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day

გამოთქმა: /deɪ/

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Universal
  • 1each of the twenty-four-hour periods, reckoned from one midnight to the next, into which a week, month, or year is divided, and corresponding to a rotation of the earth on its axis: they only met a few days ago we’ll leave the day after tomorrow ‘What day is it?’ ‘Sunday’ she spent five days in hospital
  • the part of a day when it is light; the time between sunrise and sunset:the animals hunt by day
  • the part of a day spent working:he works an eight-hour day
  • Astronomy a single rotation of a planet in relation to its primary.
  • Astronomy the period on a planet when its primary star is above the horizon.
  • [mass noun] archaic or literary daylight:by the time they had all gone it was broad day
  • 2 (also days) a particular period of the past; an era:in Shakespeare’s day the laws were very strict in those days
  • (the day) the present time:the political issues of the day
  • (usually with modifier days) a particular period in a person’s life or career:my student days
  • (one's day) the most active or successful period of a person’s life or career:he had been a star in his day
  • (one's days) the remaining period of someone’s life:she cared for him for the rest of his days

all in a day's work

(of something unusual or difficult) accepted as part of someone’s normal routine or as a matter of course:dodging sharks is all in a day’s work for some scientists

any day

informal
  • 1at any time or under any circumstances (used to express a strong opinion or preference):they could outfight the police any day
  • 2very soon:she’s expected to give birth any day now

at the end of the day

see end.

by the day

gradually and steadily:the campaign is growing by the day

call it a day

decide or agree to stop doing something: after three marriages, many men would have been more than ready to call it a day

day after day

on each successive day over a long period:the rain poured down day after day

day and night

all the time:the district is patrolled day and night

day by day

on each successive day; gradually and steadily: day by day I grew worse

day in, day out

continuously or repeatedly over a long period of time: I worked with you day in, day out

day of reckoning

the time when past mistakes or misdeeds must be punished or paid for: a day of reckoning will come for those in the security service
[with allusion to Judgement Day, on which (in some beliefs) the judgement of mankind is expected to take place]

don't give up the day job

informal used as a humorous way of recommending someone not to pursue something at which they are unlikely to be successful.

from day one

from the very beginning:children need a firm hand from day one

have had one's (or its) day

be no longer popular, successful, or influential:power dressing has had its day

if he (or she etc.) is a day

at least (appended to a statement about a person’s age):he must be seventy if he’s a day

in this day and age

at the present time: you can’t be too careful in this day and age

not someone's day

used to convey that someone has experienced a day of successive misfortunes: not your day, is it, darling

one day

at a particular but unspecified time in the past:one day a boy started teasing Grady
(also some day or one of these days) at a particular but unspecified time in the future:our wishes will come true one of these days he would one day be a great President

one of those days

a day when several things go wrong: it was just one of those days

that will be the day

informal that is very unlikely: ‘I may have missed something.’ ‘That’ll be the day.’

these days

at present:he’s drinking far too much these days

those were the days

used to assert that a particular past time was better than the present: the sixties, those were the days

to the day

exactly:it’s four years to the day since he was killed

to this day

at the present time as in the past; still:the tradition continues to this day

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