, is not an SI unit, but it is accepted for use with SI. A civil day is usually also 86,400 seconds, plus or minus a possible leap second in Coordinated Universal Time UTC, and, in some locations, occasionally plus or minus an hour when changing from or to daylight saving time. The word day may also refer to a day of the week or to a calendar date, as in answer to the question «On which day?» Day also refers to the part of the day that is not night — also known as daytime.


Значение слова day в словаре английский языка

Первое определение дня в словаре также называется: гражданский день. период времени, календарный день, продолжительностью 24 часа, отсчитываемый с полуночи до полуночи. Другое определение дня — это период света между восходом и закатом, в отличие от ночи. День также является частью дня, занятого регулярной деятельностью, особенно.

The first definition of day in the dictionary is Also called: civil day. the period of time, the calendar day, of 24 hours’ duration reckoned from one midnight to the next. Other definition of day is the period of light between sunrise and sunset, as distinguished from the night. Day is also the part of a day occupied with regular activity, esp work.

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Синонимы и антонимы слова day в словаре английский языка

СИНОНИМЫ СЛОВА «DAY»

Указанные слова имеют то же или сходное значение, что у слова «day», и относятся к той же грамматической категории.

Перевод слова «day» на 25 языков

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ПЕРЕВОД СЛОВА DAY

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Переводы слова day с английский языка на другие языки, представленные в этом разделе, были выполнены с помощью автоматического перевода, в котором главным элементом перевода является слово «day» на английский языке.

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Тенденции использования слова day

ТЕНДЕНЦИИ ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИЯ ТЕРМИНА «DAY»

Тенденции

ЧАСТОТНОСТЬ

Слово используется очень часто

На показанной выше карте показана частотность использования термина «day» в разных странах.

Тенденции основных поисковых запросов и примеры использования слова day

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ЧАСТОТА ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИЯ ТЕРМИНА «DAY» С ТЕЧЕНИЕМ ВРЕМЕНИ

На графике показано годовое изменение частотности использования слова «day» за последние 500 лет. Формирование графика основано на анализе того, насколько часто термин «day» появляется в оцифрованных печатных источниках на английский языке, начиная с 1500 года до настоящего времени.

Примеры использования в литературе на английский языке, цитаты и новости о слове day

ЦИТАТЫ СО СЛОВОМ «DAY»

Известные цитаты и высказывания со словом day.

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

I like rock music because it’s always sonically fascinating. There’s never a method to what it needs to sound like. It’s just however that instrument comes out that day, whatever the humidity level was in the air, what studio you were at. All that makes that tone that you can’t re-create, so each song is like a person.

I guess I never really had a high school experience. I went for about a month, and on the first day one of my friends got punched in the eye. It was Southern California Public High School. Needless to say, I wasn’t there for long.

Let me tell you, it is still morning in America. It just happens to be kind of a head pounding, hung over for four hours in America — and it’s shaping up to be a nasty day, but its still morning in America.

If I weren’t acting, I would own my own chocolate shop in Paris. I would be a nice, overweight person that makes chocolate all day long.

I find it almost comforting to count calories, because it makes me conscious of what I’m eating. But on Super Bowl Sunday, I thought, ‘Surrender to it. It’s nacho time.’ Then I ate nothing but Doritos all day.

If we each take responsibility in shifting our own behavior, we can trigger the type of change that is necessary to achieve sustainability for our race or this planet. We change our planet, our environment, our humanity every day, every year, every decade, and every millennia.

And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day.

The American people know that every day 3,000 kids begin to smoke, 1,000 of them die an early death. They’re not going to allow us to go forward this year and not have comprehensive bipartisan legislation. It’s in everybody’s best interest.

It was pretty extensive — we worked out 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 3 months, which I think is more than anybody in the Olympics. I thought well I don’t need this, the girls need it, but it was a gift.

КНИГИ НА АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫКЕ, ИМЕЮЩЕЕ ОТНОШЕНИЕ К СЛОВУ «DAY»

Поиск случаев использования слова day в следующих библиографических источниках. Книги, относящиеся к слову day, и краткие выдержки из этих книг для получения представления о контексте использования этого слова в литературе на английский языке.

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The Longest Day: June 6, 1944

For the Allies, as well as for Germany, it will be the longest day.

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Zero Day: A Jeff Aiken Novel

Written by a global authority on cyber security, Zero Day presents a chilling “what if” scenario that, in a world completely reliant on technology, is more than possible today—it’s a cataclysmic disaster just waiting to happen.

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Q & A a Day: 5-year Journal

Do you ever stop to wonder how you got where you are? The Q&A a Day Journal shows you what was going through your head each day—for five years of your life.

The Remains of the Day is a profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and of his fading, insular world postwar England.

A man seriously injured when hit by a car is taken to the hospital where a doctor, the woman who loves him, and his artist friend lead him to yearn for life rather than death.

In Day, A. L. Kennedy has crafted a superb novel about the brutal simplicities of war and the complexities of human emotion.

In this charming picture book, a cheerful family tumbles out of the car and onto the beach, ready for a perfect day.

Learning about an imminent terrorist attack, CIA operative Mitch Rapp takes the lead in a daring commando raid into northern Pakistan, where he obtains information about a planned nuclear attack but suspects that a greater threat has yet to …

In a small Georgia town, Mama Day, uses her gifts as a seer and healer, but her powers are ultimately tested when her beloved niece’s life hangs in the balance

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Day of Infamy, 60th Anniversary: The Classic Account of the …

Describes the events of December 7, 1941, before, during, and after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, as well as the reactions of the men who lived through the attack.

НОВОСТИ, В КОТОРЫХ ВСТРЕЧАЕТСЯ ТЕРМИН «DAY»

Здесь показано, как национальная и международная пресса использует термин day в контексте приведенных ниже новостных статей.

KILLER! Adobe Flash, Windows zero-day vulns leak from Hacking …

Updated Confidential source code stolen from Hacking Team, and subsequently leaked online, has revealed new and extremely serious … «The Register, Июл 15»

The Ashes LIVE 2015: England vs Australia cricket score from Day 1 …

Wednesday, Jul 8th 2015 8AM 68°F 11AM 80°F 5-Day Forecast … The Ashes LIVE 2015: England vs Australia cricket coverage from Day 1 of … «Daily Mail, Июл 15»

Ashes 2015: England v Australia – first Test, day one – live!

… correct here today, despite a difficult opening and unhelpful surface. Well over 300 on the first day of an Ashes series is not to be sniffed at. «The Guardian, Июл 15»

‘Independence Day‘ Star Jeff Goldblum Welcomes Baby on July 4

«Jurassic Park» and «Independence Day» star Jeff Goldblum has welcomed his first child with wife Emilie Livingston. The happy couple posted a … «ABC News, Июл 15»

​Hard luck story: Inmate’s painful 6-day erection costs NYC $750k …

The City of New York has paid a former jail inmate $750,000 after detention center staff failed to address a painful six-day erection which left … «RT, Июл 15»

Countdown to Grexit deadline day

In many ways, this is a more critical day than Sunday’s summit. Under the ESM treaty, it is the ESM’s board of governors — the eurozone’s 19 … «Financial Times, Июл 15»

August bank holiday 2015: when is your next day off?

The penultimate holiday of the year is Christmas Day, which is celebrated in many different ways around the world. Finns share a festive sauna, … «The Week UK, Июл 15»

Cybercriminals start using Flash zero-day exploit leaked from …

It took just a day for cybercriminals to start using a new and yet-to-be-patched Flash Player exploit that was leaked from a surveillance software … «PCWorld, Июл 15»

The X-Files Teases New Footage with 201 Day Marathon Trailer

Beginning today, FOX will be starting a 201-day “X-Files” marathon in which one episode a day will be shown in order, leading to the January … «ComingSoon.net, Июл 15»

Australian golfer Jason Day ready to go for British Open after vertigo …

Jason Day’s vertigo has been linked to a viral infection in his right ear and while Australia’s top-ranked golfer has suffered some potentially … «ABC Online, Июл 15»

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